Research Interests
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Interface of Operations and Finance
-- Supply Chain Finance, Reverse Factoring, Entrepreneurial Finance, Financial Market Frictions
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Online Marketplaces and Platforms
-- Crowdfunding, Initial Coin Offering (ICO), Blockchain Platform, Tokenomics, Data Broker, FinTech
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Social Operations Management
-- Network Effects, Social Learning, Social Influence, Word-of-Mouth, Wisdom of the Crowd
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Social and Economic Networks
-- Supply Chain Networks, Diffusion and Learning in Networks, Network Games, Network Traceability
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Information Economics
-- Economics of Data and Privacy, Information Acquisition, Bayesian Persuasion, Information Design
Working Papers
-- with Panos Kouvelis
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Market Frictions and Advance Payment Mechanisms in Pre-Shipment Financing
-- with Panos Kouvelis, Wenhui Zhao
-- with Fuqiang Zhang
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Crowdfunding vs. Bank Financing: Effects of Market Uncertainty and Word-of-Mouth Communication [SSRN]
-- with Xiaomeng Guo, Guang Xiao, Fuqiang Zhang
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Operational Uncertainty and Crowdfunding Design
-- with Panos Kouvelis, Weicai Peng
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The Tokenvendor Problem: Tokenizing Cargo Reservations under Overbooking and No-Shows
-- with Jacob Feldman, Panos Kouvelis, Yunzhe Qiu
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Blockchain Adoption for Traceability in Food Supply Chain Networks [SSRN]
-- with Lingxiu Dong, Puping Jiang
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Blockchain-Driven Deep-Tier Supply Chain Finance
-- with Lingxiu Dong, Yunzhe Qiu
Invited Seminars
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01/2020 | Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Faculty of Business
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12/2018 | Simon Fraser University, Beedie School of Business
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12/2018 | Syracuse University, Whitman School of Management
Conference Presentations
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04/2020 | POMS Annual Conference 2020, Minneapolis, MN
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01/2020 | POMS Hong Kong 2020, Hong Kong
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10/2019 | INFORMS Annual Meeting 2019, Seattle, WA
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05/2019 | POMS Annual Conference 2019, Washington D.C.
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11/2018 | INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018, Phoenix, AZ
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07/2018 | MSOM Conference 2018, Dallas, TX
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05/2018 | Supply Chain Finance Workshop 2018, St. Louis, MO
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05/2018 | POMS Annual Conference 2018, Houston, TX
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11/2017 | INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, Houston, TX
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07/2017 | 10th International Annual Conference of CSAMSE, Guangzhou, China
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06/2017 | MSOM Conference 2017, Chapel Hill, NC
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05/2017 | POMS Annual Conference 2017, Seattle, WA
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11/2016 | INFORMS Annual Meeting 2016, Nashville, TN
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06/2016 | MSOM Conference 2016, Auckland, New Zealand
Professional Services
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Conference Session Chair/Organizer
-- POMS Annual Conference 2020: Blockchain-Driven Operations and Finance
-- POMS Annual Conference 2019: Blockchain-Driven Operations Management
-- INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018: Emerging Topics in Supply Chain Finance
-- INFORMS Annual Meeting 2018: Marketplace Innovation
-- POMS Annual Conference 2018: OM and Crowdfunding
-- POMS Annual Conference 2018: Economic Models in Supply Chain Management
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Reviewer
-- Management Science
-- Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
-- Production and Operations Management
-- Naval Research Logistics