ISPOC

ISPOC

ISPOC (IS Student Presentations Over the Cloud) is a “Ph.D. student only” seminar series. This series primarily aims at inviting senior IS PhD candidates (who are putting together their job market presentation) or junior faculty members (who have just successfully navigated the job market process) to present their job market presentation. Besides regular job talks, the series also invites senior faculty to give job market advice, and hold fireside chat sessions with ISPOC Alumni.

The three main focuses of this speaker series are :

Presentation Skills: While junior PhD students get to see some of the current job market candidates in action, the presenters get to practice their talk in front of an open-minded student community.
Methodologies: To introduce and receive feedback on novel methodologies such as on AI/ML, text analysis, Graph Theory, Matching, DAG, advanced econometrics etc.
Networking: To know what other junior colleagues are working on. To connect with them for potential collaboration opportunities in the future.

ISPOC Sessions

ISPOC 2024 Series

Date	Type	Speaker	Profile	Title
May 16, 2024	Fireside chat	Kevin Hong, Jui Ramaprasad	University of Miami (Professor), University of Maryland (Associate Professor)	Methodology: Natural, Field, Lab Experiments
May 30, 2024	Fireside chat	Gal Oestreicher Singer, Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe	Tel Aviv University (Professor), University of Pennsylvania - Wharton (Associate Professor)	Research Paper: Writing to Publication
July 11, 2024	Invitational Presentation	Jenny Allen	MIT Sloan (Ph.D.) :: NYU Stern (Assistant Professor)	Quantifying the Impact of Misinformation and Vaccine-Skeptical Content
July 25, 2024	Invitational Presentation	Alan Chen	UMN Carlson(Ph.D.) :: UT Dallas (Assistant Professor)	Less is Not Always More: Investigating the Impact of Block Intensity and Immediacy of Social Media Blockers on Productivity
August 1, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Yikun Jiang	UC Berkeley	Dynamics in Online Knowledge Contributions: Evidence from a Field Experiment
August 8, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Sung Joo Kim	Purdue	Beyond the Stay: How Short-term Rentals Reshape Residential Real Estate Investment
August 22, 2024	Fireside Chat	Qiaochu Wang,Atiye Cerol	CMU Tepper (Ph.D.), Wharton (Ph.D.)	Job market advice
August 29, 2024	Fireside Chat	Alex Moehring,Zekun Liu	Purdue (Assistant Professor), IU Kelley (Assistant Professor)	Job market advice
September 5, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Lijia Ma	UW Foster	Learning to Adopt Generative AI
September 12, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Tianjian Guo	UT McCombs	Care Now or Pay Later? A Personalized Recommendation Approach for Value-based Healthcare
September 19, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Mohammed Alsobay	MIT Sloan	Micro-experiments and Macro-understanding: The Design Space of Punishment and Cooperation
September 26, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Hyunkyung Lee	Emory Goizueta	Demanding a Better Online Experience: Why Users Adopt Ad-blockers?
October 3, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Pearl Yu	NYU Stern	TBD
October 10, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Jingwen Zhang	UW Foster	TBD

Date	Type	Speaker	Profile	Title
March 31, 2023	Fireside chat	Nina Huang, Vilma Todri	University of Miami (Associate Professor), Emory University (Assistant Professor)	Fireside Chat - How to plan your life as an assistant professor
April 28, 2023	Fireside chat	Dokyun Lee, Panagiotis Adamopoulos	BU (Associate Professor), Emory University (Assistant Professor)	Fireside Chat - Skill sets and methodologies to succeed in a PhD program
July 20, 2023	Invitational Presentation	Yifan Yu	UW (PhD.) :: UT Austin (Assistant Professor)	Emotion AI in Business: Theory and Application
July 27, 2023	Invitational Presentation	Nasim Mousavi	Emory University (Ph.D.) :: GSU (Assistant Professor)	The Decoy Effect and Recommendation Systems
August 3, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Weiqing Zhang	NYU Stern School of Business	The Value of Content Inclusiveness: Evidence from a Social Media Platform
August 10, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Zekun Liu	NYU Stern School of Business	The Usage and Impact of Differentiation: Evidence from an Online EdTech Platform
August 17, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Yifei Wang	MIT Sloan	Competition and Privacy
August 24, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Alex Moehring	MIT Sloan	Personalized Rankings and User Engagement: An Empirical Evaluation of the Reddit News Feed
August 31, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Qiaochu Wang	CMU Tepper	Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Simple Rule-Based Pricing
September 07, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Zanele Munyikwa	MIT Sloan	Generative AI and Creative Work
September 14, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Yi Zhu	UMN Carlson	Predicting Medical Device Recalls: A Theory-Driven Deep Learning Approach Leveraging Regulatory Submission Characteristics
September 21, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Zhuoran Jiang	UT Austin	Privacy and Self-Disclosure in the Digital Era
September 28, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Xiyang Hu	CMU Heinz	Human-Algorithmic Bias: Source, Evolution, and Impact
October 5, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Atiye Cansu Erol	UPenn Wharton	Offline Privacy Concerns in Mental Health Delivery Through Telehealth
October 12, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Helen S. Zeng	CMU Heinz	Holding Digital Platforms Accountable for Online Child Trafficking? Evidence from Two Escort Review Sites
October 19, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Nur Ahmed	MIT Sloan	Scientists and Firm-level Appropriation Strategy in Artificial Intelligence Research
October 26, 2023	Job Market Presentation	Sung Hyun Kwon	UMD Smith	The Open Communities and Its Enemies: Understanding the Impact on Perpetuation of Hateful User-Generated Content and User Engagement
November 2, 2023	Fireside Chat - Inside the Process: Excelling in the Academic Job Market	Pan Li, Xiaoning Wang, Ryan T. Allen	Georgia Institute of Technology (Assistant Professor), UT Dallas (Assistant Professor), UWash (Assistant Professor)	Fireside Chat

