Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho
- Associate Professor
Office Address | 402J |
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Phone | (504) 314-7716 |
ian.ho@tulane.edu | |
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Biography
Yi-Jen (Ian) Ho is an associate professor at the A.B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University. He is interested in understanding the impacts of emerging information technologies. His current research focuses on location-based services, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms. He applies various methods to obtain insights and identify causalities, including game-theoretic modeling, econometrics, randomized experiments, and machine learning. His research has appeared in premier business journals, including Information Systems Research and Production and Operations Management. He received the Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award in 2022 and the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award in 2017 from the INFORMS Information Systems Society. His research won several best paper awards and runner-up at major conferences, including INFORMS Information Systems and eBusiness Sections, PACIS, and WeB. He has served as an associate editor for Management Information Systems Quarterly and a guest senior editor at Production and Operations Management. He also served as a cluster co-chair, associate editor, and program committee member for conferences.
Courses
Research
- Mao S, Dewan S, Ho Y (2022) Personalized Ranking at a Mobile App Distribution Platform. Information Systems Research, 34(3), pp. 811–827.
- Ho Y, Liu S, Wang L (2022) Fun Shopping: A Randomized Field Experiment of Gamification. Information Systems Research, 34(2), pp. 766–785.
- Ho Y, Liu S, Pu J, Zhang D. (2022) Is it All about You or Your Driving? Designing IoT-enabled Risk Assessments. Production and Operations Management, 31(11), pp. 4205–4222.
- Ho Y, Dewan S, Ho Y (2020) Distance and Competition in Mobile Geofencing. Information Systems Research, 31(4), pp. 1037–1492.
- Dewan S, Ho Y, Ramaprasad J (2017) Popularity or Proximity: Characterizing the Nature of Social Influence in an Online Music Community. Information Systems Research, 28(1), pp. 117–136.
- Ho Y, Ho Y, Tan Y (2017) Online Cashback Shopping: Implications for Consumers and e-Businesses. Information Systems Research, 28(2), pp. 250–264.