Dr Huanhuan Xiong

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Dr Huanhuan Xiong

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Lecturer Information Systems for Sustainable & Responsible Business, Co-director of the MSc Design and Development of Digital Business

O'Rahilly Building 3.78 Business Information System University College Cork Cork University Business School

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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.

Research domains:

  • Data analytics
  • AI/ML
  • Cloud computing
  • Information systems
  • Digital innovation
  • Programming (Java, Python, R, JS, PHP)
  • Teaching and learning

 

Research activities:

  • 2020-current, Lead researcher in Financial Service Innovation Centre (FSIC)
  • 2015-2018, Work Package leader of a H2020 project, responsible for system architecture design, self-organisation and self-management approaches / strategies development, project evaluation management. Specialise in heterogeneous resource management and scheduling optimisation.
  • 2012-2015, Lead researcher in Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4), responsible for design, implementing and testing several business-oriented research projects, e.g., cloud migration process and pattern, cloud migration solution—PaaS and scalability, cloud migration solution—high availability and disaster recovery. Specialise in service scalability and reliability.

 

Teaching activities:

  • 23/24 IS3002 Emergent Digital Technologies and their application in Accounting and Finance, Lecturer
  • 23/24 IS6131 Web Development for Global Markets, Lecturer
  • 23/24 IS6132 Web Development for Digital Business, Lecturer
  • 23/24 IS2001 Analytics for International Business, Lecturer
  • 22/23 IS2208 Introduction to Java Programming, Lecturer
  • 22/23 IS6052 Descriptive and Predictive Analytics, Senior demonstrator
  • 22/23 IS6055 Prescriptive Analytics, Senior demonstrator
  • 17/18 CS1111/CS5020 System Organisation, Teaching assistant
  • 17/18 CS3514 C programming for Microcontrollers, Teaching assistant
  • 16/17 CS1111/CS5020 System Organisation, Teaching assistant
  • 16/17 CS3514 C programming for Microcontrollers, Teaching assistant

 

Publications:

  • Peer reviewed journals

 

  1. Carton, F., Xiong, H., & McCarthy, J. B. (2024). Human-centred factors of decision-making for financial resilience. Journal of Decision Systems, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2024.2354644
  2. Carton, F. L., Xiong, H., & McCarthy, J. B. (2022). Drivers of financial well-being in socio-economic deprived populations. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, 34, 100628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbef.2022.100628
  3. Carton, F. L., McCarthy, J., & Xiong, H. (2022). Digital factors supporting decision making in the financial well-being of social housing residents. Journal of Decision Systems, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/12460125.2022.2073638
  4. Filelis‐Papadopoulos, C., Xiong, H., & Morrison, J. (2021). A scalable and adaptable allocation framework for heterogeneous resources in a large cluster environment. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 33(14), e5564. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5564
  5. Castañé, G. G., Xiong, H., Dong, D., & Morrison, J. P. (2018). An ontology for heterogeneous resources management interoperability and HPC in the cloud. Future Generation Computer Systems, 88, 373-384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.05.086

 

  • Peer reviewed book chapters

 

  1. Xiong, H., Filelis-Papadopoulos, C., Dong, D., Castañé, G.G., Meyer, S., Morrison, J.P. (2019). Energy-Efficient Servers and Cloud. In: Kachris, C., Falsafi, B., Soudris, D. (eds) Hardware Accelerators in Data Centers (pp.163–180). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92792-3_9
  2. Xiong, H., Filelis-Papadopoulos, C., Castañe, G. G., Dong, D., & Morrison, J. P. (2018). Self-organising, self-managing frameworks and strategies. In Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud (pp. 63-88). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76038-4_3
  3. Dong, D., Xiong, H., Castañe, G. G., & Morrison, J. P. (2018). Cloud Architectures and Management Approaches. In Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud (pp. 31-61). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76038-4_4

 

  • Peer reviewed conference proceedings

 

