Activities

3/15/2024: Our paper titled "Incorporating AI Makes Medical Devices Safer: Empirical Evidence from Medical Device Recalls" was accepted for presentation at the 2024 Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA). May 3-4, 2024, Washington, DC.  (Coauthored with Alexander Everhart).

10/1/2023: Our paper titled "Predicting Medical Device Recalls: A Theory-Driven Deep Learning Approach Leveraging Regulatory Submission Characteristics" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS). December 13-15, Hyderabad, India.  (Coauthored with Soumya Sen, Alexander Everhart, Pinar Karaca-Mandic).                                               

8/17/2023: Our paper titled “Forecasting Goal-Oriented Activities: A Deep Learning Approach Leveraging Cross-Activity Relationships” was accepted for full presentation with student scholarship at the 2023 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, October 14, 2023, Pheonix, AZ (Coauthored with Xuan Bi, Gedas Adomavicius, Shawn Curley). 

3/23/2023: Our paper titled "Investigating Churn in Physical Activity Challenges: Evidence from a US Online Social Network" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci). July 10-14, Vienna, Austria. (Coauthored with Ankur Mani).

3/17/2023: Our paper titled "Predicting Medical Device Recalls Leveraging Regulatory Submission Characteristics" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA). May 5-6, 2023, Washington, DC.  (Coauthored with Soumya Sen, Alexander Everhart, Pinar Karaca-Mandic).

2/21/2023: Our paper titled "Consumer Responses to Puffery: Empirical Evidence from a Cellular Network Upgrade Advertising" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) Annual Conference. June 8-10,  2023, Miami, FL. (Coauthored with Jason Chan, Xuan Bi, Yue Guo, Jun Wu).

1/18/2023: Our paper titled "Consumer Responses to Puffery: Empirical Evidence from a Cellular Network Upgrade Advertising" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Conference. May 21-25,  2023, Orlando, FL. (Coauthored with Jason Chan, Xuan Bi, Yue Guo, Jun Wu).

1/13/2023: Our paper titled "Predicting Medical Device Recalls Leveraging Regulatory Submission Characteristics" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 INFORMS Healthcare Conference. July 26-28, 2023, Toronto, ON Canada.  (Coauthored with Soumya Sen, Alexander Everhart, Pinar Karaca-Mandic).

11/25/2022: Our paper titled "Consumer Responses to Puffery: Empirical Evidence from a Cellular Network Upgrade Advertising" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 Winter AMA Marketing for Higher Education Special Interest Group (SIG) Special Session, February 10-12, 2023, Nashville, TN (Coauthored with Jason Chan, Xuan Bi, Yue Guo, Jun Wu).

11/11/2022: Our paper titled "Consumer Responses to Puffery: Empirical Evidence from a Cellular Network Upgrade Advertising" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 American Marketing Association (AMA) Winter Conference, February 10-12, 2023, Nashville, TN (Coauthored with Jason Chan, Xuan Bi, Yue Guo, Jun Wu).

8/18/2022: Our paper titled "Investigating Churn in Physical Activity Challenges: Evidence from a US Online Social Network" was accepted for presentation at the 2023 Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), January 3-6, 2023, Lahaina, HI (Coauthored with Ankur Mani).

8/7/2022: Our paper titled "Investigating Churn in Physical Activity Challenges: Evidence from a US Online Social Network" was accepted for presentation at the 2022 Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), October 15-16, 2022, Indianapolis, IN (Coauthored with Ankur Mani).

3/10/2022: Our paper titled "Predicate Characteristics and Recalls of 510(k) Medical Devices" was accepted for presentation at the 2022 AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, June 4-7, 2022, Washington, DC (Coauthored with Alexander Everhart, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Soumya Sen, Ariel Stern).

10/25/2021: Our paper titled “Forecasting Goal-Oriented Activities: A Deep Learning Approach Leveraging Cross-Activity Relationships” was accepted for poster presentation at the 2021 Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), December 15-17, 2021, Austin, TX (Coauthored with Xuan Bi, Gedas Adomavicius, Shawn Curley). 

6/3/2021: Our paper titled "Consumer Reactions Toward IT Infrastructure Upgrade: Evidence From A Nation-wide Mobile Network Upgrade" was accepted for presentation at the 2021 Statistical Conference in E-Commerce Research (SCECR), June 17-18, 2021 (Coauthored with Jason Chan, Xuan Bi, Jun Wu).

5/3/2021: Our paper titled "Consumer Reactions Toward IT Infrastructure Upgrade: Evidence From A Nation-wide Mobile Network Upgrade" has been accepted for presentation at the 2021 American Marketing Association (AMA) Summer Conference, August 4-6, 2021 (Coauthored with Jason Chan, Xuan Bi, Jun Wu).

4/7/2021: Our paper titled "Consumer Reactions Toward IT Infrastructure Upgrade: Evidence From A Nation-wide Mobile Network Upgrade" has been accepted for presentation at the 43rd Annual INFORMS Society for Marketing Science (ISMS) Conference, June 3-5, 2021 (Coauthored with Jason Chan, Xuan Bi, Jun Wu).

