Zhong Hao | ESCP Business School

Hao Zhong

Associate Professor of Business Analytics

Department : Information & Operations Management
Campus : Paris

Dr. Hao (Howard) ZHONG is an associate professor with tenure in the Information and Operations Management (IOM) department and the scientific co-director of Master's programme in Big Data and Business Analytics at ESCP Business School (Paris). His research interests include data mining, business analytics, computational design science, entrepreneurial finance, and venture analytics. His work has appeared in multiple top venues in data mining and information systems, including Decision Support Systems (DSS), Information & Management (I&M), Annals of Operations Research (AOR), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). He has also presented his research at leading academic conferences, such as ICIS, CIST, HICSS, WITS, KDD, ICDM, and SDM. He has served as a Senior Program Committee member at AAAI and as a Program Committee member at IJCAI, WWW, CIKM, KSEM, etc. He is a fellow of Center for Design Science in Entrepreneurship (DS:E). He also served as co-chair of AI cluster at INFORMS Annual Meeting since 2021. He has received the Best Paper Runner-up award at WITS 2022. He was awarded the ESCP Young Teaching Excellence Award in 2024. Before joining ESCP, he enjoyed a three-year entrepreneurial experience as a co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of a FinTech startup in China, which leverages the power of Big Data and AI to provide risk management products and services for top financial clients. The startup has been acquired by Duxiaoman Financial, Baidu. He received his Ph.D. in Management (Information Technology) from the Business School of Rutgers University. He was a visiting professor at the AI Thrust of HKUST (Guangzhou) in 2023. For more information, please visit my personal website.

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Decision Aggregation with Reliability Propagation

Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)

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Financial Institutions and Corporate Finance

04 June 2026 - 05 June 2025
07.00 am - 02.00 pm

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AI in Higher Education Summit 2026 – Paris, 17–18 March

17 - 18 March 2026
07.00 am - 05.20 pm

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2025

Uncovering IT Career Path Patterns with Job Embedding-based Sequence Clustering

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2025

Who Thrives, Who Stays? Predicting Talent Potential from Level-Aware Career Moves

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2025

How To Translate AI Potential Into Corporate Profitability

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2024

Firm profiling and competition assessment: A design science approach

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2024

Decision aggregation with reliability propagation

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2024

AlphaVC: A Reinforcement Learning-based Venture Capital Investment Strategy

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2024

Bring Me a Good One: Seeking High-potential Startups using Heterogeneous Venture Information Networks

ESCP Impact Papers

2024

Beyond automation: Crafting a future where AI augments, not replaces

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2024

Pour une intelligence artificielle générative qui augmente plus qu'elle ne remplace

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2023

Decision Aggregation with Reliability Propagation

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