AI Implementation (AI²) Lab

Lab Directors:

Prof. Will Peichun Wang

Associate Professor, Management and Strategy

Mission

Turning AI and business research into real-world AI adoption

What We Do

Help Firms Adopt and Scale AI

Collaborate with organizations to identify frictions, develop deployment strategies, and measure impact.

Design Business Models for the AI Era

Study how firms create and capture value in AI-native environments.

Incubate and Implement AI-Related Innovations

Accelerate the diffusion of AI tools and business innovations by experimenting and prototyping.

📚 Sample Projects

Helping Creators Deploy AI in Creative Workflows and Content Generation
Using AI and Market Design to Optimize Efficiency for Mobile Advertising
Understanding Business Models of Content Provision, Advertising, and Data Markets in the Agentic Economy through Simulations and Lab Experiments
Multilingual AI Podcast Translations for Knowledge Diffusion

Research Labs.

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Deloitte-HKU Lab for Organizational
Transformation

Organizations succeed by attracting talent, motivating action, and coordinating efforts—areas AI is transforming, demanding structural adaptation. Our lab guides this shift, identifying effective responses and their interplay with markets, norms, and institutions. Through research and industry collaboration, we assess AI adoption, spotlight pitfalls, and craft frameworks for leaders.

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Lab for AI-Agents in Business and Economics

Our mission is to pioneer AI-driven solutions for business challenges by developing multi-agent systems and domain-specific AI architectures, while guiding organizations through ethical, scalable, and transformative AI adoption. We focus on developing platforms for AI agents and multi-agent architecture for business and management, designing AI agents for specific business applications with deep domain knowledge, and studying the economic impact of AI transformation on human behavior, business and organizations.

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AI Implementation (AI²) Lab

The AI Implementation (AI²) Lab is dedicated to turning AI and business research into real-world AI adoption. We collaborate with organizations to identify frictions, develop deployment strategies, and measure impact of AI implementation. Our work focuses on helping firms adopt and scale AI, designing business models for the AI era, and incubating AI-related innovations through experimentation and prototyping.

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Lab for the Future of Work
and Well-being

We advance understanding of generative AI’s transformation of China’s labor markets, leisure, and wellbeing through rigorous, data-driven, causally robust research generating actionable insights. Our people-centered approach prioritizes human wellbeing, going beyond productivity and profitability to foster better jobs and lives.