Abhay Mishra, Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow and professor of information systems and business analytics:
- With Martin Adam (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) and Alexander Benlian (Technical University of Darmstadt), had their paper, “Do Human (vs. Algorithmic) Agents Still Matter in Established Relationships? Customer Responses to Data Requests in the Automation Everywhere Era,” conditionally accepted at Information Systems Research.
- Mentored doctoral students on “Crafting a Research Roadmap” at the Americas Conference in Information Systems (AMCIS), held in Montreal, Canada.
- Will serve as program co-chair of AMCIS 2026, which will be held in Reno, Nevada
Rui Chen, professor and Dean’s Fellow in Information Systems:
- Served as a distinguished guest at the 2025 Summer Workshop on AI for Business July 3-5, organized by the INFORMS College on Artificial Intelligence and other partners. He also mentored participants during the paper development roundtable.
- Co-organized a paper development workshop on the artificial intelligence–information assurance nexus, part of a special issue of MIS Quarterly, an Ivy Elite journal. Held July 11-12, the workshop featured 33 research presentations on generative AI security, governance, risk, trust, and privacy. The event was highly engaging and featured advanced discourse on AI-IA integration.
- Participated as a mentor in the MIS Quarterly Author Development Workshop. In his role as associate editor of MISQ, he collaborated with Senior Editor Anjana Susarla (Michigan State University) to guide scholars engaged in design science research who aspire to publish in MISQ, a premier journal recognized by UTD24 and Ivy Elite.
Abhay Mishra, Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow and professor:
- Will organize a panel discussion on “AI and Synthetic Data Use in Healthcare: A Mixed Blessing?” at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in December 2025 in Nashville, Tennessee. Abhay proposed the panel and will act as the moderator, while Jennifer Claggett, Ali Sunyaev, Monica Tremblay, and Xitong Guo will serve as panelists.
- Will serve as a mentor at the Americas’ Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS). The Mid-Career Faculty Consortium provides mentoring to faculty who have already achieved tenure (or equivalent).
Wenli Zhang, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, was featured in an Iowa State News Service release, “Detecting Depression Using Digital Traces on Social Media.” The story was also published in the following outlets:
Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics:
- Presented his paper, “Leveraging Public Facilities to Reduce Geographic Inequality: A Data-driven Approach to Increase Access to Performing Arts Facilities,” at the Workshop on AI and Analytics for Social Good, held at the University of Maryland Smith School of Business.
- Is serving as a committee member for the 2025 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award.
Rui (Ray) Chen, Dean’s Fellow in information systems:
- Was invited to serve as a faculty mentor for the Junior Faculty Consortium of the International Conference on Information Systems, to be held December 14, 2025.
- Was invited to serve on the ISU Distinguished Researchers Advisory Committee, collaborating with the vice president for research and the senior vice president and provost to support strategic initiatives and advance the university’s research mission.
Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics:
- Had his paper, “Integrated Subset Selection and Bandwidth Estimation Algorithm for Geographically Weighted Regression,” accepted for publication in Pattern Recognition. The paper was co-authored with Hyunwoo Lee (Virginia Tech).
- Participated as a panelist in the Grad Mixer Wednesday panel discussion, “Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Engineering and Future Skills Needed,” hosted by the Iowa State University Graduate College.
- Was invited to a reception recognizing Iowa State University recipients of 2024 nationally competitive honors and awards, hosted by President Wintersteen, Mr. Robert Waggoner, and Provost Keith.
Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, has been recognized as a 2024 Meritorious Reviewer by the INFORMS Journal on Computing.
Abhay Mishra, Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow and professor of information systems and business analytics:
- Along with co-authors Indranil Bardhan, Rajiv Kohli, Eivor Oborn, Chuan Hoo Tan, Monica Chiarini Tremblay, and Suprateek Sarker, have their paper, “Human-Centric Information Systems Research on the Digital Future of Healthcare,” forthcoming at Information Systems Research.
- Received the Outstanding Associate Editor Award from Information Systems Research at the ICIS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2024.
