I am an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Division of Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder. I received my Ph.D. in Information Systems & Analytics from National University of Singapore in 2019.

My research interests include the management of open innovation commuinity, especially crowdsourcing and open source software community, and the economics of online crowdfunding platforms. My current research is to understand the co-creation process in open innovation communities and business strategies in online crowdfunding platforms. Specifically, my research projects intend to investigate: 1) the role of knowledge variety of crowd participants in crowdsourced new product development process 2) open collaboration process and team governance mechanism in open source software projects 3) strategies of reward design in crowdfunding projects 4) network effects in crowdfunding platform. I use econometric method in my research as well as machine learning techniques such as clustering analysis, topic modeling and neural networks. My works have been published at leading journals and conferences including the Information Systems Research, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, International Conference on Information Systems and the Annual Meeting of Academy of Management.

Research Interests

Crowd-based Innovation: Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Open Innovation Community: Crowdsourcing Community and Open Source Community Digital Transformation: Platform Strategies and Financial Technologies Research Methods: Econometrics, Static Code Analysis, Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Research Papers

“Winner Takes All? The ‘Blockbuster Effect’ on Crowdfunding Platforms” (with Lusi Yang and Jungpil Hahn). Information Systems Research (UTD24 Journal), 2022 “How Rewarding Are Your Rewards? A Value-based View of Crowdfunding Rewards and Crowdfunding Performance” (with Han Jiang, Lusi Yang, Jia Shen and Jungpil Hahn). Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (FT50 Journal), 2021. “Scarcity Strategy in Crowdfunding: An Empirical Exploration of Reward Limit” (with Lusi Yang and Jungpil Hahn). Information Systems Research (UTD24 Journal), 2020. “Can I Touch Your Code? The Effects of Programming Style in Open Source Collaboration” (with Jungpil Hahn). “Online Crowdlending in Crisis Management”. “Exploration and Exploitation in Crowdsourced New Product Development”. “Sourcing Knowledge through Open Source Software Community”.

Selected Conference Proceedings

pdf	The Effects of Programming Style on Open Source Collaboration Zhiyi Wang, Jungpil Hahn International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seoul, South Korea, December 10-13, 2017

pdf	Scarcity Strategy in Crowdfunding: An Empirical Exploration Lusi Yang, Zhiyi Wang, Jungpil Hahn International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seoul, South Korea, December 10-13, 2017

pdf	Crowd Experience and Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Crowdsourced New Product Development Zhiyi Wang, Jungpil Hahn International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Fort Worth, TX, December 13-16, 2015

Selected Conference and Workshop Papers

Propensity and Performance of Task Exploration in Crowdsourced New Product Development Zhiyi Wang, Lusi Yang    Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), July 29 - Aug 4, 2021 The Impact of Blockbusters in Crowdfunding Lusi Yang, Zhiyi Wang, Jungpil Hahn    Annual Meeting of Academy of Management (AOM), Boston, MA, August 9-13, 2019 Scarcity Strategy in Crowdfunding: An Empirical Exploration of Reward Limit on Kickstarter Lusi Yang, Zhiyi Wang, Jungpil Hahn    Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Nashville, TN, Nov 12-13, 2016

Selected Honors & Awards

Junior Faculty Consortium (TIM Division), Annual Meeting of Academy of Management, 2021 Junior Faculty Consortium, International Conference on Information Systems, 2020 Best Paper Award Finalist (OCIS Division), Academy of Management Conference, 2019 Best Student Paper Award Finalist (OCIS Division), Academy of Management Conference, 2019 Selected for MIS Quarterly Author Development Workshop, 2019 Doctoral Consortium (TIM Division), Academy of Management Conference, 2018 Dean's Graduate Research Excellence Award, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2017 Doctoral Consortium (OCIS Division), Academy of Management Conference, 2017 Selected for MIS Quarterly Review Development Workshop, 2016 HIT “Big Data and Business Analytics” Summer Program Registration Fee Waiver, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2016 Research Achievement Award, School of Computing, National University of Singapore, 2016

About My Life

I am an amateur of Go (a guide to play Go). I started to learn and play Go when I was seven. I also enjoy reading books, especially business book, history monograph and detective fiction. I also like a lot of technological stuff such as game programming and IT products (e.g., Raspberry Pi).

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