Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang, HKUST Business School

Xiaoquan Zhang (Michael)

Who am I ?

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I am an assistant professor at HKUST Business School.

I got my PhD at MIT Sloan School of Management.

I am also the Managing Editor of Ecommerce Research Forum (now ISN Journal at SSRN.com).

My favorate cartoon character is Tintin.

My Academic Life

I majored in Management Science. My advisors were and will always be Prof. Erik Brynjolfsson, Prof. John D.C. Little, and Prof. Chris Dellarocas.

My research interests are:

Online advertising
Word-of-mouth and online reputation systems
Provision and pricing of information goods

I am fascinated by how we are able to create, distribute, and consume information. I feel very lucky to live in this era, and to be part of this slice of the history.

I have 4 degrees in Fine Arts, Science and Engineering, and Management.

I've travelled in 12 countries including China, Russia, India, UAE, Korea, Singapore, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada and the US.

I study marketing implications of information flows that are enabled by the Internet. My recent research papers address the problems of bidding strategies in online advertising auctions, socially efficient distribution of digital contents (e.g music), the impact of online opinion forums on movie box-office performance or video games sales, etc.

I have a pending patent on "Method and System for Using a Point System to Reduce Unsolicited Emails", I propose an Anti-Spam method that relies on setting correct incentives for all the involved parties.

I have presented my papers in such conferences as International Conference on Information Systems, INFORMS Annual Conference, NBER Conference on Innovation Policy and the Economy, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics and Workshop on Economics of Fair Use. My research about Information Overload resulted in a US Pending Patent. My Ph.D. thesis proposal won the 2004 4th Annual eBRC Doctoral Award Competition and I've been named SAP Doctoral Support Award Winner.

I am INFORMS Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium Fellow, and ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems) Doctoral Consortium Fellow.

My joint work on word-of-mouth of movies has been reported by CNN, Variety, ComputerWorld, etc.

Here is an issue of "Sloan News" that I featured on the cover page. :-)
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