Mengxi (Robin) Yang
Bio: Mengxi (Robin) YANG (Ph.D. in Business Administration, Tsinghua SEM) is an Associate Professor and a Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Economics and Management and MOE Social Science Laboratory of Digital Economic Forecasts and Policy Simulation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (AACSB-accredited business school). Robin has been appointed as an Associate at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, starting in May 2023, and as a Visiting Honorary Associate at Cambridge Judge Business School, starting in September 2022. He is also a Postgraduate Supervisor (Innovation Management Area) at Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research (SDC). From 2017 to 2018, Robin served as a visiting doctoral student at Rutgers University in the United States for a duration of one year. His research interests include leadership and ethics, AI, creativity and his work has been published in academic journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology(2x), Human Relations(2x), Human Resource Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Business Research(4x).
He holds positions as an Associate Editor for Chinese Management Studies and the Journal of Electronic Business & Digital Economics and serves on the international editorial board of the Asia Pacific Business Review. He is also a principle investigator on several research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and several professional companies in China. Robin has also been awarded the Certificate of Recognition of Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program (2024-2026) by the Beijing Association for Science and Technology. Over the past years, Robin has been teaching the Core course such as Management, Organizations and Artificial Intelligence, Management and Leadership in the Age of Digital Intelligence and Management Psychology for UCAS’s full-time postgraduate program. Robin received “MED Junior Faculty Best Paper Award” in 2019 Academy of Management Annual Meeting and was named as an “Ant Research Fellow” by ANT GROUP.
Contact: yangmengxi@ucas.ac.cn
No.3 Zhongguancun Nanyitiao, Haidian District Beijing 100190 P. R. China
Research Areas
Leadership and ethics
Artificial intelligence and organization management
Creativity
Experience
Work Experience
2022.09- , SDC Postgraduate Supervisor (Innovation Management Area), Sino-Danish Center for Education and Research (SDC).
2022.01- , Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
2020.08- 2021.12, Assistant Professor, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Teaching Experience
Management, Organizations and Artificial Intelligence
Management and Leadership in the Age of Digital Intelligence
Management Psychology
Social Services
2023- , Associate Editor, Chinese Management Studies
2023- , Member of International Editorial Board, Asia Pacific Business Review
2023- , Council Member, Systems Engineering Society of Beijing
2023- , Evaluation Expert of China’s Top 100 Management Cases
2022-2023, Ant Research Fellow (ANT GROUP)
2022- , Associate Editor, Journal of Electronic Business & Digital Economics
Funded Research Projects
1. Principle Investigator, 2022-2024, “The double-edged sword effects and underlying mechanisms of Supervisor bottom-line mentality” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Young Scientists Grant
2. Principle Investigator, 2023-2025, “Research on New Trends in Organizational Management Applications of ChatGPT in the Workplace” The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
3. Principle Investigator, 2021-2023, “New Trend of Organization and Management in Digitalization and Post-epidemic Era” The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
4. Principle Investigator, 2022-2023, “AI Fairness in Consumer Finance” Ant Research Fund
5. Principle Investigator, 2022-2023, “Governance of Algorithms” China Association for Science and Technology (CAST) Research Fund
6. Principle Investigator, 2022, “Research on the Path and Countermeasures of Digital Transformation Driven by Digital Leadership” Research Fund from MOE Social Science Laboratory of Digital Economic Forecasts and Policy Simulation at UCAS
7. Principle Investigator, 2022, “Artificial intelligence and organization management” Zhongguancun Open Laboratory Research Fund
8. Principle Investigator, 2021, “Research on the Theory and Training Path of Digital Leadership” AliResearch “Huoshui” Young Academics Project
9. Participant, 2022-2026, “Effective Use of Data Elements and Consumer Protection in the Digital Economy” National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Major Program