Researcher · Educator · Applied AI Builder

AI that earns trustin real decisions.

I study how artificial intelligence, narrative data, and human judgment can work together to improve corporate disclosure, sustainable business, and learning.

让AI不止生成答案,而是形成可信、可执行、可追责的决策。

Assistant ProfessorHead, Business Analytics Research ClusterXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
Portrait of Dr Yicheng Wang
Current focusMultimodal AI × ESG evidence
RMB 300k+external industrial funding
9research & collaborative projects
FHEA · CPAacademic and professional recognition

Research agenda

From prediction
to accountable action.

The technical baseline is becoming abundant. My work concentrates on what remains scarce: defensible measures, reliable evidence, domain judgment, and adoption inside real institutions.

01

AI for accountable business

Natural language processing, computer vision, and multimodal AI that preserve provenance and support decisions people can defend.

AI · NLP · Computer vision
02

ESG & sustainable finance

Turning disclosure narratives and visual evidence into measurable signals of corporate behavior, supply-chain practice, and value.

ESG · Disclosure · Sustainable supply chains
03

Human–AI learning

Designing project-based learning where AI scaffolds inquiry while teachers retain judgment, evidence standards, and responsibility.

PBL · AI governance · Learning design

Translation & impact

Research leaves the page.

I work at the boundary between academic evidence and operating reality—where a model must survive data limitations, organizational incentives, and the consequences of a decision.

Industry collaboration

Bosch Mobility China

Led collaborative work on logistics digitalisation and optimisation, translating analytics into an operational setting.

Policy infrastructure

Suzhou ESG Disclosure Platform

Contributed to a government-linked platform designed to support ESG disclosure across tens of thousands of enterprises.

Entrepreneurial practice

NaviSight global-market intelligence

Applies evidence-led market analysis to international market entry, customer development, and partner validation.

Teaching & learning

AI should deepen inquiry,
not bypass it.

My teaching combines project-based learning, authentic industry problems, and human–AI collaboration. Students learn to make claims, test evidence, and defend decisions—not merely produce polished outputs.

Data Mining ApplicationsInformation Systems ManagementSyntegrative Education in Deep Practice
2026

Syntegrative Education Excellence Award

2025

XEC Champions Best Practices Sharing Award

2024

Teaching Excellence Award

2024

Excellent Supervisor, Citi Cup Fintech Competition

2021 & 2020

Monash Purple Letter for Outstanding Teaching Performance

Research pipeline

What I am building next.

Research in progress

Signaling or Obfuscating? Green Bond Issuance and Visual–Textual Consistency in ESG Disclosures

A multimodal inquiry into whether what companies show aligns with what they say in ESG reporting.

Research programme

Provenance-preserving Multiview AI for ESG Disclosure

Developing auditable methods that integrate text, visuals, external evidence, and stakeholder perspectives without erasing source provenance.

Open to serious collaboration

Bring a consequential
question.

Research collaboration, doctoral supervision, responsible AI, ESG analytics, and evidence-led industry projects.

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