About Our Authors
Panagiotis Adamopoulos (“Demand Effects of the Internet-of-Things Sales Channel: Evidence from Automating the Purchase Process”) is an assistant professor at Goizueta Business School, Emory University. His research program studies how information systems and technological artifacts affect user behavior and transform business and society. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed academic journals and has been presented at conferences, including Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, and the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
Yolande E. Chan (“Following the MAP (Methods, Approaches, Perspectives) in Information Systems Research”) is associate dean (research and PhD-MSc programs) and E. Marie Shantz Professor of Management and Information Systems at Queen’s University. She holds a PhD from Western University, an MPhil from Oxford University, and SM and SB degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is a Rhodes Scholar. She studies strategic alignment and digital innovation. She serves on the boards of and publishes in Basket of Eight and other top journals. She is a fellow of the Association for Information Systems.
Hailiang Chen (“Fake News, Investor Attention, and Market Reaction”) is an associate professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong. He is interested in the research areas of social media, financial technology, business analytics, economics of information systems, and design science. His research has been published in elite business journals in information systems, finance, and management. His research received wide coverage in media sites such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Reuters, and Seeking Alpha.
Jianqing Chen (“Spillover Effect of Consumer Awareness on Third Parties’ Selling Strategies and Retailers’ Platform Openness”) is a professor of information systems at Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He received his PhD from University of Texas at Austin. His research interests are in platform business models, social media and user-generated content, search engine advertising, and economics of information systems. His papers have been published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Marketing, and Journal of Marketing Research.
Jonathan Clarke (“Fake News, Investor Attention, and Market Reaction”) is an associate professor of finance at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on sell-side research analysts and financial technology. His research has been published in a number of top-tier finance journals. He has been quoted in a number of media outlets, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, U.S. News and World Report, and USA Today.
James Denford (“Following the MAP (Methods, Approaches, Perspectives) in Information Systems Research”) is dean of social sciences and humanities and associate professor of management information systems at Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). He holds a PhD in management from Smith School, Business, Queen's University and an MBA and BEng (engineering management) from RMC. Jim publishes in leading journals, including JMIS, JSIS, JKM, and KMRP. He is currently the president of the AIS College of Academic Leadership.
Emmanuel Dhyne (“The Return on Information Technology: Who Benefits Most?”) is a senior economist at the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). He is the head of the “Competitiveness and Structural Issues” unit of the NBB Research Department. His work is mostly on the analysis of firm-level data. He has worked on various topics such as price setting, export behavior, productivity dynamics, and employment dynamics and has contributed to three European System of Central Bank research networks. He also teaches statistics and econometrics at University of Mons.
Yan Dong (“Mobile Money and Mobile Technologies: A Structural Estimation”) is a BPF Distinguished Moore Fellow and an associate professor of management science, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. He has published in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Marketing Science, and Journal of Management Information Systems, among others. He serves as senior editor at Production and Operations Management and associate editor at the Journal of Operations Management.
Ding Du (“Fake News, Investor Attention, and Market Reaction”) is a PhD student in marketing at MIT Sloan School of Management. His research interests include media, entertainment, and financial technology.
Runshan Fu (“Crowds, Lending, Machine, and Bias”) is a PhD candidate in information systems and management at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University. Her research studies the social impacts of machine learning (ML) algorithms with a focus on algorithmic bias. She uses machine learning, analytical modeling, and structural econometric modeling methods to study the economic implications of using machine learning in decision making and the unintended disparate impacts of ML-driven decisions across demographic groups.
Qiang Gao (“Education Crowdfunding and Student Performance: An Empirical Study”) is an assistant professor of business analytics at Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City of University of New York. His research interests include online finance, online labor market, and online user-generated contents. His work has appeared in academic journals such as Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, and Communications of the Association for Information Systems.
Anindya Ghose (“Demand Effects of the Internet-of-Things Sales Channel: Evidence from Automating the Purchase Process”) is the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at Stern School, New York University. He is the author of TAP: Unlocking the Mobile Economy and a recipient of the INFORMS ISS Distinguished Fellow Award. He has been recognized as one of the Top 30 Management Thinkers, Top 40 Professors Under 40, top 1% of researchers by Web of Science, and has received 16 best paper awards and nominations. He has consulted with many firms globally on realizing business value from digital investments.
