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CONFERENCE PROGRAM Conference Co-Chairs: USC Marshall
2nd Annual AIM (Artificial Intelligence in Management)
            Virtual Workshop and Conference

                          May 19-20, 2022
      https://www.marshall.usc.edu/artificial-intelligence-management

       CONFERENCE PROGRAM
                       Conference Co-Chairs:
       Milan Miric, Florenta Teodoridis, Gerard J. Tellis
     Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
                            Los Angeles, CA

                            Sponsored By:
          USC Marshall Center for Global Innovation (CGI)
   USC Marshall Institute for Outlier Research in Business (iORB)
           USC Marshall Institute for Digital Competition
             Informs Society of Marketing Science (ISMS)
                   Marketing Science Institute (MSI)
CONFERENCE PROGRAM Conference Co-Chairs: USC Marshall
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-marshall-2022-online-conference-registration-tickets-319043877827

    Please note that we are charging a nominal registration fee for the conference:

        •   Academic Presenter: $50
        •   Academic Non -Presenter: $50
        •   Non-Academic (Non-Presenter): $100
        •   PhD Students: $25

    We would like to ensure that presenters register for the conference before May 1, 2022.

    If you have a scheduling conflict, please reach out to us at AIM@marshall.usc.edu and we will
    accommodate you.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
                               All times in PST (Pacific Standard Time) zone

                                      Thursday, May 19, 2022
AIM CONFERENCE – DAY 1 [Plenary 2:00pm to 5:10pm]

    ⇒ 2:00 to 2:10pm –Welcome Remarks from Gerrard Tellis (Conference Co-Chair)
    ⇒ 2:10 to 3:00pm – Fireside Chat
          o Moderator: Sue Siegel (CEO/Board Director/VC, Tech., Healthcare & Business)
          o Keynote Speaker:       Yu-Ting Kuo (Tsing Hua University / MIT)

                  TRACK #T.1                                              TRACK #T.2

⇒ 3:00 to 4.00pm – T.1.A. AI & Consumer Behavior       ⇒ 3:00 to 4.00pm - T.2.A. Recommender Systems
⇒ 4:10 to 5:10pm – T.1.B. ML Methods                   ⇒ 4:10 to 5:10pm - T.2.B. AI & Social Media

                                        Friday, May 20, 2022
                  TRACK #F.1                                              TRACK #F.2

⇒   9:00 to 10.00am - F.1.A. AI & Communities          ⇒   9:00 to 10.00am - F.2.A. AI & Decision Making
⇒   10:10 to 11.10am - F.1.B. Health & Human Mind      ⇒   10:10 to 11.10am – F.2.B. AI & Retail
⇒   11:20 to 12.20pm - F.1.C. Text Analytics           ⇒   11:20 to 12.20pm - F.2.C AI & E-Commerce
⇒   12:30 to 1:30pm – F.1.D. Image Analytics           ⇒   12:30 to 1:30pm - F.2.D. AI & Human Capital
DETAILED PROGRAM –Thursday – TRACK 1

                                 Track Chair: Florenta Teodoridis

SESSION T.1.A AI & CONSUMER BEHAVIOR (3:00 to 4:00PM)
  1. Artificial Intelligence: Information Collection and Behavior-Based Pricing under Privacy Concerns. Krista
     Li, Changying Li, Jianhu Zhang
  2. Targeted Advertising as an Implicit Recommendation and Personal Data Opt-Out. Z. Eddie Ning,
     Jiwoong Shin, Jungju Yu
  3. Frugality versus Thrifty: The Gender Difference in Saving Behavior. Ying Bao, Alex Yao
  4. Measuring Preferences for Hedonic Consumption. Anirban Mukherjee, Hannah Chang

SESSION T.1.B. MACHINE LEARNING METHODS (3:10 to 4:10PM)
  1. Dynamic Marketing Policies: Constructing Markov States for Reinforcement Learning. Yuting Zhu,
     Duncan Simester, Jonathan Parker, Antoinette Schoar
  2. An Affine-Subspace Shrinkage Approach to Choice-Based Conjoint Estimation. Yupeng Chen, Qi
     Yu, Raghuram Iyengar
  3. Comparative Study of Structural Causal Model and Bayesian Network in Causal Inference on P2P
     Lending Business. Wenwen, Ding
  4. AI For Crowdsourcing? Integrated Theoretical Model for Idea Screening. Christian Pescher, Jason
     Bell, Gerard J. Tellis, Johann Füller
DETAILED PROGRAM – Thursday – TRACK 2

