About Our Authors
Martin Adam (“Human vs. Automated Sales Agents: How and Why Customer Responses Shift Across Sales Stages”) is a postdoctoral researcher at the chair of information systems and e-services at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His research interests include human-computer interaction as well as the digital transformation of work and people. His work has been published in international journals, such as Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Business & Information Systems Engineering, and Electronic Markets.
Sezgin Ayabakan (“Value Implications of Sourcing Electronic Health Records: The Role of Physician Practice Integration”) obtained his PhD in management science (specialization in information systems) from the University of Texas at Dallas. His broader research interests focus on the impact of health information technology initiatives on the cost and quality of healthcare delivery. His current research involves longitudinal econometric analysis of insurance claims and prescription data. His papers have been published in MIS Quarterly and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
Chenzhang Bao (“Value Implications of Sourcing Electronic Health Records: The Role of Physician Practice Integration”) is an assistant professor of management science and information systems at the Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University. His research focuses on the clinical and business impact of health information technology and analytics, specifically in the value-based care environment. He has published his work in leading academic journals such as MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research. He received his PhD in information systems from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Ravi Bapna (“Single-Sourcing vs. Multisourcing: An Empirical Analysis of Large Information Technology Outsourcing Arrangements”) is the Curtis L. Carlson Chair in Business Analytics and Information Systems at the Carlson School of Management, where he also serves as the associate dean for executive education and academic director of the Carlson Analytics Laboratory and the Analytics for Good Institute. He has been awarded the INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow award, the INFORMS ISS Inaugural Practical Impacts Award, and the Management Science best paper award in information systems for 2018.
Indranil R. Bardhan (“Value Implications of Sourcing Electronic Health Records: The Role of Physician Practice Integration”) is the Foster Parker Centennial professor in the McCombs School of Business and at the University of Texas Dell Medical School, University of Texas at Austin. He is a distinguished fellow of INFORMS Information Systems Society. His research focuses on healthcare analytics and digital health innovation and has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the University of Texas Health system. He has a PhD in management science and information systems from the McCombs School of Business.
Izak Benbasat (“Bystanders Join in Cyberbullying on Social Networking Sites: The Deindividuation and Moral Disengagement Perspectives”) is professor emeritus at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He is a member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He received the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievements in information systems from the Association for Information Systems, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the INFORMS Information Systems Society. He served as the editor-in-chief of Information Systems Research and a senior editor of MIS Quarterly.
Alexander Benlian (“Human vs. Automated Sales Agents: How and Why Customer Responses Shift Across Sales Stages”) is a professor of information systems at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His research focuses on algorithmic management, the digital transformation of work and people, information technology entrepreneurship, and human-computer interaction. His research has been published in international journals, such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Business Venturing. He serves as senior editor at European Journal of Information Systems and as associate editor at Business & Information Systems Engineering.
Tommy K. H. Chan (“Bystanders Join in Cyberbullying on Social Networking Sites: The Deindividuation and Moral Disengagement Perspectives”) is a senior lecturer at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. His research interests include online harms, social media, and digital business. He has published in such international journals as Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and Information & Management. Chan serves as associate editors of Information Systems Journal and Internet Research. In his spare time, he enjoys playing with his dog Minho.
Chen Chen (“A Bitter Pill to Swallow? The Consequences of Patient Evaluation in Online Health Question-and-Answer Platforms”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He obtained a PhD in molecular cancer biology from Duke University in 2014 and a PhD in management from Boston University in 2020. His primary research interests include using deep learning and natural language processing to decipher how human beings interact, behave, and make decisions in virtual and real communities, and knowledge interpolation/extrapolation via graph neural networks.
Hsing Kenneth Cheng (“Impact of Own Brand Product Introduction on Optimal Pricing Models for Platform and Incumbent Sellers”) is John B. Higdon eminent scholar and department chair of the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. He received his PhD in computers and information systems from the University of Rochester. His research interests focus on interdisciplinary information systems research on big data and business analytics and economic and policy issues of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and Internet commerce.
