Congratulations Dr. Li Junyi

Another garbage can successfully manufactured — this one studying how decentralized garbage cans actually make decisions. Today, Li Junyi successfully defended his dissertation entitled “The Future of Decentralization: Coordination Mechanisms and Favorable Boundaries”. His work focuses on decentralization and collective intelligence in IT-enabled organizing and examines two foundational questions — 1. How do decentralized organizations […]

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Congratulations Dr. Zhou Junjie

Congratulations to Dr. Zhou Junjie for successfully defending this PhD dissertation entitled “Towards a Post-Taylorism Theory of Crowdsourcing” In his dissertation, Junjie studies how we might best leverage crowdsourcing to solve complex problems by focusing on the interactions within crowdsourcing — interactions among crowdsourcing solvers and also interactions between the solution seeking firm and the […]

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Best Conference Paper Award (2nd Runner Up) at ICIS 2024

My PhD student Junyi Li and collaborator Giri Kumar Tayi entitled “Meta-Organizational Learning Through Digital Consensus” got the ICIS 2023 Best Complete Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang (2nd Runner Up). We got an email from certifyme.online about this during ICIS 2023 but we weren’t sure if this was some elaborate scam as Trend Micro was warning us that certifyme.online wasn’t tested […]

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Predicting consumer choices from eye tracking data

This morning we had a fascinating talk by Alex Tuzhilin (NYU) on his recent work entitled “Predicting Consumer Choice from Raw Eye-Movement Data Using the RETINA Deep Learning Architecture” (the paper is available on SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4341410) with his colleagues Moshe Unger (Tel Aviv University) and Michel Wedel (University of Maryland). The essence of his talk […]

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