WEI CHEN Rady School of Management University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0553 La Jolla, CA 92093-0553 +1(858)337-5951 +1(858)534-0862 wei.chen@rady.ucsd.edu www.mrweichen.info RESEARCH INTERESTS Topics: Methods: IT-enabled Innovation, Online Community, Open-Source Software, Startup Angel Funding, Interactive Marketing, SaaS Model Business Analytics with Econometrics and Statistics, Predictive Modeling with Structural Econometric Modeling or Machine Learning, Economic Modeling, Field Experiment TEACHING INTERESTS Technical: Business Analytics, Business Intelligence and Data Mining, Database Management, Programming Courses Strategy: Technology and Innovation Strategy, Healthcare IT, Marketing (Introduction, Analytics, or Social Media), Entrepreneurship, Introductory IS Courses EDUCATION 2009- RADY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Ph.D. Candidate, Innovation, Technology and Operations 2002-2008 HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, HARBIN, CHINA M.S. Management Science and Engineering, 2008 B.S. Management Information Systems, 2006 AWARDS 2014 ICIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow, Auckland 2013 Graduate Summer Teaching Scholar, UCSD 2009- Dean s Fellowship for Summer Research, Rady School of Management 2009- Rady Academic Year Fellowship, UCSD 2008 Outstanding Graduates Award, Harbin Institute of Technology 2006 Silver Award, 2 nd Open Source Software Contest, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Team Leader 2005 2 nd Prize, 2 nd Campus Innovation Application Challenge, IBM China, Team Leader 2004 2 nd Prize, 1 st Campus Innovation Application Challenge, IBM China 2004 1 st Prize, Mathematical Contest in Modeling of China Wei Chen Curriculum Vitae 1 November 20, 2014
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Ye, Q., Law, R., Gu, B., and Chen, W. 2011. The Influence of User-Generated Content on Traveler Behavior: An Empirical Investigation on the Effects of E-Word-of-Mouth to Hotel Online Bookings. Computers in Human Behavior 27(2) 634 639. Law, R., Ye, Q., Chen, W., and Leung, R. 2009. An Analysis of the Most Influential Articles Published in Tourism Journals from 2000 to 2007: A Google Scholar Approach. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing 26(7) 735 746. WORKING PAPERS Measuring the Influence of Managerial Responses on Subsequent Online Customer Reviews A Quasi-natural Experiment of Two Online Travel Agencies (with Bin Gu, Qiang Ye, and Kevin Zhu), under revision for resubmission to Information Systems Research. Competition among Proprietary and Open-Source Software Firms: The Role of Licensing on Strategic Contribution (with Terrence August, Zach Zhou, and Kevin Zhu), under review at Management Science. Engaging the Wisdom of Crowds: Structural Analysis of Dynamic User Contributions in Online Communities (with Xiahua Anny Wei and Kevin Zhu), under review at Information Systems Research. Release Early, Release Often? The Influence of Release Frequency in Open Source Software Co- Creation with Community (with Vish Krishnan and Kevin Zhu), under review at MIS Quarterly. RESEARCH-IN-PROGRESS User Learning and Endogenous Exit in Online Communities The Influence of Crowdfunding in Angel Investment and Startup Performance Dynamic Learning of Heterogeneous Tastes with Bandit and Clustering Algorithms CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP 2014 Chen, W., X. Wei, and K. Zhu. 2014. Engaging the Wisdom of Crowds: Structural Analysis of Dynamic User Contributions in Online Innovation Communities. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Auckland, New Zealand, Dec 17-19. August, T., W. Chen, and K. Zhu. 2014. Competition among Proprietary and Open-Source Software Firms: The Role of Licensing on Strategic Contribution. Conference of Information Systems and Technology (CIST), San Francisco, CA, Nov 8-9. (Best Paper Nominee) Chen, W., X. Wei, and K. Zhu. 2014. Engage the Wisdom of Crowds: Structural Analysis of Dynamic User Contributions in Online Innovation Communities. INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov 9-12. Chen, W., X. Wei, and K. Zhu. 2014. Engage the Wisdom of Crowds: Structural Analysis of Dynamic User Contributions in Online Innovation Communities. The 8th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), Chengdu, China, Jun 21-22. Wei Chen Curriculum Vitae 2 November 20, 2014
