Alvin Leung

Qualifications

• PhD - Information Management (The University of Texas at Austin)
• MSc - Information, Risk, and Operations Management (The University of Texas at Austin)
• MPhil - Management Information Systems (The University of Hong Kong)
• BEng (SE) - Software Engineering (The University of Hong Kong)
• BBA (IS) - Information Systems (The University of Hong Kong)

Biography

Alvin Leung is Associate Professor at Department of Information Systems, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests lie at the intersection of IS and Finance. His current research primarily focuses on IT business value, business analytics and information security. His teaching objective is to bring his research into class. He is interested in teaching business strategies and introducing new information technologies to enhance corporate competitive advantages. His works have been published in various leading IS journals and international conference proceedings. He currently serves as Associate Editor for Decision Support Systems and the Communications of the AIS.

Awards

Dean's Research Excellence Award
City University of Hong Kong(College of Business)

Distinguished AIS Member
Association for Information Systems

Assurance of Learning (AoL) Award
City University of Hong Kong(College of Business)

The President's Award 2018
City University of Hong Kong

IS BBA Teaching Excellence Award 2018/19
City University of Hong Kong(Department of Information Systems)

AIS Early Career Award
Association for Information Systems

Best Work-in-progress Runner Up Award 2017 Workshop on Inforrmation Technogies and Systems (WITS)

College Teaching Excellence Award 2017
City University of Hong Kong(College of Business)

Early Career Award 2016/17
HK Univeristy Grants Committee

BBA First Year Lecture Teaching Award 2015/16
City University of Hong Kong(College of Business)

IS BBA Teaching Excellence Award 2015/16 City University of Hong Kong(Department of Information Systems)

Best Paper Award of IROM Symposium 2014 The University of Texas at Austin

ICIS 2013 Doctoral Consortium Fellow
Association for Information Systems

Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student 2008-2009
The University of Hong Kong

Best Student Paper Award of The 2008 IAENG International Conference on Data Mining and Applications
International Association of Engineers

Teaching Areas

• E-Business Strategies
• Database and Data Management
• IS Audit and Information Security

Research Grants

PI: "Gamification to Promote Challenge-based Learning", Teaching Development Grant - Office of Education Development and Gateway Education, City University of Hong Kong, Amount: $240,000 (2018-2019), Alvin Chung Man Leung and Ron Chi-wai Kwok

PI: "News Co-mention: A Big Data Approach for Stock Prediction", Early Career Scheme - Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Amount: $618,750 (2017-2019), Alvin Chung Man Leung

PI: "A Pan-Asian Field Study of Corporate Awareness to Information Security and Preparedness Against Cybercrimes", Public Policy Research (PPR) Funding Scheme - Central Policy Unit, The Government of Hong Kong, Amount: $655,500 (2016-2017), Alvin Chung Man Leung, Andrew B Whinston, and Gene Moo Lee

PI: "Gamification of Flipped Classroom: A New Tool to Learn Business Intelligence", Teaching and Learning Project - Office of Education Development and Gateway Education, City University of Hong Kong, Amount: $200,000 (2015-2017), Alvin Chung Man Leung and Ron Chi-wai Kwok

External Academic Activities

• 1/2017 - Now Communications of the Association for Information Systems United States of America Associate Editor
• 7/2014 - Now Decision Support Systems United States of America Associate Editor

Publications

Journal Publications and Reviews

Kwok, Ron Chi-Wai; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Hui, Stanley Sai-chuen; Wong, Clara Choi-Ki / Virtual trainer system: a tool to increase exercise participation and work productivity. January 2021; In: Internet Research.

Zhuang, Yunhui; Choi, Yunsik; He, Shu; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Lee, Gene Moo; Whinston, Andrew / Understanding Security Vulnerability Awareness, Firm Incentives, and ICT Development in Pan-Asia. November 2020; In: Journal of Management Information Systems. Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 668-693

Zhuang, Yunhui; Choi, Yunsik; He, Shu; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Lee, Gene Moo; Whinston, Andrew / Understanding Security Vulnerability Awareness, Firm Incentives, and ICT Develpment in Pan-Asia. May 2020; In: Journal of Management Information Systems.

