Xiaoyu Zhang<br/>     (张晓宇)

Xiaoyu Zhang
     (张晓宇)

About Me

I am a first-year PhD student in Information Systems at the University of Auckland Business School, supervised by Dr. Randy Wong and Prof. Julia Kotlarsky. My current research focuses on Human-AI Interaction, Social Media, and Health Informatics.

Prior to starting my doctoral studies, I completed my Research Master of Management (Major in Information Science) at Nanjing University in 2024, supervised by Prof. Qinghua Zhu.

I also completed my Bachelor of Management (Major in Information Management and Information System) from Nanjing University in 2021, with a minor in Arts and Cultural Creativity.

I am passionate about learning new things and embracing challenges. Outside of academia, I love budgies, photography, music, and learning languages.

🔥 News

  • 2025.03:  🎓 Started my first year as a PhD student at the University of Auckland Business School
  • 2024.12:  🎉 Attended ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems) 2024 and presented a paper, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2024.08:  🎉 Attended ISIC (The Information Seeking in Context Conference) 2024 and presented a paper, Aalborg, Denmark
  • 2024.06:  🎓 Graduated with Research Master of Management from Nanjing University
  • 2024.04:  🎉 Attended iConference 2024 and presented a poster, Changchun, China
  • 2023.11:  🎉 Attended ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2023 and presented a poster, London, UK
  • 2023.07:  🎉 Attended PACIS (Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems) 2023 and presented a paper, Nanchang, China
  • 2023.04:  🎉 Attended CSWIM (China Summer Workshop on Information Management) 2023 and presented a paper, Changsha, China

📝 Publications

Journal Publications

  • Liu, T., Zhang, X., Song, X., & Zhu, Q.* (2025). Developing a minimum dataset for smart aged care service platforms in China. Health Information Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1177/18333583251327663

  • Jia, M., Zhao, Y. C., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X. & Song, S (2025). Perceived Values, Attitudes, and Behavioral Responses of Knowledge Creators towards Generative AI in the Context of Human-AI Competition. Journal of the China Society for Scientific and Technical Information. 44(5): 609-628. https://qbxb.istic.ac.cn/CN/10.3772/j.issn.1000-0135.2025.05.008 (In Chinese)

  • Jia, M., Zhao, Y.C.*, Zhang, X., & Wu, D. (2025). “That looks like something I would do”: understanding humanities researchers’ digital hoarding behaviors in digital scholarship. Journal of Documentation. 81(1). 24-55. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2024-0004

  • Jia, M., Zhao, Y. C., & Zhang, X. (2025). Will potential threats persist? Attitudes and behavioral responses of creative professionals toward GenAI. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 30 (iConf), 1073–1083. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30iConf47098

  • Zhang, X.*, Zhu, S., Zhao, Y. C., Jia, M., & Zhu, Q. (2024). Engaging with AI painting: exploring motivations and challenges in laypeople’s creative information practices. Information Research an International Electronic Journal, 29(2), 680–700. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir292856

  • Jia, M., Zhao, Y. C.*, Song, S., Zhang, X., Wu, D., & Li, J. (2024). How vicarious learning increases users’ knowledge adoption in live streaming: The roles of parasocial interaction, social media affordances, and knowledge consensus. Information Processing & Management, 61(2), 103599. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103599

  • Jia, M., Zhang, X., & Zhao, Y.C.* (2024). Increasing your knowledge? The impact of multicommunication and multimodal display in pan-knowledge live streaming on users’ knowledge adoption and continuous engagement. Documentation, Information and Knowledge. http://kns.cnki.net/kcms/detail/42.1085.G2.20240607.1416.002.html (In Chinese)

  • Liu, T., Wang, Y., Zhang, X., Song, X.*, & Zhu, Q. (2024). Research on the construction of the data resource demand model for the service ecosystem of China’s smart aging service platform. Library and Information Service. 68(16), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.13266/j.issn.0252-3116.2024.16.001 (In Chinese)

  • Zhang, X.*, Xue, X., Zhu, Q., & Zhao, Y.C. (2023). The evaluation index system construction and empirical research of suitable aging design of mobile government service app. Information and Documentation Services (02), 22-30. https://doi.org/10.12154/j.qbzlgz.2023.02.003 (In Chinese)

  • Li, R.*, Zhang, X., Xu, M., & Zhu, Q. (2022). Research on the construction of digital united front standard system under the new situation: Taking Jiangsu digital united front standard system construction as an example. Journal of Jiangsu Institute of Socialism (02), 44-52. (In Chinese)

  • Li, R.*, Zhang, X., Zhu, Q., & Yuan, Q. (2021). Research on collaborative governance model of informatization construction under the united front work pattern. Journal of Jiangsu Institute of Socialism (06), 4-11. (In Chinese)

Conference Presentations

Paper Presentations

  • PACIS 2025 Jia, M.*, Zhao, Y.C., & Zhang, X. (2025). The role of skill adaptation in navigating technostress and job performance among creative professionals. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2025), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2025/hci/hci/2

  • iConference 2025 Jia, M.*, Zhao, Y.C., & Zhang, X. (2025). Will potential threats persist? Attitudes and behavioral responses of creative professionals toward GenAI. iConference 2025, Indiana University Bloomington, USA. https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30iConf47098

  • ICIS 2024 Zhang, X.*, Zhu, Q. (2024). Algorithm aversion to generative artificial intelligence in creative content. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2024), Bangkok, Thailand. https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2024/aiinbus/aiinbus/33

  • ISIC 2024 Zhang, X.*, Zhu, S., Zhao, Y.C., Jia, M., & Zhu, Q. (2024). Engaging with AI painting: Exploring motivations, challenges, and concerns in laypeople’s creative information practices. The Information Seeking in Context Conference (ISIC 2024), Aalborg, Denmark.