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A paper by Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, is a finalist for the 2023 JAMS Sheth Foundation Best Paper Award. The paper, “Advancing Customer Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Measurement, Stakeholder Influence, and the Role of Marketing,” is one of ten finalists selected from all papers published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science in 2023.
Tony Townsend, associate professor of information systems and business analytics, and the Department of Finance were mentioned in an Iowa State Daily article, “Faculty Senate Votes on New Certificates, Renaming After Debate.”
Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics:
- Was invited to present a seminar at Ajou University School of Business in Korea and presented his paper, “Robust and Inclusive Matching Method for Causal Inference on Grocery Coupon Effects,” online.
- Had his workshop paper, “Improving Analyst Forecasts: Mitigating Correlated and Biased Forecasts,” presented at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science in Seattle, Washington. The paper was co-authored with Kangbok Lee (Auburn University), Yeasung Jeong (University at Albany), Hyeoncheol Baik (Stockton University), and Sumin Han (Auburn University).
Rui Chen, Dean’s Fellow in Information Systems, has organized a special issue, “Artificial Intelligence-Information Assurance Nexus: The Future of Information Systems Security, Privacy, and Quality” for MIS Quarterly, an Ivy elite journal. He serves as a guest editor for this special issue.
Abhay Mishra, Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow and professor of information systems and business analytics, had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). The paper, “Can Telehealth Mitigate Health Disparities Associated with Travel Time to Hospital for Patients with Recurrent Admissions: A Four-Year Panel Data Analysis,” was co-authored with Youyou Tao, Ace Vo, Dezhi Wu, Junyuan Lin, Kala Seal, and Arin Brahma. JMIR is among the top journals in the field of medical informatics.
Abhay Mishra, professor and Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow, and Angela Lu (City University of Hong Kong) had their grant proposal accepted by the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong. They received HK$414,300 (approximately US$53,000) through the General Research Fund for their proposal “Competitive Ecology of Digital Markets: Concentration, Diversified Growth, and Product Distinctiveness in the Platform Economy.”
Guy Helmer, professor of practice in information systems and business analytics, was interviewed for KCCI’s news story “Why Lumen’s Water Leak Caused Such Widespread Phone, Internet Outages.”
Six Ivy faculty were mentioned in an Iowa State Research article, “OVPR Welcomes 20 Faculty to Research Collaboration Catalysts 2024-2025 Cohort,” including Rui Chen, Dean’s Fellow in Information Systems, and Abhay Mishra, Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow.
Guy Helmer, professor of practice in information systems, was interviewed about the Lumen, CenturyLink internet outage in this KCCI story, “Why Lumen’s water leak caused such widespread phone, internet outages.”
Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics:
- Had a paper accepted for publication in Patter Recognition. The paper, “Observation Weights Matching Approach for Causal Inference,” was co-authored with Kang Bok Lee and Sumin Han (Auburn University), Hyeoncheol Baik (Stockton University), and Yeasung Jeong (University at Albany).
- Had a paper accepted for publication in Machine Learning. The paper, “A Systematic Approach for Learning Imbalanced Data: Enhancing Zero-Inflated Models Through Boosting,” was co-authored with Yeasung Jeong (University at Albany) and Kang Bok Lee and Sumin Han (Auburn University).
Abhay Nath Mishra, professor of information systems and business analytics; Tong Xu (City University of Hong Kong); and Angela Lu (City University of Hong Kong) had their paper, “Social Movement on Organization: How ‘Black Lives Matter’ Movement Influences Airbnb Performance,” accepted by the SIM Division at the 84th Academy of Management Annual Meeting, to be held August 9-13 in Chicago, Illinois.
Cheng Nie, associate professor of information systems and business analytics, along with Tao Zhu, Zhengrui Jiang, and Xiangpei Hu, had their paper, “When Do Consumers Buy During Online Promotions? A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation,” accepted for publication in Decision Support Systems.
Young Woong Park, assistant professor, has been honored with the title of senior member of INFORMS, acknowledging his dedicated involvement and contributions to the association.
