Activities

Teaching

  • ESCP Business School, Paris, France
    • Applied Data Science Research Project (RX19), Master-level, 2022S
    • R & Business Analytics (MBD09), Master-level, 2021F, 2020F
    • Microsoft Data Tools Basics (MBD02), Master-level, 2021F, 2020F
    • Introduction of Data Analytics Coding (Tutorial), Master-level, 2021F
  • ESCP Business School, Dubai, UAE
    • Statistics for Managers (Executive MSc), Master-level, 2022F
  • International Business School (ZIBS), Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China
    • Business Statistical Analysis (7121013), iMBA-level, 2020S
  • Rutgers Business School (RBS), Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
    • Management Information Systems (29:623:220:07), Bachelor-level, 2016F

Research Grants

  • “Decision Aggregation with Reliability Propagation”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2024
  • “Bring Me a Good One: Seeking High-potential Startups using Heterogeneous Venture Information Networks”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2024
  • “AlphaVC: A Reinforcement Learning-based Venture Capital Investment Strategy”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2023
  • “Towards a Better Characterization of Career Paths: Sequential Job Embedding and Mixture Markov Models”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2023
  • “Acqui-hiring or Acqui-quitting: Data-Driven Post-M&A Turnover Prediction via a Dual-fit Model”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2023
  • “Asset Pricing Anomalies and Machine Learning”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2023
  • “Turnovers of Upper Echelon Matter: Effects of Firms Position Index on Market Value”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2022
  • “Waiting or Buying Substitutions? Dynamic Inventory Policy with Recommendation System under Shortage”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2022
  • “Talent Migration Pattern Mining: Leveraging Business Rivalry and Financial Investments”, ESCP European Research Fund (EERF), 2021

Awards

  • Best Paper Runner-up Award, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2022
  • Dissertation Fellowship Award, Rutgers University, 2017-2018
  • IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) Travel Award, ICDM 2016
  • Dean’s Fund for Summer Research, Rutgers Business School, 2016
  • Joseph Liu Thesis Prize (Best M.Sc. Thesis), York University, 2014
  • Outstanding Graduate, USTC, 2011
  • Chinese National Scholarship (1%), Ministry of Education of China, 2011

Professional Membership

  • Member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS)
  • Member of INFORMS (Information Systems Society)
  • Member of the Academy of Management (AoM)
  • Member of ACM

Professional Services

  • Program Committee Member, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024
  • Senior Program Committee Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024
  • Program Committee Member, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2023
  • Co-chair of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cluster, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2023
  • Program Committee Member, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023
  • Program Committee Member, ACM The Web Conference (WWW), 2023
  • Senior Program Committee Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023
  • Judge, INFORMS Poster Competition, 2022
  • Program Committee Member, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2022
  • Co-Chair of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cluster, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2022
  • Program Committee Member, ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2022
  • Program Committee Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
  • Program Committee Member, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI), 2022
  • Program Committee Member, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2021
  • Co-Chair of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Cluster, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2021
  • Guest Associate Editor, Data-Driven Investment Strategies, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021
  • Program Committee Member, INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, 2021
  • Program Committee Member, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2021
  • Program Committee Member, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021
  • Program Committee Member, ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2021
  • Program Committee Member, International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM), 2017

Institutional Services

  • Initiator and Coordinator, IOM Department Research Seminar Series, 2022-present
  • Fellow, Center for Design Science in Entrepreneurship (DS:E), 2021-present
  • Jury Member, ESCP-Square & ESCP-Criteo Data Hackathon, 2022
  • Committee Member, MBD Program Recruitment Committee, 2022
  • Committee Member, IOM Faculty Recruitment Committee, 2022
  • Committee Member, MBD Program Recruitment Committee, 2021
  • Jury Member, ESCP-Beihang Student Exchange Program, 2021
  • Jury Member, ESCP-Michelin & ESCP-Criteo Data Hackathon, 2021
  • Committee Member, IOM Faculty Recruitment Committee, 2021

Invited & Ad-hoc Reviewer

• Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ) • Information & Management (I&M) • Transactions on the Web (TWEB) • Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA) • International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA) • Applied Economics (APE) • Technology Analysis & Strategic Management (TASM) • Academy of Management Annual Meeting (AOM) • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) • Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) • INFORMS Workshop on Data Science (WDS) • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) • International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) • ACM International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) • International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) • IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) • SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM) • IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA)