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2021-02-04 |
My paper "Connecting
the Parts with the Whole: Toward an Information Ecology
Theory of Digital Innovation Ecosystems" will be
published in MIS Quarterly's Special Issue on
Next-Generation Information Systems Theories. I give
a short talk
on the paper at the journal's
showcase for this special issue. |
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2020-12-13 |
At the
41st
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS),
I present our paper "Interplay of Competition,
Innovation, and Reputation: The Red Queen in Digital
Commerce of Experience Goods" with Professor Zhen Zhu. |
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2020-08-11 |
At the
26th
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS),
I present our paper "Red
Queen Competition through Innovations on a Digital
Platform for Experience Goods" with Professor Zhen
Zhu visiting from China University of Geosciences in
Wuhan. The paper has been
nominated for Best Paper
Award. |
|
2020-07-30 |
I begin to serve on the
editorial board of MIS Quarterly's
Special Issue on Digital Resilience. |
|
2019-12-16 |
In Munich, Germany at the
40th
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS
2019), I co-chair the conference theme track "Information
Systems – The Heart of Innovation Ecosystems" with
Stefan Henningsson and Eric T.K. Lim. |
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2019-08-19 |
In Santa Barbara I
co-organize the Workshop on Information Systems and
Development with Cynthia Beath and Mary Culnan at the
Upham Hotel. |
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2019-08-12 |
At the
79th Annual
Meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston, I present a paper "An
Ecological Approach to Theorizing Digital Innovation
Ecosystems." |
|
2019-06-12 |
In Stockholm-Uppsala,
Sweden, I present my paper entitled "Theorizing Digital
Innovation Ecosystems: A Multilevel Ecological
Framework," at the 27th
European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). |
|
2018-12-18 |
At the
17th
IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and
Applications (ICMLA) in Orlando. I present our paper "Indexing
Text Related to Software Vulnerabilities in Noisy
Communities through Topic Modelling," in
collaboration with Carlos Paradis and Rick Kazman at the
University of Hawaii. |
|
2018-06-29 |
In Yokohama, Japan, I
present my paper, "Taking the
'Eco' Seriously: A Multilevel Model for Digital
Innovation Ecosystems," at the
22nd Pacific Asia Conference
on Information Systems (PACIS 2018). |
|
2017-12-01 |
For those interested in
the sharing economy, here is a
special issue of the MIS Quarterly Executive that
Iris Junglas (FSU), Hope Koch (Baylor), Arun
Sundararajan (NYU), and I co-edited. In our
editorial, we attempted to sort major definitions of
the sharing economy and synthesize the themes of this
phenomenon that emerged from the papers we accepted. |
|
2017-11-01 |
Our paper "To Share,
or Not to Share? Community-Level Collaboration in Open
Innovation Contests" has been accepted by the
21st ACM Conference
on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social
Computing (CSCW) to be held in New York City's
Hudson River (Jersey City), November 3-7, 2018.
This is collaboration with Yla Tausczik. |
|
2017-05-16 |
Our paper "Which Size
Matters? Effects of Crowd Size on Solution Quality in
Big Data Q&A Communities" will be presented at the
11th International
AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM) in
Montreal, Canada.
This is collaboration with Yla Tausczik and Joohee Choi. |
|
2017-01-07 |
Our paper "Can Cybersecurity Be Proactive? A Big Data Approach and
Challenges" is presented at the
50th Hawaii
International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
in Big Island, Hawaii.
This is collaboration with Hong-Mei Chen, Rick Kazman,
and Ira Monach. |
|
2016-12-13 |
Our doctoral student
Myeong Lee presents the paper "Toward
an Ecology Theory of Creatitivyt in IT Products: A Study
of Mobile Device Industry" that he co-authored with
Xu Meng, Brian Butler and me at the
2016
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
in Dublin, Ireland. We receive the
Best Paper Award
(first-place) at the conference's award lunchen on that
day. |
|
2016-07-06 |
I give a talk on
creativity and innovation in the global mobile device
industry at the
Basser Seminar Series held at the School
of Information Technologies, the University of Sydney,
Australia. |
|
2016-01-01 |
Collaborating with Brian
Butler and Yla Tausczik, I launch a new research project
"Virtual
Observatory of Innovation Communities and Ecosystems
(VOICE): Advancing Big Data with Ecology Theory and
Data Science", sponsored by the National Science
Foundation. |
|
2015-12-15 |
At the
2015
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in
Fort Worth, Texas, I
present "How Do Community Ecology and Structure
Shape Digital Innovation Strategy?" with Xu Meng and
Brian Butler. |
|
2015-11-01 |
At the
2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, I
present "Fashion-Telling: Predicting the Future of
Digital Innovations." |
|
2015-10-29 |
I will teach INST 621 "Managing
Digital Innovations in Organizations"
in Spring 2016. Building on the success of the
iSchool
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Reading Group, INST621
aims to understand (1) how people and organizations
manage digital technologies and (2) how to use
technologies to drive process, product, and service
innovations. This is a flyer
of the course for distribution. The syllabus from last
year is
here and will be updated soon. ure of Digital
Innovations." |