Jing Gong (“On the Use of Probabilistic Uncertain Rewards on Crowdfunding Platforms: The Case of the Lottery”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Decision and Technology Analytics at College of Business, Lehigh University. She holds a PhD in information systems and management from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University. Her work has appeared in journals including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of Retailing, as well as several major conferences and workshops in information systems.
Shirley Gregor (“Axiomatic Theories and Improving the Relevance of Information Systems Research”) is professor emerita at Australian National University. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, human–computer interaction, and the philosophy of science and technology. She obtained her PhD in information systems from University of Queensland in 1996. In 2005, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, and in 2010, she was appointed a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems.
Seema Gupta (“The Effects of Social Media Content Created by Human Brands on Engagement: Evidence from Indian General Election 2014”) is an associate professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). Her areas of interest are digital marketing. She is a blogger, speaker, author, and a consultant in digital marketing.
Terrence Hendershott (“FinTech as a Game Changer: Overview of Research Frontiers”) is the Willis H. Booth Chair in Banking and Finance as a professor at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include information technology's impact and role in financial markets, the structure and regulation of financial markets, and the interaction among trading, liquidity, and asset prices. His writing has appeared in national newspapers and magazines and his academic work has been published in numerous scholarly journals. He has consulted for various financial markets, regulators, and investment firms.
Yu “Jeffrey” Hu (“Fake News, Investor Attention, and Market Reaction”) is the Pearce Professor at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Digital Fellow at MIT’s Initiative on Digital Economy. He received a PhD from MIT Sloan School of Management, an MS from University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a BS from Tsinghua University. He is an expert on big data, business analytics, consumer behavior, electronic commerce, mobile commerce, offline commerce, social media, and online advertising.
Yan Huang (“Crowds, Lending, Machine, and Bias”) is an assistant professor of business technologies at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. In her research, she uses quantitative methods to examine the economic and social impacts of technologies (e.g., AI), machine learning, and crowd-based technologies. Based on these understandings, she recommends strategies and policies that promote productive and fair use of technologies and identifies effective designs for technology-enabled platforms and applications.
Yunhui Huang (“Leveraging the Numerosity Effect to Influence Perceived Expensiveness of Virtual Items”) is a professor in the Department of Marketing and Electronic Business, School of Business, Nanjing University. She received her PhD in psychology from Peking University. Her research interests include online retailing, consumer inference, and marketing communications. She has published her works in journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Information Systems Research, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Ramkumar Janakiraman (“The Effects of Social Media Content Created by Human Brands on Engagement: Evidence from Indian General Election 2014”) received his PhD from University of Southern California. He is currently a professor of marketing and a Business Partnership Foundation Research Fellow at University of South Carolina. His research areas include social media analytics, multichannel retailing, and digital marketing. His research has appeared in journals.
Jozef Konings (“The Return on Information Technology: Who Benefits Most?”) is the subject group head of economics the University of Liverpool Management School and director of the Center for Regional Economic Policy at KU Leuven. He is a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR, London). His research focuses on firm competitiveness and international macroeconomics. Since 2019 he has been a member of the National Productivity Council of Belgium and is advising various governments and central banks regularly.
Subodha Kumar (“The Effects of Social Media Content Created by Human Brands on Engagement: Evidence from Indian General Election 2014”) is the Paul Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor and the Director of Center for Data Analytics at Fox School of Business, Temple University. He has published several papers in reputed journals and conferences. He has also coauthored book, book chapters, and cases. He also holds a patent. He is the deputy editor of POM and executive editor of Management and Business Review. He has held several other editorial positions. He is regularly mentioned in media.
Jae Kyu Lee (“Axiomatic Theories and Improving the Relevance of Information Systems Research”) is a distinguished professor in the School of Management, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China. He was HHI Chair Professor in the College of Business at Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, Korea, and became professor emeritus in 2016. He earned his PhD from Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a fellow and past president of the Association for Information Systems and was the founder of Bright Internet.
Nadège Levallet (“Following the MAP (Methods, Approaches, Perspectives) in Information Systems Research”) is assistant professor in Lang School of Business and Economics, University of Guelph (Canada). She holds a PhD in MIS from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, an MBA from Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, and a DESMA from Grenoble École de Management in France. His work has been published in leading journals, including MIS Quarterly Executive and the Journal of Knowledge Management.