Bose, Indranil; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / ADOPTION OF IDENTITY THEFT COUNTERMEASURES AND ITS SHORT- AND LONG-TERM IMPACT ON FIRM VALUE. March 2019; In: MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems. Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 313-327

Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Agarwal, Ashish; Konana, Prabhudev; Kumar, Alok / Network analysis of search dynamics: The case of stock habitats. August 2017; In: Management Science. Vol. 63, No. 8, pp. 2667-2687

Agarwal, Ashish; LEUNG, Alvin Chung Man; Konana, Prabhudev; Kumar, Alok / Cosearch attention and stock return predictability in supply chains. June 2017; In: Information Systems Research. Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 265-288

Bose, Indranil; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / Do phishing alerts impact global corporations? A firm value analysis. August 2014; In: Decision Support Systems. Vol. 64, pp. 67-78

Park, Jae Hong; Gu, Bin; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Konana, Prabhudev / An investigation of information sharing and seeking behaviors in online investment communities. 2014; In: Computers in Human Behavior. Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1-12

Bose, Indranil; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / The impact of adoption of identity theft countermeasures on firm value. June 2013; In: Decision Support Systems. Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 753-763

Chen, Xi; Bose, Indranil; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Guo, Chenhui / Assessing the severity of phishing attacks: A hybrid data mining approach. March 2011; In: Decision Support Systems. Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 662-672

Bose, Indranil; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / What drives the adoption of antiphishing measures by Hong Kong banks?. August 2009; In: Communications of the ACM. Vol. 52, No. 8, pp. 141-143

Bose, Indranil; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / Assessing anti-phishing preparedness: A study of online banks in Hong Kong. November 2008; In: Decision Support Systems. Vol. 45, No. 4, pp. 897-912

Conference Papers

Leung, Alvin / Wisdom of Crowds and IPO Hype Cycle. October 2019; 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting, 20/10/2019 - 23/10/2019, Seattle, United States.

Li, Wilson Weixun; Leung, Alvin; Yue, Wei T. / An Empirical Examination of IS Governance Practices and IT Material Weaknesses. December 2018; 17th Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2018), 12/12/2018 - 12/12/2018, Santa Clara, United States.

Leung, Alvin / How to incentivize firms to adopt anti-identity theft countermeasures?. December 2018; Bright Internet Global Summit 2018, 12/12/2018 - 12/12/2018, San Francisco, United States.

Choi, Yun-Sik; He, Shu; Zhuang, Yunhui; Lee, Gene Moo; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Whinston, Andrew B. / Information disclosure and security policy design: a large-scale randomization experiment in Pan-Asia. June 2018; 17th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2018), 18/06/2018 - 19/06/2018, Innsbruck, Austria.

Choi, Yun-Sik; He, Shu; Lee, Gene Moo; Leung, Chung Man; Whinston, Andrew; Zhuang, Yunhui / A Pan-Asian Field Experiment of Organizational Awareness to Information Security and Preparedness Against Cybercrime. December 2017; The Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2017), 13/12/2017 - 14/12/2017, Seoul, Korea, Republic of.

Li, Wilson Weixun; Leung, Alvin; Yue, Wei Thoo / The Trilogy of Security: IT Investment, Data Breaches, and Security Vigilance. December 2017; 16th Workshop on e-Business (WeB 2017), 10/12/2017 - , Seoul, Korea, Republic of.

Leung, Alvin / News co-mention and stock returns correlation. June 2017; 1st International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2017), 15/06/2017 - 17/06/2017, Hong Kong, China.

Leung, Alvin; Wang, Chong / Analyst-follow Function and Crowdsourcing Earnings Predictions. December 2016; Digital Enablement Conference 2016, 30/11/2016 - 02/12/2016, Sydney, Australia.

Leung, Alvin; WANG, Chong / To Follow or Be Followed?: Social Interaction and Crowdsourced Stock Prediction. June 2016; Collective Intelligence 2016, 01/06/2016 - 03/06/2016, , United States.

Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works Tarafdar, Pratik; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Yue, Wei Thoo; Bose, Indranil / Can Touch Interaction Predict Product-Related Emotion? A Study on Mobile Augmented Reality. August 2020; AMCIS 2020 Proceedings.

Shangguan, Wuyue (Phoebe); Chen, Xi; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / Is Attention Contagious? Estimating the Spillover Effect of Investor Attention in Digital Networks. August 2020; AMCIS 2020 Proceedings.

Xu, Junmin; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Yue, Wei Thoo / Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Value: the Moderating Effect of IT Investment. June 2020; PACIS 2020 Proceedings: Pacifc Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) .

