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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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
- 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).
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- AI for Financial Well-Being, panel event for ECIS 2022, Timisoara, Romania, June, organiser.
- 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.
- Net Futures Conference 2017, June 28, 2017, Brussels, Belgium, “CloudLightning Project”, speaker.
- CloudWATCH Europe 2017, September 20, 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands, “CloudLightning Project”, speaker.
- EC core deliverable reports
- Deliverable ‘D3.1.2 Architecture’. (2016) John Morrison, Huanhuan Xiong, Dapeng Dong, and Bilal Momani.
- Deliverable ‘D3.2.1 Integration’. (2017) Gabriel Gonzalez-Castañe, Paul Stack, Huanhuan Xiong, Dapeng Dong, and John Morrison.
- Deliverable ‘D4.1.1 Protocol Specification and API’. (2016) Marian Neagul, Ioan Drăgan, Ciprian Dorin Crăciun, John Morrison, and Huanhuan Xiong
- Deliverable ‘D4.2.1 Local Decision Strategies’. (2016) John Morrison, Christos Filelis-Papadopoulos, Huanhuan Xiong, Adrian Spătaru, Dapeng Dong, and Gabriel Gonzalez Castañe.
- Deliverable ‘D4.3.1 Coalition Formation’. (2016) John Morrison, Christos Filelis-Papadopoulos, Huanhuan Xiong, Adrian Spătaru, Dapeng Dong, and Gabriel Gonzalez Castañe.
- Deliverable ‘D4.4.1 Service Deployment and Management’. (2016) Perumal Kuppuudaiyar, Suryanarayanan Natarajan, and Huanhuan Xiong.
- 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.
- 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