ISPOC

Incoming

Date	Type	Speaker(s)	Profile	Title
November 12, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Jingwei Dai	CMU, Heinz College	Generative AI Content Governance and Market Outcomes: Evidence from Food Delivery Platforms.
November 19, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Caity Cunningham	UW	TBA

ISPOC 2026 Series

Date	Type	Speaker(s)	Profile	Title
April 9, 2026	Fireside Chat	Chaofan Zhai, Yizhi Liu	University of Minnesota (Ph.D.) :: HKUST (Assistant Professor), University of Maryland (Ph.D.) :: Temple University (Assistant Professor)	IS Job Market Recap and Experience Sharing
April 23, 2026	Fireside Chat	Wendao Xue, Aijia Yuan	UT Austin (Postdoc) :: CUHK (Assistant Professor), Indiana University (Ph.D.) :: UT Austin (Assistant Professor)	IS Job Market Recap and Experience Sharing
June 4, 2026	Fireside Chat	Che-Wei Liu, Yifan Yu	Arizona State University (Associate Professor), University of Hong Kong (Associate Professor)	From Campus to Company: Building Meaningful Industry Collaborations
July 9, 2026	Exemplar Job Talk	Brian Jabarian	Paris School of Economics (Ph.D.) & Sorbonne (Ph.D.) :: CMU Heinz (Assistant Professor)	Voice AI in Firms: A Natural Field Experiment on Automated Job Interviews
July 16, 2026	Exemplar Job Talk	Johann D. Gaebler	Harvard (Ph.D.) :: NYU Stern (Assistant Professor)	A Simple, Statistically Robust Test of Discrimination
August 6, 2026	Exemplar Job Talk	Rubing Li	NYU Stern (Ph.D.) :: UT Austin McCombs (Assistant Professor)	Platform Design, Earnings Transparency and Minimum Wage Policies: Evidence from A Natural Experiment on Lyft
August 20, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Xueyun Luo	Cornell	Supplier scale, competition, and consumer experience in platforms
August 27, 2026	Fireside Chat	JP Akinyemi , Simon (Kanghyun) Cho	UT Austin (Ph.D.) :: UGA (Assistant Professor); Temple (Ph.D.) :: IU (Assistant Professor)	Fresh IS APs Tell Y'all: What It Takes to Land an Offer
September 3, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Omar Olivarez	Harvard Business School (Ph.D. Candidate)	Post Machina: Autonomous Machines and Their Organizational Implications
September 10, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Benjamin S. Manning	MIT Sloan	General Social Agents
September 17, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Liying Qiu	CMU	A Structural Model of Consumer Search Leveraging Generative AI
September 24, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Eunsol Cho	NYU Stern (Ph.D. Candidate)	Decision Complexity and Trust in Large Language Model Advisors
October 1, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Hanwen Shi	UMD	Strategic Language Optimization as an Adversarial Attack: Robust Financial Risk Assessment through Adversarial Learning
October 8, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Yang Gao	Indiana University	Insecure Agent Skill Remediation: A Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Approach
October 15, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Liben Chen	UMN	Impact of Data Privacy Regulations on Recommender Systems Performance
October 22, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Zhiwei Wang	Wharton	Legacy IT, Firm value, and the Cost of Technological Adaptation
October 29, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Fangchen Song	UT Austin	Better AI, Less Human Value Added? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment with Early-Career Knowledge Workers
November 5, 2026	Job Market Presentation	Siyuan (Bruce) Jin	HKUST	Codified Expertise: How Generative AI Changes Temporal Coordination Costs in Distributed Work

