Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence

Fintech

Healthcare
Journal Publication
Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Illicit Drugs: Drug Usage, Mortality, and Darknet Transactions
with Wei Chen, Karen Xie
Forthcoming at Production and Operations Management
Social Audience Size as a Reference Point: Evidence from a Field Experiment
with Xingchen Xu, Qili Wang, Liangfei Qiu
Forthcoming at Management Science
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Preliminary version appears in BBTC 2023 (Miami, FL), CIST 2022 (Indianapolis, IN), POMS 2022 (Virtual).
Working Papers
Echoes of Biases: How Stigmatizing Language Affects AI Performance
with Weiguang Wang, Guodong (Gordon) Gao, Ritu Agarwal
Under revision for resubmission at Management Science (Reject and Resubmit)
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Preliminary version appears in ICIS 2023 (Hyderabad, India), INFORMS 2023 (Phoenix, AZ), POMS 2023 (Orlando, FL), CHITA 2023 (Washington, D.C.).
Automated Exposed PII Detection on Social Media for Increasing Privacy Risk Awareness:
A Deep Transfer Learning and Multi-Context Attention Approach
with Fangyu Lin, Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Weifeng Li, Hsinchun Chen
Under Review ​
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Preliminary version appears in IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2021 (Virtual). Best Paper Award.
From Deception to Perception: The Surprising Benefits of Deepfakes for Detecting, Measuring, and Mitigating Bias
with Balaji Padmanabhan, Siva Viswanathan
Under Review
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Preliminary version appears in POMS 2023 (Orlando, FL)
Finalist, 2024 UMD Invention of the Year Awards
Other Conference Proceedings and Presentations
with Fangyu Lin, Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Zara Ahmad-Post, James Lee Hu, Jingyu Xin, Sagar Samtani, Weifeng Li, Hsinchun Chen
International Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
2020, Sorrento, Italy
with Fangyu Lin, Zara Ahmad-Post, Mohammadreza Ebrahimi, Ning Zhang, James Lee Hu, Jingyu Xin, Weifeng Li, Hsinchun Chen
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IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2020, Arlington, VA
Work-in-Progress
Agentic Workflow
with Siva Viswanathan and Balaji Padmanabhan
GeoTagged Echoes
with Qili Wang, Xingchen Xu, Liangfei Qiu
Preliminary version appears in CIST 2024 (Seattle, WA), INFORMS 2023 (Phoenix, AZ)