Wenli Li (“Spillover Effect of Consumer Awareness on Third Parties’ Selling Strategies and Retailers’ Platform Openness”) is a professor at School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology. His research interests focus on social commerce and trust management. His work appeared in several conferences on information systems, such as International Conference on Information Systems and Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, and journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, and Information and Computer Security.
Kai H. Lim (“Leveraging the Numerosity Effect to Influence Perceived Expensiveness of Virtual Items”) is the Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Information Technology Innovation and Management and Director of Research and PhD Program, City University of Hong Kong. He served as senior editor of MIS Quarterly (2011-2016; two terms) and on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems. He is also an Honorary Professor of Fudan University, China, and an Association for Information Systems Fellow.
Mingfeng Lin (“Education Crowdfunding and Student Performance: An Empirical Study”) is an associate professor of information technology management (ITM) and the ITM PhD program coordinator at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He studies financial technologies, internet-enabled communities and markets, and business models as drivers of innovation and entrepreneurship. His work has been published in academic journals such as Management Science and Information Systems Research.
Zhijie Lin (“Leveraging the Numerosity Effect to Influence Perceived Expensiveness of Virtual Items”) is an associate professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. He received his PhD in information systems from National University of Singapore. His research interests focus on economics of information systems, sharing economy, electronic commerce, and social media. He has published his works in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information Systems.
Rakesh R. Mallipeddi (“The Effects of Social Media Content Created by Human Brands on Engagement: Evidence from Indian General Election 2014”) is an assistant professor at A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University. He received his PhD from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. His research interests include social media analytics, technology management, operations management, and data-driven optimization.
Jinsoo Park (“Axiomatic Theories and Improving the Relevance of Information Systems Research”) is a professor of information systems at Seoul National University. His research interests include design science, ontology, semantic interoperability, agent-based knowledge sharing and coordination, metadata management, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence. He received a PhD in information systems from University of Arizona. He was formerly on the faculties of Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and Korea University.
Paul A. Pavlou (“On the Use of Probabilistic Uncertain Rewards on Crowdfunding Platforms: The Case of the Lottery”) is the dean of C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston. He is also the Cullen Distinguished Chair Professor of Information Sciences. His research has been cited over 50,000 times by Google Scholar, and he was recognized among the “World's Most Influential Scientific Minds” by Thomson Reuters. He was ranked number one in the world in publications in the top two information systems journals, MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research, during 2010–2016.
Vandana Ramachandran (“Do Fit Opinions Matter? The Impact of Fit Context on Online Product Returns”) is an associate professor (lecturer) at David Eccles School of Business. She received her PhD from University of Maryland, College Park, and her bachelor’s degree in computer engineering and computer science and master’s in information systems from University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Her research examines the causal impacts of information asymmetry and frictions in electronic markets and in understanding the effects of technology artifacts on market outcomes.
Olivia R. Liu Sheng (“Do Fit Opinions Matter? The Impact of Fit Context on Online Product Returns”) is Presidential Professor and Emma Eccles Jones Presidential Chair at David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah. Her research focuses on predictive and prescriptive analytics to address the needs in healthcare, marketing, social media, business relationship and performance, human resource, accounting, and finance. She received her BS from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, Republic of China, and her master's and PhD from University of Rochester.
Param Vir Singh (“Crowds, Lending, Machine, and Bias”) is the Carnegie Bosch Professor of Business Technologies and Marketing at Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. His recent research focuses on artificial intelligence and the implications of algorithmic bias, transparency, and interpretability to businesses and society. His work has appeared in Management Science, Marketing Science, Information Systems Research, and Organization Science.
Sining Song (“Mobile Money and Mobile Technologies: A Structural Estimation”) is an assistant professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management at University of Tennessee. She graduated from Arizona State University with a PhD in supply chain management. Her research focuses on sustainable supply chain management, innovation, and service operations. Sining is an active member of INFORMS, POMS, and DSI.
Wen Song (“Spillover Effect of Consumer Awareness on Third Parties’ Selling Strategies and Retailers’ Platform Openness”) is a PhD candidate at School of Economics and Management, Dalian University of Technology. Her current research interests are in platform business models, online advertising, and content promotion via social media. Her papers have been published in Electronic Commerce Research and Applications and International Conference on Information Systems.
