Curriculum Vitae
Employment and Appointments:2015 - present Assistant Professor, Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine 2018.10 - 2019.1 Visiting Scholar, John Hopkins Carey Business School Education:
| 2015 |
Ph.D., Information Systems
New York University Stern School of Business
New York, US
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| 2005–2009 |
B. S., Information Systems
Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management
Beijing, China
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| 2007 |
Undergraduate Exchange Program, 2007
Euromed Marseille Ecole de Management
Marseille, France
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| | Research Interests and Methods:- Sharing Economy, Social Media, Online Open Source Communities, Econometric Analysis, Game Theory, Text Mining Machine Learning
Grants and Fundings:TFI Long-Term Research Grant, 2018 (€30,000) Hellman Fellowship, 2018. ($30,148) UCI CORCLR Faculty Research Grant, 2018 ($4000) UCI CORCLR Faculty Research Grant, 2017 ($3000) UCI CORCLR Faculty Research Grant, 2016. ($3000) WCAI-Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Research Opportunity Grant Award. 2013-2014
Publication and Working Papers:-
1.
What Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack
Overflow Careers, with
Lei Xu and Luis Cabral. Management Science. 2019.
2. How Mood Affects the Effectiveness of
TV Commercials, with Yuheng Hu and Cheng Chen. (R&R at Information
System Research)
3. Reputation Manipulation and Market
Interaction, with Liangfei Qiu, Jingchuan Pu and Hsing Kenneth Cheng. (R&R at Information System Research)
4. Social Media, Brand Signaling and the
Goldilocks Principle, with Arun Sundararajan. (R&R at Information
System Research) 5. The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Household Finance, with Yuyuan Zhu and Vijay Gurbaxani. (Minor Revision at MIS Quarterly) 6. Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan. (R&R at MIS Quarterly) 7. Impact of Quality Certification in a Sharing Economy Platform: Evidence from AirBnB, with Jooho Kim and Sanjeev Dewan.
Conference Presentations: “Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community”, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan. Cornell Entrepreneurship and Innovation Workshop, Ithaca, NY, May 2019 (Invited Talk). “Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community”, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan. CES NA Annual Conference, Lawrence, KS, April 2019 (Invited Talk). “Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community”, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan. NABE Tech Economics Conference, San Francisco, October 2018 (Invited Talk). “Can (S)he Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community”, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan. Annual Meeting of the Decision Science Institute, Chicago, November 2018 (Invited Talk). “Can (S)he
Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community ”, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan (Poster). NBER
Summer Institute, Boston, July 2018. “Can (S)he
Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community”, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan. Workshop on
Experimental and Behavioral Economics in Information Systems, DC, May
2018 (Invited Talk). “Can (S)he
Code? Gender Bias in an Open Source Software Community”, with Lei Xu and Sanjeev Dewan. WISE, South Korea,
December 2017. “The
Impact of the Sharing Economy on Household Finance”, with Yuyuan
Zhu and Vijay Gurbaxani. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, October
2017 (Invited Talk). “The Impact of the Sharing Economy on
Household Finance”, with Yuyuan Zhu and Vijay Gurbaxani
(Poster). NBER Summer Institute, Boston, July 2017. “How Mood Affects the Effectiveness of TV
Commercials”, with Yuheng Hu and Cheng Chen. The International AAAI Conference on Web
and Social Media (ICWSM), Montreal, Canada, 2017. “Reputation Manipulation and Market
Interaction.” with Liangfei
Qiu, Cheng Chen and Hsing K. Cheng.