Christy M. K. Cheung (“Bystanders Join in Cyberbullying on Social Networking Sites: The Deindividuation and Moral Disengagement Perspectives”) is a professor in the Department of Finance and Decision Sciences at the School of Business of Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests are information technology (IT) and user behavior, responsible use of IT, and IT and societal implications. Her work appears in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information Systems. She is serving as the editor-in-chief at Internet Research.
Ben C. F. Choi (“Pushing Yourself Harder: The Effects of Mobile Touch Modes on Users’ Self-Regulation”) is an assistant professor at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research interests include information privacy, sustainability, and human-computer interactions. Ben has published in premier information systems journals, including Information Systems Research and Journal of Management Information Systems. Ben has served as associate editor at MIS Quarterly (special issue on digital resilience) and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Vidyanand Choudhary (“Sequential IT Investment: Can the Risk of IT Implementation Failure Be Your Friend?”) is a professor at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, and a senior editor at Production and Operations Management Journal. Previously, he served as the associate dean for undergraduate programs and senior associate dean at the Merage School. Dr. Choudhary conducts research in the area of economics of information systems. His research has been published in various top-tier journals, such as Management Science and Information Systems Research.
Gert-Jan de Vreede (“Decide Now or Later: Making Sense of Incoherence Across Online Reviews”) is a professor of information systems and interim dean at the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida. He received his PhD from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. His research focuses on crowdsourcing, collaboration engineering, and behavioral aspects of artificial intelligence. He has published in Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information & Management, Communications of the ACM, and others.
Triparna de Vreede (“Decide Now or Later: Making Sense of Incoherence Across Online Reviews”) is a faculty and associate director of the School of Information Systems and Management, Muma College of Business, University of South Florida. She holds a PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her research focuses on behavioral issues in human/artificial intelligence interaction, people analytics, and crowdsourcing. Her research has appeared in Journal of Management Information Systems, Computers in Human Behavior, and Information & Management.
Sanjeev Dewan (“Personalized Ranking at a Mobile App Distribution Platform”) is a professor of information systems and faculty director of the master of science in business analytics program at the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He received his PhD in business administration in 1991 from the Simon School at the University of Rochester. He has served as associate editor at Management Science and two terms as senior editor at Information Systems Research.
Feng Guo (“Complementarity Between Investment in Information Technology (IT) and IT Human Resources: Implications for Different Types of Firm Innovation”) is an assistant professor at Iowa State University Ivy College of Business. He graduated with a PhD in accounting from the University of Kansas. He conducts economics-based archival research mainly focused on auditors and financial intermediaries in the capital market, emerging technology, and interdisciplinary studies. His coauthored publications have appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics and Contemporary Accounting Research.
Alok Gupta (“Single-Sourcing vs. Multisourcing: An Empirical Analysis of Large Information Technology Outsourcing Arrangements”) is the Curtis L. Carlson Schoolwide Chair in Information Management; he also serves as the senior associate dean for faculty and research. He has received numerous awards, such as the prestigious NSF CAREER Award, INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow, AIS Fellow, AIS LEO Award, ISS President’s Service Award, AIS Impact Award, ISS Practical Impact Award, and ISS Design Science Award three times. Many of his articles have won best paper awards from the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Research, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Sachin Gupta (“Reidentification Risk in Panel Data: Protecting for k-Anonymity”) is the Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Management and Professor of Marketing at the SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Currently, he also serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marketing Research. Previously, he was on the faculty at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from Cornell University. His research interests are in healthcare, consumer privacy, nonprofits, and marketing research methods.
Jungpil Hahn (“Winner Takes All? The Blockbuster Effect on Crowdfunding Platforms”) is an associate professor of information systems and analytics at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on understanding how information technology alters organizational knowledge work, with particular focus on innovation activities in open environments. His research appears in leading journals such as Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly.
Elizabeth Han (“Bots with Feelings: Should AI Agents Express Positive Emotion in Customer Service?”) is assistant professor of information systems at the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University. She received her PhD in information technology management from Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology in December 2022. Her research interest focuses on the role of emotions in human–AI interactions, prosocial behavior in online platforms, and algorithmic decision making.
