Prof. Haichao Zheng

Haichao Zheng

Professor & PhD Supervisor
Department of Computational Finance
School of Management Science and Engineering, SWUFE
Founder of the "imzhuge" Prediction Platform

Dr. Haichao Zheng is a Professor at the School of Management Science and Engineering, SWUFE. He holds a PhD from Nankai University and specializes in human-machine hybrid prediction systems, AI4Science, and FinTech.

His research integrates AI agents (LLMs) with human collective intelligence to predict financial market volatility and economic policy uncertainty. He has published extensively in top-tier journals such as MIS Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, and Information Systems Journal.

MISQ Top Tier Publication
NSFC Principal Investigator
PhD Doctoral Supervisor
AI Agent Research Focus

Research Interests

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Human-machine hybrid prediction systems and market design.
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AI4Science: AI-powered scientific research methodology.
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FinTech: Sales forecasting and fraud detection in E-commerce.

Selected Publications

2022
Peer-to-Peer loan fraud detection: Constructing features from transaction data. MIS Quarterly, 46(3).
2024
Distilling wisdom of crowds in online communities: A novel prediction market. Decision Support Systems.
2018
Sponsor's Cocreation and Psychological Ownership in Crowdfunding. Information Systems Journal.
2024
Soft imitation reinforcement learning for portfolio management. Applied Soft Computing.
2018
Reversed loss aversion in crowdsourcing contest. European Journal of Information Systems.

Research Grants

2026-29
NSFC General Program: LLM-driven human prediction market design and application (Principal Investigator).
2021-24
NSFC General Program: Machine behavior design in human-machine hybrid prediction markets (Principal Investigator).

Academic Background

Education

● PhD in Management Science, Nankai University (2011)

● Visiting PhD Student, University of Minnesota Duluth (2010)

● MS in Business Administration, Nankai University (2008)

Professional History

● 2019-Pres. Professor, SWUFE

● 2015-2018 Associate Professor, SWUFE

● 2011-2014 Lecturer, SWUFE