About Me

Welcome to my website!

I am a tenure-track assistant professor of information systems in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics at Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Kent State University. 

My research interests lie in health IT, design science, network science and economics, and influencer economy. My recent research centers on using time/network-based empirical methods and AI-driven algorithms to understand and predict adverse outcomes in healthcare and wellness (e.g., medical device callbacks and human sedentary behavior). 

I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. I was supervised by Prof. Soumya Sen (advisor), Prof. Gediminas Adomavicius, Prof. Xuan Bi, Prof. Pinar Karaca-Mandic, and Prof. Ankur Mani. My dissertation studies the adverse outcomes in health and wellness by investigating how IT applications affect these adverse outcomes and how to develop more advanced algorithmic approaches to predict these outcomes. 

Before earning my Ph.D., I received a master's degree in business analytics from Drexel University, a master's degree in journalism from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a bachelor's degree in English from Communication University of China.

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