The Schedule

8:30am - 9am Breakfast

9am - 9:10am Dean’s and Committee’s Welcome

9:10am - 10:30am Session 1 (15 minute presentation with 5 minutes for Q&A/transition)

• Moderator: Abhishek Roy

• Presentation 1: Aydin Alptekinoglu, Penn State University, Achieving Rawlsian Justice in Food Rescue

• Presentation 2: Xin (David) Ding, Rutgers University, Busyness, Task Complexity and Access to Surgery: An Empirical Study of Racial Disparity in Hospitals

• Presentation 3: Abhishek Roy, Temple University, Collaborative New Product Development: The Implications of Contract Choice on Cost-sharing in Vertical Channels 

10:30am - 10:45am Break

10:45am - 12:00pm Session 2 (15 minute presentation with 5 minutes for Q&A/transition)

• Moderator: David Peng

• Presentation 1: Mike Hamilton, University of Pittsburgh, Fresh Rating Systems: Structure, Incentives, and Fees

• Presentation 2: David Anderson, Villanova University, ChatGPT Reads the News: Using Large Language Models to Improve Business Forecasts

• Presentation 3: Wenjing Shen, Drexel University, Optimal Restoration Policies for Holiday Returns

12:00pm - 1:00pm Lunch 

1:00pm - 2:15pm Session 3 (15 minute presentation with 5 minutes for Q&A/transition)

• Moderator: Guangwen Kong

• Presentation 1: John D’Arcy, University of Delaware, Cybersecurity Concerns and Global Supply Chain Restructuring: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in the U.S.

• Presentation 2: David Rea, Lehigh University 

• Presentation 3: Konstantin Bauman, Temple University, HyperCARS: Using Hyperbolic Embeddings for Generating Hierarchical Contextual Situations in Context-Aware Recommender Systems

2:15pm - 2:30pm Break

2:30pm - 3:30pm Doctoral Student Flash Talk I (5 minute presentation with 2 minutes for Q&A/transition)

• Moderator: Michael Rivera

• Presentation 1: Max Ji, Penn State University, Spillover Benefits of Workplace DEI in the Manufacturing Industry: Evidence from Employment Non-Discrimination Acts

• Presentation 2: Jiayu Fan, Temple University, A Comparative Analysis of Pure and shopping ads on Social Media Platforms

• Presentation 3: Minjia Mao, University of Delaware, Early Detection of Misinformation for Infodemic Management: A Domain Adaptation Approach

• Presentation 4: Gabriel Pensamiento, University of Pittsburgh, Selection, Payment, and Information Assessment in Social Audits: A Behavioral Experiment 

• Presentation 5: Yuan Dong, Temple University, Pricing in Live Streaming E-Commerce: Integrating Customer Type Analysis

3:30pm - 3:45pm Break

3:45pm - 4:45pm Doctoral Student Flash Talk II (5 minute presentation with 2 minutes for Q&A/transition)

• Moderator: Abhishek Roy

• Presentation 1: Farnaz Ghashami, Drexel University, Morality and Trust in AI vs. Human Mental Health Counselor Adoption: An Integrated Model

• Presentation 2: Aman Goswami, Rutgers University, Clinical Focus and Outcomes: Mediating Role of Ultra-Early Procedures

• Presentation 3: Angel Tsai-Hsuan Chung, University of Pennsylvania, Optimizing Health Supply Chains with Decision-Aware Machine Learning

• Presentation 4: Iggy Zhao, Temple University, Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Using Multihoming Boundary Resources in Mobile App Development

• Presentation 5: Harriet Jeon, University of Pennsylvania, Last-mile Delivery in Health Care: Drone Delivery for Blood Products in Rwanda

• Presentation 6: Amirhossein Ranjbar, Temple University, Are Smart Contracts Smart Enough? A Game Theoretic Approach for Implementing Blockchain-Enabled Group Purchasing

4:45pm - 5:00pm Associate Dean’s Closing and Event Wrap-Up

5:00pm - 6:00pm Networking Event