Prof. Rong ZHENG
Associate Professor, Information Systems rzheng@ust.hk




Academic qualification
PhD 2009 New York University, Information System
M.Sc. 2002 Northeastern University, Computer Science
B.Sc. 1999 Northeastern University, Computer Science

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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEAssociate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2017-present
Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2009-2017
Instructor, IOMS Department, Stern School of Business, NYU, 2007

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Huang, A.H., Lehavy, R., Zang, A.Y., andZheng, R., "Analyst Information Discovery and Information Interpretation Roles: A Topic Modeling Approach
Evidence on the Information Content of Text in Analyst Reports,"The Accounting Review, 89, 6, 2014, 2151-2180
Adomavicius, G., Tuzhilin, A., andZheng, R., "REQUEST: A Query Language for Customizing Recommendations,"Information System Research, 22, 1, 2011, 99-117
Zheng, R., Li, J., Huang, Z., and Chen, H., "A Framework for Authorship Identification of Online Messages: Writing Style Features and Classification Techniques,"Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST),57, 3, 2006, 378-393
Li, J.,Zheng, R., and Chen, H., "From Fingerprint to Writeprint: Feature Selection for Authorship Identification,"Communication of ACM, 49, 4, 2006, 76-82
SELECTED WORKING PAPERWu, W., Zhang, X., andZheng, R., "Crowd Governance: The Monitoring Role of Wikipedia in the Financial Market"

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICESTrack chair, AIS-SIGBPS Workshop on Business Processes and Services, 2012
Associate editor, ICIS research method track (2012-2014)
Program committee, WITS (2010-2014), ICEC (2012-2014), CSWIM (2010-2014)
Demo chair, ACM Recommender System Conference (2013)
Ad hoc reviewer forMISQ,ISR,JMIS,Management Science,Journal on Computing,ACM Transactions
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPSINFORMS
AIS

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RESEARCH INTERESTS Predictive modeling for business intelligence
Computational text analysis
Social network analytics

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HONORSResearch grant, RGC/GRF, 2010-2012
Research grant, RGC/GRF, 2013-2015
HKUST Business School Research Grants, 2012
Finalist, Franklin Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2010
Weilun Fellow, College of Fellows of HKUST, 2010-2014
PhD Student Teaching Excellence Awards, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2007
Doctoral Fellowship, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2004-2008
Gold Medal in China Collegiate Computer Programming Contest, 1998