Date	Type	Speaker	Profile	Title
July 1, 2022	Ignite Talk	Sandeep Gangarapu	UMN (Ph.D.) :: Apple Research (Data Scientist)	Fireside Chat: opportunities in the industry
July 8, 2022
July 15, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Maria Mitkina	UW (Ph.D)	Promoting Digital Visibility for Disadvantaged Communities: An Empirical Analysis of 'Black-Owned Business' Labels
July 22, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Alan Chen	UMN (Ph.D.)	Less is Not Always More: Investigating the Impact of Block Intensity and Immediacy of Social Media Blockers on Productivity
July 29, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Wen Wang	CMU (Ph.D.) :: UMD (Assitant Professor)	Deep Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Targeting
Auguest 12, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Amandeep Singh	Wharton (Ph.D.)	Deep Causal Regressions For Unstructured Data
Auguest 19, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Pan Li	NYU (Ph.D.)	Consumer Preference Exploration in Recommender Systems
September 2, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Jeff Clement	UMN (Ph.D.)	Conflicted by Explanations: Making Medical AI Explainable May Not Improve Clinical Experts’ Decision Quality
September 9, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Gavin Wang	Wharton (Ph.D.)	Artificial Intelligence, Lean Method and Startup Product Scaling
September 16, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Yifei Wang	UMD (Ph.D.)	Dancing to the #Challenge: The Effect of TikTok on Closing the Artist Gender Gap in the Music Industry
September 23, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Aneesh Rai	Wharton (Ph.D.)	Perceptions of Group Diversity and Their Impact on Personnel Selection
September 30, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Prasanna Parasurama	NYU (Ph.D.)	Hiring with Algorithmic Fairness Constraints: Theory and Empirics
October 7, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Ryan Allen	HBS (Ph.D.)	Methodological Pluralism and Innovation in Data-driven Organizational Cultures
October 14, 2022
October 21, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Marat Ibragimov	MIT (Ph.D.)	Customer Search and Product Returns
October 28, 2022	Job Market Presentation	Maya Mudambi	UMD (Ph.D.)	Prominence Reduction versus Banning: An Empirical Investigation of Content Moderation Strategies in Online Platforms"

Date	Type	Speaker	Profile	Title
Nov 12 2021	Job Market Practice	Ruyu Chen	Cornell(Ph.D) :: Stanford(Postdoc)	IT and innovation: how did the Internet affect firms’ reliance on science?
October 15, 2021	Job Market Presentation	Semi Min	NYU (Ph.D)	The coevolution of meaning and technologies in the diffusion of blockchain
October 8, 2021	Job Market Presentation	Carlos Fernandez	NYU (Ph.D) :: HKUST (Assistant Professor)	Observational vs. Experimental Data When Learning Intervention Policies
September 24, 2021	Job Market Presentation	Qinglai He	ASU (Ph.D)::Wisc (Assistant Professor)	The effect of machine-empowered platform governance: An empirical study of content moderation
August 27, 2021	Job Market Practice	Sebastian Steffan	MIT (Ph.D)	Occupational Change: Automation and Reskilling Risks
August 20, 2021	Fireside chat with Profs. Anindya, Anjana and Gordon	Anindya Ghose, Anjana Susarla, Gordon Burtch	NYU Stern MSU Broad BU Questrom	Expectations from job market candidates
August 13, 2021	Job Market Practice	Runshan Fu	CMU (Ph.D)	How Does Zestimate Affect Housing Market Outcomes Across Socio-economic Segments?
August 6, 2021	Job Market Presentation	Jeremy Yang	MIT (Ph.D) :: HBS (Assistant Professor)	First Law of Motion: Influencer Video Advertising on TikTok
July 30, 2021	Fireside Chat with Avinash, Grace and Yash	Avinash Collis, Grace Gu, Yash Babar	UT Austin Boston College Wisconsin Madison	Transition from being a Ph.D candidate to an Assistant Professor
July 23, 2021	Job Market Practice	Chenshuo Sun	NYU (Ph.D)	Voice shopping
July 16, 2021	Job Market Presentation	Mikhail Lysyakov	UMD (Ph.D) :: Rochester Simon	Threatened by AI: Analyzing Users’ Responses to the Introduction of AI in a Crowd-sourcing Platform
Apr 15, 2021	Job Market Experience	Emaad Mansoor, Mikhail Lysyakov, Scott Schanke	CMU Heinz (Ph.D) :: Wisconsin Madison UMD Smith (Ph.D) :: Rochester Simon UMN Carlson (Ph.D) :: Wisconsin Milwaukee	Successfully Navigating IS job market in 2020
Mar 11, 2021	Job Market Experience	Dave Holtz , Alex Miller	MIT Sloan (Ph.D) :: Berkeley Haas Wharton (Ph.D) :: USC Marshall	Successfully Navigating (multiple) job markets in 2020
Feb 23, 2021	Job Market Advice	Anindya Ghose	Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Business at NYU Stern	General Job Market Advice & Industry vs Academia

