Xitong Li

I am looking for remote / on-site visiting students for research assistance or collaboration, especially those who can work for at least six months. High-quality research takes time!

News:

• I organised the annual event HEC Executive Forum on AI and Digital Economy which aims to mix academia and industry on October 11th. 

• The paper "The Impact of Mobile Data Cost on Consumer Price Sensitivity" (joint work with Xiaopeng Luo, Cheng He, Yu Jeffrey Hu, and Yuan Cheng) got accepted by Information Systems Research.

• The paper "Understanding the Effectiveness of Rewarding Recipients on Online Referral Behavior" (joint work with Angelika Dimoka, Jinghui (Jove) Hou, and Paul Pavlou) got accepted by MIS Quarterly.

Research Interests:

• Topics: Digital economy, social computing, computational social science, human-AI interaction, economics of AI, new AI-supported applications and systems

• Methodologies: Applied econometric analysis, field / laboratory experimental design and analysis, system design and development

Bio:

Dr. Xitong Li is a professor of information systems at HEC Paris, France. His primary research interests are in the economics of information and AI technologies, including social media, FinTech, digital marketing, online education, human-AI/algorithms collaboration. His primary research methods include applied econometric analysis, field and laboratory experiments. Xitong’s research appears in leading international journals, such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, and various ACM/IEEE Transactions.

Xitong’s research has been granted by ANR AAPG France (solo PI), equivalent to National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S., for 2018-2023. His research has also been granted with research fellowship (2021-2025) by Hi! PARIS, a joint AI research center between HEC Paris and Institut Polytechnique de Paris (#38 in QS World University Rankings 2024).

Xitong currently serves as an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research, a top journal in the information systems field. He also served as a guest senior editor for Production and Operations Management, a top journal in the operations management field.

Xitong is the founder and organiser of an annual event, HEC Executive Forum on AI and Digital Economy, which aims to mix academia and industry.

Xitong received INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award in 2022, and the HEC Foundation Researcher of the Year Award in 2023. He also won the Best Paper Award at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) in 2013 and the OCIS Best Paper Award Finalist at the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Meeting in 2017.

Xitong served as a Program Co-chair of the 42nd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2021, and a co-chair of Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR) 2019.

He received a Ph.D. in management from MIT Sloan School and a Ph.D. in engineering from Tsinghua University.