Information systems experts present their latest research
The Naveen Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas is privileged to host academic experts presenting their latest research on the most relevant topics facing our discipline today. Information Systems Seminars are held every Fall and Spring semester.
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Zhengrui Jiang Nanjing University |
“A reflection of my early academic career – Mistakes made and Lessons Learned.” |
| Dr. Kunpeng Zhang University of Maryland |
Conversion Modeling: Analyzing Earnings Conference Calls for Financial Risk Prediction |
| Dr. Gerdus Benade Boston University |
Designing participatory budgeting elections |
| Dr. T. (Ravi) Ravichandran Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Does Design Matter: The Effects of Attention-Directing Design Features on Online Medical Crowdfunding Outcomes |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Hemant Bhargava University of California, Davis |
“If It’s Enraging, it’s Engaging” – Exploitive Design in Information Platforms and the Attention Economy |
| Dr. Nicholas Berente University of Notre Dame |
Computationally-Intensive Theory Construction: Inductive Patterns as Research Contributions |
| Dr. Dokyun (DK) Lee Boston University |
Generative AI, Human Creativity, and Art |
| Dr. Siliang (Jack) Tong Nanyang Technological University |
The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Individual Manual Investment Decisions: Empirical Evidence from Mutual Funds |
| Dr. Huaxia Rui University of Rochester |
Statistical AI and Jobs: A Conceptual Framework and Some Empirical Evidences |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Gediminas Adomavicius University of Minnesota |
Recommender Systems and Preference Pollution |
| Dr. Jason Chan University of Minnesota |
Policing the Police: Examining the Role of News Reports on Racially-Biased Policing |
| Dr. Sagar Samtani Indiana University |
Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Cyber Threat Intelligence: Linking Exploits from the Dark Web to Known Vulnerabilities |
| Dr. Brad Greenwood George Mason University |
No News is Bad News: The Internet, Corruption, and the Decline of the Fourth Estate |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Lucy Yan Indiana University, Bloomington |
Tweet in Unison? Examining Content Coordination and Social Media Engagement during Disasters |
| Dr. Chenglong Zhang Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Regulating Professional Players in Peer-to-Peer Markets: Evidence from Airbnb |
| Dr. Marshall Van Alstyne Boston University |
Free Speech, Platforms & The Fake News Problem |
| Dr. Zaiyan Wei Purdue University |
Regulating Professional Players in Peer-to-Peer Markets: |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Hasan Cavusoglu Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia |
Strategic Competitive Positioning: A Structural Hole-based Firm Measure |
| Dr. Idris Adjerid Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech |
Health Wearables, Gamification, and Healthful Activity |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Ian Ho Pennsylvania State University |
Fun Shopping: A Randomized Field Experiment on Gamification |
| Dr. Suprateek Sarkar University of Virginia |
Digitalization For A Better Tomorrow: The Role of Information Systems Scholars |
| Dr. Ashish Agarwal University of Texas at Austin |
Developer Instincts or User Insights: The Case of Mobile Apps |
| Dr. Gordon Burtch Boston University |
Examining the Effects of Demand Information Disclosure on Congestion and Matching Efficiency in Online Dating |
| Dr. Vibanshu Abhishek University of California, Irvine |
The Impact of Advertising on Online Marketplaces: Insights from a Field Experiment |
| Dr. Anuj Kumar University of Florida |
How Do Product Recommendations Help Consumer Search Products? Evidence of Underlying Mechanisms from a Field Experiment |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Pei-yu (Sharon) Chen, Professor of Information Systems, Arizona State University | Discovering Mobile App Ecosystem Relationships Using Demand-Side Information |
| Dr. Dongjun Wu, Professor & Ernest Scheller Jr. Chair Innovation, Georgia Institute of Technology | Commercializing Smart and Connected Products: A Value Chain Perspective |
| Dr. Martin Bichler, Professor, Decision Sciences & Systems Professor, Decision Sciences & Systems | Designing Markets with Complex Constraints |
| Dr. Monica Johar, Associate Professor – Business Information Systems, University of North Carolina Charlotte | Workflows in Platform-Enabled Private Marketplaces |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Alan Dennis, Professor & JT Chambers Chair of Internet Sys., Indiana University | Facing the Artificial: Understanding Affinity, Trustworthiness, and Preference for More Realistic Digital Humans |
