ISPOC Sessions

ISPOC 2025 Series

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

ISPOC Alumni & Speakers

All 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020

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

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 Raveesh.

ISPOC Organizers

Organizers

Academic Year Organizer Role Affiliation
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

Liben Chen

Connor Douglas

Winry Liu

Xiru Yang

Fangchen Song

Eunsol Cho

Yi-Yun Chu

Rachit Kamdar

Yi Zhu

Peiyan Pearl Yu

Maya Mudambi

Chenshuo Sun

Raveesh Mayya

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