Wei Chen

Degrees

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Areas of Expertise

• Crowdsourcing
• Crowdfunding
• Business analytics

Courses

MIS 307 Business Data Communications

MIS 543 Business Data Communications & Networking

Selected Publications

• Chen, W., Gu, B., Ye, Q., and Zhu, K. X. Measuring and Managing the Externality of Managerial Responses to Online Customer Reviews. Information Systems Research , forthcoming.
• Chen, W. , Wei, X., and Zhu, K. X. (2018). Engaging Voluntary Contributions in Online Communities: A Hidden Markov Model. MIS Quarterly , 42(1), 83-100. [Journal][SSRN]

Awards, Honors, and Grants

• Co-PI, General Research Fund, The Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. (2018-2019)
• Best Paper Award in IT and Healthcare Track, and Best Paper Nominee for International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seoul, Korea, Dec 10-13, 2017.
• Eller College Dean''s Small Research Grant, Spring 2017
• Co-Investigator, National Science Foundation of China, Youth Science Foundation (2017-2019)
• Best Paper Award, The 10th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2016), Dalian, China, June 25-26, 2016.
• Eller College Dean''s Small Research Grant, Spring 2016
• ICIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Auckland, 2014
• Graduate Summer Teaching Scholar, UCSD, 2013
• Dean’s Fellowship for Summer Research, Rady School of Management, 2009-2015
• Rady Academic Year Fellowship, UCSD, 2009-2015 

Professional Associations

• Association for Information Systems (AIS)
• The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• The American Economic Association (AEA)
• The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)