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Xitong LI

Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

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Biography

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Dr. Xitong Li is a Full Professor of Information Systems at HEC Paris, France. His primary research interests are in the economics of information technologies, including social media, crowdfunding, digital marketing, online education, algorithms and AI. His primary research methods include applied econometric analysis, field and laboratory experiments. Dr. Li’s research appears in leading international journals, such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, and various ACM / IEEE Transactions

Dr. Li’s research has been granted by ANR AAPG France (solo PI), equivalent to National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S., 124 k€, for 2018-2023. His research has also been granted by Hi! PARIS Fellowship, 180 k€, for 2021-2025. 

Dr. Li currently serves as an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research

Dr. Li served as a Program Co-chair of the 42th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2021, and a co-chair of Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR) 2019.

Dr. Xitong Li received his Ph.D. in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and his Ph.D. in engineering from Tsinghua University.

Scientific articles

Connecting the Last Mile: The Impact of Dockless Bike-sharing on Public Transportation

Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming, (in coll. with F. Jin, Y. Cheng, Y. J. Hu)

How Do Product Recommendations Help Consumers Search Products? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Management Science, September 2024, vol. 70, n° 9, pp 5776–5794, (in coll. with X. S. WAN, A. KUMAR)

Retargeted Versus Generic Product Recommendations: When is it Valuable to Present Retargeted Recommendations?

Information Systems Research, September 2024, vol. 35, n° 3, pp 1403-1421, (in coll. with X. (. Wan, A. Kumar)

Does Social Influence Change with Other Information Sources? A Large-Scale Randomized Experiment in Medical Crowdfunding

Information Systems Research, December, 21 2023, vol. 34, n° 4, pp 1476-1492, (in coll. with Y. Y. Hur, F. Jin, Y. Cheng, Y. J. Hu)

Large scale analytics of global and regional MOOC providers: Differences in learners’ demographics, preferences, and perceptions

Computers & Education, April 2022, vol. 180, n° 104426, (in coll. with J. A. Ruipérez-Valiente, T. Staubitz, M. Jenner, S. Halawa, J. Zhang, I. Despujol, J. Maldonado-Mahauad, G. Montoro, M. Peffer, T. Rohloff, J. Lane, C. Turro, M. Pérez-Sanagustín, J. Reich)

Algorithmic versus Human Advice: Does Presenting Prediction Performance Matter for Algorithm Appreciation?

Journal of Management Information Systems, June 2022, vol. 39, n° 2, pp 336-365, (in coll. with S. YOU, L. C. YANG)

How Do Recommender Systems Lead to Consumer Purchases? A Causal Mediation Analysis of a Field Experiment

Information Systems Research, June 2022, vol. 33, n° 2, pp 620-637, (in coll. with J. GRAHL, O. HINZ)

Reporting Technologies and Textual Readability: Evidence from the XBRL Mandate

Information Systems Research, Septembre 2021, vol. 32, n° 3, pp 1025-1042, (in coll. with H. Zhu, L. Zuo)

Combating Procrastination on MOOCs via Optimal Calls-to-Action: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Information Systems Research, June 2021, vol. 32, n° 2, pp iii-vii, 301-674, C2, (in coll. with N. HUANG, J. ZHANG, G. BURTCH, P.-Y. CHEN)

Dynamic Monitoring of Service Outsourcing for Timed Workflow Processes

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, November 2019, vol. 66, n° 4, pp 715-729, (in coll. with Y. DU, L. WANG, G. MU)

Proceedings

How Does Disabling Cookie Tracking Impact Online News Consumption?

45th International Conference on Information Systems , 2024 (Y. SHEN, K. M. MILLER)

The Spillover Effects of PDMP Integration and Data Sharing on Opioids Prescribing Rate

40th International Conference on Information Systems , 2019 , Munich (Y. SHEN)

Health Drive: Mobile Healthcare Onboa rd Vehicles to Promote Safe Driving

48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , 2015 , Kauai (X. HU, C. H. NGAI, J. ZHAO, V. C. M. LEUNG, P. NASIOPOULOS)

Towards Mobility-as-a-Service to Promote Smart Transportation

2015 IEEE 82 nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall) , 2015 , Boston (Xiping HU, Nam Ky GIANG, Johnny SHEN, Victor C. M. LEUNG)

Working papers

Scientific articles

How Do Product Recommendations Help Consumers Search Products? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Management Science, September 2024, vol. 70, n° 9, pp 5776–5794, (in coll. with X. S. WAN, A. KUMAR)

Retargeted Versus Generic Product Recommendations: When is it Valuable to Present Retargeted Recommendations?

Information Systems Research, September 2024, vol. 35, n° 3, pp 1403-1421, (in coll. with X. (. Wan, A. Kumar)

Does Social Influence Change with Other Information Sources? A Large-Scale Randomized Experiment in Medical Crowdfunding

Information Systems Research, December, 21 2023, vol. 34, n° 4, pp 1476-1492, (in coll. with Y. Y. Hur, F. Jin, Y. Cheng, Y. J. Hu)

Algorithmic versus Human Advice: Does Presenting Prediction Performance Matter for Algorithm Appreciation?

Journal of Management Information Systems, June 2022, vol. 39, n° 2, pp 336-365, (in coll. with S. YOU, L. C. YANG)

Proceedings

How Does Disabling Cookie Tracking Impact Online News Consumption?

45th International Conference on Information Systems , 2024 (Y. SHEN, K. M. MILLER)

The Spillover Effects of PDMP Integration and Data Sharing on Opioids Prescribing Rate

40th International Conference on Information Systems , 2019 , Munich (Y. SHEN)

Health Drive: Mobile Healthcare Onboa rd Vehicles to Promote Safe Driving

48th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences , 2015 , Kauai (X. HU, C. H. NGAI, J. ZHAO, V. C. M. LEUNG, P. NASIOPOULOS)

Towards Mobility-as-a-Service to Promote Smart Transportation

2015 IEEE 82 nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall) , 2015 , Boston (Xiping HU, Nam Ky GIANG, Johnny SHEN, Victor C. M. LEUNG)

Working papers

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management, MIT, Sloan School of Management - USA
  • Ph.D. in Engineering, Tsinghua University - China
  • Bachelor of Science in Control Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University - China

Academic appointments

Academic Responsibilities at HEC

  • 2023- Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management HEC Paris
  • 2019-2022 Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management HEC Paris
  • 2014-2018 Assistant Professor, Operations Management & Information Technology HEC Paris
  • 2014- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

External Academic Responsibilities

  • 2008-2009 Visiting student MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management

Scientific Activities

Editorial activities

  • Reviewer: Management Science, Information Systems Research (ISR), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (ACM TOIT), World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A (SMCA), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC), IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), IEEE Intelligent Systems, Decision Support Systems (DSS), Information Sciences (INS), Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Journal on Data Semantics (JODS), Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA)