Yuqing (Ching) Ren

Education

B.E. 1995
Electronic Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University

M.E. 1998
Systems Engineering Xi'an Jiaotong University

Ph.D. 2004
Organization Science Carnegie Mellon University

Expertise:

• Human Robot Collaboration, Social Media, Online Community Design, Virtual Collaboration, Computational Social Science

** Biography**

Yuqing Ren is an Associate 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-robot collaboration, business use of social media, smartphone use, and computational modeling of social and organizational systems. Dr. Ren's research on online community design and Wikipedia collaboration 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, The Academy of Management Annals, and top conference proceedings such as CSCW, HICSS, and SIGCHI. Dr. Ren won the Carlson School of Management Faculty teaching award in 2017 and has been nominated by students as the Faculty of the year multiple times. She currently serves as a Senior Editor at Organization Science. She has also served as an Associate Editor for Management Science (Information Systems Department) from 2015 to 2017, as the Senior Editor & Diffusion Editor for Organization Science from 2016 to 2020, and on the editorial board of Organization Science from 2008 to 2016.

Dr. Ren's current research and teaching center around the business applications of artificial intelligence and social media. Email her for more information.