Research Interests

  • Social Media
  • Internet Advertising
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Economics of Information Systems
  • Data Mining

Publications

  • Chen, Hailiang, Prabuddha De, Yu Jeffrey Hu, Byoung-Hyoun Hwang. 2011. Sentiment Revealed in Social Media and its Effect on the Stock Market. 2011 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), pp. 25-28.
  • Chen, Hailiang, Hongyan Liu, Jiawei Han, Xiaoxin Yin, Jun He. 2009. Exploring Optimization of Semantic Relationship Graph for Multi-relational Bayesian Classification, Decision Support Systems 48(1) 112-121. [Note: This comes from my undergraduate dissertation.]

Manuscripts Under Review

  • Chen, Hailiang, Prabuddha De, Yu Jeffrey Hu. 2011. IT-Enabled Broadcasting in Social Media: An Empirical Study of Artists' Activities and Music Sales. Under 2nd round review at Management Science.
  • Chen, Hailiang, Prabuddha De, Yu Jeffrey Hu, Byoung-Hyoun Hwang. 2011. Customers as Advisors: The Role of Social Media in Financial Markets. Under review at Journal of Finance.

Work in Progress

  • Chen, Hailiang, Prabuddha De, Yu Jeffrey Hu. 2011. Gaining Attention in the Blog Community: How Bloggers Become Influential.
  • Akcura, Tolga M., Kemal Altinkemer, Chen, Hailiang. 2011. Microblogging and Information Diffusion.

Conference Presentations

  • “IT-enabled broadcasting in social media: An empirical study of artists’ activities and music sales” (with Prabuddha De and Yu Jeffrey Hu), Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Shanghai, China, December 2011.
  • “Sentiment revealed in social media and its effect on the stock market” (with Prabuddha De, Yu Jeffrey Hu, and Byoung-Hyoun Hwang), 2011 IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP), Nice, France, June 2011.
  • “Broadcasting in online social networks: An empirical study of artists’ activities and music sales” (with Prabuddha De and Yu Jeffrey Hu), Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Austin, TX, November 2010.
  • “Broadcasting in online social networks: A statistical study of music sales and artists’ activities” (with Prabuddha De and Yu Jeffrey Hu), The Sixth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, June 2010.
  • “Broadcasting in online social networks: An empirical study of music sales and artists’ activities” (with Prabuddha De and Yu Jeffrey Hu), Big Ten Information Systems Research Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2010.