Zike Cao

Zhejiang University

Professor Cao is a tenured associate professor of Information Systems at the School of Management, Zhejiang University. His research focuses on how new information technologies impact users' behaviors and the consequent implications for business practices and regulations in various online contexts, including e-commerce and social media. Professor Cao's work has been published in top journals in the field such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and the Journal of Management Information Systems. His doctoral dissertation was the second runner-up for the 2017 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award issued by the INFORMS Information Systems Society. His working paper won the 2021 INFORMS eBusiness Section Best Paper Award. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a BSc in Management from Zhejiang University. 

Ben Choi

Nanyang Technological University

Ben Choi is an assistant professor in Information Technology and Operations Management at the Nanyang Technological University. He was previously a faculty at the University of New South Wales. Ben received his B Sci and PhD in Information Systems from the National University of Singapore. He has been named the Reviewer of the Year at the Journal for the Association of Information Systems (2020) and MIS Quarterly (2016). He has published multiple papers in premier information systems journals, including Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Production and Operations Management. His research interests focus on human-computer/robotic interactions, data visualizations, sustainability, and information privacy using various methods (i.e., lab/field experiments, surveys, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and physiological measurements, such as computer vision, GSR, EEG, and eye-tracking).

Yuzheng Hu 

Zhejiang University 

Yuzheng Hu is a ZJU100 Young Professor (Assistant Professor) at the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University. He mainly researches the psycho-neurological mechanisms of substance addiction and behavioral addiction, and his research tools include magnetic resonance, electroencephalography, near infrared, and transcranial magnetic/electrical stimulation, etc. His research involves the cross-disciplinary intersection of psychology, brain science, medical science, and physics, etc. He has also conducted research on the psychological and neurological mechanisms of substance addiction. Relevant research results have been published in PNAS, Nature Communications, JAMA Psychiatry, Brain and other well-known international journals.

Cendri Hutcherson 

University of Toronto

Cendri Hutcherson is the director of the Toronto Decision Neuroscience Laboratory and an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto with a cross-appointment to the Rotman School of Management. She received degrees in psychology from Harvard (B.A.) and Stanford (Ph.D.), and worked as a post-doctoral scholar studying neuroeconomics at the California Institute of Technology. Her research program applies computational modeling to behavior, eye tracking, EEG, and fMRI data, with the goal of understanding how we make decisions and why we sometimes make decisions we later regret.

Yushi Jiang

Nature Human Behaviour

Yushi's expertise lies at the intersection of economics, psychology, and behavioural genetics. She began her academic journey in international finance during her undergraduate studies and later transitioned to behavioural and experimental economics while pursuing her master's degree at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Driven by a profound passion for biology, she moved to Singapore to undertake a PhD specializing in Behavioural and Biological Economics at the National University of Singapore. Her research primarily investigated the relationship between dopaminergic genes and economic decision-making. With rich experience and enthusiasm for scholarly publishing, she joined Nature Human Behaviour in May 2024 and is currently based in Berlin, Germany. 

Michael Platt

University of Pennsylvania

Michael Platt, a neuroscientist whose work focuses on the brain’s decision-making processes, has appointments in the Department of Neuroscience in the Perelman School of Medicine, the Department of Psychology in the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Marketing in the Wharton School.

Platt has served as Professor of Neurobiology, Director of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. Organizations such as the National Foundation, the Klingenstein Foundation, the McDonnell Foundation and the Department of Defense have supported his research, and he has been recognized in the New York Times, the Washington post, the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio, A`BC, BBC and PBS.

Platt has also served as the President of the Society for Neuroeconomics. He holds a PhD in Biological Anthropology from Penn, and a BA in Biological Anthropology from Yale.

Christian Ruff

University of Zurich

Christian Ruff is Full Professor of Neuroeconomics and Decision Neuroscience at the Department of Economics of the University of Zurich. After studying Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Neurobiology in Freiburg/Germany and Vancouver/Canada, he obtained a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London in 2007. He stayed at UCL as Senior Research Fellow until 2010, when he took up his position in Zurich. In his research, Christian studies human motivation, decision-making, and learning with the aim to develop models that can be used to explain and predict choices and social behavior across many diverse contexts.

Agnieszka Tymula

The University of Sydney

Professor Tymula is the Director of the University of Sydney Node ofARC Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course, President of the Society for Neuroeconomics, Chief Investigator on the ICRG Centre of Excellence for Research on Gambling, co-Director of theNeuroeconomics Summer School, Director of the University of Sydney Experimental Economics laboratory. In 2020-2023 she was an elected Executive Committee member of theEconomic Science Association and in 2019-2021 she was an elected Board Member of the Society for Neuroeconomics. Prof. Tymula is on the editorial board of Experimental Economics.

Professor Tymula’s research is at the forefront of cross-disciplinary scholarship on decision-making. She is the first Australian researcher to receive the Society for Neuroeconomics Award for Contributions Towards the Understanding of Decision-making (in 2017). Her research combines theory and methodology from economics, psychology, and neuroscience for a better understanding of how people decide, why they sometimes make seemingly wrong decisions, and how to make them better choosers.

Songfa Zhong   

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Professor Zhong is currently a Professor in the Department of Economics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He holds a B.A. in Accounting from Peking University, and both an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests lie in behavioral economics, experimental economics, genoeconomics and neuroeconomics. Professor Zhong serves as an Associate Editor for "Management Science" since 2020 and has been the Coordinating Editor for "Theory and Decision" since 2017. Arising from the interdisciplinary nature of his research, Professor Zhong’s works have appeared in both economics-oriented journals such as American Economic Review, Econometrica, International Economic Review, Review of Economic and Statistics, Journal of European Economic Association and Management Science, as well as more biology-oriented ones including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Neuron, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, and Neuroimage.