Eric Zheng

Zhiqiang (Eric) Zheng, associate professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at the School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining UTD in Fall 2006, he was an assistant professor in the Business School at the University of California at Riverside from 2003 to 2006.

He received his Ph.D. in information systems from the Department of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School in 2003. Previously he received a M.A. from the Wharton school in Operations and Information Management and a M.S. from the Shanghai Jiaotong University in Industrial Management Engineering. His B.S. is in Management Information Systems from Harbin Institute of technology.

His current research interests include data mining, IT innovation and IT standards, social network analysis. He currently serves on the editorial board of Information Systems Research as an AE.

A vita is available at My Vita.

Teaching

Classes Taught in Recent Years: Business Intelligence Software and techniques (MIS6324) , Advanced Business Intelligence (MIS6334), Ph.D Seminar in Econometrics Analysis (MIS7420)

Previous Classes: E-Commerce, database Systems, Systems Analysis and Design, Data Mining and Introduction to MIS.

Journal Publications

“From Business Intelligence to Competitive Intelligence: Inferring Competitive Measures Using Augmented Site-Centric Data", Zheng, Z., Fader, P., Padmanabhan, B. Forthcoming in Information Systems research.

“Are new IT-enabled investment opportunities diminishing for firms", Dos-Santos, B., Zheng, Z., Mookerjee, V., Chen, H. Forthcoming in Information Systems research.

“DEA-based hypothesis tests for comparing two groups of decision making units”, Banker, R., Zheng, Z., Natarajan, R. European Journal of Operational Research. 206, 2010, pp. 231-238.,

“Toward a Causal Interpretation from Observational Data: A New Bayesian Networks Method for Structural Models with Latent Variables”, Zheng, Z., Pavlou, P. Information Systems research, 21 (2), 2010, pp. 365-391. Methodological Research Note.

“A Model of Search Intermediaries and Paid Referrals”, Weber, T., Zheng, Z. Information Systems Research 18 (4), pp.414-436, 2007.

“Constructing Ensembles from Data Envelopment Analysis”, Zheng, Z., B. Padmanabhan. INFORMS Journal on Computing 19 (4), pp.486-496, 2007.

“Selectively Acquiring Customer Information: A New Data Acquisition Problem and an Active Learning Based Solution”, Zheng, Z., B. Padmanabhan. Management Science, 52(5), pp. 697-712, 2006.

“An Empirical Analysis of the Value of Complete Information for eCRM Models”, Padmanabhan, B., Z. Zheng, and S. Kimbrough. MIS Quarterly, 30(2), pp. 247-267, 2006.

“On the Existence and Significance of Data Pre-processing Biases in Web Usage Mining”, Zheng, Z., Padmanabhan, B. and S. Kimbrough, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 15(2), special issue on mining web-based data for e-business applications, 2003.

“On Adaptive Emergence of Trust Behavior in the Game of Stag Hunt”, Fang, C., Kimbrough, S., Valluri, A. and Zheng Z. INFORMS Journal on Group Decision and Negotiation, Special Issue on Formal Modelling in E-commerce, 11(6), 2002. Supported in part by NSF Grant (number 9709548).

You can reach me through

E-Mail: ericz@utdallas.edu

Phone: 972-883-5914