AWARD WINNING RESEARCH IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
NSF Award on Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier

for "FW-HTF-RL: Collaborative Research: Up-skilling and Re-skilling Marginalized Rural and Urban Digital Workers: AI-worker collaboration to access creative work," $2.5M (co-PI). 2019-2023. (with Jeffrey Bigham, Amy Pavel, Amy Ogan, Aniket Kittur)

NSF Award on Social, Behavioral, Economic Research

for "Driving Low-Income Mothers to Greater Success: The Impact of Ride-hailing on Employment and Income," $285,080 (co-PI). 2019-2021. (with Lee Branstetter and Lowell Taylor)

Award from Hillman Foundation and Metro21 Institute.

2018-2019. (with Alexandre Jacquillat)

NSF Award on Smart and Connected Communities

for "mHABIT - Towards Building a Living Lab for mHealth Analytical and Behavioral Research using Internet of Things," $230,751 (PI). 2016-2018. (with Anindya Ghose)

PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation Research Grant

for "Smart Transportation, Consumer Mobility Patterns and Financial Behaviors," 2016-2017. (with Zhe Zhang)

Berkman Faculty Award

for "Sharing Economy and Quality of the Service Industry: The Case of Airbnb," Carnegie Mellon University, $4,100. 2015-2016

Google Faculty Research Award

for "A Road to Mobile Advertising: Linking Online Social Pathway with Offline Physical Trajectory," $66,000. 2015.

Marketing Science Institute Grant

for "Towards Revolutionizing and Tackling New Frontiers in Mobile Advertising," 2015. (with Anindya Ghose)

Adobe Faculty Research Award

for "Mobile Trajectory-based Advertising," $50,000. 2015. (with Anindya Ghose)

Traffic21 Faculty Research Grant

for "Understanding User Economic Behavior in the City Using Large-scale Geotagged and Crowdsourced Mobility Analytics," $24,030. 2015-2016. (with Jason I. Hong)

Berkman Faculty Award

for "Lies That Speak the Truth: Examining the Social and Economic Consequences of Online Review Fraud," Carnegie Mellon University. $5,100. 2014-2015.

PNC Center for Financial Services Innovation Research Grant

for "When the Bank comes to you: Channel Adoption and Choice in an Omni-Channel Context," $20,000. 2013-2014. (with Vibhanshu Abhishek)

WCAI-Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Research Opportunity Grant Award

for "Examining the Synergetic Effects among Multi-Channel Branding Campaigns," 2012-2013. (with Foster Provost)

ICDE PhD Workshop Fellowship Award

for "Towards a Theory Model for Product Search," ($1,000 by NSF grant IIS-0956600), 2010.

A Tangled Web: Should Online Review Portals Display Fraudulent Reviews?

2019. Information Systems Research. Conditional Acceptance. (With Michael D. Smith, Uttara Ananthakrishnan) SSRN

When The Bank Comes To You: Branch Network and Customer Multi-Channel Banking Behavior.

2019. Information Systems Research. Forthcoming. (with Mi Zhou, Dan Geng, Vibhanshu Abhishek) PDF

Mobile Advertising Using Customer Trajectory Patterns.

2018. Management Science. Forthcoming. (with Anindya Ghose, Siyuan Liu) PDF

Personalized Mobile Targeting with User Engagement Stages: Combining Structural Hidden Markov Model and Field Experiment.

2018. Information Systems Research. Forthcoming. (with Yingjie Zhang, Xueming Luo, Xiaoyi Wang) PDF

Modeling Consumer Footprints on Search Engines: An Interplay with Social Media.

2017. Management Science. Forthcoming. (with Anindya Ghose, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis) PDF

Examining the Impact of Contextual Ambiguity on Search Advertising Keyword Performance: A Topic Model Approach.

2017. MIS Quarterly. Forthcoming. (with Vibhanshu Abhishek, Jing Gong) PDF

Copycats versus Original Mobile Apps: A Machine Learning Copycat Detection Method and Empirical Analysis.

2017. Information Systems Research. Forthcoming. (with Param Vir Singh, Quan Wang) PDF

Examining the Impact of Ranking on Consumer Behavior and Search Engine Revenue.

Management Science. 2014.(with Anindya Ghose and Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis) PDF

Designing Ranking Systems for Hotels on Travel Search Engines by Mining User-Generated and Crowd-Sourced Content.

Marketing Science. 2012. (with Anindya Ghose and Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis) PDF

The impact of Car specifications, prices, and incentives for electric vehicles in Norway: choices of heterogeneous consumers.

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. (top journal in transportation research, 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.631). 2016. Vol. 69, pp. 386~401. (with Yingjie Zhang, Sean Qian, and Frances Sprei) PDF

Using Online Geotagged and Crowdsourced Data to Understand Human Offline Behavior in the City: An Economic Perspective.

2017. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST, 5-Year Impact Factor: 10.47, ranked No.1 in all ACM journals and No.2 in all computer science-related journals including ACM, IEEE, and Springers journals). Forthcoming. (with Yingjie Zhang, Jason I. Hong) PDF