Research Interests
Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Mining, Social Media Analytics, Information Disclosure
Education
- Ph D, University of Florida - Gainesville, FL
Selected Awards and Honors
- 2021-22 Pedagogy Mini-Grants: Hybrid Pedagogy (2021), Teaching - University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Teaching Excellence Award (2021), Teaching - University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Teaching Excellence Award (2016), Teaching - University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Alec Courtelis Award (2010), Scholarship/Research - University of Florida
- Outstanding Academic Achievement Award (2010), Scholarship/Research - University of Florida
- Grinter Fellowship (2009), Scholarship/Research - University of Florida
Selected Publications
- Peng, J., Zhang, J., Ram, . (2022). The Good, the Bad, and the Social Media: Financial Implications of Social Media Reactions to Firm-Related News. Journal of Management Information Systems, 4 706-832.
- Zhang, J., Liu, X., Li, X.B. (2020). Predictive Analytics with Strategically Missing Data. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 32(4) 1143-1156.
- Zhang, J., Piramuthu, S. (2018). Product Recommendation with Latent Review topics. Information Systems Frontiers, 20 617–625.
- Summerfield, N., Zhang, J., Motiwalla, L.F., Mai, T., Mazza, K. (2018). Using Analytics to Predict Project Management Success.
- Zhu, D., Lappas, T., Zhang, J. (2018). Unsupervised Tip-Mining from Customer Reviews. Decision Support Systems, 107 116-124.
- Zhang, J., Aytug, H. (2016). Comparison of Imputation Methods for Discriminant Analysis with Strategically Hidden Data. European Journal of Operational Research, 255(2) 522 - 530.
- Zhang, J., Khan, M.R., Shih, D. (2015). Rating Determinants Factored in E-Commerce Decision-Making. International Journal of Applied Management and Technology, 14(1) 1-20.
- Zhang, J. (2015). Voluntary Information Disclosure on Social Media. Decision Support Systems, 73 28–36.
- Zhang, J., Aytug, H., Koehler, G.J. (2014). Discriminant Analysis with Strategically Manipulated Data. Information Systems Research, 25(3) 654–662.
- Marston, S., Li, Z., Bandyopadhyay, S., Zhang, J., Ghalsasi, A. (2011). Cloud Computing: The Business Perspective. Decision Support Systems, 51(1) 176-189.
- Guo, H., Zhang, J., Koehler, G.J. (2008). A Survey of Quantum Games. Decision Support Systems, 46(1) 318-332.
- Zhang, J., Bandyopadhyay, S., Piramuthu, S. (2008). Real Option Valuation on Grid Computing. Decision Support Systems, 46(1) 333-343.
Selected Presentations
- Impact of Verbal and Nonverbal Cues in CEO Interview Videos on Market Volatility - ICIS 2024 Annual Meeting, December 2024 - Bangkok, Thailand
- Unveiling the Impact: Contextual Affinities in Managerial Responses and Product Reviews - 57th Hawaii 5 International Conference on System Sciences, January 2024 - Waikiki, Hawaii
- CEO Emotions in Interview Videos with Firm Performance - ICIS Annual Meeting, December 2022 - Denmark
- Impact of Social Information on Firm Performance - The 6th Workshop on Data Science, October 2022 - Indianapolis, IN
- Financial Implications of Social Media Reactions to Firm-Related News - The 29th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), December 2019 - Munich, Germany
- The Good, the Bad, and the Social Media: Financial Implications of Social Media Reactions to Firm-Related News - Conference on Information Systems and Technology, INFORMs, October 2019 - Seattle, WA,
- Accentuating the Positive: Financial Implications of Strategic Information Disclosure of Firms on Social Media - Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), October 2017 - Houston, TX,
- Strategically Missing Values with Support Vector Machines - The 23rd Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, December 2013 - Milan, Italy