Chen, W., X. Wei, and K. Zhu. 2014. Engage the Wisdom of Crowds: Structural Analysis of Dynamic User Contributions in Online Innovation Communities. POMS 25th Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, May 9-12. 2013 August, T., W. Chen, Z. Zhou, and K. Zhu. 2013. The Impact of Licensing on Open Source and Proprietary Software Competition. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Oct 6-9. Chen, W., X. Wei, and K. Zhu. 2013. Motivating User Contributions in Online Communities: A Structural Hidden Markov Model. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, Oct 6-9. Chen, W., X. Wei, and K. Zhu. 2013. Motivating User Contributions in Online Communities: A Structural Hidden Markov Model. Economics of IT and Digitization Workshop, NBER Summer Institute, Boston, MA, Jul 18-19. Chen, W., V. Krishnan, and K. Zhu. 2013. Release Early, Release Often? An Empirical Analysis of Release Strategy in Open Source Software Co-Creation. Proceedings of Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Jeju Island, Korea, Jun 18-22. 2012 Zhao, D., W. Chen, and Q. Ye. 2012. Consumer Search Behavior under Price Promoition: Evidence from Groupon Deals. AIS-SIGBPS Workshop on Business Processes and Services, Orlando, FL, Dec 15. Wei, X., W. Chen, and K. Zhu. 2012. Motivating Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities: Reputation and Virtual Rewards. AIS-SIGBPS Workshop on Business Processes and Services, Orlando, FL, Dec 15. Chen, W., V. Krishnan, and K. Zhu. 2012. Release Early, Release Often? An Empirical Analysis of Release Strategy in Open Source Software. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Oct 14-17. Wei, X., W. Chen, and K. Zhu. 2012. Motivating Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities: Reputation and Virtual Rewards. INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ, Oct 14-17. 2011 Chen, W., V. Krishnan, and K. Zhu. 2011. The Motivations and Impacts of Innovation in Open Source Software. The 5th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), Harbin, China, Jun 25-26. 2008 Ye, Q., B. Gu, W. Chen, and R. Law. 2008. Measuring the Value of Managerial Responses to Online Reviews - A Natural Experiment of Two Online Travel Agencies. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Paris, France, Dec 14-17. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Instructor Product Marketing and Management, UCSD, Summer 2013 Enrollment: 34 Instructor Evaluation: 4.37/5.0 (28/34 evaluated) Main Modules: Marketing Mix, Segmentation, Integrated Marketing Campaign, Marketing/Business Plan Project TA Research for Marketing Decisions, MBA, UCSD (Fall, 2013) Main Modules: Experiment Design, Cross-tab Analysis, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Conjoint Analysis, Regression Disruptive Technologies in Healthcare, MBA, UCSD (2012-2013) Co-developed the syllabus with Dr. Kevin Zhu Main Modules: Creative Destruction in Medicine, Technology Adoption in Healthcare, Wireless Healthcare Wei Chen Curriculum Vitae 3 November 20, 2014
Technology and Innovation Strategy, MBA, UCSD (2009-2014) Assisted curriculum development Main Modules: Disruptive Innovation, Platform Strategy, Technology Standards, Open Innovation, Technology-enabled Entrepreneurship Innovation to Market A, Undergraduate, UCSD (Spring, 2010) Product Marketing and Management, Undergraduate, UCSD (2009-2014) Distributed Systems and Applications, Undergraduate, Harbin Institute of Technology (2007) Designed and taught lab sessions Main Modules: Java Web Servers, JSP, Web Service, MySQL, Ruby on Rails SERVICE Reviewer Journal of Electronic Commerce Research (2014) Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (2012-2013) IEEE Transaction on Engineering Management (2011) ICIS 2011-2014, PACIS 2013, ECIS 2014, CSWIM 2014, CIST 2014 WORK EXPERIENCE 2007-2009 Research Assistant, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS Analytics: Stata, R, Matlab, Mathematica, SAS Others: Java, C/C++, Python, Ruby on Rails, Ajax, Latex, MySQL SELECTED COURSEWORK Econometrics Sequence (A, B and C) Microeconomics Sequence (A, B and C) Industrial Organization I & II (Empirical) Bayesian and Numerical Methods Behavioral Economics Games and Information Operations Economics Economics of Security and Privacy Stochastic Processes AFFILIATIONS Association for Information Systems (AIS), since 2012 The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), since 2012 The American Economic Association (AEA), since 2014 Wei Chen Curriculum Vitae 4 November 20, 2014
REFERENCES Kevin Zhu, Ph.D. Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego +1(858) 822-7476 kxzhu@ucsd.edu Terrence W. August, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego +1(858) 822-7452 taugust@ucsd.edu Bin Gu, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Information Systems W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University +1(480) 965-1870 bin.gu@asu.edu Wei Chen Curriculum Vitae 5 November 20, 2014