Zhuang, Yunhui; Choi, Yunsik; He, Shu; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Lee, Gene Moo; Whinston, Andrew B. / Information Disclosure and Security Vulnerability Awareness: A Large-Scale Randomized Field Experiment in Pan-Asia. January 2020; Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. pp. 6040-6049

LAI, Gabriel Chun-Hei ; KWOK, Ron Chi-Wai ; ROCHELLE, Tina; LEUNG, Alvin Chung-Man ; LI, Yanyan; ZHANG, Shanshan; WONG, George Yui-Lam; LU, Angel / The Moderating Effect of Different Types of Internet Use on the Relationship between Transitional Aging Changes and Self-Esteem of Older Adults. January 2020; Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. pp. 3799-3808

Tarafdar, Pratik; Leung, Alvin; Yue, Wei Thoo; Bose, Indranil / Impact of Immersive Interface Design on Consumer Perceptions during Online Product Presentation. December 2019; 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019.

Wang, Xiaoxiao; Li, Wilson Weixun; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Yue, Wei Thoo / The Impact of Anti-phishing Laws on IT and Security Investment. July 2019; PACIS 2019 Proceedings.

Shangguan, Wuyue; Liu, Yan; Chen, Xi; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / Application of Network Embedding to Return Comovement Analysis: Case of Stock Co-attention Networks. June 2019; Proceedings of the 13th China Summer Workshop on Information Management . pp. 229-234

Shangguan, Wuyue; Wang, Sichao; Chen, Xi; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / Mining the Value of Network Structure on Stock Performance. August 2018; AMCIS 2018 Proceedings: Data Science and Analytics for Decision Support (SIGDSA).

Zhuang, Yunhui; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Hughes, James / Matching in Proximity Authentication and Mobile Payment EcoSystem: What Are We Missing?. July 2017; Radio Frequency Identification and IoT Security: 12th International Workshop, RFIDSec 2016. Vol. 10155 LNCS, pp. 163-172

Li, Wilson Weixun; Hui, Wendy; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Yue, Wei Thoo / Content Restrictions on AdBlock Usage. July 2017; Proceedings of the 21th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2017).

Zhuang, Yunhui; Ma, He; Xie, Haoran; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Hancke, Gerhard P.; Wang, Fu Lee / When innovation meets evolution: An extensive study of emerging e-Learning technologies for higher education in Hong Kong. February 2017; Emerging Technologies for Education: 1st International Symposium, SETE 2016 Held in Conjunction with ICWL 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 10108 LNCS, pp. 574-584

Shangguan, Wuyue; Chen, Xi; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Liu, Yanchu / Network analysis to uncover stock comovement from a Chinese financial portal. June 2016; Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings.

Li, Weixun; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Yue, Wei Thoo / Religious beliefs and cyber-affairs. 2016; Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2016 - Proceedings.

Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Konana, Prabhudev; Agarwal, Ashish; Kumar, Alok / A study of search attention and stock returns cross predictability. 2015; 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2015.

Leung, Alvin; Agarwal, Ashish; Konana, Prabhudev; Kumar, Alok / Online search: Identifying new investment habitats. 2012; International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012. Vol. 2, pp. 965-980

Agarwal, Ashish; Leung, Alvin; Konana, Prabhudev / Online retailer vs. click and mortar retailer: Who performs better?. 2011; International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011. Vol. 5, pp. 3546-3562

Park, Jaehong; Konana, Prabhudev; Gu, Bin; Leung, Alvin Chung Man / An investigation of information sharing and seeking behaviors in virtual communities. 2010; ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems.

Chen, Xi; Bose, Indranil; Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Guo, Chenhui / Analyzing the risk and financial impact of phishing attacks using a knowledge based approach. November 2009; The 9th International Conference on Electronic Business. pp. 119-126

Leung, Alvin C.M.; Bose, Indranil / INDIRECT FINANCIAL LOSS OF PHISHING TO GLOBAL MARKET. December 2008; 29th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2008). Vol. 4, pp. 2507-2520

Bose, Indranil; Leung, Alvin C.M. / Assessment of phishing announcements on market value of firms. 2008; Proceedings - 11th International Conference on Information Technology, ICIT 2008. pp. 304-307

Leung, Alvin C.M.; Bose, Indranil / Etude mondiale sur les pertes financières indirectes dues au hameçonnage. 2008; ICIS 2008 Proceedings - Twenty Ninth International Conference on Information Systems.

Bose, I.; Leung, A. C M / A comparative study of anti-phishing preparedness of Hong Kong and Singapore banks. 2007; IEEM 2007: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. pp. 1893-1897

Leung, Alvin Chung Man; Bose, Indranil / A framework for assessment of anti-phishing preparedness. 2007; Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science. pp. 1020-1025