Services

Journal Editorial Board

• Department Editor, Decision Sciences Journal, Jan 2026 – ongoing.
• Associate Editor, Information Systems Research, Jan 2024 – ongoing.
• Senior Editor, Decision Support Systems, Jan 2024 – ongoing.
• Special Issues:
  • Guest Editor, Information & Management, Bright Internet through Secure and Responsible AI, June 2025 – ongoing.
• Past Editorial Roles:
  • Guest AE, MIS Quarterly, Institutional Press in Digital Age, Dec 2024 – June 2026.
  • Guest Editor, Information Systems Frontiers, Bright AI, Mar 2024 – June 2025.
  • Editorial Review Board, Information Systems Research, Jan-Dec 2023.
  • Associate Editor, Decision Support Systems, Jan 2022 – Dec 2023.
  • Guest AE, Journal of MIS, Generative_AI and Digital Platforms, Jan – May 2024.
  • Guest Editor, Decision Support Systems, WITS 2022 Best Papers, Jan – Nov 2023.
  • Guest SE, Production and Operations Management, Social Technologies in Operations Management, 2022-2023.
  • Guest AE, MIS Quarterly, Digital Technologies & Social Justice, 2021 – 2023.
  • Guest Board, JAIS, Addressing Societal Challenges with/ Analytics, 2017 – 2020.
  • Guest Board, DSS, Location Analytics and Decision Support, 2016 – 2017.

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Journal Referee Services [Full information]

• Information Systems Research (73 AE + 55 review reports) – Reviewer of the Year 2021
• MIS Quarterly (4 AE + 43 review reports) – Reviewer of the Year 2021
• Journal of MIS (28 reports)
• Decision Support Systems (22 reports)
• Production and Operations Management (6 SE + 2 review reports)
• Journal of AIS (5 reports)
• ACM Transactions of MIS (5 reports)
• INFORMS Journal of Computing (4 reports)
• Management Science (4 reports)
• Communications of ACM (3 reports)

Grant Referee Services

• 2026: Hong Kong Research Grants Council
• 2025: SSHRC Insight Grants (14A Business fields), Hong Kong Research Grants Council
• 2024: SSHRC Insight Development Grants (14A Business fields), MITACS
• 2023: SSHRC Insight Development Grants (14A Business fields), MITACS
• 2022: SSHRC Insight Development Grants (14A Business fields)
• 2023: MITACS
• 2021: Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Canada SSHRC Insight Grant, MITACS

Tenure/Promotion Evaluation Services

• George Mason University (2025)
• University of Texas at Arlington (2025)
• Montclair State University (2025)

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Conference Organizing Roles [Full Information]

• Workshop Co-Chair, Spring Workshop on Information Systems (SWIS) 2026
• Conference Chair, KPBC Spring 2026, Fall 2025, Spring 2025
• Minitrack Co-Chair, HICSS 2021-ongoing (Technology and Economics in AI Markets)
  • Papers in [2021], [2022], [2023], [2024], [2025], [2026]
• Industry Session Co-Chair, WITS 2025
• Publicity Co-Chair, INFORMS DS 2026, DS 2025
• Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) 2025
• Program Co-Chair, Bright Internet Global Summit (BIGS) 2022-2024.
  • [2022 Program] [2023 Program]
• Workshop Co-Chair, KrAIS Summer Workshop 2023 [CFP] [Program] [Booklet]
• Workshop Co-Chair, INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2022 [DS 2022 Program]
• Program Co-Chair, WITS 2022 [CFP] [WITS 2022 Program]
• Track Co-Chair, ICIS 2022 (Track: Data Analytics for Business and Societal Challenges)
• Track Co-Chair, PACIS 2022 (Track: Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Ethical Issues) [CFP]
• Workshop Co-Chair, KrAIS Workshop 2021 [KrAIS 2021 Program]
• Program Co-Chair, INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2021 [DS 2021 Program]
• Associate Editor, ICIS 2023, 2024
• Program Committee, CIST 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
• Program Committee, WITS 2017, 2019, 2020, 2023
• Program Committee, BIGS 2026

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University / Outside Services [Full Information]

1. President, Korean Professors Association in British Columbia (KPBC), July 2024 – ongoing.
2. Chair, Sauder IT Governance Committee (ITGC), Aug 2019 – July 2024.
3. Course Coordinator, BA 515 Fundamentals of Analytics and Tech, Oct 2019 – ongoing.
4. Adjudicator, KCSSF Scholarship Committee, May 2024, June 2025.
5. Board Member, Point Grey Commerce Faculty Association (PGCFA), Dec 2021 – ongoing.
6. Peer Evaluation of Teaching for CUS Teaching Excellence Award, Jan-March 2024.
7. New Building Project – RHL Learning Spaces Sub Committee, Aug 2022 – Aug 2023.
8. Adjudicator, Nomination of UBC Candidates for Google Ph.D. Fellowship, Aug – Sep 2022.
9. Adjudicator, Nomination of UBC Candidates for Google Ph.D. Fellowship, Sep 2021.
10. Coordinator, MIS Research Seminar Series, Jan 2021 – June 2021.
11. Member, MBAN Analytics Collaboratory Committee, Mar 2019 – Aug 2020.
12. Course Coordinator, COMM 337 Business Programming & Analytics, Jan 2018 – Dec 2020.
13. Adjudicator, Nomination of UBC Candidates for Google Ph.D. Fellowship, Sep 2020.
14. Member, BCOM Review – Curriculum Working Group, Jun 2019 – Jan 2020.