Sang Pil Han (“Positive Demand Spillover of Popular App Adoption: Implications for Platform Owners’ Management of Complements”) is an associate professor of information systems in the W. P. Carey School of Business at the Arizona State University. He received his PhD in management engineering from the College of Business at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and educational technologies. His papers were published in top-tier journals, such as Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Information Systems Research.
Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho (“Personalized Ranking at a Mobile App Distribution Platform”) is an assistant professor of information systems at the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. He received his PhD in 2016 from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. He is mainly interested in the impacts of information technologies with a focus on location-based services, online platforms, and artificial intelligence.
Yili Hong (“Direct and Indirect Spillovers from Content Providers’ Switching: Evidence from Online Livestreaming”) is a professor of business technology at the Miami Herbert Business School, University of Miami. Hong is currently a senior editor of Production and Operations Management and an associate editor at Information Systems Research. His research focuses on the future of work, digital platforms, digital content, and human–AI interaction. His research has been published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Production and Operations Management, among others.
Yuheng Hu (“Direct and Indirect Spillovers from Content Providers’ Switching: Evidence from Online Livestreaming”) is an associate professor at the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago. His research focuses on developing data mining algorithms to better discover human behavior from large-scale data. His research has been published in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, INFORMS Journal on Computing, etc.
Merete Hvalshagen (“Empowering Users with Narratives: Examining the Efficacy of Narratives for Understanding Data-Oriented Conceptual Models”) is an assistant professor at the Department of MIS, OSC and Business Analytics at the School of Business at the University of Dayton. She earned her PhD from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and has worked for If Insurance, Norway, as well as Sogeti, USA.
Zhenhui (Jack) Jiang (“Pushing Yourself Harder: The Effects of Mobile Touch Modes on Users’ Self-Regulation”) is Padma and Hari Harilela Professor in Strategic Information Management and Area Head of Innovation and Information Management at HKU Business School. Prior to joining the University of Hong Kong, he was a professor of information systems and analytics at National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently a senior editor at MIS Quarterly and has served on the editorial board of MIS Quarterly (associate editor), Information Systems Research (associate editor), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (senior editor), among others.
Kyung Sung Jung (“Impact of Own Brand Product Introduction on Optimal Pricing Models for Platform and Incumbent Sellers”) is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. He received his PhD from Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, and an MBA from Foster School of Business, University of Washington. His primary research interests are in online retail/sharing platforms, supply chains, scheduling and assignment, and health information technology/operations management.
Lena Franziska Kaiser (“The Attraction Effect in Crowdfunding”) received her PhD from the University of Liechtenstein. Her research interests include digital innovation, enterprise crowdfunding, and employee-driven innovation.
Wolfgang Ketter (“Information Systems Research for Smart Sustainable Mobility: A Framework and Call for Action”) is professor of information systems and director of the Cologne Institute of Information Systems, University of Cologne; professor and director at Erasmus University; and energy policy advisor to the German government. His research interests are how digital transformation can create a faster and more stable transition to sustainable energy and mobility. He was editor for Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly and won the best Information Systems Research paper award for 2020.
Marios Kokkodis (“Adjusting Skillset Cohesion in Online Labor Markets: Reputation Gains and Opportunity Losses”) is currently a research data scientist at Meta. His research focuses on understanding various aspects of online work and on algorithmically improving the transaction efficacy of digital workplaces. His work appears in major information systems, data mining, and multidisciplinary outlets. He has received multiple awards and nominations, including the INFORMS ISS Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award and the INFORMS ISS Nunamaker-Chen dissertation award.
Young Kwark (“Impact of Own Brand Product Introduction on Optimal Pricing Models for Platform and Incumbent Sellers”) is assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. She received her PhD from Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, and an MBA from Foster School of Business, University of Washington. Her research interests are in the economics of information systems, including e-retail and social platforms, sharing economy, security, and health information technology.
Mi Hyun Lee (“Positive Demand Spillover of Popular App Adoption: Implications for Platform Owners’ Management of Complements”) is an assistant professor of integrated marketing communications in the Medill School at Northwestern University. She received her PhDs in marketing from the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and in statistics from the College of Science at Virginia Tech. Her research interests center around digital platforms, advertising, and media. Her research has been published in premier journals, such as Journal of Advertising and New Media & Society.
