Jing Wang

Academic qualification

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

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2013-present
• 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

-Chan, J. and  Wang, J.  (Authorship in alphabetical order), “Hiring Preferences in Online Labor Markets: Evidence of a Female Hiring Bias,” Management Science, forthcoming.

-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

-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.

• Most cited paper in quality managment in crowdsourcing; >600 citations

-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

-Conference Co-organizer:  Human Computation Workshop (HCOMP) 2011

-Conference Program Committee Member:  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) 2016; International Conference on Web-Age Information Management (WAIM) 2013

-Journal Reviewer:  Information Systems Research (ISR), MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Machine Learning, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 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), International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS)

-Conference Reviewer:  International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), The European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS

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

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Crowdsourcing
• Web-based behavioral experiments
• User-generated content
• Social networks
• Data mining

HONORS AND AWARDS

• Winner, The 2017 Common Core Teaching Excellence Award, HKUST
• Winner, Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, HKUST, 2016
• Finalist, Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, HKUST, 2015, 2014
• Dean’s Recognition of Teaching Excellence, HKUST, 2015, 2014, 2013
• 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)