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Exam Services

1. Pengyao Sun, M.Sc. in Information Systems (role: external examiner), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Jan 2026.
2. Soonjae Kwon, Ph.D. in Information Systems (role: committee member), KAIST, Nov 2025.
3. David Xu, Ph.D. in Statistics (role: exam chair), UBC, Nov 2025.
4. Pritam Dash, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (role: university examiner), UBC, Nov 2025.
5. Seokchae Yoon, Ph.D. in Information Systems (role: committee member), KAIST, Sep 2025.
6. Dujian Ding, Ph.D. in Computer Science (role: university examiner), UBC, May 2025.
7. Donglian Sheng, Ph.D. in Information Systems (role: external examiner), McGill, Oct 2024.
8. Ganesh Jawahar, Ph.D. in Computer Science (role: university examiner), UBC, March 2024.
9. Zining Wang, Ph.D. in Marketing (role: university examiner), UBC, March 2024.
10. Chenkai Li, Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (role: exam chair), UBC, Jan 2024.
11. Ife Adebara, Ph.D. in Linguistics (role: university examiner), UBC, Dec 2023.
12. Xinyuan Zhang, Ph.D. in Management Science, UBC, August 2023.
13. Dennis Ma, Ph.D. in OBHR (role: university examiner), UBC, June 2023.
14. Wen Xiao, Ph.D. in Computer Science (role: university examiner), UBC, April 2023.
15. Hassan Halawa, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (role: exam chair), UBC, March 2023.
16. Rahul Krisha, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (role: university examiner), UBC, Jan-March 2023.
17. Pauline Wu, Ph.D. in Accounting (role: university examiner), UBC, May-July 2022.
18. Dennis Ma, Ph.D. in OBHR (role: committee member), UBC, Jan 2018 – 2023.

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Capstone Project Advisees

1. Harry Chan (co-advised with Baljeet Malhotra, Gittu George), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2022. [Final Report] (Software Development Engineer, Amazon)
2. Jacqueline Chong (co-advised with Baljeet Malhotra, Gittu George), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2022. [Final Report]
3. Son Chau (co-advised with Baljeet Malhotra, Gittu George), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2022. [Final Report] (Application Specialist, University Health Network)
4. Anupriya Srivastava (co-advised with Baljeet Malhotra, Gittu George), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2022. [Final Report]
5. Hao Zheng, MBAN/TLEF, June–Aug 2020 [End Product]
6. Kemjika Ananaba, MBAN/TLEF, June–Aug 2020 [End Product] (Business Analyst, TELUS)
7. Charlie Qingkang Cao, MBAN/TLEF, June–Aug 2020 [End Product] (Data Analyst, Electronic Arts)
8. Ziyun (Lily) Liu, MBAN/TeejLab, June–Aug 2020 (Data Analyst, Provincial Health Services Authority)
9. Sherry Qin, MBAN/TeejLab, June–Aug 2020 (Cards Advisor, Royal Bank of Canada)
10. Suguna Menon, MBAN/Daanaa Resolution, June–Aug 2020 (Data Ops Analyst, Basis)
11. Nipun Goyal, MBAN/COE, UBC, June–Aug 2019 [GitHub repo] (Data Scientist, Canada Energy Regulator)
12. Prakhar Sinha, MBAN/COE, UBC, June–Aug 2019 [GitHub repo] (Data Engineer, Article)
13. Xiang Louis Luo, MBAN/COE, UBC, June–Aug 2019 [GitHub repo] (Sr. Data Engineer, Flashfood)
14. Anthony Chiodo (co-advised with Varada Kolhatkar, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2019. [Demo site] (Business Intelligence Engineer, Amazon)
15. Daniel Lin (co-advised with Varada Kolhatkar, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2019. [Demo site] (Data Scientist, Verizon)
16. Miliban Keyim (co-advised with Varada Kolhatkar, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2019.  [Demo site] (Data Scientist, Square)
17. Sarah Watts (co-advised with Varada Kolhatkar, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, April–June 2019. [Demo site] (Associate Product Manager, Google)
18. Ted Thompson (co-advised with Mike Gelbart, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, May–June 2018. (Machine Learning Researcher, Statistics Canada)
19. Cem Ozturk (co-advised with Mike Gelbart, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, May–June 2018. (Senior Data Scientist, PPG)
20. Tyler Roberts (co-advised with Mike Gelbart, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, May–June 2018. (Data Engineer, Meta)
21. Duong Vu (co-advised with Mike Gelbart, Hasan Cavusoglu), MDS Capstone, UBC, May–June 2018. (Data Engineer, UrbanLogiq)

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Blog posts

• Reflections on conference organizing (Jan 2022) 
• My experience as a reviewer (TBA)