Zach W. Y. Lee (“Bystanders Join in Cyberbullying on Social Networking Sites: The Deindividuation and Moral Disengagement Perspectives”) is an associate professor at Durham University Business School, Durham University. His research interests include online consumer behaviors, organizational and societal implications of information technology use, social media, and digital service innovation. He has published in such international journals as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Information Systems Journal. He serves as senior editor of Internet Research and associate editor of Information & Management and Information Systems Journal.
Shaobo Li (“Reidentification Risk in Panel Data: Protecting for k-Anonymity”) is an assistant professor at the School of Business at the University of Kansas. He received his PhD in business administration from the University of Cincinnati in 2018. His research interests lie in the broad area of business analytics, including data privacy protection, statistical methods for high-dimensional and ordinal data analysis, and corporate default prediction.
Yijun Li (“Complementarity Between Investment in Information Technology (IT) and IT Human Resources: Implications for Different Types of Firm Innovation”) is an assistant professor of accounting at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. He earned his PhD in accounting from the University of Kansas, his MS of accountancy degree from George Washington University, and his BS from Shanghai University. He has broad research interests in accounting information systems, corporate taxation, executive professional experience, and company financial reporting. He is a member of the Erasmus Research Institute of Management.
Yang (Alison) Liu (“Pushing Yourself Harder: The Effects of Mobile Touch Modes on Users’ Self-Regulation”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Intelligent Business at Xi’an Jiaotong University. Dr. Liu’s research interests include online consumer behavior, human–computer interaction, algorithmic decision making, and digital innovation. Her work has been published in premier information systems journals, including Journal of Management Information Systems and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Yingda Lu (“Direct and Indirect Spillovers from Content Providers’ Switching: Evidence from Online Livestreaming”) is an assistant professor at the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Chicago. His research leverages economic theory with state-of-the-art empirical methods to provide actionable policies to improve the design of social media platforms and the use of artificial intelligence. His research appears in top academic journals such as Management Science, MIS Quarterly, and Information Systems Research as well as top conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems.
Roman Lukyanenko (“Empowering Users with Narratives: Examining the Efficacy of Narratives for Understanding Data-Oriented Conceptual Models”) is an associate professor in the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. Roman’s research interests include conceptual modeling, information quality, crowdsourcing, machine learning, design science research, and research methods. Roman is the immediate past president for the AIS SIGSAND and a codeveloper of www.sigsand.com.
Mikhail Lysyakov (“Threatened by AI: Analyzing Users’ Responses to the Introduction of AI in a Crowd-Sourcing Platform”) is an assistant professor of computers and information systems at the Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. He received a PhD in information systems from the University of Maryland in 2021. His research focuses on leveraging novel deep learning and machine learning methodologies in combination with econometric methods to gain granular deeper insights into strategic user behaviors on online platforms: social media, crowdsourcing, and blockchain platforms.
Shengjun Mao (“Personalized Ranking at a Mobile App Distribution Platform”) is an assistant professor of innovative and information management at the faculty of business and economics, the University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in information systems in 2020 from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Her current research mainly focuses on practical problems in the mobile app economy, digital platforms, location-based services, etc.
Likoebe M. Maruping (“Complementarity Between Investment in Information Technology (IT) and IT Human Resources: Implications for Different Types of Firm Innovation”) is a professor of computer information systems at Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research focuses on collaboration and innovation in small- and large-scale collectives such as teams, communities, and crowds. His interests in this area pertain to the enabling role of digital collaboration platforms, the mechanisms underlying the collaboration process, and the leadership and governance of collaborative efforts in organizational and open environments.
Adi Masli (“Complementarity Between Investment in Information Technology (IT) and IT Human Resources: Implications for Different Types of Firm Innovation”) is a professor at the University of Kansas School of Business. He graduated with a PhD in accounting from the University of Arkansas. He is a recipient of the Koch Fellowship. His research interests include the following topics: the influence of information technology on business value and financial reporting, external auditing and assurance services, the effect of internal auditing in business organizations, top management teams, executive compensation, and labor markets.