                                      Track Chair: Milan Miric

SESSION T.2.A Recommender Systems (3:00 to 4:00PM)
   1. User Control and Acceptance of Recommender Systems. Emil Mirzayev, Zakaria Babutsidze.
   2. Does Machine Learning Amplify Pricing Errors in Housing Market?: Economics of ML Feedback Loops.
      Nikhil Malik.
   3. Modeling the Role of Ranking Algorithms in Crowdfunding. Prasad Vana, Anja Lambrecht.
   4. Finding the Sweet Spot: Ad Targeting on Streaming Media. Prashant Rajaram, Puneet Manchanda,
      Eric Schwartz

SESSION T.2.B AI & Social Media (4:10 to 5:10PM)
   1. The Impact of Interacting with Malicious Automated Twitter Bots on User Behavior and Generated
      Content. Zakaria Babutsidze, Dorian Vincileoni.
   2. Optimizing Selection of Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) via Large-scale Network Analytics. Xiao Han,
      Natasha Zhang Foutz, Ruiqing Ding, Weiguo Fan.
   3. Winning the Attention Race: Analyzing Content Popularity and Topic Evolution on TikTok. Zijun
      Tian, Ryan Dew, Raghuram Iyengar.
DETAILED PROGRAM –Friday – TRACK 1

                                      Track Chair: Milan Miric

SESSION F.1.A. AI IN UNDERREPRESENTED COMMUNITIES (9:00 to 10:00AM)
   1. Development of AI Through Communities: Deep Learning Indaba, Masakhane and Khipu.ai. Milan
      Miric, Leid Zejnilovic, Ulrich Paquet, Vukosi Marivate.

SESSION F.1.B HEALTH & HUMAN MIND (10:10 to 11:10AM)
   1. The Impact of Loosening Firearm Usage Restrictions on Firearm Sales and Public Health. Jessica
      Jumee Kim.
   2. How Introduction of Video Technology Amplifies Inequalities in Accessing Healthcare Resources. Jiang
      Qian, Jian Ni, Meng Zhu.
   3. Voice Assistants in Different Usage Applications: Which Factors Matter in Simple and Complex
      Applications? John Vara Prasad Ravi, Ramon Palau Saumell, Jan-Hinrich Meyer, Felix
      Friedreich Thomas.
   4. The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Creativity: A Mixed-Method Approach Driven Conceptual
      Framing. Margherita Pagani.

SESSION F.1.C. TEXT ANALYTICS (11:20 to 12:20PM)
   1. Mapping Complex Technologies via Science-Technology Linkages; The Case of Neuroscience. Daniel
      Hain, Roman Jurowetzki, Mariagrazia Squicciarini.
   2. Politicizing Policy Response? Ramifications and Remedies. Chengyue Huang, Min Zhang, Natasha
      Z. Foutz.
   3. Toward a More Data-driven Product Design: An Integrated Machine Learning Approach. Zijing Hu,
      Venkatesh Shankar.

SESSION F.1.D. IMAGE ANALYTICS (12:30 to 1:30PM)
   1. The Effects of Underlying Product Features on Sales: A Machine Learning Approach to Analyze Images
      and Reviews. Chi Zhang, Venkatesh Shankar.
   2. Comparing Automated Image Classification Methods. Keno Tetzlaff, Jochen Hartmann, Mark
      Heitmann.
   3. Automatically Discovering Unknown Product Attributes Impacting Consumer Preferences. Ankit
      Sisodia, Alex Burnap, Vineet Kumar.
   4. Emoji as New Targeting language: A Multimodal Emoji Mining Approach. Xinying Hao, Vijay
      Mahajan.
DETAILED PROGRAM – Friday – TRACK 2

