I do not have a plan to supervise foreign Master's or PhD students in 2024 and 2025. Please note that emails seeking for acceptance letters may not be replied.
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 Experience
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] He, J, & Hang, X. (2024). Animal Welfare or Own Welfare: What Motivates Consumers’Choice of Cage-Free Products? Agribusiness: an International Journal, 2024(4).
[2] Xie, S., Hang, X., Shang, L. Bao, Y., 2024. Machine learning-facilitated policy intensity analysis: A proposed procedure and its application. Social Indicators Research.
[3] Xiaohui Li., Hang, X., 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).
[4] Hui Tao., Hang, X., Liangzhi You., 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.
[5] Zhang H., Hang, X.,Wang G.,Jiang P., 2022. How institutional pressures improve environmental management performance: an agent-based simulation approach. Environment Development and Sustainability.
[6] Wu J, Zuo R, He C, Hang, X., 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.
[7] Huber, R., Hang, X., 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.
[8] Hang, X., Dalhaus, T., Wang, P., and Huang, J., 2020. Blockchain Technology for Agriculture: Applications and Rationale. Frontiers in Blockchain, 3,7.
[9] Hang, X., Payne, D. and Kinsella, S., 2018. Identifying Mechanisms Underlying Peer Effects on Multiplex Networks. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 21(4), 6.
[10] Huber, R., Bakker, M., Balmann, A., Berger, T., Bithell, M., Brown, C., Grêt-Regamey, A., Hang, X.et al., 2018. Representation of decision-making in European agricultural agent-based models. Agricultural Systems, 167, 143-160.
[11] Hang, X., Millington, J. and Xu, W., 2018. Trade in the telecoupling framework: Evidence from the metals industry. Ecology and Society, 23(1), 11.
[12] Hang, X., 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.
[13] Hang, X., A. D J M ,Wei, X.Trade in the telecoupling framework: evidence from the metals industry[J].Ecology and Society,2018,23(1):
[14] Millington, J., Hang, X., Peterson, S. and Woods, J., 2017. Integrating Modelling Approaches for Understanding Telecoupling: Global Food Trade and Local Land Use. Land, 6(3), 56.
[15] Cai, J. and Hang, X., 2017. An agent-based simulation of cooperation in the use of irrigation systems. Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, 5, 9.
[16] Hang, X., and Payne, D., 2017. Characteristics of Chinese Rural Network: Evidence from Villages in Central China. Chinese Journal of Sociology, 3(1), 74-97.
[17] Hang, X., Kinsella, S. and Payne, D., 2016. The Self-Enforcing Agreement in Cooperative Teams: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach. Complex Adaptive Systems Mode ling, 4:21.
[18] Hang, X., Xiong, P. and Xiong, H., 2016. Kinship Network Generator: A Tool for Converting Kinship Ties into Adjacency Matrices. Journal of Open Research Software, 4(1).
[19] Hang, X., Wang, P. and Zhu, Y., 2016. Diffusion on social networks: Survey Data from Rural Villages in Central China. Data in Brief, 7, 546–550.
[20] Hang, X., 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] Hang, X., Yawen,Y., Wei, Z., Chen, H., Baodong, X,. Spatial spillover effects of grassroots agricultural technology promotion: empirical analysis based on satellite remote sensing data, 中国农业资源与区划, 2024
[2] Lingyue, L., Hang, X., He, J. China Egg Consumption Preference Survey Statistical Dataset, 农业大数据, 2023, 5 (04): 130-137
[3] Hang, X., Gucheng Li. Economic research on innovation in the digital age. China Social Science Journal. 2023
[4] Hang, X., Peng J., Cong, J., Kaili, P. Research on the Mechanism of Spontaneous Land Transfer Behavior of Farmers: Simulation, Validation, and Application, 管理世界, 2023, 39 (06): 71-85,99
[5] Xuran, L, Gucheng, L, Hang, X*. The organization and operation of the entire process of farmer tracking survey: taking the Agricultural Rural Modernization Tracking Survey (ARMS) as an example, 农业大数据学报,, 2023, 5 (4): 66-70
[6] Hang, X., Xu, H., Enzhe, W, etc. Challenges and Countermeasures Faced by the Development of Intelligent Water Fertilizer Integration System in China: Analysis Based on Game Theory, 华中农业大学学报, 2023, 42 (03): 18-28
[7] Hui, T., Xiaowen, Z., Hang, X*. The current situation, implementation methods, and security measures of global food security, 华中农业大学学报, 2023 (04): 25-32
[8] Hang, X., Ju, C., Lucheng, L., Taotao,T. The disciplinary attributes, research methodology system, and typical research areas of computational economics, 经济评论, 2022 (03): 146-160