Abhay Nath Mishra (“The Attraction Effect in Crowdfunding”) is a Kingland Faculty Fellow in Business Analytics and an associate professor of information systems and business analytics at the Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University. His research has been published in Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and others.
Wonseok Oh (“Positive Demand Spillover of Popular App Adoption: Implications for Platform Owners’ Management of Complements”) is the K.C.B. Chair Professor in the College of Business at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He received his PhD in information systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University. His research interests include the economics of information systems, AI business strategy, mobile commerce, and digital marketing. His research has been published in premier journals, including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Management Science.
Sungho Park (“Positive Demand Spillover of Popular App Adoption: Implications for Platform Owners’ Management of Complements”) is an associate professor of marketing at Seoul National University. He is interested in studying consumers’ shopping behaviors in various retail settings. Currently, he is studying the consumer response to new digital advertising and its implications for platform owners and advertisers. He has published papers in premier academic journals, such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly.
Leyland Pitt (“A Theory of Information Compression: When Judgments Are Costly”) is a professor of marketing and the Dennis F. Culver EMBA Alumni Chair of Business at the Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University (Canada). The author of more than 360 articles in peer-reviewed journals, his work has been accepted for publication by such journals as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly (where he served as an associate editor), Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Advertising, and Business Horizons.
Kirk Plangger (“A Theory of Information Compression: When Judgments Are Costly”) is senior associate professor of marketing at King’s Business School, King’s College London, specializing in how digital technologies impact consumer behavior. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Advertising Research. His research has been published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems, among others.
Jingchuan Pu (“Impact of Own Brand Product Introduction on Optimal Pricing Models for Platform and Incumbent Sellers”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida, where he also received his Doctor of Philosophy degree in information systems. Before returning to his alma mater, he was an assistant professor at the Smeal College of Business, Pennsylvania State University. His recent research focuses on social media (public and corporate), financial technology, and electronic commerce.
Gautam Ray (“Single-Sourcing vs. Multisourcing: An Empirical Analysis of Large Information Technology Outsourcing Arrangements”) is a professor at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the area of how information technology creates value. His research has appeared in the Academy of Management Journal, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, and the Strategic Management Journal. He received his PhD from The Ohio State University in 2000.
Kyung Sun (Melissa) Rhee (“Value of Information Sharing via Ride-Hailing Apps: An Empirical Analysis”) is an assistant professor at Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. She received her PhD from the University of Washington, Seattle. Her primary research interests are in the economics of digital markets in which intersects between information systems and digital economics. Topics of her current work vary across transportation networks, online labor market, social media, and digital marketing. She has published in Information Systems Research.
Konstantin Roethke (“Human vs. Automated Sales Agents: How and Why Customer Responses Shift Across Sales Stages”) holds a PhD in information systems and a master’s degree in industrial engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His research interests include optimization of digital business models and behavioral analytics. His work has been published in international journals, such as Decision Support Systems and Electronic Markets.
Binny M. Samuel (“Empowering Users with Narratives: Examining the Efficacy of Narratives for Understanding Data-Oriented Conceptual Models”) is an associate professor of information systems at the University of Cincinnati’s Lindner College of Business. He earned a PhD degree from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He worked in information technology roles at Ford Motor Company and Indiana University. He is primarily interested in researching data management and analytics topics. He also enjoys assessing and improving the design of systems used to accomplish work.
Matthew J. Schneider (“Reidentification Risk in Panel Data: Protecting for k-Anonymity”) is an associate professor at the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Previously, he was on the faculty at the Medill School at Northwestern University and holds a PhD in statistics from Cornell University. His research interests are in data privacy and time series forecasting.
Karsten Schroer (“Information Systems Research for Smart Sustainable Mobility: A Framework and Call for Action”) is a PhD researcher in information systems at the University of Cologne. He holds degrees in industrial engineering from Cambridge University and in mechanical engineering from the University of Birmingham. His research interests lie in the application of analytics and algorithms to understanding and resolving societal challenges. He especially focuses on issues in sustainable energy and transport.
