Associate Professor
Jing WANG
Information Systems
Associate Professor
jwang@ust.hk
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Jing WANG

Research Interests

  • Online knowledge communities
  • Crowdfunding
  • Crowdsourcing
  • User-generated content
  • Social networks
  • Data mining

Academic Qualification

  • PhD 2013 New York University, Information Systems
  • B.Sc. 2008 Tsinghua University, Computer Science

Academic And Professional Experience

  • Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2020-present
  • Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013-2020
  • Research Assistant, Stern Business School, New York University, 2008-2013
  • Summer Research Intern, HP Labs, 2012
  • Summer Research Intern, Yahoo! Research, 2011

Selected Publications

Journal Publications
 
  • Gao B., Wang, J., Ding, X., and Guo, Y., "The Pitfallls of Review Solicitation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on TripAdvisor," Management Science, forthcoming.
  • Wang, J., Li, G., and Hui, K. L., "Monetary Incentives and Knowledge Spillover: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," Management Science, 68, 5, 2022, 3549-3572.
  • Li, G., and Wang, J., "Threshold Effects on Backer Motivations in Reward-Based Crowdfunding," Journal of Management Information Systems, 36, 2, 2019, 546-573.
  • Chan, J., and Wang, J., "Hiring Preferences in Online Labor Markets: Evidence of a Female Hiring Bias," Management Science, 64, 7, 2018, 2973-2994.
    - Received ISS Management Science Best Paper Award in 2020
  • Wang, J., Ipeirotis, P. G., and Provost, F., “Cost-Effective Quality Assurance in Crowd Labeling,” Information Systems Research, 28, 1, 2017, 137-158.
  • Ipeirotis, P. G., Provost, F., Sheng, V. S., and Wang, J., “Repeated Labeling Using Multiple Noisy Labelers,” Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 28, 2, 2014, 402-441.
  • Wang, J., Suri, S., and Watts, D. J., “Cooperation and Assortativity with Dynamic Partner Updating,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109, 36, 2012, 14363-14368.
Conference Publications
 
  • Wang, J., Suri, S., and Duncan, J. W., “Cooperation and Assortativity with Endogenous Partner Selection,” in Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), Valencia, Spain, June, 2012.
    - Top 10% Paper Award
  • Wang, J., Faridani, S., and Ipeirotis, P. G., “Estimating the Completion Time of Crowdsourced Tasks Using Survival Analysis Models,” in Proceedings of the Workshop on Crowdsourcing for Search and Data Mining (CSDM) at the Fourth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Hong Kong, February, 2011.
  • Ipeirotis, P. G., Provost, F., and Wang, J., “Quality Management on Amazon Mechanical Turk,” in Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Human Computation (HCOMP), Washington, DC, United States, July, 2010.
  • Aggarwal, C. C., Li, Y. Li, Wang, J.Y., and Wang, J., “Frequent Pattern Mining with Uncertain Data,” in Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Paris, France, June, 2009.

Service Activities Within College And Profession

  • Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly (MISQ), 01/2021-present
  • Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Data Science, 12/2023-present
  • Associate Editor, Service Science, 01/2024-present
  • Conference Track Chair, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2023, 2022, 2020
  • Doctoral Consortium Mentor, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2023
  • Conference Co-organizer, Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) 2011
  • IS PhD Coordinator, 04/2019-present
  • Search and Appointments Committee, Department of ISOM, 09/2016-present
  • IS MPhil/PhD Committee, 09/2016-present
  • Selection Committee on Common Core Teaching Excellence Award, 2019

Honors And Awards

  • MISQ Outstanding Associate Editor, 2021
  • ISS Management Science Best Paper Award, 2020
  • The UGC Early-Career Teaching Award Nominee, 2018
  • Winner, The Common Core Teaching Excellence Award, HKUST, 2017
  • Winner, Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, HKUST, 2016
  • Finalist, Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, HKUST, 2015, 2014
  • Dean’s Recognition of Teaching Excellence, HKUST, 2013-present
  • General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant (PI), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2022-2024
  • General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant (PI), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2020-2022
  • General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant (PI), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2017-2019
  • General Research Fund (GRF) Research Grant (Co-I), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2016-2018
  • Early Career Scheme (ECS) Research Grant (PI), Hong Kong Research Grants Council, 2014-2017
  • Faculty Initiation Grant, HKUST, 2013
  • Doctoral Fellowship, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2008-2013
  • Outstanding Graduate of Tsinghua University, 2008
  • Outstanding Graduate of Beijing, 2008
  • Scholarship for Excellent Thesis, Department of Computer Science & Technology, Tsinghua University, 2008
  • National First Level Certificate in Abacus Mental Arithmetic (China)