Production and Operations Management
Society (POMS), Seattle, May 2017 (Invited Talk). “The Impact of the Sharing Economy on
Household Finance”, with Yuyuan Zhu and Vijay Gurbaxani. Statistical
Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, June
2017. “The Impact of the Sharing Economy on
Household Finance”, with Yuyuan Zhu and Vijay Gurbaxani. Road
to Reinvention: Leadership in the Digital Age Conference, Irvine, CA, March 2017 (Invited Talk). “How
Mood Affects the Effectiveness of TV Commercials”, with
Yuheng Hu and Cheng Chen. Winter
Conference on Business Analytics, Utah, March 2017. “Uber
On: Until You Are Free of Debt”, with Yuyuan Zhu and
Vijay Gurbaxani. Workshop on Information Systems Economics
(WISE), Dublin, Ireland, 2016. “How Mood Affects the Effectiveness of TV
Commercials”, with Yuheng Hu and Cheng Chen. Workshop on Information Systems Economics
(WISE), Dublin, Ireland, 2016. “Capturing Brand Sentiment through Social
Media: a Case for Superbowl”, with Arun Sundararajan. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN,
2016 (Invited Talk). “What Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack
Overflow Careers”, with Lei Xu and Luis Cabral, INFORMS
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, November 2015 (Invited Talk). “What Makes Geeks Tick? A
Study of Stack Overflow Careers”, with Lei Xu and Luis Cabral, NBER Summer 2015: Economics of IT and
Digitization, Boston, MA, July 2015. “What
Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers”, with Lei Xu and Luis
Cabral, Platform Strategy Research Symposium Boston, MA, July 2015. “What
Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers”, with Lei Xu and Luis
Cabral, Fourth Society of Labor Economists World Conference (SOLE)
Montreal, QC, June 2015. “What
Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers”, with Lei Xu and Luis
Cabral, 13th Annual International Industrial Organization Conference (IIOC)
Boston, MA, April 2015. “Revealing Life Events from Inferred
Customer Similarity: a Predictive Modeling Approach”, with
Enric Junqué de Fortuny and Foster Provost, WCAI Research Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, March 2015. “The
Goldilocks Principle: Why Mid-Tier Brands Invest More in Social Media”, with
Arun Sundararajan, Conference on Information Systems and
Technology (CIST), San Francisco, 2014. Best Conference Paper “What
Makes Geeks Tick? A Study of Stack Overflow Careers”, with Lei Xu and Luis
Cabral, Workshop on Information Systems
Economics (WISE), Auckland, New Zealand, 2014. “Revealing
Life Events from Inferred Customer Similarity: a Predictive Modeling Approach”,
with Enric Junqué de Fortuny and Foster Provost, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Auckland,
New Zealand, 2014. “Capturing
Brand Sentiment through Social Media: a Case for Superbowl”, with Arun Sundararajan, Statistical Challenges in Electronic
Commerce Research, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2014. “Capturing
Brand Sentiment through Social Media: a Case for Superbowl”, with Arun Sundararajan, accepted at Martketing Science, Atlanta, 2014. “Social
Media and Brand Signaling”, with Arun Sundararajan, accepted at Theory in Economics of Information Systems
(TEIS), Calgary, Canada, 2014.
“On
Identity and Financial Inclusion: Is there a Case for India’s UID Project?”
with Ravi Bapna and Arun Sundararajan, Statistical
Challenges in eCommerce Research, Montreal, Canada, 2012.
Academic Awards and Honors:
- Selected
to attend the OCIS Doctoral Consortium, 2014
- Selected
to attend the Structural Modeling Approaches to Research on Technology (SMART)
workshop, 2014
- Marketing
Science Doctoral Consortium, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
- PhD
Fellowship, Stern School of Business, NYU, Sep 2009 – present
- Student
Exchange Program Award (Tsinghua), 2007
- First
Class Academic Scholarship (Tsinghua), 2008
- Distinguished
Volunteer of SEM and Tsinghua University, 2007
- Gold
Medal in the Summer Society Practice Camp (Tsinghua University), 2006
Professional Associations and Activities:
Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS) 2010-present Program Committee, 2014 Conference of Information Systems and Technology (CIST) Program Committee, 2014 Workshop on Information Technology and Systems Reviewer, 2011- 2014 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Teaching Experience:
Instructor, PhD Seminar on Digital Strategy UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business, PhD course, Spring 2017, Winter 2018
Instructor,
“Data and Programming for Analytics”
UC
Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business, Part-time and Full-time MBA elective
course, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018
Instructor, “Data and Programming for Analytics”
UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of
Business, undergraduate elective course, Winter 2016, Winter 2017, Winter 2018
Instructor, “Data and Programming for Analytics”
UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of
Business, Master of Business Analytics core course, Fall 2017
Instructor, “Information Technology for
Management”
UC Irvine, Paul Merage School of
Business, Part-time MBA program core course, Fall 2015
Instructor,
“IT in Business and Society”
Stern
undergraduate core course, Summer 2013
Invited Presentations:
Road
to Reinvention: Leadership in the Digital Age Conference, Irvine, CA, March 2017
Wharton
Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI),
March 2015
Emory, Feb 2015
University
of Washington at Seattle, Feb 2015
Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology,
Feb 2015
Singapore
Management University, Feb 2015
UC
Irvine, January 2015
University
of Rochester, January 2015
Indiana
University, January 2015
Temple
University, January 2015
University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January
2015
Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, January 2015
Computer skills:
| Analytics | Extensive experience with text-mining, including sentiment and topic modeling; supervised and unsupervised learning methods such as support vector machines, Naïve Bayes, maximum entropy, random forests; basic and advanced econometric methods |
| Programming | Extensive experience with Python, R, Stata, Matlab, Mathemetica, SQL; Experience with Java
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Languages:
| Chinese | Native | | | English | Fluent |
| | Other Language | Struggling... |
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