Sunghan Ryu is an associate professor at USC-SJTU Institute of Cultural and Creative Industry in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). He is also the founding director of the Center for Digital Creative Enterprise Research and serves as the series editor for the Digital Entertainment series of SAGE Business Cases. He held visiting professor positions at the University of Southern California, US and Warwick University, UK. Before joining SJTU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at School of Creative Media and Department of Information Systems in City University of Hong Kong. He earned his Ph.D. in IT management from College of Business, KAIST. His research interests include IT innovations in cultural and creative domains and effective information systems applications in the entrepreneurial context. He is the author of the book "Beauty of Crowdfunding: Blooming Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Era." His academic works appeared in journals including Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Internet Research, Electronic Markets, Current Issues in Tourism, and Electronic Commerce Research & Applications and were presented at prestigious conferences such as ICIS, HICSS, Annual ICA Conference, and AOM Annual Meeting. He is the recipient of the 47th HICSS Best Paper Award, 2020 SJTU Candlelight Award (2^nd Prize), and other multiple grants/awards for both research and teaching.