Bio
Dr. Michael Mingming Zhu has over 15 years of experience as a senior business management consultant specializing in human capital solutions and senior human resources manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM Global Business Services, Motorola Asia Pacific, and Dell China. He also served as a career development mentor for dual-degree students at the National School of Development at Peking University. He is a visiting scholar at Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) at Columbia University from September 2024 to August 2025. During the period, he will conduct a research project entitled “Artificial Intelligence in Human Resource Development and its Application in China’s Labor Market.”
Dr. Zhu was a member of the Innovation Engineering Practice teaching team at Peking University from 2014 to 2022. This course received the National Excellence Award for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) in 2017 and the National First-Class Undergraduate Course Award in 2020, both from the Ministry of Education of China. Additionally, the team’s publications Innovation Engineering Practice I (Higher Education Press, 2016) and Innovation Engineering Practice II (China Machine Press, 2020) received recommendations and endorsement by the China University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance. Dr. Zhu is a co-translator of the Chinese edition of Classic Grounded Theory: Applications with Qualitative and Quantitative Data (Peking University Press, 2021).
Dr. Zhu graduated from the School of Economics at Peking University in China. He earned his MBA from the University of East London in the United Kingdom and a Doctor of Professional Studies degree from Fordham University in the United States.
Publications
Jinjie Wang and Mingming Zhu, co-translator of Grounded Theory: The Application of Quantitative and Qualitative Data, by Judith A Holton and Isabelle Walsh. ISBN 978-7-301-32288-8, Peking University Press, August 2021
Zhang Haixia, Bainian Lu, Jiang Chen, Mingming Zhu, Yifeng Zhu, Jianping Xing, Zhongli Li, Wenbin Huang, Junjie Shang, Gen Chen, Yupeng Fei, Fan Lv, Project Practices of Innovation (II), ISBN 978-7-111-65940-2, Machine Industry Press, August 2020
Zhang Haixia, Jiang Chen, Junjie Shang, Jiangyong Lu, Bainian Lu, Mingming Zhu, Wei Ye, Wenbin Huang, Gen Chen, Ge Li, Jianping Xing, Project Practices of Innovation (I), ISBN 978-7-04-046406-1, Higher Education Press, September 2016