Shuhua Sun
Associate Professor, Director of China Programs, Goldring Institute for International Business, Peter W. and Paul A. Callais Professorship in Entrepreneurship
Biography
Dr. Shuhua Sun’s research examines how individuals and teams navigate and engage with social and technological environments to achieve creative and performance goals. His work has been published in leading journals, including Organization Science, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, and Journal of Business Venturing, among others, and has been featured in college textbooks. His recent research focuses on people-centered strategies for deploying and implementing AI in the workplace.
Professor Sun has extensive international teaching experience at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. At Tulane, he teaches courses in Organizational Behavior and Managing People in Organizations. Prior to joining Tulane, he taught Business Innovation and Sustainable Development and Organizational Learning and Development at Maastricht University’s School of Business and Economics in the Netherlands, as well as Management & Organization and Managing Change at the National University of Singapore Business School.
Education
National University of Singapore
Accomplishments
Peter W. and Paul A. Callais Professorship in Entrepreneurship
(2023)
Top Papers Award in Stress and Health in 2022
(2023)
Irving H. LaValle Research Award
(2021)
Lepage Faculty Fellow
(2018 - present)
Irving H. LaValle Research Award
(2018)
Media Appearances
How AI Tools Like ChatGPT Boost Creativity
A landmark study led by Tulane University researchers demonstrates that generative AI tools — such as ChatGPT — can significantly amplify employees’ creativity, contingent upon their ability to critically engage with their own work.
Using generative AI can boost employees' creativity, shows study
A new study led by Tulane University researchers reveals that generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, can enhance employees' creativity—but only if they know how to think critically about their own work and utilize the tools effectively.
Using generative AI can boost employees' creativity, shows study
The study, set to be published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, is one of the first field experiments to test how large language models (LLMs) impact creativity in real-world work settings. Researchers worked with a technology consulting firm and randomly assigned 250 employees to either use ChatGPT or not during a regular workweek. Supervisors and outside reviewers evaluated their creativity.
