Prof. Xu Huang's research interests include empowerment, leadership, employees’ well-being and emotions, cross-cultural organizational psychology, and management issues in China. As a key member of cognitive computing lab, he is responsible for conducting research on utilizing cognitive science theories and findings for employee emotion analysis and management.

Dr. Huang is a Professor of Management at the Department of Management and Marketing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Since 2010, he has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Work, Organization and Wellbeing, Griffith University. He has also been appointed as a Visiting Professor in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics since 2012. Dr. Huang received his PhD from the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), MA from Lancaster University (UK), and Honors Diploma from Lingnan University (Hong Kong). He had worked as a trainer for several companies in Hong Kong before he went to the Netherlands to do PhD studies. Dr. Huang's has published in Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Applied Psychology: An International Review, Personality and Individual Differences, Sex Roles, Management and Organization Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of Environmental Psychology, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, International Negotiation, Applied Ergonomics, Journal of Contemporary China, and so forth.