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

• Wang, J., Li, G., and Hui, K. L., "Monetary Incentives and Knowledge Spillover: Evidence from a Natural Experiment," Management Science, forthcoming.
• Li, G., and Wang, J. (Authorship in alphabetical order), “Threshold Effects on Backer Motivations in Reward-Based Crowdfunding,” Journal of Management Information Systems, 36, 2, 2019, 546-573.
• Chan, J., and Wang, J. (Equal contribution), "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. (Authorship in alphabetical order), “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.
• One of the top multidisciplinary scientific journals; impact factor: 9.737

Conference Proceedings/ Papers

• Wang, J., Li, G., and Hui, K. L., “Do Monetary Incentives Create a Spillover Effect on Free User-Generated Content? Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” in Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE 2017), Seoul, Korea, December 14-15, 2017.
• Li, G., and Wang, J., “Helping or Pre-ordering? Analyzing Backers' Contribution and Referral Patterns in Reward-Based Crowdfunding,” in Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR 2017), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, June 26-28, 2017.
• Li, G., and Wang, J., “Helping or Pre-ordering? Analyzing Backers' Contribution and Referral Patterns in Reward-Based Crowdfunding,” in Proceedings of the 11th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM 2017), Nanjing, China, June 24-25, 2017.
• Chan, J., and Wang, J., “Hiring Biases in Online Labor Markets: The Case of Gender Stereotyping,” in Proceedings of the Thirty Fifth International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Auckland, New Zealand, December, 2014.
• Wang, J., Ghose, A. and Ipeirotis, P. G., “Bonus, Disclosure, and Choice: What Motivates the Creation of High-Quality Paid Reviews?” in Proceedings of Thirty Third International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Orlando, United States, December, 2012.
• 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
• 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
• Judge of the 2017 INFORMS TIMES Best Dissertation Award Competition
• Conference Co-organizer: Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) 2011
• Program Committee Member: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2019, 2018, 2017; INFORMS Workshop on Data Science (DS) 2019, 2018, 2017; Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2019, 2018, 2017; China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM) 2018, 2017; World Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2017; Workshop on Information Technology & Systems (WITS) 2016; ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC) 2016, 2013; AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP) 2016, 2015; Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2018, 2016; International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) 2013
• Journal Reviewer: Management Science (MS), Information Systems Research (ISR), MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Machine Learning, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), INFORMS Journal on Computing (JOC), Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), Information and Management, International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS)

Professional Association Memberships

• Association for Information Systems (AIS)
• Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

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, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
• 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)