| Dr. Karthik Babu, Nattamai Kannan Assistant Professor – Cox School of Business, Southern Methodist University | The Effect of Mobile Broadband Service Improvements on the Data Use of Underserved Populations: An Empirical Analysis |
| Stan Liebowitz, Ashbel Smith Professor, University of Texas at Dallas | The Challenges of Using Ranks to Estimate Sales |
| Dr. Jiahui Mo, Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University | To Compete or Contract? Assessing the Effectiveness of Contests in Online Labor Market |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Shu He, Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut | Impact of Platform Owner’s Entry on Third-Party Stores |
| Dr. Sang Pil Han, Associate Professor, Arizona State University | Fighting Misuse of Technology while Promoting Free Speech: The Impact of an Abnormal User Deterrence Policy in an Online Platform |
| Dr. Nachiketa Sahoo, Associate Professor, Boston University | Matching Donors to Projects on Philanthropic Crowdfunding Platforms |
| Dr. Olivia Sheng, Presidential Professor & EEJ Presidential Chair IS, University of Utah | A Deep Learning Approach to Industry Classification |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Alvin Zuyin Zheng (MIS Department, Fox School of Business, Temple University) | On Using the Lottery in Crowdfunding Platforms: Implications for Fundraising Success and Backer Behavior |
| Dr. Terence Saldanha (Assistant Professor Management, Information Systems, and Entrepreneurship, Carson College of Business, Washington State University) | Do Self-Service Technologies Strengthen or Diminish the Impact of Innovative Electronic Services on Firm Customer Growth? The Role of Firm Marketing and Human Capital Investments1 |
| Xuan Feng (Department of Operations and Decisions Technology, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University) | It Takes Two to Tango: The Effects of Internal and External Information Integration on Healthcare Process and Patient-Centric Performance |
| Dr. Bin Gu (Earl and Gladys Davis Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of China Programs, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University) | Competition among Social Media Content |
| Dr. Hong Guo (Robert and Sara Lumpkins Associate Professor of Business Analytics, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame) | Provisioning Interoperable Disaster Management Systems: Integrated, Unified, and Federated Approaches |
| Dr. Lin Hao (Assistant Professor of Management, Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame) | The Overlooked Benefit of Consumer Showrooming for a Physical Retailer |
| Dr. Mingfeng Lin (Associate Professor, Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology) | Skin in the Game? Service Guarantees in Online Micro-Contracting Markets |
| Yingda Zhai (University of Texas at Austin) | Mechanism Design in Large Cloud Computing Systems |
| Dr. Jui Ramaprasad (Associate Professor, Information Systems, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University) | The Impact of Price Anchoring on Consumers’ Valuation of Digital Goods |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. H. Raghav Rao (AT&T Distinguished Chair in Infrastructure Assurance and Security), College of Business, University of Texas San Antonio | Information Categorization in Crowdsourced Crisis Mapping during the 2010 Haiti Earthquake: A Collective Sensemaking Approach |
| Dr. Panos Ipeirotis (Professor of Data Science and Information Systems, George A. Kellner Faculty Fellow) , Stern School of Business, New York University | Detecting Misconduct and Malfeasance within Financial Institutions |
| Dr. Xinxin Li (Associate Professor Operations Information Management (OPIM)), School of Business, University of Connecticut | A Model of Smart Technologies |
| Dr. Karthik Kannan (Thomas Howatt Chaired Professor in Management, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University) | Generalized Second Price Auction with Frictions: A Study of Efficiency and Bidding Behavior |
| Hongchang Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business) | How Does Online Lending Influence Bankruptcy Filings? |
| Shahryar Doosti (University of Washington, Seattle, WA) | How Rewarding Is the Reward? Demand Estimation of Crowdfunding Platforms |
| Behnaz G.Bojd (University of Washington (UW), Seattle, WA) | Star-Cursed Lovers: Strategic Shading in Online Dating |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Vibhanshu Abhishek Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University |
Information Transparency in B2B Auction Markets: The Role of Winner Identity Disclosure |
| Alok Gupta Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota |
Why Should I Donate? Examining the Effects of Reputation, Peer Influence, and Popularity on Charitable Giving over Social Media Platforms |
| Marius Florin Niculescu Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech |
