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 Economics, 73(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
Dukalskis A., Elkink, J. A. and Xiong, H., Simulating Defection from Autocracy: The Case of North Korea
Xiong, H. and Bobashev, G., Hypothesis testing with simulations
Xiong, H., Social Norms and Network Transitivity in the Diffusion of Innovations
Other Publications
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
Li S. and Xiong H. 2015 (4). Key to the Realisation of Comprehensive Ecological Farming for Agricultural Cooperatives. China Farmers’ Cooperatives, 4
Li S. and Xiong H. 2014 (11). Key Factors Determining the Success of Running Agricultural Cooperatives. China Farmers’ Cooperatives, 11
Research Projects
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
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
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
DITAC - Digital Transformation of China's Agriculture, the German Ministry of Research and Education, 2021-2024, Collaborator
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
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
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
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
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
Swiss Federal Office for Agriculture, Agricultural policies in the era of digitalization (DigitAP), 2018-2020，Participation
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Triggers and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Cooperative Behavior in Irrigation (71303198), 2014-2017, Participation
National Social Science Foundation of China, Adequate Scale Agricultural Management Based on Equilibrium Factor Perspective, 2014-2017, Participation
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
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
