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Employment

10/2019 –  present  Deputy Dean of Macro Agriculture Research Institute, Huazhong Agricultural University

10/2018 –  present  Professor of Economics at College of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University

01/2017 –  08/2018  Research fellow, Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich

01/2017 – 12/2017  Visiting research associate, Department of Geography, King’s College London


07/2016 – 12/2016  Research associate, Department of Geography, King’s College London

10/2015 – 06/2016  Research assistant and postdoctoral researcher, School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin

09/2007 – 08/2009  Assistant Dean and Director of Teaching Office, International College, Yangtze University

07/2006 – 08/2009  Bilingual teacher in business courses, International College, Yangtze University


Education

2011-2016 Ph.D.in Computational Social Science, University College Dublin, Ireland

2009-2011 M.Sc.in Management Science, Yangtze University, China

2002-2006 B.Sc. in Economics, Huazhong Agricultural University, China


Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

[1]  Xiaohui Li, Hang Xiong, Jinghui Hao and Gucheng Li, 2024. Impacts of internet access and use on grain productivity: evidence from Central China. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1).

[2]  Hui Tao, Hang Xiong, Liangzhi You and Fan Li, 2023. Farmers’ willingness to pay for smart farming technologies: Evidence from a Smart Drip Irrigation Technology in North China. China Agricultural Economic Review.

[3]  Zhang H.,Xiong H.,Wang G.,Jiang P., 2022, How institutional pressures improve environmental management performance: an agent-based simulation approach. Environment Development and Sustainability.

[4]  Wu J, Zuo R, He C, Xiong H., Zhao K, and Hu Z.,2022. The effect of information literacy heterogeneity on epidemic spreading in information and epidemic coupled multiplex networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 596: 127119

[5]  Huber, R., Xiong H., Keller, K., and Finger R., 2021, Bridging behavioural factors and standard bio-economic modelling in an agent-based modelling framework, Journal of Agricultural Economics73(1): 35-63.

[6]  Xiong, H., Dalhaus, T., Wang, P., and Huang, J., 2020. Blockchain Technology for Agriculture: Applications and Rationale. Frontiers in Blockchain, 3, 7.

[7]  Xiong, H., Payne, D. and Kinsella, S., 2018. Identifying Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects on Multiplex Networks, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 21(4):6.

[8]  Robert Huber, Martha Bakker, Alfons Balmann, Thomas Berger, Mike Bithell, Calum Brown, Adr-ienne Grêt-Regamey, Hang Xiong et.al, 2018. Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models, Agricultural Systems, 167,143-160.

[9]  Xiong, H., Millington, J. and Xu, W, 2018. Trade in the telecoupling framework: Evidence from the metals industry, Ecology and Society. 23(1):11.

[10] Xiong, H., Wang P. and Bobashev G., 2018. Multiple Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Innovations on Social Networks: A Simulation Study, Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.7:5.

[11] Hang Xiong, James D. A. Millington and Wei Xu, 2018. Trade in the telecoupling framework: Evidence from the metals industry, Ecology and Society. Ecology and Society, 23(1):12.

[12] Millington, J., Xiong, H., Peterson, S. and Woods, J., 2017. Integrating Modelling Approaches for Understanding Telecoupling: Global Food Trade and Local Land Use, Land, 6(3), 56.

[13] Cai, J. and Xiong, H., 2017. An agent-based simulation of cooperation in the use of irrigation systems. Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, 5:9.

[14] Xiong, H. and Payne, D. 2017. Characteristics of Chinese Rural Network: Evidence from Villages in Central China. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 3(1)74-97.

[15] Xiong, H., Kinsella, S. and Payne D., 2016. The Self-Enforcing Agreement in Cooperative Teams: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach. Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, 4:21.

[16] Xiong, H., Xiong, P. andXiong, H., 2016. Kinship Network Generator: A Tool for Converting Kinship Ties into Adjacency Matrices, Journal of Open Research Software, 4(1).

[17] Xiong, H., Wang, P. and Zhu, Y., 2016. Diffusion on social networks: Survey Data from Rural Villages in Central China. Data in Brief, 7: 546–550.

[18] Xiong, H., Payne, D. and Kinsella, S., 2016. Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Innovations: Theory and Simulation. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 63: 1-13.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles (in Chinese)

[1]  Xiong, H., Peng, J., Jv, C., and Peng, K., Mechanism underlying farmers' spontaneous land transfer: Simulation, Management World, 2023, 39(06):71-85, 99.

[2]  Xuran Lu, Gucheng Li, Hang Xiong, 2023. The Whole Process Organization and Operation of Household Follow-up Survey: A Case Study of Agricultural and Rural Modernization Surveys. Journal of Agricultural Big Data, 5(4): 66-70.

[3]  Xiong, H., He, X., Wu, E., and Yi, H., Challenges and countermeasures for development of intelligent water-fertilizer integrated systems in China: analyses based on game theory, Journal of Huazhong Agricultural University, 2023,42(03):18-28.

[4]  Hui Tao, Xiaowen Zhang , Hang Xiong, 2023. Status Quo, Approaches and Measures of Global Food Security ——A Review of 2022 Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists, Journal of Huazhong Agricultural University:Social Sciences Edition, (04):25-32.

[5]  Xiong, H., Jv, C., Li, L. and Tu, T., Discipline Attributes, Research Method System and Typical Research Fields of Computational Economics, Economic Review,2022(03):146-160.

[6]  Hang Xiong, 2020. Challenges to the Smart Agriculture Transformation and Responses, Frontiers, (24), 6

[7]  Hu, C., Huang, H., Xiong, H., Jia, C., Factors Affecting Farmers’ Adoption of Agricultural Technologies: Meta-analysis on Empirical Studies in 2000-2019, World Agriculture,2020(12):48-59.

[8]  Zheng. X. and Xiong, H., How the Blockchain Technology Facilitate Data to Realize Value: the Case of Food Supply Chain, Journal of Agricultural Big Data, 2020(03):13-20.

[9]  Wang, P., Xiang, Q., Xiong, H., Wang, Z., Application of Blockchain Technology in Food Safety Management, Journal of Agrotechnical Economics , 2019 (09):82-90.

[10] Li, L., Ahrweiler, P. and Xiong, H., 2017, Agent-based Computational Economics from the Neo-Schumpeterian Perspective, Economic Perspectives, 7: 137-147.

[11] Cai, J. and Xiong, H., 2016. An Agent-based simulation of Self-organisation in Irrigation Management. Journal of Agrotechnical Economics, 7: 46-60.

[12] Wang P., Xiong, H., Qu, X. and Chen, C., 2015. Structural Evolution of Supply Chains and Food Safety: A Simulation using NetLogo. Journal of Agrotechnical Economics, 8: 64-72.

[13] Li, J. and Xiong H., 2011. Study on Attributes of China’s Food Price Changes based on Data of Food Price from 1996 to 2010. Economic Management, 33: 1-7.

[14] Xiong, H. and Li, D., 2011. Empirical Analysis on Factors Affecting the Export of Virtual Water Based on Cross-sectional Data from 39 Countries. Ecological Economy, 6: 80-83.

[15] Li, D., Xiong, H. and Tang, R., 2010. Evaluation of the Prerequisite of Virtual Water Trade based on Agricultural Goods through Analytic Hierarchy Process. Journal of Agritechnical Economics, 9: 80-89.

[16] Xiong, H., Lv, X. and Liu, X, 2007. A Study on Driving Forces of Cultivated Land Change in Xinzhou County of Wuhan City. Resource Development & Market, 23: 298-302.

[17] Xiong, H., 2007. An Analysis on the Comparative Advantage of Agricultural Products based on Virtual Water. Practice in Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, 2: 25-28.

[18] Xiong, H., Yi, F. and Li, Z., 2005. Analysis on the Efficiency of Circulation of Vegetable in Wuhan City. Rural Economy and Science & Technology, 8: 22-24.


Work in Progress

  1. Dukalskis A., Elkink, J. A. and Xiong, H., Simulating Defection from Autocracy: The Case of North Korea

  2. Xiong, H. and Bobashev, G., Hypothesis testing with simulations

  3. Xiong, H., Social Norms and Network Transitivity in the Diffusion of Innovations


Other Publications

  1. Xiong, H., 2018, A Mixed-Methods Study with Network Data and Adoption Data: Effects of Social Networks on the Diffusion of Innovations, SAGE Research Methods Cases

  2. Li S. and Xiong H. 2015 (4). Key to the Realisation of Comprehensive Ecological Farming for Agricultural Cooperatives. China Farmers’ Cooperatives, 4

  3. Li S. and Xiong H. 2014 (11). Key Factors Determining the Success of Running Agricultural Cooperatives. China Farmers’ Cooperatives, 11


Research Projects

  1. Major Program of the National Social Science Foundation of China, Research on China's Food Security Strategy in the New Situation (22&ZD079) (2023-2026), Chairperson of Sub-theme

  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Top-level Project, Research on the Influence Mechanism of Video-based Extension on the Adoption of Digital Agricultural Technology: A Perspective Based on Knowledge Constraints (72173050), 2022-2025, Chairperson

  3. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Science and Technology Major Special Project, "Corn Smart Production Model Innovation and Unmanned Farm Demonstration" (2021ZD0046), "Quantitative Model and Decision Support System for Corn Growth Regulation", 2021-2024, Chairperson

