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Xitong LI

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Information Systems and Operations Management

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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

Proceedings

Working papers

Scientific articles

Analyzing Degree of Parallelism for Concurrent Timed Workflow Processes With Shared Resources

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, February 2017, vol. 64, n° 1, pp 42 - 56, (in coll. with Li WANG, Yanhua DU)

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,

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)

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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

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)