Rate My Professor Yingnan Shi

Dr. Yingnan Shi is a Lecturer at the Centre for Business Data Analytics (CBDA) within the UWA Business School's Management and Organisations discipline, having commenced his lectureship on 22 July 2024. Prior to joining the University of Western Australia, he was affiliated with CSIRO and the Australian National University (ANU) from 2018, where he completed his PhD in Information Systems in December 2023. His doctoral research focused on knowledge exchange platforms, theories, progresses, and applications. Over the past decade, Dr. Shi has accumulated diverse teaching and industry experiences across telecommunications, non-governmental organizations, banking, and medical equipment manufacturing, fostering a strong interdisciplinary foundation. He earned the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential from the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) in 2015 and maintains active membership in the Association for Information Systems (AIS). Dr. Shi has supervised postgraduate students and served as lead lecturer and course convenor, delivering courses on digital transformation, business analytics, and technology management.

Dr. Shi contributes to four primary academic fields: integration of applied psychology and computer science emphasizing human-AI interactions; semantic web applications, knowledge graphs, and QA-based knowledge evaluation; management including technology implementation and organizational behavior; and marketing, information economics, and e-commerce exploring online platform behaviors. His publications include "Gratification in live-streaming: impact of social comparison and relationships on purchase and continuance intentions" (2025, Industrial Management & Data Systems), "Beyond Performance: AI Psychological Empowerment in Cross-Cultural Education" (2025, International Journal of Changes in Education), "The optimal communication delay in human-AI communications" (2024, Information Processing and Management), "AI Empowerment of Asian-Australian Migrant Workers: Progress, Potentials, and Patterns" (2025, Australasian Journal of Information Systems), "Unravelling the knowledge matrix: exploring knowledge-sharing behaviours on market-based platforms using regression tree analysis" (2025, Personnel Review), and "Decoding the Dynamics of Knowledge Pricing: An Empirical Investigation of MOOC Platform edX's Pricing Structure and Signaling Effects" (2024, International Journal of Information Management Data Insights). With 116 citations on Google Scholar, his research supports UN Sustainable Development Goals such as SDG 4 (Quality Education), SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth), SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure), and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities).