Dr Huanhuan Xiong

Biography

Dr Huanhuan Xiong is a lecturer in Information Systems for Sustainable & Responsible Business, and also a senior researcher in Financial Services Innovation Centre, at university College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Currently she serves as a co-director of the MSc Design and Development of Digital Business postgraduate programme. Huanhuan holds a PhD (in Geographic Information System) and MS (in Software Engineering) from Wuhan University, China. She also holds a MA (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education) from University College Cork, Ireland.

In 2024, Dr Huanhuan Xiong successfully received two funded research awards:

• The Children’s Health Ireland Programme Management Office (PMO) External Review has been awarded funding of €15,000 to support a focused evaluation initiative. This project aims to provide a comprehensive assessment of the PMO’s processes and outcomes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and healthcare delivery excellence.
• The National Digital Leadership Network (NDLN) project on data-driven decision-making in education has secured €10,000 in funding from the N-TUTORR National Programme. This initiative seeks to investigate the role of data analytics in shaping effective educational leadership and policy decisions.

In December 2024, she submitted a research proposal for IRC COALESCE 2025: Global AI Governance, Trust, and Ethics for Sustainable Health (GATES), addressing the critical gap by establishing actionable guidelines and practical tools for safe, ethical, and sustainable AI use in healthcare settings, in a global context. This study develops an interdisciplinary collaboration in AI regulation (WHO, UNESCO, OECD, and EU AI Act), healthcare governance, and implementation science to develop practical compliance mechanisms across multiple institutions and sectors in Ireland and Malawi. This call provides up to €220k in direct costs over two years, which is currently under review.

In 2023, she submitted a research proposal for Horizon Europe Call as the PI from UCC: Transition With INcluSion (TWINS): Preparing for a just green and digital transition. This proposal was placed on the reserve list. This call provided up to 3M direct costs over three years. In this proposal, she led the WP6: AI-enabled digital interactive policy assessment platform.

In 2022, she submitted a proposal as the AHSS PI to the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme call: “Assessing and improving the financial well-being of Irish households using state-of-the-art data science techniques (AI-powered)”, which achieved first place in the reserve list.

Since 2021, she has been working as the lead researcher in the Financial Service Innovation Centre (FSIC) in UCC, focusing on financial well-being, financial resilience, AI-powered financial services, and data-driven decision-making.

All her publications can be found in: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1809-0388.