Date	Type	Speaker	Profile	Title
Nov 13, 2020	Job Market Practice	Anpu Mahalingam	Purdue (Ph.D)	Implications of Priority Access in Markets with Experts: Evidence from Online Marketplace Lending
Oct 23, 2020	Job Market Practice	Scott Schanke	UMN Carlson (Ph.D)	Estimating the Impact of 'Humanizing’ Customer Service Chatbots
Oct 2, 2020	Job Market Practice	Emaad Mansoor	CMU Heinz (Ph.D)	Influence via Ethos: On the Persuasive Power of Reputation in Deliberation Online
Sept 4, 2020	Job Market Presentation	Grace Gu	HBS (Ph.D) :: Boston College (Assistant Professor)	Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace
Aug 21, 2020	Job Market Practice	Dave Holtz	MIT Sloan (Ph.D)	The Engagement-Diversity Connection: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Spotify
Oct 23, 2020	Job Market Practice	Alex Miller	Wharton (Ph.D)	Estimating Optimal Discount Targeting Policies from Online Experiments
July 24, 2020	Job Market Presentation	Siddhartha Sharma	CMU (Ph.D) :: Indiana (Assistant Professor)	I Hear You: Does Quality Improve with Customer Voice?
May 1, 2020	Job Market Presentation	Vandith Pamuru	Purdue University (Ph.D) :: Indian School of Business (Assistant Professor)	Analyzing Frictions in Generalized Second Price Auction Markets

ISPOC Alumni & Speakers

Gal Oestreicher Singer

Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe

Kevin Hong

Jui Ramaprasad

Sung Hyun Kwon

Nur Ahmed

Helen S. Zeng

Atiye Cansu Erol

Xiyang Hu

Zhuoran Jiang

Yi Zhu

Zanele Munyikwa

Qiaochu Wang

Alex Moehring

Yifei Wang

Zekun Liu

Weiqing Zhang

Nasim Mousavi

Yifan Yu

Nina Huang

Vilma Todri

Dokyun Lee

Panagiotis Adamapoulos

Ryan Allen

Alan Chen

Jeff Clement

Sandeep Gangarapu

Marat Ibragimov

Pan Li

Maya Mudambi

Prasanna Parasurama

Aneesh Rai

Amandeep Singh

Gavin Wang

Yifei Wang

Wen Wang

Vandith Pamuru

Grace Gu

Siddhartha Sharma

Anparasan Mahalingam

Anindya Ghose

Mikhail Lysyakov

Alex Miller

Dave Holtz

Emaad Mansoor

Scott Schanke

About ISPOC

Started in 2020, ISPOC is an online series that brings together IS PhD students to hone their job market skills and share their job market experience.

ISPOC: Name and the Logo

As you may have guessed, the name and the logo derives its inspiration from Spock and his Vulcan Salute from the Star Trek series (the founder organizer wants to call himself a Star Trek geek). Logo has been designed by Elvis D'Souza, Director of Technology at Sensara Technologies, India and a dear friend of the founder organizer.

ISPOC Organizers

Organizers

Academic Year	Organizer	Role	Affiliation
2019 — 2020	Raveesh Mayya	Founder Organizer	UMD Smith :: NYU Stern
2020 — 2021	Chenshuo Sun	Organizer	NYU Stern
	Maya Mudambi	Associate Organizer	UMD Smith
2021 — 2022	Maya Mudambi	Organizer	UMD Smith
	Peiyan Pearl Yu	Associate Organizer	NYU Stern
2022 — 2023	Peiyan Pearl Yu	Organizer	NYU Stern
	Eunsol Cho	Associate Organizer	NYU Stern
	Rachit Kamdar	Associate Organizer	UMD Smith
	Yi Zhu	Associate Organizer	UMN Carlson
2023 — 2024	Eunsol Cho	Organizer	NYU Stern
	Rachit Kamdar	Organizer	UMD Smith
	Yi-Yun Chu	Associate Organizer	CMU Heinz
	Fangchen Song	Associate Organizer	UT Austin
2024 — 2025	Fangchen Song	Organizer	UT Austin
	Liben Chen	Associate Organizer	UMN Carlson
	Connor Douglas	Associate Organizer	NYU Stern

Fangchen Song

Liben Chen

Connor Douglas

Eunsol Cho

Yi-Yun Chu

Rachit Kamdar

Yi Zhu

Peiyan Pearl Yu

Maya Mudambi

Chenshuo Sun

Raveesh Mayya

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