Feng Mai (fmai)

Feng Mai

Associate Professor & Area Coordinator of Information Management and Analytics Area (IMA)

School of Business

Babbio Center 626
(201) 216-5385

Education

  • PhD (2015) University of Cincinnati (Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems)
  • MS (2010) Miami University (Statistics)
  • BA (2008) Wabash College (Mathematics)

Honors and Awards

Winner of John L. Weinberg/IRRCI Research Paper Award Competition, 2023
EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper: Innovative Applications of OR, Association of European Operational Research Societies, 2022
Bright Idea Award, New Jersey Collegiate Business Administration Association (NJCBAA) and Seton Hall University, 2021
Semifinalist for Best Paper Award (Fintech), Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, 2020
Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, ACM CSCW, 2019
Semifinalist for Best Paper Award (Corporate Finance), Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, 2018
Research Fellow, The Risk Institute (Ohio State University), 2017-2019

Professional Societies

  • ACM – Association for Computing Machinery Member
  • AIS – Association for Information Systems Member

Selected Publications

Conference Proceeding

  1. Zheng, L. N.; Mai, F.; Yan, B.; Nickerson, J. (2021). The Effect of Learning Machines on Online Community Governance. Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems.
  2. Vaidya, A.; Mai, F.; Ning, Y. (2020). Empirical Analysis of Multi-Task Learning for Reducing Identity Bias in Toxic Comment Detection. Proceedings of the 14th AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM). Atlanta, Georgia: AAAI ICWSM.
    https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7334/7188.
  3. Zheng, L.; Mai, F.; Gordon, D. M.; Nickerson, J. (2020). Bursty coordination in online communities. 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019.
  4. Mai, F.; Chen, Z.; Lindberg, A. (2019). Does Sleep Deprivation Cause Online Incivility? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.. ICIS.
  5. Mai, F.; Chen, Z.; Lindberg, A. (2019). Does sleep deprivation cause online incivility? Evidence from a natural experiment. 40th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2019.
  6. Zheng, L.; Mai, F.; Gordon, D.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Bursty Coordination in Online Communities. Workshop on Information Technology and Systems.
  7. Lei (Nico) Zheng; Mai, F.; Gordon, D. M.; Nickerson, J. (2018). Bursty Coordination in Online Communities. Workshop on Information in Technology.

Journal Article

  1. Zheng, L.; Mai, F.; Yan, B.; Nickerson, J. (2023). Stigmergy in Open Collaboration: An Empirical Investigation Based on Wikipedia. Journal of Management Information Systems .
    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07421222.2023.2229119.
  2. Yan, B.; Mai, F.; Wu, C.; Chen, R.; Li, X. (2023). A Computational Framework for Understanding Firm Communication During Disasters. Information Systems Research.
  3. Mai, F.; Ko, D.; Shan, Z.; Zhang, D. (2023). The Impact of Accelerated Digitization on Patient Portal Use by Underprivileged Racial Minority Groups During COVID-19: Longitudinal Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research (vol. 25, pp. e44981).
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37384810.
  4. Li, K.; Liu, X.; Mai, F.; Zhang, T. (2021). The Role of Corporate Culture in Bad Times: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
  5. Li, K.; Mai, F.; Shen, R.; Yan, X. (2021). Measuring Corporate Culture Using Machine Learning. Review of Financial Studies (7 ed., vol. 34, pp. 3265–3315).
  6. Liu, R.; Mai, F.; Wu, Y. (2020). Predicting Shareholder Litigation on Insider Trading from Financial Text: An Interpretable Deep Learning Approach, 2020, Rong Liu, Feng Mai, Jay Shan, and Ying Wu. Information and Management [ABS-3 Journal, IF: 5.155] (8 ed., vol. 57, pp. 103387).
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2020.103387.
  7. Zheng, L.; Albano, C. M.; Vora, N. M.; Mai, F.; Nickerson, J. (2019). The roles bots play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW ed., vol. 3).
  8. Mai, F.; Tian, S.; Lee, C.; Ma, L. (2019). Deep learning models for bankruptcy prediction using textual disclosures. European Journal of Operational Research (2 ed., vol. 274, pp. 743-758).
  9. Li, X.; Wu, C.; Mai, F. (2019). The effect of online reviews on product sales: A joint sentiment-topic analysis. Information and Management (2 ed., vol. 56, pp. 172-184).
  10. Ko, D. G.; Mai, F.; Shan, Z.; Zhang, D. (2019). Operational efficiency and patient-centered health care: A view from online physician reviews. Journal of Operations Management (4 ed., vol. 65, pp. 353-379).
  11. Mai, F.; Fry, M. J.; Ohlmann, J. W. (2018). Model-based capacitated clustering with posterior regularization. European Journal of Operational Research (2 ed., vol. 271, pp. 594-605).
  12. Mai, F.; Shan, Z.; Bai, Q.; Wang, X.; Chiang, R. (2018). How Does Social Media Impact Bitcoin Value? A Test of the Silent Majority Hypothesis. Journal of Management Information Systems (1 ed., vol. 35, pp. 19-52).
  13. Qin, F.; Mai, F.; Fry, M. J.; Raturi, A. S. (2016). Supply-chain performance anomalies: Fairness concerns under private cost information. European Journal of Operational Research (1 ed., vol. 252, pp. 170-182).
  14. Wang, X.; Mai, F.; Bendle, N.; Cotte, J. (2015). The Journal of Consumer Research at Forty: A Historical Analysis. Journal of Consumer Research (1 ed., vol. 42, pp. 5-18).
  15. Wang, X.; Mai, F.; Chiang, R. H. (2014). Market Dynamics and User-Generated Content About Tablet Computers. Marketing Science (3 ed., vol. 33, pp. 449-458).

Courses

BIA-650 Optimization And Process Analytics
BIA-652 Multivariate Data Analytics