  • CISC 2024 Jia, M.*, Zhao, Y.C., & Zhang, X. (2024). When stress becomes motivation: A study of knowledge workers’ responses to the use of generative AI. Chinese Information Science Conference 2024, Tianjin, China. (In Chinese)

  • PACIS 2023 Zhang, X.*, Yang, K., Zhang, X., Li, X., & Zhu, Q. (2023). Understanding public online donations on social media during the pandemic: A social presence theory perspective. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2023), Nanchang, China. https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2023/219

  • CSWIM 2023 Zhang, X.*, Zhu, S., Zhao, Y. C., & Zhu, Q. (2023). Exploring laypeople’s engagement with AI painting: An investigation into human-AI collaboration in creative activities. The 16th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2023), Changsha, China.

  • IBAC 2023 Jia, M.*, Zhang, X, & Zhao, Y.C. (2023). Increasing your knowledge? The impact of multicommunication and multimodal display in pan-knowledge live streaming on users’ knowledge adoption and continuous engagement. Information Behavior Annual Conference 2023, Beijing, China. (In Chinese)

  • CISC 2022 Zhang, X.*, Xue, X., Zhu Q., & Zhao, Y.C. (2022). The evaluation index system construction and empirical research of suitable aging design of mobile government service app. Chinese Information Science Conference 2022, Beijing, China. (In Chinese)

Poster Presentations

  • iConference 2024 Zhang, X.*, Jia, M., Zhu, S., & Zhu, Q. (2024). Understanding the human-AI collaboration experience in creative activities. iConference 2024, Changchun, China.

  • ASIS&T 2023 Zhang, X.*, Zhu, S., Zhao, Y.C., Hansen, P., & Zhu, Q. (2023). Exploring laypeople’s engagement with AI painting: A preliminary investigation into human-AI collaboration. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 60: 1215-1217. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.996

  • ASIS&T 2022 Zhang, X.*, Yang, K., & Zhu, Q. (2022). Public online donation participation research based on social media. ASIS&T Asia-Pacific Regional Conference 2022, Virtual.

🏅 Honors & Awards

  • 2024 ICIS 2024 Scholarship Program
  • 2024 Outstanding Graduates of Nanjing University (Distinguished)
  • 2023 Chinese National Scholarship (Top 0.2% nationwide, ¥20,000)
  • 2023 Outstanding Graduate Student of Nanjing University (Distinguished)
  • 2023 Nanjing University Graduate First-Class Academic Scholarship (¥12,000)
  • 2022 Nanjing University Graduate Second-Class Academic Scholarship (¥8,000)
  • 2021 Nanjing University Graduate First-Class Academic Scholarship (¥10,000)
  • 2020 China Merchants Bank FinTech Elite Training Camp Competition (Ranked 23rd, ¥1,888)
  • 2019 Zhen Xing International Exchange Scholarship (¥40,000)
  • 2019 Nanjing University Art and Cultural Creativity Scholarship (¥6,000)
  • 2019 Academic Achievement Award and Scholarship for Nanjing University (¥4,000)
  • 2018 Outstanding Graduate of School of Information Management, Nanjing University
  • 2018 Outstanding Student of Social Practice in Nanjing University
  • 2018 Nanjing University Volunteer Star of the Year 2017
  • 2017 Outstanding Volunteers of the Red Cross Society at Nanjing University

📖 Educations

  • 2025.03 - present, PhD in Information Systems, University of Auckland Business School, Auckland, New Zealand
    • Supervisor: Dr. Randy Wong & Prof. Julia Kotlarsky
  • 2021.09 - 2024.06, Research Master of Management (Information Science), School of Information Management, Nanjing University, China
    • Supervisor: Prof. Qinghua Zhu
  • 2017.09 - 2021.06, Bachelor of Management (Information Management and Information System), School of Information Management, Nanjing University, China
  • 2019.09 - 2021.06, Minor in Arts and Cultural Creativity, School of Arts, Nanjing University, China

📋 Academic Service & Engagement

Journal Reviewing

  • Electronic Commerce Research (2025)

Conference Reviewing

  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2025, 2024)
  • American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2025, 2024)
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2023)
  • The 86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T 2023)
  • The 16th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2023)

Student Volunteer

  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2025, 2024)

💻 Internships

  • 2022.09 - 2022.11, SAAS Product Design Intern, Transwarp, China
  • 2020.09 - 2021.03, AI Product Design Intern, SenseTime, China
  • 2019.01 - 2019.03, System Development Intern, Disonmed, China