Hui HUANG

2023/10/13 17:47:36

Graduate institution:

King's College London

Biography:

Hui Huang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Public Economics and Social Policy at Shanghai Jiao Tong Uniiveristy. His research investigates how artificial intelligence, undergirded by algorithms, is impacting the nature of work and employment relationships in organisations and labour market. Particulary, he is interested in manipulating the in-depth qualiltive research methods to understand the complicated power of state, digital technology and capital in reshaping the workplace relations in this digital era. His research has been published in top journals like Journal of Contpmorary China, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporay Asia and New technology, Work, and Employment. His research and teaching have also received coverage from a variety of news sources including Wired, The Rest of World, and AI Jazeera.

Selected courses:

Principles of management
Demographic Sociology

Selected publications::

Hui Huang. (2023) Weapons of the Weak: Algorithmic Despotism and Everyday Forms of Resistance of Platform Food-delivery Drivers in China. China Quarterly. Huang, Hui. (2023) ‘The Food Delivered is More Valuable than My Life’: Understanding the Platform Precarity of Migrant Food-delivery Drivers in China’s Digital Economy. Journal of Contemporary Asia. (Accepted, in press) (SSCI, Q1, IF3.2)
Huang, Hui. (2022) Algorithmic Management in Food-delivery Platform Economy in China. New Technology, Work and Employment, 1– 21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12228 (SSCI, Q1, IF4.2, ABS 3)
Huang, Hui. (2022) Riders on the Storm: Amplified Platform Precarity and the Impact of COVID-19 on Online Food-delivery Drivers in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 31(135), 351-365 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10670564.2021.1966895  (SSCI, Q1, IF3.7)

Expertise & public engagement::

He is a research associate at the School of Social Science and Public policy at King's College London.