Daning Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Zurich and head of the Business Intelligence Research Group. His research lies at the intersection of network science and business intelligence. The application domains of his research include financial risk management, social media analytics, and open source innovation.
His goal is to derive analytical and empirical insights from the analyses of various real-world networks such as organization networks, communication networks, and social networks. Based on such insights, He aims to develop network-based business intelligence techniques and information systems for supporting decision making in various application domains.
Daning received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona where he worked with Prof. J. Leon Zhao. Daning got his B.S. degree in Computer Science at Zhejiang University in 2004.