Xitong LI

Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

lix@hec.fr https://sites.google.com/view/xitong-li/
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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

Mobile Cyber-Physical System

Mobile Information Systems, 2017, vol. 2017, n° 4970290, pp 1-2, (in coll. with X. HU, J. CHENG, W. TAN, Q. LIU, Z. SHENG)

Could Deal Promotion Improve Merchants' Online Reputations? The Moderating Role of Prior Reviews

Journal of Management Information Systems, 2016, vol. 33, n° 1, pp 171-201,

Understanding the Dynamics of Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

Journal of Management Information Systems, Fall 2015, vol. 32, n° 2, pp 104-133, (in coll. with S. MADNICK)

Exploring user emotion in microblogs for music recommendation

Expert Systems with Applications, 15 December 2015, vol. 42, n° 23, pp 9284-9293, (in coll. with S. DENG, D. WANG, G. XU)

SAfeDJ: A Crowd-Cloud Codesign Approach to Situation-Aware Music Delivery for Drivers

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, October 2015, vol. 12, n° 1, (in coll. with X. HU, J. DENG, J. ZHAO, R. WANG, V. LEUNG, Y. KWOK)

Effect of Media Usage Selection on Social Mobilization Speed: Facebook vs E-Mail

PLOS One, 2015, vol. 10, n° 9, (in coll. with J. WANG, S. MADNICK, J. ALSTOTT, C. VELU)

Multi-dimensional Context-aware Social Network Architecture for Mobile Crowdsensing

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2014, vol. 52, n° 6, (in coll. with X. XU, E. NGAI, V. LEUNG, P. KRUCHTEN)

A Context-Based Approach to Reconciling Data Interpretation Conflicts in Web Services Composition

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, November 2013, vol. 13, n° 1, (in coll. with S. E. MADNICK, H. W. ZHU)

A Petri Net Approach to Mediation-aided Composition of Web Services

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2012, vol. 9, n° 2, pp 429-435, (in coll. with Y. DU, P. XIONG)

A Trust-Based Approach to Selection of Business Services

International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, 2011, vol. 24, n° 8, pp 769-784, (in coll. with S. LI, Y. FAN)

Proceedings

A pattern-based approach to development of service mediators for protocol mediation

7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WISCA 2008) , 2008 , Vancouver (Y. FAN, J. WANG, L. WANG, F. JIANG)

A classification of service composition mismatches to support service mediation

6th International Conferernce on Grid and Cooperative Computing , 2007 , Urumchi (Y. FAN, F. JIANG)

Working papers

Scientific articles

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)

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)

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)

Reporting Technologies and Textual Readability: Evidence from the XBRL Mandate

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

Proceedings

A pattern-based approach to development of service mediators for protocol mediation

7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WISCA 2008) , 2008 , Vancouver (Y. FAN, J. WANG, L. WANG, F. JIANG)

A classification of service composition mismatches to support service mediation

6th International Conferernce on Grid and Cooperative Computing , 2007 , Urumchi (Y. FAN, F. JIANG)

Working papers

Impact of Average Rating on Social Media Endorsement: The Moderating Role of Rating Dispersion and Discount Threshold

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Could Deal Promotion Improve Merchants' Online Reputations? The Moderating Role of Prior Reviews

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Understanding the Dynamics of Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2015

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

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)