Research

Working Papers

1. Jie Chen, Zhan (Michael) Shi, Tam McCreless, and Hong Guo.  "Guided Discovery for IT Skills Acquisition: Experimental Evidence on Market Information Provision".  

   1. • Supported by W. P. Carey Teaching and Learning Grant.

      •  CSWIM 2025, Xian, China. 

2. Jie Chen,Yue Guo, Yuping Liu-Thompkins, and Hong Guo. "Information Fusion in Cross-Platform Digital Advertising".  

3.  Jie Chen, Yue Guo, Hong Guo, Yalin Wang, and Rui yin.  "When Visuals Disrupt Listening: Origins and Solutions of Multimodal Cognitive Conflict in AI-Generated Images". 

   1. • SWAIB 2025, Hefei, China. 

4. Jie Chen, Yushan Yang, Zike Cao, and Liangfei Qiu. "Socializing in Hybrid Networks: The Effect of Identity Disclosure Timing on the Social Value of AI Agents ".  

5. Jie Chen, Kan Xu, Tongxin Zhou, and Pei-yu Chen.   "The Unintended Consequences of Quota-Based Policy on Content Moderation: A Natural Experiment on Online Health Q&A Platforms".  

   1. • INFORMS 2024, Seattle, United States.

      • INFORMS 2025,Atlanta, United States.

Selected Projects Working in Progress: 

6. "From Prompts to Trust: Operationalizing Technological Transparency in Generative AI Systems". 

   1. •  Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2026.

7. "Dealing with Multimodal Cognitive Conflicts: A Theory-Driven Multi-Agent System on Educational Visual Creation".  

   1. • Awarded by AIDA center summer grant 2025. 

Conferences: 

• INFORMS & SWAIB Joint Conference, Hefei, Anhui, China — 2025

• China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), Xian, Shannxi, China - 2025 

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA — 2024

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ — 2023

• Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Meeting, Miami, FL — 2022