Strategic Intellectual Property Sharing: Competition on an Open Technology Platform Under Network Effects |
| Bin Gu W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University |
Home Bias in Online Employment: Evidence from an Online Labor Market |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Ramesh Shankar University of Connecticut |
Online Reputational Loss Aversion: Empirical evidence from StackOverflow.com |
| Beibei Li Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University |
Nudging Mobile Customers with Real-Time Social Dynamics |
| Haldun Aytug Warrington College of Business, University of Florida |
Bidding in Keyword Auctions: Advertisers’ Perspective |
| Yong Tan Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington |
Optimizing Two-Sided Promotion for Transportation Network Companies: A Structural Model with Conditional Bayesian Learning |
| Eric M. Overby Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech |
How Does Online Lending Influence Bankruptcy Filings? Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Jinyang Zheng Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington |
How Mega Is the Mega? Measuring the Spillover Effects of WeChat by Machine Learning and Econometrics |
| Jane Xue Tan University of Washington |
Why Should I Donate? Examining the Effects of Reputation, Peer Influence, and Popularity on Charitable Giving over Social Media Platforms |
| Yun Wang University of Arizona |
Deep Learning of Spatiotemporal Patterns for Urban Mobility Prediction using Big Data |
| Yicheng Song Boston University |
When Diversity Becomes Relevant’ — A Multi-Category Utility Model of Consumer Response to Content Recommendations |
| Chengxin Cao University of Minnesota |
Impact of Enterprise Systems on Mergers and Acquisitions |
| Zhuoxin Allen Li Carroll School of Management, Boston College |
Network Externalities in Collaborative Consumption: Theory, Experiment, and Empirical Investigation of Crowd funding |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Prasanna TambeAssociate Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, Stern School of Business, New York University | Who Pays for Technical Skills? Engineering Brand and High-Tech Wages |
| Dr. Anandhi Bharadwaj Professor of Information Systems & Operations Management Goizueta Business School, Emory University | Is it a ‘cloudy’ future? The Impact of Transition to SaaS for Software Vendors |
| Kai-Lung Hui Professor, Department of Information Systems,Hong Kong University of Science & Technology | See No Evil, Hear No Evil? Dissecting the Impact of Online Hacker Forums |
| Dr. Dengpan Liu Iowa State University Associate Professor – College of Business | Dynamic Advertising Competition in Electronic Retailing with Operational Considerations |
| Dr. Catherine Yang Associate Professor Graduate School of Management University of California, Davis | Predicting downloads for Mobile App recommendations |
| Dr. Corey Angst Associate Professor in IT, Analytics and Operations Management Mendoza College of Business University of Notre Dame | Just What the Doctor Ordered? Physician Mobility and the Adoption of Electronic Health Records |
| Dr. Sudip Bhattacharjee University of Connecticut, Associate Professor – School of Business |
The Effect of Information Transparency and Social Values on Smart Grid Balancing |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Animesh Animesh McGill University |
Software Patents and Firm Value: A Real Options Perspective on the Role of Innovation Orientation and Environmental Uncertainty |
| Dr. Amrit TiwanaProfessor Department of Management Information Systems Terry College of Business, University of Georgia | Modular Outside, Monolithic Inside: How Nearly-Decomposable Architectures Lead Platform Races |
| Dr. Jan Stallaert University of Connecticut Professor – School of Business | Information Consistency and Accuracy in Prediction Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Presidential Election Markets |
| Dr. Sunil Wattal Associate Professor, Management Information Systems Temple University, Fox School of Business | An Empirical Analysis of Crowdfunding Campaign Referrals |
| Dr. Huaxia Rui Assistant Professor, Computers & Information Systems University of Rochester | Is Technology Eating Nurses? Staffing Decisions in Nursing Homes |
| Dr. Juan Feng Associate Professor Information Systems City University of Hong Kong | Does Money Talk? -The Impact of Monetary Incentive on UGC Contribution |
| Dr. Vidyanand Choudhary Associate Professor Information Systems Paul Merage School of Business University of California, Irvine | IT Investment under Competition: The Role of Implementation Uncertainty |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Zhenhui Jack Jiang National University of Singapore |
Grab Users’ Attention Through Choice-based Advertising: An Eye-tracking Study |
| Dr. Kai-Lung Hui Hong Kong University |