  4. DITAC - Digital Transformation of China's Agriculture, the German Ministry of Research and Education, 2021-2024, Collaborator

  5. General Program of Humanities and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education, Research on the Path and Mechanism of Agricultural Technology Diffusion under the Perspective of Internet Social Media: Taking "Two Types of Agricultural" Technology as an Example (20YJC790152), 2020-2022, Chairperson

  6. Research Initiation Fee Project for Newly Entered High-level Talents of Huazhong Agricultural University, Modeling of Agricultural Systems and Its Applications (108/11041910125), 2019-2023, Chairperson

  7. Huazhong Agricultural University Autonomous Science and Technology Innovation Fund Macro Agricultural Research Specialization, Research on the Occurrence Mechanism of Agricultural Technology Diffusion Based on Time-Series Remote Sensing Data (2662019YJ002), 2019-2020, Chairperson

  8. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Dynamic Simulation and Empirical Research on Farmers' Technology Adoption Decision-making under the Perspective of Limited Knowledge (71863006), 2019-2022, Participation

  9. Swiss National Science Foundation, Reconciling innovative farming practices and networks to enable sustainable development of smart Swiss farming systems (InnoFarm), 2018-2021, sub-theme leader

  10. Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, Agricultural policies in the era of digitalization (DigitAP), 2018-2020,Participation

  11. National Natural Science Foundation of China, Triggers and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Cooperative Behavior in Irrigation (71303198), 2014-2017, Participation

  12. National Social Science Foundation of China, Adequate Scale Agricultural Management Based on Equilibrium Factor Perspective, 2014-2017, Participation

  13. A Study on Proper Scale of Agricultural Business: From the Perspective of Factors of Production, funded by Social Sciences Foundation of China (No. 14CJY044), 2014-2017,Collaborator

  14. A Study on Governance Mechanism of Food Safety, funded by Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 71203170), 2013-2016, Co-PI


Events Organized

2023.10 2023 Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists, Wuhan

2023.10 The 15th CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference, Parallel Session, Nanjing

2023.08 International Symposium on Social Simulation 2023, Wuhan

2023.08 2023 Huazhong Agricultural University-Imperial College London Summer School on Methodology of Computational Social Science, Wuhan

2023.07 The 15th CEA (Europe) and 34th CEA (UK) 2023 Annual Conference, Gottingen, Germany

2023.06  Agricultural & Applied Economics Association 2023,Washington

2022.12 2022 Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists, Wuhan

2022.11 2022 2th National Smart Agriculture Creative Contest, Wuhan

2022.09  Social Simulation Conference 2022, online

2021.07  2021 Huazhong Agricultural University-Imperial College London Summer School on Methodology of Computational Social Science, online

2021.06  Inverse Generative Social Science (IGSS) Workshop 2021, online

2021.06  IAMO Forum 2021, online

2021.05  2021 Thematic Forum on Decision-making in Smart Agriculture of IUR (Industry-University-Research) Summit of Smart Agriculture, Wuhan

2021.05  2021 First National Smart Agriculture Creative Contest, Wuhan

2020.08  International Symposium on Social Simulation 2020, online

2020.07  2020 Huazhong Agricultural University-Imperial College London Summer School on Methodology of Computational Social Science, online

2019.07  2019 Huazhong Agricultural University-Imperial College London Summer School on Methodology of Computational Social Science, online, Wuhan

2018.06  Program committee member, International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environment Sensing, Cambridge, UK.

2017.01  Organisation team member, International Exploratory Workshop on Agricultural Agent-based Modelling Approaches, Zurich, Switzerland.


Conference Presentations

2023.10 2023 Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists, Wuhan, China

2023.10 The 15th CAER-IFPRI Annual International Conference,  Nanjing, China

2023.08 International Symposium on Social Simulation 2023, Wuhan, China

2023.08 2023 Huazhong Agricultural University-Imperial College London Summer School on Methodology of Computational Social Science, Wuhan, China

2023.07 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association, Washington, USA

2023.07 The 15th CEA (Europe) and 34th CEA (UK) 2023 Annual Conference, Gottingen, Germany

2022.12 2022 Global Food Security Forum for Young Scientists, Wuhan, China

2022.09 Social Simulation Conference 2022, Milan, Italy

2021.08  2021 Annual Conference on Agricultural-forest Economics and Management, online

2021.06  Inverse Generative Social Science (IGSS ) Workshop 2021, online

2021.06  IAMO Forum 2021, online

2021.01  Third National High-end Forum on Computational Social Science, online

2020.11  19th Annual Conference of China Society of Crop Sciences, Wuhan, China

2020.06  China Session IAMO (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies) Forum 2020, online

2018.08  Social Simulation Conference 2018, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

2017.09  Social Simulation Conference 2017, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

2016.09 Social Simulation Conference 2016, Rome University, Rome, Italy

2015.06 8th Annual International Network of Analytical Sociologists Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

