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I am an Assistant Professor of Management at the School of Business, George Mason University. My research focuses on corporate strategies and entrepreneurship in high technology settings. I am particularly interested in how firms’ knowledge creation is shaped by their surrounding industrial and social contexts, especially by their interactions with rivals, external collaborators, users, investors and the media.

In my dissertation, I studied how firms innovate and compete on multi-sided digital platforms, where I leveraged massive data on software development technologies and advanced empirical techniques including cloud computing and machine learning to derive causal inferences. My research has published in the Academy of Management Journal, the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference Proceedings, etc.

I received my B. A. in Economics and English Literature and M.S. in Management from Peking University, China. I also hold a Master of Finance degree from the University of Hong Kong.