The Light and Shadow of Cybersecurity Regulation: A Natural Experiment in China |
| Dr. Ahmed Abbasi University of Virginia |
Don’t Mention It? Analyzing User-generated Content Signals for Early Adverse Drug Event Warnings |
| Dr. Guodong (Gordon) Gao University of Maryland |
How Digital Word-of-Mouth Affects Consumer Decision Making: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| Dr. Kai-Lung Hui Hong Kong University |
An Economic Analysis of Peer-Disclosure in Online Social Communities |
| Dr. Narayan Ramasubbu University of Pittsburgh |
Examining the Impact of Technical Debt on Firm Performance |
| Dr. Lin Hao Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame |
A Mobile Platform’s In-App Advertising Contract under Agency Pricing for App Sales |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Maytal Saar-Tsechansky University of Texas at Austin |
Machine Learning that Matters: The Case of Model Collaboration for Intelligent Active Learning |
| Dr. Jennifer Zhan University of Texas at Arlington |
Divide the Task and Multiply the Success: The Effect of Resource Distribution and Alignment on Team Performance in Online Crowdsourcing Contests |
| Gene Moo Lee University of Texas at Austin |
Matching Mobile Applications for Cross Promotion |
| Wei Chen University of California, San Diego |
Engaging the Wisdom of Crowds: Structural Analysis of Dynamic User Contributions in Online Communities |
| Hailiang Chen City University of Hong Kong |
IT-Enabled Broadcasting in Social Media: An Empirical Study of Artists’ Activities and Music Sales |
| Zhe (James) Zhang University of California | Recommender Systems and Consumer Product Search |
| Dokyun Lee Wharton School,OPIM |
The Effect of Social Media Marketing Content on Consumer Engagement: Evidence from Facebook |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Sukumaran Nair Southern Methodist University |
Enterprise Security: Threat Landscape and Trends |
| Jeffrey Hu Scheller College of Business |
A Dynamic Structural Model for Heterogenous Mobile Data Consumption and Targeted Promotion |
| Dr. Raghu T Santanam Arizona State University |
Do App Descriptions Matter? Evidence from Mobile App Product Descriptions |
| Dr. Ramnath Chellappa Emory University |
Cost Drivers of Versioning |
| Shaojie Tang Temple University | Modeling Data Dissemination in Online Social Networks: A Geographical Perspective on Bounding Network Traffic Load |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Shachar Reichman MIT Sloan School of Management |
Crowd-Squared: Amplifying the Predictive Power of Large-Scale Crowd-Based Data |
| Shaojie Tang Temple University |
Towards Secure Mobile Business: RFID-based Anti-Counterfeiting System & Privacy-preserving Data Aggregation |
| Atanu Lahiri University of Washington |
The DLC Strategy: Go Vertical in a Horizontal Market? |
| Mohammad Rahman University of Calgary |
An Internet-Enabled Move to the Market |
| Zhe Zhang University of California |
Daily-deal Business Model: Performance Based Advertising and Price Distortion |
| Yi-Chun Ho University Of Washington |
Effect of Utility Disconfirmation on Online Rating Behavior: A Dynamic Analysis |
| Xiao Ma Wisconsin School of Business |
Online Gambling Behavior: The Impacts of Cumulative Outcomes, Recent Outcomes, and Prior |
| Jason Chan Leonard N. Stern School of Business |
Internet’s Dirty Secret: Assessing The Impact Of Online Intermediaries On HIV Transmission1 |
| Xitong Li MIT Sloan School of Management |
How Does Online Reputation Affect Social Media Endorsements and Product Sales? Evidence from Regression Discontinuity Design |
| Hyelim Oh McGill University |
Free versus For a Fee: The Impact of Information Pricing Strategy on the Pattern and Effectiveness of Word-of-Mouth via Social Media |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Tridib Bandyopadhyay Kennesaw State University |
Role of Intelligence Inputs in Defending against Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism |
| Dr. Vijay Khatri Indiana University |
The Roles of IS and Application Domain Knowledge in Conceptual Schema Problem Solving: A Cognitive Fit Perspective |
| Dr. Chris Dellarocas Boston University |
Attention Allocation in Information-Rich Environments: The Case of News Aggregators |
| Dr. De Liu University of Kentucky |
Friendships in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending: Pipes, Prisms, and Relational Herding |
| Dr. Sunil Mithas University of Maryland | Information Technology, Customer Satisfaction, and Profit, 1994–2006: Theory and Evidence |
| Dr. Geoffrey Parker Tulane University |
Innovation, Openness, and Platform Control |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Alok R. Chaturvedi Purdue University |
Sentient World Simulation: A continuously running, continually updated model of the world |
| Dr. Huseyin Doluca University of Würzburg |
Bank Performance and the Solow Paradox Julius-Maximilians |