3/16/2021: Our paper titled "Consumer Reactions Toward IT Infrastructure Upgrade: Evidence From A Nation-wide Mobile Network Upgrade" has been accepted for presentation at the 2021 Virtual Industry Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference, June 2-4, 2021 (Coauthored with Jason Chan, Xuan Bi, Jun Wu).

8/24/2022: I received the 2021-2022 Carlson School of Management PhD Student Teaching Award.

Organizer for 2022-2023 Weekly Friday Research Workshop of Information and Decision Sciences Department, Carlson School of Management, UMN

Organizer and website maintainer for 2022-2023 Weekly IS Student Presentations Over the Cloud (ISPOC), Stern School of Business, NYU

System designer, data visualization designer, and website maintainer for University of Minnesota COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project

12/15/2023: My dissertation proposal: "Mitigating Health and Wellness Adverse Outcomes with Data Analytics: Investigation of Medical Device Recall and Digital Exercise Program Churn" has received the Best Dissertation Award nomination at the 2023 Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS). December 13-15, Hyderabad, India.

10/20/2023: I received the 2023-2024 Carlson School of Management PhD Student Conference/Travel Fellowship ($1200).

8/21/2023: Our project “Medevisor: An ML-Based Decision Support System for Analyzing Medical Device History and Recalls” has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (I-Corps) program grant for technology commercialization and customer discovery, $50,000, Sep 2023 to Sep 2024. Role: entrepreneurial lead (technical lead: Sen S, industry mentor: Bilankov D).  

7/29/2023: I got accepted by the 2023 Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS). 

3/30/2023: I got accepted by the 2023 Doctoral Consortium at the Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA) with a $600 travel grant. 

2/9/2023: I received the 2023-2024 Carlson School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and was nominated by Carlson School for the 2023-2024 UMN Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (there were three nominations). My dissertation proposal was titled "Understanding Adverse Events in Healthcare and Wellness: Medical Device Recall, COVID-19 Hospitalization, and Exercise Program Dropout". 

1/9/2023: Our project "ML-based decision support system for analyzing medical device history and recalls from FDA’s 510k filings" was awarded an Early Innovation Fund from University of Minnesota Technology Commercialization.  (joint project with Soumya Sen and Pinar Mandic-Karaca) ($10,000). 

12/23/2022: Our project "ML-based decision support system for analyzing medical device history and recalls from FDA’s 510k filings" was awarded an MVP Challenge grant from Minnesota Innovation Corps. This grant will provide seed funding and mentorship for further prototyping and product development (joint project with Soumya Sen and Pinar Mandic-Karaca) ($5000). 

10/21/2022: I received the 2022-2023 Carlson School of Management PhD Student Conference/Travel Fellowship ($750).

8/24/2022: I received the 2021-2022 Carlson School of Management PhD Student Teaching Award.

4/20/2022: I received the 2021-2022 Carlson School of Management PhD Student Conference/Travel Fellowship ($750).

4/20/2022: Our University of Minnesota COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project received Honorable Mentions in the 2022 Innovation Impact Case Award, sponsored by Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Minnesota.

4/7/2022: Our research team won the Second Place of the Third University of Minnesota Interdisciplinary Health Data Competition ($2000). Project topic: Demographic (In)equities Revealed by HCAHPS Ratings. 

4/29/2021: Our University of Minnesota COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project has won two Silver Stevie Awards for "Most Valuable Non-Profit Response" and "Most Valuable Service" at the 19th Annual American Business Awards (COVID-19 Response Category).

4/22/2021: I have received the 2020-2021 Carlson School of Management PhD Student Conference/Travel Fellowship ($355).

3/30/2021: Our University of Minnesota COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project has won 2021 AACSB Innovations That Inspire.

3/10/2021: Our University of Minnesota COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project has won 2021 NIHCM Awards in Journalism and Research (Digital Media Track).

4/24/2020: Our research team has won the Champion of the University of Minnesota first Interdisciplinary Health Data Competition ($4000). Project topic: The Economic Burden of Extended-Release Pharmaceuticals in Minnesota.

3/6/2020: Our research team has won the BOLD IDEAS Grant, Office of Academic Clinical Affairs, University of Minnesota ($30,000). Project topic: Using Natural Language Processing to Extract Predictors of Medical Device Adverse Events.

1/10/2023: I was mentioned in the news report "Certain 510(k) medical device characteristics are associated with recalls".

4/8/2022: I was mentioned in the news report "Carlson School Faculty Members Rack Up National Awards".

12/21/2021: I was mentioned in the news report "Two Carlson School Projects Share National Research Award".

3/30/2021: I was mentioned in the news report "COVID-19 Hospitalization Tracking Project Wins Innovations that Inspire Award".

8/20/2020: I was mentioned in the news report "New research finds association between COVID-19 hospital use and mortality".

3/6/2020: I was mentioned in the new report “Using Natural Language Processing to Extract Predictors of Medical Device Adverse Events”.

8/15/2024: I started my first academic appointment as a tenure track assistant professor in information systems and business analytics at Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Kent State University.

5/31/2024: I graduated from the Ph.D. program in Information and Decision Sciences at Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota.

3/22/2024: I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation titled "Mitigating the Adverse Outcomes in Health and Wellness with Data Analytics: Investigation of Medical Device Recalls and Digital Exercise Program Churns".