Yang's general research interest lies in Big Data, Business Analytics and Economic Impacts of IT.

Specifically, her current research focuses on incumbent firms’ behaviors in IT industry responding to new entry threat. She has developed a novel measure of threats from entrepreneurial firms using big unstructured data and text mining.

Her research methodology lies in the interactions of various business analytics methods, such as Econometrics, Text Mining, Machine Learning and Social Network Analysis.

Dr. Pan's research has been published at Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly. She is also invited to present at various premier venues, such as ICIS, WISE, CIST, and AOM.

Yang has worked in IBM for four years as an Advisory Technical Solution Consultant.

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