| Dr. Samuel Ransbotham Carroll School of Management |
Electronic Medical Records and Medical Malpractice Claims |
| Dr. D. J. Wu Scheller College of Business |
Economics of Free Under Perpetual Licensing: Implications for the Software Industry |
| Alan R Dennis Indiana University |
Sparking Group Creativity with Priming |
| Dr. Nigel Melville University of Michigan |
Information Systems for Collaborating versus Transacting: Impact on Plant Performance in the Presence of Demand Volatility |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Paramvir Singh Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh | Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas under Consumer Learning |
| Paul A. Pavlou Temple University, Philadelphia |
Strategic Pricing of IT Services in Online Outsourcing Markets |
| Rajiv Kohli Mason School of Business |
Investing in Information Systems: On the Behavioral and Institutional Search Mechanisms Underpinning Hospitals’ IS Investment Decisions |
| Dr. Sulin Ba University of Connecticut |
Promotional Marketing or Word-of-Mouth? Evidence from Online Restaurant Reviews |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Arun Rai Georgia State University |
(Mis) fit of Vertical Deintegration and I T-enabled Process Integration |
| Mohammad Rahman University of Calgary, Canada |
Beating Irrationality: Does Delegating to IT Alleviate the Sunk Cost Effect?" |
| Zhenguri Ziang Iowa State University |
The economics of public beta testing |
| Gal Oestreicher Singer Tel Aviv University |
The Quest for Content: How User-Generated Links Can Facilitate Online Exploration |
| Mehmet Ayvaci University of Wisconsin |
The Effect of Budgetary Restrictions on Breast Cancer Diagnostic Decisions |
| Lu Yan University of Washington |
Healing Power of Social Networking: Empirical Studies on Online Interactions among Patients |
| Yingda Lu Carnegie Mellon University |
Optimizing Social Relationships: A Dynamic Analysis of Social Network Formation in Online Communities for Diabetes |
| David Zepeda University of Minnesota |
Health Care Supply Chain Design for Reducing Disparities in the Delivery of Care: Evaluating the Effects of Resource Dependence and IT Leveraging Competence |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Hsinchun Chen University of Arizona |
Advanced Informatics for Business Intelligence 2.0 |
| Terrane August University of California at San Diego |
Who Should be Responsible for Software Security? A Comparative Analysis of Liability Policies in Network Environments" |
| Chris Forman Georgia Institute of Technology |
Information Technology and (Downstream) Vertical Integration: Evidence from Plant-Level Data |
| Huseyin Tanriverdi University of Texas at Austin |
Flying Greener with Smarter Decisions: The Impact of Operational Analytics on Carbon Footprint of Airlines |
| Rema Padman Carnegie Mellon University |
A Collaborative Filtering Approach to Medication Reconciliation |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Vallabhajosyula Sambamurthy | Has the "Golden Rule" Lost its Aura? Revisiting Multimarket Contact under Asymmetric Pricing in the US Domestic Airline Industry |
| Jaime Newel | Information Systems Development Risk Factors and Dispersed Teamwork: The Role of Empowering Leadership in Facilitating Team Member Well–being |
| Nackiketa Sahoo | A Hidden Markov Model for Collaborative Filtering |
| Sameh Al–Natour | The Antecedents of Customer Self–Disclosure to Online Virtual Advisors |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Dr. Anjana Susarla | The Role of Social Capital in Assuring Market Performance: Evidence from Information Technology Outsourcing Contracts |
| Dr. Anuj Kumar | Impact of Customer Web Portals on Call Centers: An Empirical Analysis |
| Dr. Tunay Tunca | An Empirical Analysis of Price, Quality, and Incumbency in Service Procurement Auctions |
| Dr. Thomas Weber | Monotone Approximation of Decision Problems |
| Balaji Padmanabhan | From Information to Operations: Service Quality Indicators and Customer Churn |
| Giri Kumar Tayi | Investigating Retailer (Online and Local) Strategies in Mitigating Consumer Fit Uncertainty |
| Sanjeev Dewan | Information Technology and Firm Boundaries:Impact on Firm Risk and Return Performance |
| Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|
| Kartik Hosanagar | Recommender Systems and their Effects on Consumers: The Fragmentation Debate |
| Ross Hightower | A Longitudinal Analysis of Information Exchange Effectiveness Within Teams Meeting Face–to–Face and with Instant Messaging Technologies |
| Akhmed Umyarov | Using External Aggregate Ratings for Improving Individual Recommendations |
| Sang Pil Han | 1–An Empirical Analysis of User Content Generation and Usage Behavior in Mobile Media 2-User Content Generation and Usage Behavior in Multimedia Settings: A Dynamic Structural Model of Learning |
| Atanu Lahiri | Pricing of Wireless Services: Application Pricing Vs.Traffic Pricing |