Heng Xu

Professor and Director, AI Governance Center

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University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Management Department
Stuzin Hall 227

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Dr. Heng Xu is a Professor and Director of the Center for AI, Cyber Governance and Privacy Management in Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. She is also the Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, and a member of the Board on Human-Systems Integration, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Xu’s recent research focuses on AI ethics, data analytics, data privacy, and cybersecurity management. Her interdisciplinary work has been supported by multiple grants from federal agencies and industry, totaling over $8 million. Her scholarly work has been published in premier outlets across various fields such as Business, Computer Science, Law and Psychology, including Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly (MIS Quarterly), Management Science, Personnel Psychology, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Psychological Methods, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, and many others.

Dr. Xu's work has received many awards, including INFORMS Information Systems Society's Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award (2023), MISQ Impact Award (2021), Woman of Achievement Award in IEEE Big Data Security (2021), IEEE ITSS Leadership Award in Intelligence and Security Informatics (2020), the Operational Research Society's Stafford Beer Medal (2018), National Science Foundation's CAREER award (2010), and many best paper awards and nominations at various conferences.

Drawing from years of exceptional leadership and contributions, Dr. Xu has been at the forefront of creating practical impact on the research and industry landscape. As the Director of the Cybersecurity Governance Center at the American University’s Kogod School of Business from 2018 to 2023, she spearheaded initiatives that garnered millions in research support from federal agencies and industry frontrunners, including Amazon, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Warner Bros. Discovery, Facebook/Meta, Marriott, National Science Foundation (NSF), Raytheon, and more. Prior to that, her contribution as a committee member on the National Academies' Open Science Committee (2017-2018) was instrumental in creating an influential report "Open Science by Design: Realizing a Vision for 21st Century Research," which has since illuminated the pathways for achieving an open science ecosystem. Furthermore, her contribution as a member of the National Privacy Research Strategy Working Group (2014-2016) was instrumental in forging the inaugural National Privacy Research Strategy, a White House-released blueprint that has been a cornerstone in shaping national strategies for safeguarding privacy in an interconnected digital era.

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AI and Employee Recruitment — September 3, 2024 — Nearly every Fortune 500 company uses AI for hiring, but recent research from Professors of Management Heng Xu and Nan Zhang revels that AI...
To hire the right job candidate, humans and machines should clear up this simple miscommunication — June 6, 2024 — Nearly every Fortune 500 company now uses some form of artificial intelligence to help them hire the best talent by screening resumes or ana...
How psychology is shaping the future of technology — January 17, 2024 — Professor of Management Heng Xu spoke as part of a series from the American Psychological Association at CES, the world’s leading technolo...
Upgrade your semester with AI courses at Warrington — December 15, 2023 — There’s a buzz on the University of Florida’s campus. Sitting in classrooms or walking across the Plaza of the Americas, you’ll hear...
University of Florida professor awarded for teaching innovation — October 27, 2023 — GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Professor of Management Heng Xu’s unique contributions to teaching cybersecurity recently earned her an award from t...

Courses taught Last 3 years

Ai & Cyber Governance in Busin (MAN6930)
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Ai and Cyber Governance in Bus (MAN6930)
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Cyber & Ai Governance in Busin (MAN6930)
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Goal Orientation for Fair Machine Learning Algorithms
Status: Accepted

Journal: Production and Operations Management

Accepted Year: 2024

Authors: Heng Xu, Nan Zhang
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Some Thoughts on Reviewing for Information Systems Research and Other Leading Information Systems Journals
Status: Published

Journal: Information Systems Research

Published Year: 2023

Authors: Suprateek Sarker, Edgar Whitley, Khim-Yong Goh, Yili Hong, Magnus Mähring, Pallab Sanyal, Ning Su, Heng Xu, Jingjun Xu, Jingjing Zhang, Huimin Zhao
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Reducing Subgroup Differences in Personnel Selection through the Application of Machine Learning
Status: Published

Journal: Personnel Psychology

Published Year: 2023

Authors: Nan Zhang, Mo Wang, Heng Xu, Nick Koenig, Louis Hickman, Jason Kuruzovich, Vincent Ng, Kofi Arhin, Danielle Wilson, Q Song, Chen Tang, Leo Alexander, Yesuel Kim
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An Onto-Epistemological Analysis of Information Privacy Research
Status: Accepted

Journal: Information Systems Research

Accepted Year: 2023

Authors: Heng Xu, Nan Zhang
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Fairness of Ratemaking for Catastrophe Insurance: Lessons from Machine Learning
Status: Accepted

Journal: Information Systems Research

Accepted Year: 2022

Authors: Nan Zhang, Heng Xu
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Reflections on the 2021 Impact Award: Why Privacy Still Matters
Status: Published

Journal: MIS Quarterly

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Heng Xu, Tamara Dinev
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From Contextualizing to Context Theorizing: Assessing Context Effects in Privacy Research
Status: Published

Journal: Management Science

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Heng Xu, Nan Zhang
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Disentangling effect size heterogeneity in meta-analysis: A latent mixture approach
Status: Published

Journal: Psychological Methods

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Nan Zhang, Mo Wang, Heng Xu
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Implications of Anonymization on Disparity Detection
Status: Published

Journal: Management Science

Published Year: 2022

Authors: Heng Xu, Nan Zhang
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