Index - Professor, Co-Director of MSc in Data Science, Director of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Information Management and Business Analytics (IS Concentration)

Name

Zhengrui JIANG

Title

Professor, Co-Director of MSc in Data Science, Director of the MPhil-PhD Programme in Information Management and Business Analytics (IS Concentration)

Education Background

Ph.D., Management Science, University of Texas at Dallas
M.S., Computer Science, MBA, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Research

Business Intelligence and Analytics, Optimization/Decision-making under Uncertainty, Diffusion of Technological Innovations, and Economics of Information Technology

Personal Website

zjiang@cuhk.edu.cn

Office Address

Phone

Teaching Area

Information Systems

Other

Biography

Dr. Zhengrui (Jeffrey) Jiang is a Professor of Information Systems at the School of Management and Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Before joining CUHK-Shenzhen, he was the Thome Professor in Business and Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics at the Ivy College of Business, Iowa State University and a Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University Business School. Dr. Jiang's primary research interests include business intelligence and analytics, optimization/decision-making under uncertainty, diffusion of technological innovations, and economics of information technology. His research has appeared in premier academic journals including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. Dr. Jiang currently serves as an associate editor for Information Systems Research and won the journal’s Best Associate Editor Award in 2021. He previously served as an associate editor for MIS Quarterly and received its Outstanding Associate Editor Award in 2016. In addition, he is currently a senior editor for Production and Operations Management. He co-chaired The 13th Annual Big XII+ MIS Research Symposium (2015), The 9th Annual Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference (2014), and The 28th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2018).

Besides academia, Dr. Jiang has collaborated extensively with industry partners in the past ten years. He has done analytics work for multiple internationally known companies in America, Europe, and China, and provided them solutions to improve the efficiency of operations.

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Awards and honors

Publications

1. Lotfi, A., Z. Jiang, J. Naoum-Sawaya, M. A. Begen. “Modeling Sales of Multigeneration Technology Products in the Presence of Frequent Repeat Purchases: A Fractional Calculus-Based Approach.” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 33, No. 5, May 2024, pp. 1176-1195.

2. Z. Jiang, A. Rai, H. Sun, C. Nie, Y. Hu. “How Does Online Information Influence Offline Transactions: Insights from Digital Real Estate Platforms.” Information Systems Research, forthcoming.

3. Lotfi, A., Z. Jiang, A. Lotfi, D. Jain. “Estimating Lifecycle Sales of Technology Products with Frequent Repeat Purchases: A Fractional Calculus-Based Approach.” Information Systems Research, Vol. 34, No. 2, June 2023, pp. 409-422.

4. Qu, X., A. Lotfi, D. Jain, Z. Jiang. “Predicting Upgrade Timing for Successive Product Generations: An Exponential-Decay Proportional Hazard Model.” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 31, No. 5, May 2022, pp. 2067-2083.

5. Feng, H., Z. Jiang, M. Li, and N. Feng. “First- or Second-Mover Advantage: The Case of IT-Enabled Platform Markets.” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3, September 2020, pp. 1107-1141.

6. Qu, X., Z. Jiang. “A Time-Based Dynamic Synchronization Policy for Consolidated Database Systems.” MIS Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 4, December 2019, pp. 1041-1057.

7. Jiang, Z., X. Qu, D. C. Jain. "Optimal Market Entry Timing for Successive Generations of Technological Innovations." MIS Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3, September 2019, pp. 787-806.

8. Wang, M., Z. Jiang, Y. Zhang, H. Yang. “T-closeness Slicing: A New Privacy Preserving Approach for Transactional Data Publishing.” INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 30, No. 3, summer 2018, pp. 438-453.

9. Feng, H., Z. Jiang, D. Liu. "Quality, Pricing, and Release Time: Optimal Market Entry Strategy for New Software-As-A-Service Vendors." MIS Quarterly, Vol. 42, No. 1, March 2018, pp. 333-353.

10. Cai, Y., Z. Jiang, V. Mookerjee. "How to Deal with Liars? Designing Intelligent Rule-Based Expert Systems to Increase Accuracy or Reduce Cost." INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 29, No. 2, March 2017, pp. 268–286.

11. Jiang, Z., D. C. Jain. "A Generalized Norton-Bass Model for Multigeneration Diffusion." Management Science, Vol. 58 No. 10, October 2012, pp. 1887-1897.

12. Jiang, Z., S. Sarkar, V. S. Jacob. "Post-Release Testing and Software Release Policy for Enterprise-Level Systems." Information Systems Research, Vol. 23, No. 3, Part 1 of 2, September 2012, pp. 635-657.

13. Jiang, Z. "A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Numerical Attribute Value Reconciliation." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 24, No. 7, July 2012, pp. 1153-1169.

14. Jiang, Z., S. Sarkar. "Speed Matters: The Role of Free Software Offer in Software Diffusion." Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 26, No. 3, Winter 2010, pp. 207-239.

15. Jiang, Z., S. Sarkar, P. De and D. Dey. "A Framework for Reconciling Attribute Values from Multiple Data Sources." Management Science, Vol. 53, No. 12, December 2007, pp. 1946-1963.

16. Jiang, Z., F. M. Bass, P. I. Bass. "The Virtual Bass Model and the Left-Hand Data-Truncation Bias in Diffusion of Innovation Studies." International Journal of Research in Marketing, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 93-106.

17. Jiang, Z., V. Mookerjee, S. Sarkar. "Lying on the Web: Implications for Expert Systems Redesign." Information Systems Research, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 131-148.

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