2014.10 10th Conference on Complex Network, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

2014.09 6th Chinese Economic Association in Europe, Annual Conference, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

2013.05 International Forum on Studies of Rural Areas and Peasants I, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

2012.08 9th Irish Society of New Economists Conference, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland



Research Grants

PI, Mechanism through Which Video-based Extension Affects the Adoption of Digital Agricultural Technologies: from the Perspective of Knowledge Constraints, funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (72173050),2022-2025

Co-PI, Digital Transformation of China's Agriculture (DITAC), German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), 2021-2024

PI, Modelling of Maize Growth Regulation and Maize Farming Decision-making Support System (2021ZD0046), Major Science and Technology Project of Inner Mongolia, 2021-2024

PI, The path and mechanism of agricultural technology diffusion from the perspective of Internet media, General Project for Humanities and Social Sciences Research (20YJC790152), 2020-2022

PI, Modelling of Agricultural Systems and Its Applications, Scientific & Technological Self-innovation Foundation of Huazhong Agricultural University

Collaborator: Swiss National Science Foundation, Reconciling innovative farming practices and networks to enable sustainable development of smart Swiss farming systems (InnoFarm), 2018-2021

Collaborator: Triggering Factors and Evolution Mechanism of Cooperative Behaviour on Irrigation, funded by Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 71303198), 2014-2017

Collaborator: A Study on Proper Scale of Agricultural Business: From the Perspective of Factors of Production, funded by Social Sciences Foundation of China (No. 14CJY044), 2014-2017


Awards and Scholarships

2021 Leading Scientist of the industrial innovation team, Ordors City Industrial Innovation Talent Team Leader, Ordors Municipal Government

2020 Hubei Chutian Young Scholar, Hubei Provincial Government

2019 Yellow Crane Talents Program, Wuhan Municipal Government

2016 Distinguished Dissertation Award, European Social Simulation Association

2014 Graduate Research and Innovations Award, University College Dublin

2011 UCD CSC Scholarship for doctoral study, China Scholarship Council

2010 Third Prize of National English Contest for College Students (Level A), Ministry of Education of China and the State Planning Committee

2009 Graduate Student Fellowship, Yangtze University

2007 and 2008 Most Popular Teacher, International College, Yangtze University

2007 First Class of Extraordinary Paper: Bachelor Degree, Department of Education of Hubei Province

2006 Innovative Essay of Central China Agricultural University, Central China Agricultural University


Professional Associations

President of Asian Social Simulation Association

Secretary-general of Global Food Security Association for Young Scientists

European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)

Chinese Economic Association in Europe (CEA Europe)


Referee Services

Member of editorial board of JASSS (Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation)

Member of editorial board of Frontiers in Blockchain, and chief editor of its special issue on “Blockchain in Food and Agriculture

Member of editorial board of RofASSS (Review of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation)

Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Land Use Policy, Applied Geography, Journal of Behavior and Experimental Economics, Climate Change, Journal of Land Use Science, European Journal of Agronomy, Agricultural Water Management, Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, International Journal of Marketing Studies, Social Simulation Conference 2017


Teaching Experience

2018-               Lecturer: Econometrics, Economic and social network analysis for students at Economics at College of Economics & Management, Huazhong Agricultural University

2017 – 2018    Lecturer: 751-2904-00L Current Topics in Agricultural Economics and Policy for master students at Department of Management, Technology and Economics, ETH Zurich

2014 – 2015    Occasional lecturer: SOC 30210 Social Networks, Organisations and People for undergraduates at UCD School of Sociology

2013 – 2014    Tutor: HUM10030 Introduction to Arts for undergraduates at UCD College of Human Sciences

2012 – 2013    Tutor: HUM10030 Introduction to Arts for undergraduates at UCD College of Human Sciences

2006 – 2009    Lecturer: Higher National Diploma programme (a qualification awarded by Scottish Qualifications Authority) at International College, Yangtze University


Research Themes

Simulation and modeling of socio-economic systems

Digital agricultural and rural economics

Management and application of agricultural big data

Agricultural policy impact assessment



Software Tools

R, MATLAB, NetLogo, GMAS, ArcGIS, STATA, Gephi, LaTex



Languages

Chinese (native), English (fluent), German (basic)


Software / Programs Developed

Kinship Adjacency Matrix Generator                           https://github.com/hangxiong/KAMG

(published on Journal of Open Research Software)  

R package wNetwork                                                    https://github.com/hangxiong/wNetwork

(submitted to CRAN)

Selected Agent-based Modelling programs                  https://www.openabm.org/user/1638/models