Xiao Fang
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Title Professor of MIS, JPMorgan Chase Fellow
Email xfang@nospam5c978b2e4c779.udel.edu
Office 357 Purnell Hall
Phone (302) 831-3806
Biography
Education
- Ph.D. in management information systems, University of Arizona
- B.S., M.S. in management information systems, Fudan University, China
Select Publications
- He, J., Fang, X., Liu, H., Li, X. 2018. Mobile App Recommendation: An Involvement-Enhanced Approach. MIS Quarterly, forthcoming.
- Fang, X., and Hu, P. 2018. Top Persuader Prediction for Social Networks. MIS Quarterly 42 (1), pp. 63-82.
- Li, Z., Fang, X., and O. R. Liu Sheng. 2018. A Survey of Link Recommendation for Social Networks: Methods, Theoretical Foundations, and Future Directions. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 9 (1) Lead Article.
- Hu, P., Hu, H., and Fang, X. 2017. Examining the Mediating Roles of Cognitive Load and Performance Outcomes in User Satisfaction with a Website: A Quasi-Field Experiment. MIS Quarterly 41 (3), pp. 975-987.
- Li, Z.*, Fang, X.*, Bai, X. and O. R. Liu Sheng. 2017. Utility-based Link Recommendation for Online Social Networks. Management Science, 63(6), pp. 1938-1952. (*Equal contribution).
- Fang, X., Liu Sheng, O. R., and P. Goes. 2013. When Is the Right Time to Refresh Knowledge Discovered from Data? Operations Research, 61(1), pp. 32-44.
- Fang, X., Hu, P., Li., Z., and W. Tsai. 2013. Predicting Adoption Probabilities in Social Networks. Information Systems Research, 24(1), pp. 128-145.
- Fang, X. 2013. Inference-based Naive Bayes: Turning Naive Bayes Cost-sensitive. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 25(10), pp. 2302-2313.
- Fang, X., Hu, P., Chau, M., Hu, H., Yang, Z. and Liu Sheng, O. R. 2012. A Data-driven Approach to Measure Website Navigability. Journal of Management Information Systems, 29(2), pp.173-212.
- Zhang, J., Fang, X., and Liu Sheng, O. R. 2007. Online Consumer Search Depth: Theory and New Findings. Journal of Management Information Systems, 23(3), pp. 71-95.
- Fang, X., Chau, M., and Liu Sheng, O. R. 2007. ServiceFinder: A Method Towards Enhancing E-service Portals. ACM Transactions on Information Systems, 25(4) Article 17.
- Fang, X., Liu Sheng, O. R., Gao, W., and Iyer, B. 2006. A Data Mining Based Prefetching Approach to Caching For Network Storage Systems. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 18(2), pp. 267-282.
- Fang, X., and Liu Sheng, O. R. 2004. LinkSelector: A Web Mining Approach to Hyperlink Selection for Web Portals. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 4(2), pp. 209-237.
Awards & Honors
- Lerner College Outstanding Scholar Award, 2017.
- Accounting and MIS Department Faculty Excellence in Research Award, 2017.
- INFORMS Design Science Award, 2016.
- JPMorgan Chase Fellow, 2015–
- David Eccles Emerging Scholar, University of Utah, 2013 – 2015
- University Incentive Seed Grant, University of Utah, 2012
- Outstanding Faculty, presented by the students of Operations and Information Systems, University of Utah, 2011
- Most Influential Teacher, recognized by the Master of IS program, University of Utah, 2010
- Outstanding Junior Researcher Award, College of Business Administration, University of Toledo, 2008
- Robert Pearson Memorial Award for the Best Contribution to Theory, Northeast Decision Science Institute, 2008
- University Summer Research Awards and Fellowships, University of Toledo, 2007