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Xi Zhang is Professor in the College of Management and Economics (CoME), Tianjin University. Currently, he is the head of Department of Information Management and Management Science, CoME. His research focuses on knowledge management, big-data analytics and Fintech with more than 40 publications in international academic journals, such as Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Scientometrics, Computers in Human Behavior, Behaviour & Information Technology and others. He severed as Associate editor in Journal of Management Science and Engineering, etc.

Yihang Cheng is a PhD candidate in the College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. He holds bachelor’s degree in Information Systems from University of Science & Technology Beijing, Beijing, China, in 2017. His research interest includes behavior mining in some fields like crowdfunding, knowledge management in the digital environment, using deep learning and machine learning methods.

Juan Liu is master student in the College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. She holds bachelor’s degree in Management Information System from Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, in 2018. Her research interest includes crowdfunding and information systems.

Hongke Zhao received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. He is currently a faculty member of the College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University. His research interest includes data mining, knowledge computing and management. He has published papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Information Sciences, Industrial Marketing Management, Scientometrics, ACM SIGKDD, IJCAI, AAAI and IEEE ICDM. He was the recipient of Distinguished Dissertation Award Nomination of CAAI (2019), the Best Student Paper Award of CCML-2019. He has served regularly on the program committees of conferences, including ACM SIGKDD, AAAI, IJCAI and SIAM SDM.

Dongming Xu is Associate Professor of Information Systems (IS) at the UQ Business School, The University of Queensland. Dr Xu’s research focuses on how Information Systems are designed, used and influence the society, and more specifically she works in the area of IT innovation design and use in areas of digital transformation and business intelligence. Dr Xu attracted multiple national-level research grants to support her research and published it in major IS journals and conferences. She currently serves as an AE for Information & Management, Internet Research, among others. She was Program Co-Chair for PACIS2019, ACIS2021 and PACIS 2022.

Yulong Li is a master student in the College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University. His research interest includes knowledge management in the digital environment.