Alec Dennis, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, had a research paper cited in an article in The Wall Street Journal, “Why Introverted Leaders Are Ideal for the Postpandemic Workplace.”
Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan, associate professor of information systems and business analytics, was mentioned in the Mirage News article “Research: Consumers Spend More on Talking TV Products.”
Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan, associate professor of information systems and business analytics, was mentioned in an article on The Debrief, “Unlocking the Power of Anthropomorphism: How Products With Human-Like Traits Could Shape Your Next Purchase.”
Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan, associate professor of information systems and business analytics, organized a workshop, “Facing the Future: Implementing AI-Powered Digital Humans Across Disciplines,” at the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
Rui Chen, Dean’s Fellow in Information Systems and professor of information systems and business analytics, was invited to the annual MIS Academic Leadership Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event was hosted by the Fox School of Business at Temple University.
Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, had his paper, “Coarsened Robust and Inclusive Matching Method,” accepted at the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science. The paper is one of the Best Paper Award nominees and is co-authored with Kangbok Lee (Auburn University) and Yeasung Jeong (State University of New York at Albany).
Abhay Mishra, Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow and associate professor of information systems and business analytics:
- Had his paper, “Illicit Drug Supply Chains and Information Systems,” accepted for Technology, Research, Education, and Opinion (TREO) Talks at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which will be held in December in Hyderabad, India.
- Will be a co-organizer of the 2024 Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), which will be held in Seattle, Washington. CIST is organized by the Information Systems Society, which is affiliated with INFORMS.
Rui Chen, Dean’s Fellow in Information Systems and professor of information systems and business analytics, had his paper, “A Computational Framework for Understanding Firm Communication During Disasters,” accepted for publication in Information Systems Research.
Abhay Mishra, Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow and associate professor of information systems, had a paper accepted at the 2023 Conference of Information Systems and Technology (CIST). The paper “From Protests to Platforms: Impact Dynamics of Black Lives Matter on Airbnb Listing Performance” was co-authored with Tong Xu and Angela Lu (City University of Hong Kong). CIST is organized by the Information Systems Society under the aegis of INFORMS.
Tim Su, PhD student, had his paper, “IT Capabilities and Exploratory Innovation of Tech-M&A,” accepted for presentation at the 2023 Conference of Information Systems and Technology (CIST). The paper was co-authored with Manjot Bhussar, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship, and Abhay Mishra.
Lingyao (Ivy) Yuan, associate professor of information systems and business analytics and director of graduate education for business analytics, attended the 2023 Americas Conference on Information Systems in Panama City, Panama. She served as a panelist on “Research on AI in a Rapidly Changing World,” as the mini-track chair for “AI Agents,” and as the session chair for “AI Agents and Human Interaction.”
Cheng Nie, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, had a paper, “Firm Competitive Structure and Consumer Reaction in Search Advertising,” accepted for publication in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. The paper was coauthored with Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng and Sumit Sarkar, both from University of Texas at Dallas.
Young Woong Park, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, presented his work, “Robust and Inclusive Matching: A Mixed Integer Linear Program Approach,” at seminars at Yonsei University (School of Business) and Korea University (School of Industrial and Management Engineering) in Seoul, Korea.
Cheng Nie, assistant professor of information systems and business analytics, had a paper, “How Online Information Influences Offline Transactions: Insights from Digital Real Estate Platforms,” accepted for publication in Information Systems Research. The paper was co-authored with Zhengrui Jiang (previously at Iowa State University, now at Nanjing University); Arun Rai (Georgia State University); Hua Sun, associate professor of finance; and Yuheng Hu (University of Illinois Chicago).
Abhay Mishra, Kingland Systems Business Analytics Faculty Fellow, and co-authors Jennifer Kendziorra, Anne-Katrin Witte, Till Winkler, Yu Tong, and Juhee Kwon had their paper, “The Quest for Agility at the National Level: Digital Responses to Covid-19 in Five Countries,” accepted for publication in Communications of the Association for Information Systems. This work benefited greatly from a workshop that Abhay organized at the Ivy College of Business in October 2018.
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