Date	Type	Speaker(s)	Profile	Title
April 25, 2025	Fireside Chat	Eric Overby, Ananya Sen	Georgia Tech (Professor), CMU Heinz (Associate Professor)	Generative AI in IS Academic Writing: Best Practices and Pitfalls
May 16, 2025	Fireside Chat	Rodrigo Belo, Xitong Li	Nova School of Business and Economics (Professor), HEC Paris (Professor)	Navigating the International IS Job Market
July 17, 2025	Fireside Chat	Kai Sun	UT Dallas :: UF Warrington	Curbing Anarchy in Social-trading Platforms
July 24, 2025	Fireside Chat	Ye Liu	UW Foster :: Georgia Tech	Informational Accessibility
July 31, 2025	Fireside Chat	Clare Snyder	Michigan Ross :: NYU Stern	Algorithm Reliance, Fast and Slow
August 7, 2025	Fireside Chat	TJ Guo, Jingwen Zhang	UT Austin :: IU Kelley, UW Foster :: UIUC Gies	Job Market Advice
August 14, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Wajeeha Ahmad	Stanford University	Managing Beyond Myopia: Strategic Alignment for Platform Governance
August 21, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Yi-Yun Chu	CMU Heinz	From Views to Value: A Multimodal Analysis of Video Engagement and Learning Outcomes in Online Education
August 28, 2025	Fireside Chat	SungHyun Kwon, Peiyan (Pearl) Yu	UM Smith :: UT Arlington, NYU Stern :: UGA Terry	Job Market Advice
September 4, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Justine Boudou	Harvard	Not All That Glitters is Gold: Firm Hiring in the Market for Knowledge Workers
September 11, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Emily Hu	Wharton	More Than a Sum of Its Parts: Teamwork Through a Multidimensional Lens
September 18, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Yizhi (Louis) Liu	University of Maryland, College Park	Deepfakes for Calibrated Decision-Making: Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Agentic AI
September 25, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Wendao Xue	UT Austin	GenAI-Enabled Causal Study of Unstructured Data
October 2, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Chaofan Zhai	UMN Carlson	Reinforcement Learning for Sustainable Online Learning
October 9, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Rachit Kamdar	UMD Smith	Modeling the Interviewer: Leveraging LLMs to Uncover Personality Mismatch Effects in Interview Assessments
October 16, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Hong-Yi TuYe	MIT Sloan	Rethinking Blitzscaling: Scaling Startups in the Age of AI
October 30, 2025	Job Market Presentation	Aijia Yuan	IU Kelly	Multi-Modal Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Enabled Mental Health Analytics: Disorder Identification and Therapeutic Support

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	Digital Labor and Creator Economy -- Managing Social Interactions on Two-Sided Platforms?
October 10, 2024	Job Market Presentation	Jingwen Zhang	UW Foster	What and When to Sell in Livestreaming: A Structural Analysis of Online Decision-Making

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

Academic Year	Organizer	Role	Affiliation
2026 — 2027	Winry Liu	Organizer	UT Austin
	Xiru Yang	Organizer	UMD Smith
	Hyesoo Lee	Associate Organizer	NYU Stern
	Yuxin Geng	Associate Organizer	UMN Carlson
2025 — 2026	Liben Chen	Organizer	UMN Carlson
	Connor Douglas	Organizer	NYU Stern
	Winry Liu	Associate Organizer	UT Austin
	Xiru Yang	Associate Organizer	UMD Smith
2024 — 2025	Fangchen Song	Organizer	UT Austin
	Liben Chen	Associate Organizer	UMN Carlson
	Connor Douglas	Associate Organizer	NYU Stern
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
2022 — 2023	Peiyan Pearl Yu	Organizer	NYU Stern :: UGA Terry
	Eunsol Cho	Associate Organizer	NYU Stern
	Rachit Kamdar	Associate Organizer	UMD Smith
2021 — 2022	Maya Mudambi	Organizer	UMD Smith:: UMass Isenberg
	Peiyan Pearl Yu	Associate Organizer	NYU Stern :: UGA Terry
	Yi Zhu	Associate Organizer	UMN Carlson :: Kent State
2020 — 2021	Chenshuo Sun	Organizer	NYU Stern :: NUS
	Maya Mudambi	Associate Organizer	UMD Smith :: UMass Isenberg
2019 — 2020	Raveesh Mayya	Founder Organizer	UMD Smith :: NYU Stern

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ISPOC Alumni & Speakers

Hanwen Shi

Eunsol Cho

Liying Qiu

Benjamin Manning

Omar Olivarez

JP Akinyemi

Simon (Kanghyun) Cho

Xueyun Luo

Rubing Li

Johann D. Gaebler

Brian Jabarian

Che-Wei Liu

Yifan Yu

Wendao Xue

Aijia Yuan

Chaofan Zhai

Yizhi Liu

Eric Overby

Ananya Sen

Rodrigo Belo

Xitong Li

Kai Sun

Ye Liu

Clare Snyder

Tianjian (TJ) Guo

Jingwen Zhang

Wajeeha Ahmad

Yi-Yun Chu

SungHyun Kwon

Peiyan (Pearl) Yu

Justine Boudou

Emily Hu

Yizhi (Louis) Liu

Wendao Xue

Chaofan Zhai

Rachit Kamdar

Hong-Yi Tu Ye

Aijia Yuan

Jingwen Zhang

Pearl Yu

Hyunkyung Lee

Mohammed Alsobay

Tianjian (TJ) Guo

Lijia Ma

Zekun Liu

Alex Moehring

Atiye Cerol

Qiaochu Wang

Sung Joo Kim

Yikun Jiang

Alan Chen

Jenny Allen

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