In order to recognize excellence in teaching, research and service, FBA is honored to announce the following outstanding academic staff awards 2025/2026. Please join us in congratulating the following recipients.
FBA Outstanding Teaching Award – Prof. Cheris Wing Chi CHOW
Prof. Cheris Wing Chi CHOW is an Associate Professor in Marketing at the Department of Management and Marketing (MMI). She has taught a wide variety of courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels for many years with outstanding teaching performance. In past year, Prof. CHOW initiated a pilot program using a course-based approach for Project Report of MSc in Data Science (Marketing Analytics) programme. This approach provides the students with a solid and systematic training on essential research skills, such as problem identifications, data analysis and report writing. With the help of this innovative training program, students’ graduation rates have significantly been improved.
FBA Outstanding Research Awards – Prof. Hongchuan SHEN, Prof. Huiling HUANG, Prof. Xin LIU, and Prof. Liwen ZHANG
From different departments of FBA, Prof. Hongchuan SHEN, Prof. Huiling HUANG, Prof. Xin LIU, and Prof. Liwen ZHANG demonstrated their research excellence and received the FBA Outstanding Research Awards.
Prof. Hongchuan SHEN is an Assistant Professor of Business Intelligence and Analytics at the Department of Accounting and Information Management. Since joining in 2023, his publications in top-notch venues such as Information Systems Research (UTD24, FT50, ABS4*) have enabled him to receive such remarkable achievements. In addition, Prof. SHEN was awarded National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund (Category C).
Prof. Huiling HUANG is an Assistant Professor of Integrated Resort and Tourism Management at the Department of Integrated Resort and Tourism Management. Since joining in 2022, she has published in journals identified as top by the Department such as Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Travel Research and International Journal of Hospitality Management.
Prof. Xin LIU is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Department of Finance and Business Economics at FBA. Since joining in 2024, he has accumulated brilliant research achievements in finance by publishing in the top-3 journals in the field such as Journal of Financial Economics (UTD24, FT50, ABS4*) and Review of Financial Studies (UTD24, FT50, ABS4*).
Prof. Liwen ZHANG is an Associate Professor of Management at the Department of Management and Marketing. Since joining in 2022, she has gained a very fruitful publication record including Journal of Applied Psychology (ABS4*, FT50) and Personnel Psychology (ABS4*) that covers her core research area in organizational behavior research. She was awarded the 2024 Academy of Management Human Resources Division Scholarly Achievement award. Since its establishment in 1989, this is the second time that a scholar from an Asian university has received this prestigious award as the first author.
FBA Outstanding Service Award – Prof. Leona Shao Zhi LI
As an Assistant Professor of Business Economics at the Department of Finance and Business Economics, Prof. Leona LI has demonstrated exceptional dedication and service through a variety of impactful roles and contributions, such as serving as the committee member for Faculty Seminar Series, member of APAEM Macao Economy Team, programme management committee member for PhD programme revision, and committee member for the Honours College.
FBA Excellent Administrative Staff Recognition Scheme – Ms. Carla LEONG
Ms. Carla LEONG mainly provides support in the area of research. This includes applications for internal and external research grants, FBA conference grant, UM Talent Programme, serving as the Secretariat of the FBA Research Committee, and providing administrative support to the Associate Dean (Research & Development). She also takes a key role in supporting the faculty seminar series and FBA Newsletter.