  1. Xiong, H., Carton, F. L., & McCarthy, J.B. (2022). Data Science for Financial Inclusion: a value co-creation model for balanced benefits. PACIS 2022 Proceedings. 269. https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2022/269
  2. Xiong, H., Dong, D., Filelis-Papadopoulos, C., Castañé, G. G., Lynn, T., Marinescu, D. C., & Morrison, J. P. (2017). CloudLightning: A self-organized self-managed heterogeneous cloud. In 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) (pp. 749-758). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.15439/2017F274
  3. Xiong, H., Filelis-Papadopoulos, C., Dong, D., Castañé, G. G., & Morrison, J. P. (2017). Towards a scalable and adaptable resource allocation framework in cloud environments. In 2017 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops on Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications (pp. 137-144). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPPW.2017.31
  4. Filelis-Papadopoulos, C., Xiong, H., Spătaru, A., Castañé, G. G., Dong, D., Gravvanis, G. A., & Morrison, J. P. (2017). A generic framework supporting self-organisation and self-management in hierarchical systems. In 2017 16th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC) (pp. 149-156). IEEE.
  5. Dong, D., Xiong, H., Castañé, G. G., Stack, P., & Morrison, J. P. (2017). Heterogeneous resource management and orchestration in cloud environments. In International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (pp. 61-80). Springer, Cham.
  6. Dong, D., Xiong, H., Castañé, G. G., & Morrison, J. P. (2017). A Decentralized Cloud Management Architecture Based on Application Autonomous Systems. In International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (pp. 102-114). Springer, Cham.
  7. Stack, P., Xiong, H., Mersel, D., Makhloufi, M., Terpend, G., & Dong, D. (2017, April). Self-healing in a decentralised cloud management system. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Next generation of Cloud Architectures (pp. 1-6).
  8. Lynn, T., Xiong, H., Dong, D., Momani, B., Gravvanis, G. A., Filelis-Papadopoulos, C., ... & Morrison, J. P. (2016). CLOUDLIGHTNING: A Framework for a Self-organising and Self-managing Heterogeneous Cloud.
  9. Xiong, H., Fowley, F., Pahl, C. (2015). A Database-Specific Pattern for Multi-cloud High Availability and Disaster Recovery. In: Celesti, A., Leitner, P. (eds) Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing. ESOCC 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 567. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33313-7_29
  10. Xiong, H., Fowley, F., & Pahl, C. (2015). An architecture pattern for multi-cloud high availability and disaster recovery. In Workshop on Federated Cloud Networking (FedCloudNet 2015).
  11. Xiong, H., Fowley, F., Pahl, C., Moran, N. (2014). Scalable Architectures for Platform-as-a-Service Clouds: Performance and Cost Analysis. In: Avgeriou, P., Zdun, U. (eds) Software Architecture. ECSA 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8627. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09970-5_21
  12. Pahl, C., Xiong, H., & Walshe, R. (2013). A comparison of on-premise to cloud migration approaches. In European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (pp. 212-226). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
  13. Pahl, C., & Xiong, H. (2013). Migration to PaaS clouds-migration process and architectural concerns. In 2013 IEEE 7th International Symposium on the Maintenance and Evolution of Service-Oriented and Cloud-Based Systems (pp. 86-91). IEEE.
  14. Pendlebury, J., Xiong, H., & Walshe, R. (2012). Artificial neural network simulation on CUDA. In 2012 IEEE/ACM 16th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (pp. 228-233). IEEE.
  15. Xiong, H., Wang, P., & Zhu, G. (2010). The Services Pricing Strategy on Software as a Service. In 2010 International Conference on Management and Service Science (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

 

  • Dissemination conference proceedings

 

  1. AI for Financial Well-Being, panel event for ECIS 2022, Timisoara, Romania, June, organiser.
  2. Open Conference IFIP WG 8.3 Decision Support Systems (DSS), June 23, 2022, Budapest, Hungary, Digital factors supporting decision making in the financial well-being of social housing residents, co-author.
  3. Net Futures Conference 2017, June 28, 2017, Brussels, Belgium, “CloudLightning Project”, speaker.
  4. CloudWATCH Europe 2017, September 20, 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands, “CloudLightning Project”, speaker.

 

  • EC core deliverable reports

 

  1. Deliverable ‘D3.1.2 Architecture’. (2016) John Morrison, Huanhuan Xiong, Dapeng Dong, and Bilal Momani.
  2. Deliverable ‘D3.2.1 Integration’. (2017) Gabriel Gonzalez-Castañe, Paul Stack, Huanhuan Xiong, Dapeng Dong, and John Morrison.
  3. Deliverable ‘D4.1.1 Protocol Specification and API’. (2016) Marian Neagul, Ioan Drăgan, Ciprian Dorin Crăciun, John Morrison, and Huanhuan Xiong
  4. Deliverable ‘D4.2.1 Local Decision Strategies’. (2016) John Morrison, Christos Filelis-Papadopoulos, Huanhuan Xiong, Adrian Spătaru, Dapeng Dong, and Gabriel Gonzalez Castañe.
  5. Deliverable ‘D4.3.1 Coalition Formation’. (2016) John Morrison, Christos Filelis-Papadopoulos, Huanhuan Xiong, Adrian Spătaru, Dapeng Dong, and Gabriel Gonzalez Castañe.
  6. Deliverable ‘D4.4.1 Service Deployment and Management’. (2016) Perumal Kuppuudaiyar, Suryanarayanan Natarajan, and Huanhuan Xiong.
  7. Deliverable ‘D5.1.1 Service Description Format’. (2016) Huanhuan Xiong, Dapeng Dong, John Morrison, Ioannis Antoniadis, Marian Neagul, Konstantinos Giannoutakis, Florin Fortis and Ioan Dragan.
  8. Deliverable ‘D6.3.1 Self-organisation Self-management Plugins’. (2017) Gabriel Gonzalez-Castañe, Huanhuan Xiong, Dapeng Dong, Perumal Kuppuudaiyar, Maria Koutli, and John Morrison.

 

All deliverables are available on https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/643946/results