Friday Research Workshops
Each Friday during the school year, the Information & Decision Sciences Department hosts a seminar discussion on new and in-progress research. The series provides opportunities for PhD students, faculty, and industry partners to engage with one another and with the research of scholars from around the world.
Current coordinators are Jason Chan and Yash Babar.
Upcoming events are listed at the bottom of the page.
Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Paper Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1-Feb | Vijay Mookerjee (UT Dallas) | The Voice of the Customer: Managing Customer Care in Twitter |
| 8-Feb | Eric Zheng (UT Dallas) | The Transparency-Revenue Conundrum in Social Trading: Implications for Platforms and Investors |
| 15-Feb | Moshe Barach (UMN Strategy) | Small numbers bargaining in the age of big data: Evidence from a two-sided labor matching platform |
| 22-Feb | Gordon Gao (Maryland) | How Digital Word-of-Mouth Affects Consumer Decision Making: Evidence from Doctor Appointment Booking |
| 1-Mar | Pallab Sanyal (George Mason) | An Empirical Examination of the Economics of Mobile Application Security |
| 8-Mar | - | Winter BI Conference (No Workshop) |
| 15-Mar | Jingjing Zhang (Indiana) |
It Takes Two to Tango: The Effects of Internal and External Information Integration on Healthcare Process and Outcomes |
| 29-Mar | Pedro Ferreira (CMU) | Binge Yourself Out: The Effect of Binge Watching on the Subscription of Video on Demand |
| 5-Apr | Nachi Sahoo (Boston University) | Reducing Product Expiration by Aligning Salesforce Incentives: A Data-driven Approach |
| 12-Apr | Jing Gong | Enhancing the “Call for Bids” to Improve Matching Efficiency in Online Labor Markets: Capturing the Meaning of Unstructured Textual Content with Machine Learning |
| 19-Apr | Alex Tuzhilin (Stern NYU) | Imputing Multi-Criteria Missing Ratings from User Reviews |
| 26-Apr | Amit Mehra (UT Dallas) | |
| 3-May | Dokyun Lee (CMU) |
Focused Concept Miner (FCM): an Interpretable Deep Learning for Text Exploration |
| Date | Speaker | Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 09/28 | Corey Angst U of Notre Dame |
Too Good to Be True: Firm Social Performance and the Risk of Data Breach |
| 10/05 | Yan Huang CMU |
The Role of Feedback in Dynamic Crowdsourcing Contests: A Structural Empirical Analysis |
| 10/19 | Elina Hwang U of Washington |
Mobilizing Healthcare across Geography through Telemedicine Consultations |
| 10/26 | Zaiyan Wei Purdue U |
The Survival of Noise Traders: Evidence From Peer-to-Peer Lending |
| 11/09 | Anandhi Bharadwaj Emory U |
Business Method Innovations and Firm Value: An Empirical Investigation |
| 11/16 | Hong Guo U of Notre Dame |
Cross-Market Integration and Sabotage |
| 11/30 | Yash Babar Sandeep Gangarapu U of Minnesota |
PhD Student Presentations |
| 12/07 | Yaqiong Wang Meizi Zhou U of Minnesota |
PhD Student Presentations |
|
Date |
Speaker |
Paper |
|---|---|---|
| 1/19 | Brad Greenwood U of M |
Just What the Doctor Ordered? Physician Mobility after the Adoption of Electronic Health Records |
| 1/26 | Linli Xu U of M |
There's No Free Lunch Conversation: The Effect of Brand Advertising on Word of Mouth |
| 2/2 | Bill Rand NC State |
Extracting Actionable Marketing Intelligence from Social Media Data using Machine Learning |
| 2/9 | Maytal Saar-Tsechansky UT Austin |
Who Is A Good Decision Maker? Data-Driven Decision Ranking under Unobservable Quality |
| 2/16 | Anand Gopal U Maryland |
A for Effort? Using the Crowd to Identify Moral Hazard in NYC Restaurant Hygiene Inspections |
| 2/23 | Joel Waldfogel U of M |
Platforms, Power, and Preferential Placement: Evidence from Spotify Playlists |
| 3/2 | Foster Provost NYU |
Causal Classification: Treatment Effect vs. Outcome Estimation |
| 3/9 | Yili Hong ASU |
IT-enabled Monitoring and Labor Contracting in Online Platforms: Evidence from a Natural Experiment |
| 3/23 | Christian Catalini MIT |
Technological Opportunity, Bubbles and Innovation: The Dynamics of Initial Coin Offerings |
| 3/30 | Ram Chellappa Emory |
Platform Preannouncement Strategies: The Strategic Role of In-formation in Two-Sided Markets Competition |
| 4/6 | Gautam Pant U of Iowa |
Predicting Interfirm Human Capital Flow: Leveraging Networks and Heterogeneous Effects |
| 4/13 | Jonathon Cummings Duke |
Physical Collocation, Structural Interdependence, and Work-Related Interactions in Organizations |
| 4/20 | Beibei Li CMU |
Nudging Mobile Customers with Real-Time Social Dynamics |
| 4/27 | Sunil Wattal Temple |
Competitive Poaching in Search Advertising: A Randomized Field Experiment |
| 5/4 | Huaxia Rui Rochester |
Voice Cascade on Social Media |
Events:
Sorry, there are currently no upcoming events.