Shweta Singh (“Single-Sourcing vs. Multisourcing: An Empirical Analysis of Large Information Technology Outsourcing Arrangements”) is an assistant professor at the Warwick Business School. Her primary research interest lies in artificial intelligence, behavioral data science, and business value of information technology. Her research has appeared in Information Systems Research, International Conference on Information Systems and Workshop on Information Systems and Economics. She received her PhD from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Logan M. Steele (“Decide Now or Later: Making Sense of Incoherence Across Online Reviews”) is an assistant professor in the School of Information Systems and Management at the University of South Florida. He received his PhD from the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on the intersection of leadership, creativity, and ethics. His research has appeared in Academy of Management Review, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, and others.
Yong Tan (“Platform Refund Insurance or Being Cast Out: Quantifying the Signaling Effect of Refund Options in the Online Service Marketplace”, “Value of Information Sharing via Ride-Hailing Apps: An Empirical Analysis”) is the Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor of Information Systems and chair of the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington. He received his PhD in physics and business administration at the University of Washington. He is a distinguished fellow of INFORMS. His research interests include economics of information systems, social media and networks, sharing economy, fintech, health information technology, and big data analytics. He has published more than 80 papers in Management Science, Information Systems Research, Operations Research, and MIS Quarterly, among others.
Amrit Tiwana (“A Theory of Information Compression: When Judgments Are Costly”) is the Edmund Rast Professor of Business Administration at the University of Georgia. He has served as a senior editor at MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, and he serves on the boards of Strategic Management Journal and Journal of Management Information Systems. His work has appeared in various management information systems, strategy, software engineering, finance, and marketing journals.
Konstantina Valogianni (“Information Systems Research for Smart Sustainable Mobility: A Framework and Call for Action”) is assistant professor of information systems at IE Business School. She holds a PhD from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Her research focuses on using machine learning to enable sustainable societies. Her work has appeared in journals such as Production and Operations Management, Information and Management, Decision Support Systems, and Energy Policy.
Siva Viswanathan (“Threatened by AI: Analyzing Users’ Responses to the Introduction of AI in a Crowd-Sourcing Platform”) is the Dean’s Professor of Information Systems and Digital Innovation at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. He received a PhD in information systems from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. His research focuses on issues relating to platform design and on analyzing the behavioral, competitive, and strategic implications of emerging technologies.
Jan vom Brocke (“The Attraction Effect in Crowdfunding”) is a professor of information systems, the Hilti Chair of Business Process Management, and director of the Institute of Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein. His research focuses on business process management and digital innovation. He has published in Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and Sloan Management Review.
Dylan Walker (“A Bitter Pill to Swallow? The Consequences of Patient Evaluation in Online Health Question-and-Answer Platforms”) is an associate professor of management science at the Argyros School of Business, Chapman University. A theoretical physicist by training, his work leverages large-scale empirical data and experiments to understand how our modern networked and social information systems alter and spread information, knowledge, and behaviors, and how this leads to population-level outcomes. His work has been published in journals such as Science, Management Science, and Information Systems Research.
Youwei Wang (“Platform Refund Insurance or Being Cast Out: Quantifying the Signaling Effect of Refund Options in the Online Service Marketplace”, “Value of Information Sharing via Ride-Hailing Apps: An Empirical Analysis”) is a professor in the Department of Information Management and Business Intelligence, School of Management, Fudan University. His current research interests include online platform, sharing economy, and machine learning. He is the senior editor of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. He has published three books and more than 20 papers in academic journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Marketing Science.
Zhiyi Wang (“Winner Takes All? The Blockbuster Effect on Crowdfunding Platforms”) is an assistant professor of information systems in the division of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. He received his PhD in information systems and analytics from the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on open innovation, open source software development, and crowdfunding. His work has appeared in Information Systems Research and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.
Richard Thomas Watson (“A Theory of Information Compression: When Judgments Are Costly”) is a Regents Professor and the J. Rex Fuqua Distinguished Chair for Internet Strategy in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. He is an Association for Information Systems (AIS) LEO and a former AIS president. For about a decade, he was research director of Society for Information Management’s Advanced Practices Council and a visiting researcher at the Research Institutes of Sweden. In 2021, the University of Liechtenstein awarded him an honorary doctorate.
Markus Weinmann (“The Attraction Effect in Crowdfunding”) is a professor of business analytics at the University of Cologne and an affiliate member at the Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Erasmus University. His research concerns the opportunities and challenges of the digital economy, particularly using data to infer how people judge, decide, and behave on digital platforms. His research has been published in leading journals, including Information Systems Research, Management Science, Marketing Science, and MIS Quarterly.
Bo Xiao (“Bystanders Join in Cyberbullying on Social Networking Sites: The Deindividuation and Moral Disengagement Perspectives”) is a professor of information technology management, Shidler College Distinguished Professor (Endowed) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. She has published multiple papers in premier information systems journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). She has served as associate editor of MIS Quarterly, associate editor of Internet Research, and editorial board member of the JAIS.
Mingdi Xin (“Sequential IT Investment: Can the Risk of IT Implementation Failure Be Your Friend?”) is an associate professor of information systems at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on business strategies for technology companies and on evaluating information technology investment strategies and their competitive implications. She has published in top management journals, such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly. She received a PhD in information systems from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Lusi Yang (“Winner Takes All? The Blockbuster Effect on Crowdfunding Platforms”) is an assistant professor of computer information systems at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. She received her PhD in information systems and analytics from the National University of Singapore. Her research interests include online innovation community, digital innovations, and entrepreneurial learning. Her research has appeared in Information Systems Research, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and the Academy of Management best paper proceedings.
Dezhi Yin (“Decide Now or Later: Making Sense of Incoherence Across Online Reviews”, “Bots with Feelings: Should AI Agents Express Positive Emotion in Customer Service?”) is an associate professor of the School of Information Systems and Management, Muma College of Business, University of South Florida. He received his PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include user-generated content, emotional expression in online environments, artificial intelligence, cognitive heuristics, etc. His research has appeared in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Production and Operations Management, and others.
Yan Yu (“Reidentification Risk in Panel Data: Protecting for k-Anonymity”) is the Joseph S. Stern Professor of Business Analytics at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business at the University of Cincinnati. She is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association. She earned her PhD from Cornell University. She serves as an associate editor for Journal of the American Statistical Association and Journal of Business & Economic Statistics. Her research interests are in statistical methodology, statistical finance, data privacy, and data mining.
Han Zhang (“Bots with Feelings: Should AI Agents Express Positive Emotion in Customer Service?”) is the Steven A. Denning Professor of Technology & Management and professor of information technology management at the Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. His research mainly focuses on online word-of-mouth, social networks, and online communities. He has published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing Research, and other premier academic journals.
Zhe Zhang (“Sequential IT Investment: Can the Risk of IT Implementation Failure Be Your Friend?”) is an assistant professor of information systems in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Zhang studies how information technology and the internet have digitally transformed products and markets and how firms should respond to this paradigm shift. His papers have been published in journals, such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Production and Operations Management.
Keran Zhao (“Direct and Indirect Spillovers from Content Providers’ Switching: Evidence from Online Livestreaming”) is an assistant professor at the Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. His research interests lie in the design and user behavior of the online livestreaming and healthcare community. He is interested in streaming video/text analysis and predictive analysis of social media users’ behavior patterns. Prior to arriving at the University of Houston, he earned a doctoral degree in management information systems from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Jinyang Zheng (“Platform Refund Insurance or Being Cast Out: Quantifying the Signaling Effect of Refund Options in the Online Service Marketplace”, “Value of Information Sharing via Ride-Hailing Apps: An Empirical Analysis”) is an assistant professor of management at Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. He obtained his PhD from the University of Washington. His research interests include the moderation of content platforms and online two-sided markets, artificial intelligence–human interactions, and digital resilience. Methodologically, he quantifies unstructured data, integrates the Neyman–Rubin causal model with Pearl’s framework, and develops structural models. He has published in Management Science and Information Systems Research.