|
2015-09-19 |
At the
6th Biennial
Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy,
I present "Toward an Ecological Theory and Policy
for Digital Innovations" based on research collaboration
with Xu Meng and Brian Butler. |
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2015-08-10 |
At the
75th Annual
Meeting of the Academy of Management in Vancouver,
Canada, I present a paper "Ecology
for Digital Innovation: Understanding the Evolution of
Customer Relationship Management" coauthored with Xu
Meng and Brian Butler. |
|
2015-01-26 |
This spring semester I
host the weekly iSchool Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Reading Group that aims to disseminate and advance
knowledge on innovation and entrepreneurship. See
details at
http://ischool.umd.edu/innovation. |
|
2014-05-17 |
A presentation I gave at
the National Academy of Sciences was summarized in a new
book "Science of Science and Innovation Policy"
edited by Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing et al., now
published by the National Academies Press. Read more
here. |
|
2014-05-15 |
I will speak at the
Professional Development Worship "Revisiting
Product Ontology" at the Academy of Management
Annual Meeting this August in Philadelphia. |
|
2013-09-01 |
I start serving on the
Editorial Board for redesigning the website of
Science of
Science Policy (SoSP) Central, a community sponsored
by OSTP. |
|
2012-12-17 |
Two papers I co-authored
with my students will be presented at the 33rd
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS
2012) in Orlando. One
paper explains why cloud computing became so
popular; the other tells
of a story of how a small independent restaurant
mindfully innovated with an online reservation system. |
|
2012-09-20 |
I present a study of
cloud computing with my student Jia Sun at the Science
of Science and Innovation Policy Principal
Investigators'
Workshop in the newly renovated historic
National Academy of Sciences building. |
|
2012-06-15 |
When innovation meets
wealth, the on-going debate of net neutrality seems to
reflect the deep values held by various stakeholders, as
discussed in
this paper published in the Journal of the American
Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIS&T). |
|
2012-04-30 |
Dean Jennifer Preece
appoints me Director of the Ph.D. program at Maryland's
iSchool. |
|
2012-04-09 |
The different
trajectories of three innovations in information
visualization have prompted
a historical analysis,
published in the journal Information Visualization. |
|
2011-09-12 |
I start micro-blogging in
Chinese in SINA Weibo (新浪微博).
Follow me
@DrWangPing. |
|
2011-08-16 |
I facilitate the research
roundtable "IT and Organizational Strategy" at the
Academy of Management Annual Meeting in San Antonio. |
|
2011-03-07 |
I have been promoted to
Associate Professor with tenure, effective on August 23,
2011. |
|
2010-12-08 |
University of Maryland
President Wallace D. Loh appoints me to serve on the
University's Vice President-CIO search committee. See
the announcement
here. |
|
2010-11-10 |
My co-author Neil
Ramiller and I have done an interview with the CIO of the
Academy of Management OCIS division about our experience
in producing a recent award-winning paper in MIS
Quarterly. Read the interview
here. |
|
2010-10-25 |
In Spring 2011, I will be
teaching a new course INFM718Z "Managing IT Innovations
in Organizations". See the course's flyer
here. |
|
2010-10-19 |
I present the
STICK project to researchers and policy makers in
Congress and federal agencies at a workshop on science
policy organized jointly by the
American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
and the National Science Foundation in AAAS headquarters
in Washington DC. See the workshop's
website
and my
slides. |
|
2010-08-27 |
In Beijing, China, the
School of Information at the
Central University of Finance and Economics appoints
me Visiting Professor (by courtesy) for three years. |
|
2010-08-18 |
At Faculty of Business,
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, I serve as an
external examiner for the Doctor of Management viva for
Mr. Han Zhigang, Vice President of China Unicom. |
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2010-08-09 |
At
2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Montreal,
Canada, the paper "Community
Learning in Information Technology Innovations," I
co-authored with Professor Neil Ramiller wins the
Best Published Paper Award
(first-place) at the Academy's Organizational
Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division.
See OCIS' announcement
here and MIS Quarterly's announcement
here. |
|
2010-08-07 |
At
2010 Academy of Management Annual Meeting
in Montreal,
Canada, I co-organize with Professor Emmanuelle Vaast a Professional Development Workshop: "Making
the Most of Digital Text Data: Opportunities, Challenges, and
Best Practices."
[My Slides] |
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2010-07-01 |
The Summer 2010 issue of
MIT Sloan Management Review publishes my article "The
Surprising Impact of Fashions in Information
Technology." [HTML]
[PDF] |
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2010-05-28 |
At
the University of Maryland
Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) 27th Annual Symposium,
I organize a half-day workshop, "Visual
Analytic Tools for Managing Technological Innovations."
My presentation slides are available
here. |
|
2010-04-16 |
My doctoral student
Chia-jung Tsui is awarded the
Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship. |
|
2010-03-22 |
ComputerWorld
features my recent study of IT fashion in its "Think
Tank." [HTML]
[PDF] |
