Xitong LI

Professor

Information Systems and Operations Management

lix@hec.fr https://sites.google.com/view/xitong-li/

Biography

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.

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Scientific articles

Herding and Social Media Word-of-Mouth: Evidence from Groupon

MIS Quarterly, february, 3 2018, vol. 42, n° 4, pp 1331-1351, (in coll. with L. WU)

Impact of Average Rating on Social Media Endorsement: The Moderating Role of Rating Dispersion and Discount Threshold

Information Systems Research, September 2018, vol. 29, n° 3, pp 739-754,

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Advancing Intelligent Automation in Sharing Economy

IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, November 2018, vol. 15, n° 4, pp 1443-1447, (in coll. with X. HU, W. TAN, J. CHENG, M. ZHOU, R.Y-K KWOK)

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)

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)

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,

SAfeDJ: A Crowd-Cloud Codesign Approach to Situation-Aware Music Delivery for Drivers

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), October 2015, vol. 12, n° 1, (in coll. with X. HU, J. DENG, J. ZHAO, R. WANG, V. LEUNG, Y. KWOK)

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)

Understanding the Dynamics of Service-Oriented Architecture Implementation

Journal of Management Information Systems, Fall 2015, vol. 32, n° 2, pp 104-133, (in coll. with S. MADNICK)

Exploring user emotion in microblogs for music recommendation

Expert Systems with Applications, December 15 2015, vol. 42, n° 23, pp 9284-9293, (in coll. with S. DENG, D. WANG, G. XU)

Proceedings

Dynamic Selection of Services under Temporal Constraints in Cloud Computing

9th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE)/8th SOAIC/6th EM2I/6th SOKMBI/4th ASOC , 2012 , Hangzhou (Y. DU, X. WANG, L. AI)

An Approach to Composing Web Services with Context Heterogeneity

IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009) , 2009 , Los Angeles (S. MADNICK, H. ZHU, Y. FAN)

On the Synchronization of Web Services Interactions

23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops , 2009 , Bradford (Z. MAAMAR, Q. Z. SHENG, H. YAHYAOUI, K. BOUKADI)

A pattern-based approach to development of service mediators for protocol mediation

7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WISCA 2008) , 2008 , Vancouver (Y. FAN, J. WANG, L. WANG, F. JIANG)

Working papers

Scientific articles

Large scale analytics of global and regional MOOC providers: Differences in learners’ demographics, preferences, and perceptions

Computers & Education, April 2022, vol. 180, n° 104426, (in coll. with J. A. Ruipérez-Valiente, T. Staubitz, M. Jenner, S. Halawa, J. Zhang, I. Despujol, J. Maldonado-Mahauad, G. Montoro, M. Peffer, T. Rohloff, J. Lane, C. Turro, M. Pérez-Sanagustín, J. Reich)

Combating Procrastination on MOOCs via Optimal Calls-to-Action: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Information Systems Research, June 2021, vol. 32, n° 2, pp iii-vii, 301-674, C2, (in coll. with N. HUANG, J. ZHANG, G. BURTCH, P.-Y. CHEN)

Reporting Technologies and Textual Readability: Evidence from the XBRL Mandate

Information Systems Research, Septembre 2021, vol. 32, n° 3, pp 1025-1042, (in coll. with H. Zhu, L. Zuo)

Dynamic Monitoring of Service Outsourcing for Timed Workflow Processes

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, November 2019, vol. 66, n° 4, pp 715-729, (in coll. with Y. DU, L. WANG, G. MU)

Proceedings

Dynamic Selection of Services under Temporal Constraints in Cloud Computing

9th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE)/8th SOAIC/6th EM2I/6th SOKMBI/4th ASOC , 2012 , Hangzhou (Y. DU, X. WANG, L. AI)

An Approach to Composing Web Services with Context Heterogeneity

IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009) , 2009 , Los Angeles (S. MADNICK, H. ZHU, Y. FAN)

On the Synchronization of Web Services Interactions

23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops , 2009 , Bradford (Z. MAAMAR, Q. Z. SHENG, H. YAHYAOUI, K. BOUKADI)

A pattern-based approach to development of service mediators for protocol mediation

7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WISCA 2008) , 2008 , Vancouver (Y. FAN, J. WANG, L. WANG, F. JIANG)

Working papers

Economic Benefits of Product Recommendations to Consumers: Estimates from a Field Experiment

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2020

The Effect of Dockless Bike-Sharing on Public Transportation: An Empirical Study

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Impact of Average Rating on Social Media Endorsement: The Moderating Role of Rating Dispersion and Discount Threshold

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2017

Could Deal Promotion Improve Merchants' Online Reputations? The Moderating Role of Prior Reviews

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2016

Education

2014
Ph.D. in Management, MIT, Sloan School of Management - USA
2010
Ph.D. in Engineering, Tsinghua University - China
2004
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
2014- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris

External Academic Responsibilities

2008-2009 Visiting student MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management

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)