Vilma Todri (“Demand Effects of the Internet-of-Things Sales Channel: Evidence from Automating the Purchase Process”) is an assistant professor at Goizueta Business School, Emory University. Her research examines the effectiveness of digital strategies as well as how digital interactions in technology-mediated environments affect consumers’ decisions. Her research has been published at various premier venues, such as Information Systems Research, Management of Information Systems Quarterly, and the ACM Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
Jeroen Van den bosch (“The Return on Information Technology: Who Benefits Most?”) is a postdoctoral researcher at imec and the Management, Strategy and Innovation group of KU Leuven, Campus Leuven. He obtained his PhD in economics in 2019 at KU Leuven. During his PhD, he was visiting researcher at IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain) and Questrom School of Business, Boston University. His main research areas are empirical industrial organization and innovation economics.
Stijn Vanormelingen (“The Return on Information Technology: Who Benefits Most?”) is an assistant professor at Research Centre for Economics, KU Leuven, Campus Brussels. After obtaining his PhD at KU Leuven, he was at IESE Business School in Barcelona for two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Since 2012 he has been a full-time professor at KU Leuven. His main research areas are empirical industrial organization and labor economics.
Sriram Venkataraman (“Mobile Money and Mobile Technologies: A Structural Estimation”) is an associate professor at the Department of Management Science, Darla Moore School of Business, University of South Carolina. He received his PhD from Clemson University. He has published in leading journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Journal of Operations Management. He serves as senior editor at Production and Operations Management and associate editor at Service Science.
Yang Wang (“Do Fit Opinions Matter? The Impact of Fit Context on Online Product Returns”) is an assistant professor of IT management at Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. His research focus is on the intersection of marketing, business analytics, and information systems. One particularly interesting topic he is working on is that of product fit uncertainty in online markets. He received an MS from Michigan State University and a PhD from the University of Utah.
D. J. Wu (“Education Crowdfunding and Student Performance: An Empirical Study”) is the Ernest Scheller Jr. Chair in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Commercialization and a professor and the area coordinator of information technology management at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Institute of Technology. He has published in Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly. He is an information systems department editor of Management Science, a senior editor of Information Systems Research, and president of the INFORMS Information Systems Society.
Yuliang Yao (Oliver) (“Mobile Money and Mobile Technologies: A Structural Estimation”) is the George N. Beckwith’ 32 Professor of Information Systems at College of Business, Lehigh University. He received his PhD from Robert H. School of Business, University of Maryland. His research interests are in the interdisciplinary fields of information systems and supply chain management. He is an associate editor at Information Systems Research and a senior editor at Production and Operations Management.
Victoria Yoon (“Axiomatic Theories and Improving the Relevance of Information Systems Research”) is a professor in the Information Systems Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. She earned her MS from University of Pittsburgh and PhD from University of Texas at Arlington. Her research interests are the application of artificial intelligence to solve complex problems and its managerial issues. She has published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and others.
Michael Zhang (“FinTech as a Game Changer: Overview of Research Frontiers”) is the Associate Dean of Innovation and Impact and a chair professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He holds multiple degrees from MIT and Tsinghua. His works study pricing of information goods, online advertising, innovation and incentives, and use of machine learning in financial markets. His research has appeared in American Economic Review, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Marketing, etc. He runs a quantitative hedge fund (Super-Quantum Fund).
J. Leon Zhao (“FinTech as a Game Changer: Overview of Research Frontiers”) is currently a Presidential Chair Professor of Information Systems, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) and Director of Center on Blockchain and Intelligent Technology. He holds a PhD from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, MS in engineering from UC Davis, and a BS from Beijing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization. His research has been funded by NSF of US, NSFC of China, RGC of HK, SAP, and IBM. He received IBM Faculty Award and Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University.
Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng (“FinTech as a Game Changer: Overview of Research Frontiers”) is the Ashbel Smith Professor in Information Systems (IS) with a minor joint appointment in finance at University of Texas at Dallas. He received his PhD in IS from Wharton School. His current research interests focus on fintech and blockchain. His papers has appeared in Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Production and Operations Management, among others. He currently serves as a senior editor at Information Systems Research.
Zuyin (Alvin) Zheng (“On the Use of Probabilistic Uncertain Rewards on Crowdfunding Platforms: The Case of the Lottery”) is a doctoral student in the Department of Management Information Systems at Fox School of Business, Temple University.