[9] Hang, X. Challenges and Countermeasures in the Transformation of Smart Agriculture, 人民论坛, 2020 (24): 6
[10] Chen, H., Hualin,H., Hang, X., Jia, C,.The influencing factors of farmers' technology adoption behavior: a meta-analysis based on typical empirical studies from 2000 to 2019, 世界农业, 2020 (12): 48-59
[11] Xuejing, Z,. Hang, X. How blockchain promotes the value realization of data elements: taking the food supply chain as an example, 农业大数据学报 2020 (03): 13-20
[12] Puqing, W., Qu Xiang, Hang, X., Zhiguang, W. Research on the Application of Blockchain Technology in Food Safety Management, 农业技术经济， 2019 (09): 82-90
[13] Lucheng, L., Ahrweiler, P.,Hang, X. Research on Subject based Computational Economics from the Perspective of Neo Schumpeterism, 经济动态, 2017 (7): 137-147
[14] Jingjing, C., Hang, X. Research on the Formation Mechanism of Subject based Irrigation Cooperation Behavior, 农业技术经济, 2016 (7): 46-60
[15] Puqing, W., Hang, X., Xiang, Q., Cun, C. Organizational Structure Evolution of Supply Chain and Agricultural Product Quality and Safety: Computer Simulation Based on NetLogo, 农业技术经济, 2015 (8): 64-72
[16] Jing, L., Hang, X. The Attribute Characteristics of Food Price Changes in China: Empirical Analysis Based on Quarterly Data from 1996 to 2010, 经济管理, 2011 (3): 1-7
[17] Dongsheng, L., Hang, X. Empirical analysis of factors influencing virtual water imports based on cross-sectional data from major countries, 生态经济, 2011 (6): 80-83
[18] Dongsheng, L., Hang, X., Rongsheng, T. Evaluation of Implementation Conditions for Virtual Water Trade of Agricultural Products Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process, 农业技术经济, 2010 (9): 80-89
[19] Hang, X., Xiao, L., Xinping, L. Analysis of the Driving Mechanism of Changes in Cultivated Land Quantity in Xinzhou District, Wuhan City, 资源开发与市场, 2007 (23): 298-302
[20] Hang, X. Comparative Advantage Analysis of Virtual Water Factors in Agricultural Trade, 对外经贸实务, 2007 (2): 25-28
[21] Hang, X., Fahai,Y., Zheng, L. Benefit Analysis of Vegetable Circulation in Wuhan City, 农业经济与科技, 2005 (8): 22-24
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), Co-PI
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,PI
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, PI
4. DITAC - Digital Transformation of China's Agriculture, the German Ministry of Research and Education, 2021-2024, Participation
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, PI
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, PI
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, PI
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, PI
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,Participation
14. A Study on Governance Mechanism of Food Safety, funded by Natural Sciences Foundation of China (No. 71203170), 2013-2016, Co-PI
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
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.
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
Patents and Software Copyright
Invention patent, a simulation model for individual decision-making, patent number: 202210382016.8
Software copyright, Automated Measurement System for Individual Behavior Uncertainty V1.0, registration number: 2021SR1821826
Software copyright, Individual Behavior Satisfaction Automated Measurement System V1.0, registration number: 2021SR1821827
Awards and Scholarships
2023 Best Paper Award from the American Academy of Agricultural and Applied Economics
2022 Outstanding thesis advisor for graduate students at Huazhong Agricultural University for the academic year 2021-2022
2020 Selected for the Talent Plan of Hubei Province
2019 Selected for Wuhan Talent Plan
2016 Received the Outstanding Dissertation Award of the European Society for Social Simulation in 2016
2014 Received the Graduate Research and Innovation Award from the University of Dublin in Ireland
Professional Associations
President of the Asian Society for Social Simulation
Secretary General of the Global Alliance of Young Scientists for Food Security
Member of the Agricultural Modeling and Simulation Special Committee of the Chinese Society for Simulation
Executive Committee Member of China Agricultural Socialized Service Expert Committee
European Social Simulation Association (ESSA)
American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA)
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
Research Themes
Simulation and modeling of socio-economic systems
Digital economy in agriculture
Public Policy Simulation Assessment
Agricultural big data management and application
