Yuqing Ren
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Education:
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B.E. 1995Electronic Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University
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M.E. 1998Systems Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University
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Ph.D. 2004Organization Science Carnegie Mellon University
Expertise:
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Artificial Intelligence, Smartphone Use, Human Robot Collaboration, Social Media, Online Community Design, Virtual Collaboration
Biography
Yuqing Ren is a Professor and the Mary and Jim Lawrence Fellow at the Carlson School of Management. She holds a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Her research focuses on human machine relationships, human AI collaboration, online community design, social media, and smartphone use. Dr. Ren's research has been funded by National Science Foundation. Her work has been published at top journals such as Human-Computer Interaction, Information Systems Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Annals, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, and top conference proceedings such as CSCW, HICSS, and SIGCHI.
Dr. Ren is an award-winning teacher, having won the Carlson School of Management teaching award in 2017 and 2021, the Master of Applied Business Analytics Faculty of the Year Award in 2023, and the Global DBA Teaching Award in 2024.
She served as a Senior Editor (and Diffusion Editor) at Organization Science from 2016 to 2022, Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly in 2022, Associate Editor for Management Science (Information Systems Department) from 2015 to 2017. and on the editorial board of Organization Science from 2008 to 2016. Dr. Ren currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of MIS.
Selected Works & Activities
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Ren, Y., and Clement, J.* 2024. “Augmenting human teams with robots in knowledge work settings: Insights from the literature.” ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 13(2), Article 20, 1-34.
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Ren, Y., Zhang, H., and Kraut, R. E. 2023. “How did they build the free encyclopedia: A literature review of collaboration and coordination among Wikipedia editors.” ACM Transaction on Computer-Human Interaction, 31(1), Article 7, 1-48.
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Ren, Y., Deng, X., and Joshi, K.D. 2023. “Unpacking human and AI complementarity: Insights from recent works.” The DATABASE for Advancements in Information Systems, 54(3), 6-10.
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Liu-Thompkins, Y., Maslowska, E., Ren, Y., and Kim, H. 2020. Creating, meta-Voicing, and propagating: A road map for understanding user roles in computational advertising. Journal of Advertising, 49(4), 394-410.
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Yang, M. Ren, Y., and Adomavicius, G. 2020. Engagement by design: An empirical study of the “reactions” feature on Facebook Business Pages. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 27, 6, Article 43, 35 pages.
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Yang, M., Ren, Y., and Adomavicius, G. 2019. “Understanding word-of-mouth and customer engagement on Facebook business pages,” Information Systems Research, 30(3), 839-855.
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Yang, M., Adomavicius, G., Burtch, G., and Ren, Y. 2018. “Mind the gap: Accounting for measurement error and misclassification in variables generated via data mining,” Information Systems Research, 29(1), 4-24.
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Ren, Y., Chen, J., and Riedl, J. 2016. “The impact and evolution of group diversity on online collaboration,” Management Science, 62(6), 1668-1686.
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Ren, Y., and Kraut, R. E. 2014. “Agent-based modeling to inform online community theory and design: Impact of topical breadth, message volume, and discussion moderation on member commitment and contribution,” Human-Computer Interaction (29), pp. 351-38
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Wang, X., B. Butler, Y. Ren. 2013. The impact of membership overlap on the growth: An ecological competition view of online groups. Organization Science, 24(2), 414-431.
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Ren, Y., F. M. Harper, S. Drenner, L. Terveen, S. Kiesler, J. Riedl, R. E. Kraut. 2012. Building member attachment in online communities: Applying theories of group identity and interpersonal bonds. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 36(3), 841-864
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Argote, L. Y. Ren. 2012. Transactive memory systems: Micro foundations of dynamic capabilities. Journal of Management Studies, 49(8), 1375-1382.
The following works contain preexisting conventional electronic documents published prior to April 24, 2026.
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Editorial Appointments
INFORMS Publication Committee (2019-2022)
Associate Editor at MIS Quarterly (2022)
Senior Editor at Organization Science (2016-2022)
Diffusion Editor at Organization Science (2016-2020)
Associate Editor at Management Science (2015-2017)
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Editorial Appointments
Yuqing Ren serves on the editorial board of Journal of Management Information Systems.
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Research Grants
National Science Foundation on Developing, Testing, and Designing from a Computational Theory of Online Communities (IBSS-L #1620319), $ 919,978, 2016-2019 (with Robert Kraut, Yan Chen, Qiaozhu Mei)
National Science Foundation Grant on Online Volunteer Communities (IIS-0808692), $2.4 million, 2008-2013 (with John Riedl, Joe Konstan, Loren Terveen, Robert Kraut, Mark Synder)