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)