Mingwen Yang

I am an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Foster School of Business, University of Washington in Seattle. I earned my Ph.D. in Information Systems at the Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, and received the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award (Runner-up) from the INFORMS Information Systems Society in 2019.  

Research Interests:

Topics: Fintech, Social Trading, Cybersecurity. 

Methodologies: Causal Inference, Optimization, Game Theory, Machine Learning.

Research 

Publications

• Jiaying Deng, Mingwen Yang, Matthias Pelster, Yong Tan. 2023. Social trading, communication, and networks. Information Systems Research, forthcoming. 

• Mingwen Yang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Vijay Mookerjee, Hongyu Chen. 2023. Responding to Online Reviews in Competitive Markets: A Controlled Diffusion Approach. MIS Quarterly, Vol. 47 (1): 161-194. 

• Mingwen Yang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Vijay Mookerjee. 2022. How Much Is Financial Advice Worth? The Transparency-Revenue Tension in Social Trading. Management Science, Vol. 68 (7): 5252-5268. 

* INFORMS Annual Meeting e-Business Cluster Best Paper Award, Runner-up, 2018 

• Mingwen Yang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Vijay Mookerjee. 2021. The Race for Online Reputation: Implications for Firms, Platforms, and Consumers. Information Systems Research, Vol. 32 (4): 1262-1280.  

• Mingwen Yang, Varghese S. Jacob, Srinivasan Raghunathan. 2021. Cloud Service Model's Role in Provider and Users Security Investment Incentives. Production and Operations Management, Vol. 30 (2): 419-437. 

• Mingwen Yang, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, Vijay Mookerjee. 2019. Prescribing Response Strategies to Manage Customer Opinions: A Stochastic Differential Equation Approach. Information Systems Research, Vol. 30 (2): 351-374. 

        * Lead Article 

• Mingwen Yang, Guohua Wan, Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng. 2014. A predictive DEA model for outlier detection. Journal of Management Analytics, Vol. 1 (1): 20-41. 

Working Papers 

• Ye Liu, Mingwen Yang, Yong Tan. Coevolution of Trader Networks and Follower Dynamics in Social Trading. 

• Ye Liu, Mingwen Yang, Matthias Pelster, Yong Tan. The Interplay of Opinions and Trading Behavior: Understanding Cryptocurrency Adoption Dynamics. 

        * INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section Best Student Paper Award, Finalist, 2024

• Kai Sun, Mingwen Yang, Vijay Mookerjee. Tipping the Equilibrium: The Quality, Fairness Conundrum of Pre-Service Tipping. 

* INFORMS Annual Meeting e-Business Cluster Best Paper Award, Runner-up, 2021  

• Kai Sun, Mingwen Yang, Vijay Mookerjee. Curbing Anarchy in Social Trading Platforms. 

        * INFORMS Annual Meeting Finance Section Student Best Paper, Finalist, 2023 

• Hong Hong, Ao Sun, Dapeng Xu, Mingwen Yang. The Closer You are, the Faster You are? Sequential Threshold Effects in Open Innovation. 

Teaching 

The University of Washington 

• Data Management & SQL (Master) 

• Programming Essentials (Master)

• Advanced Research Topics in Information Systems (PhD)

• Networks and Cybersecurity (Undergraduate) 

• Business Data Communications (Undergraduate) 

The University of Texas at Dallas  

• Object-Oriented Programming (Undergraduate)