Ziyi (Iggy) Zhao

Ph.D. Candidate in Management Information Systems

Fox School of Business, Temple University

I am a 5th-year PhD candidate, working on AI and collaborative innovation for the future of knowledge work. I am committed to building tech that matters, for impact that lasts.

My dissertation focuses on "Collaborative Intelligence and Innovation in Knowledge Work." The committee members are Aleksi Aaltonen, Jaehwuen Jung, Munir Mandviwalla, and Detmar Straub. The final defense is scheduled for October 22, 2025 🎓.

I will join Florida International University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in December 2025.

News & Highlights

Best ERF Paper Award at AMCIS 2025

Iggy, Guohou, and Sunil won the Best ERF Paper Award at the 2025 Americas Conference on Information Systems

News & Highlights

AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellow

Iggy has been awarded as an AIS Entrepreneurial Innovation Fellow, funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Upcoming Talks

Zhao, Z., Cho, K., Aaltonen, A., & Straub, D. (2025, October). Charting the Unseen: Uncovering the Dynamic Processes Underlying Human-GenAI Interaction in Complex Problem Solving. INFORMS Annual Meeting (INFORMS 2025), Atlanta, GA, US.

Zhao, Z., Cho, K., Aaltonen, A., & Straub, D. (2025, October). Making the Invisible Visible: Computational Process Tracing of Human-GenAI Collaboration. INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, Atlanta, GA, US.

Zhao, Z., Cho, K., Aaltonen, A., & Straub, D. (2025, September). Making the Invisible Visible: Dynamic Process Tracing of GenAI Collaboration. AI and Collaborative Innovation Workshop, New York University, New York City, NY, US.

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