                                   Track Chair: Florenta Teodoridis

SESSION F.2.A. AI & DECISION MAKING (9:00 to 10:00AM)
   1. Consumers’ Responses to Algorithmic Biases: A Conceptual Framework, Propositions, and Implications
      Raji Srinivasan
   2. Bias and Noise in Hiring: Role of Evaluator Diversity, Interviewer Effects and Structured Evaluations
      Ishita Chakraborty
   3. Affectively Mistaken? How Human Augmentation and Information Transparency Offset Algorithmic
      Failures in Emotion. Lauren Rhue
   4. Algorithmic Fairness and Service Failures: Why Firms Should Want Algorithmic Accountability
      Kalinda Ukanwa

SESSION F.2.B. AI & RETAIL (10:10 to 11:10AM)
   1. The Impact of E-Scooters on Retail Visits: Empirical Analysis using Graph Neural Networks. Ruichun
      Liu, Unnati, Narang
   2. The Impact of Consumer Mobility and Store Flux on Consumer Response to Geo-fenced Promotional Ads.
      A Deep Learning Approach. Sanjana Surange, Venky Shankar
   3. The Effects of Store Closure on Omnichannel Shopping and Mobile App Usage. Taotao Ye, Venky,
      Shankar
   4. Buying and Payment Habits: Using Grocery Data to Predict Credit Card Payments. Jung Youn Lee,
      Joonhyuk Yang, Eric Anderson

SESSION F.2.C. AI & E-COMMERCE (11:20 to 12:20PM)
   1. Deep learning for simulation-based Bayesian inference of hidden parameters in online reputation systems.
      Shrabastee Banerjee, Narendra Mukherjee, Amin Rahimian
   2. Detecting Fake Review Buyers Using Network Structure: Direct Evidence from Amazon. Sherry He,
      Brett Hollenbeck, Gijs Overgoor, Davide Proserpio, Ali Tosyani
   3. Measurement and Mitigation of Disintermediation in Online Two-sided Platforms: Evidence from Airbnb
      and Location Big Data. Jinan Lin, Tingting Nian, Natasha Zhang Foutz
   4. How Retail Practices Co-evolve: Managerial Perspectives on AI Induced Practice Disruptions Francesca
       Bonetti, Matteo Montecchi, Kirk Plangger, Hope Jensen Schau
SESSION F.2.D. AI & HUMAN CAPITAL (12:30 to 1:30PM)
   1. Falling Asleep at the Wheel: Human/AI Collaboration in a Field Experiment on HR Recruiters.
      Fabrizio Dell'Acqua
   2. AI-Driven Platform Ecosystems: How Emotions Affect Strategic Adoption Decisions. Alex Mari, Pinar
      Ozcan
   3. How to Make Artificial Intelligence Technologies a “Useful Servant” for Managers? Evidence from Mixed
      Methods. Nan Jia, Xueming Luo, Zheng Fang, Bo Xu
   4. Explainability’s Gain is Rationality’s Loss? - An Empirical Study. Charles Wan, Rodrigo Belo,
      Leid Zejnilović
PLENARY SPEAKERS

Sue Siegel
CEO/Board Director/VC, Tech., Healthcare & Business

Sue Siegel has been a CEO, VC, and a Board member for big and small,
private and public, and non-profit organizations. Her current Board
portfolio includes Illumina, Align, Nevro, the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub
at UC Berkeley and KaiserFamily Foundation. She is Chairman of Board
of MIT’s The Engine. Previously, Sue served as GE’s Chief Innovation
Officer, CEO of GE Ventures& Licensing, and CEO of
Healthymagination. Before GE, she was a VC General Partner at Mohr
Davidow Ventures, leading investments in Life Sciences & Health. Sue
has been recognized as Fortune’s “34 Leaders Who Are Changing
Health Care,” as one of “The 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon
Valley” and was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by Global
Corporate Venture in 2020.
Yu-Ting Kuo (he/him/his),
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University Executive
Board Member, MIT Sloan School of Management
Yu-Ting Kuo is currently an adjunct professor of computer science at National
Tsing Hua University where he teaches artificial intelligence and machine
learning. Kuo also lectures MBA students on mergers & acquisitions, corporate
entrepreneurship, and leadership at the University of Oxford and MIT. He is a
mentor and resident expert for the MIT delta v and Oxford OXFO Elevate
accelerator programs. Kuo serves on the Alumni and Executive Boards of the
MIT Sloan School of Management and has endowed a graduate fellowship at
MIT to support underrepresented minority students in STEM management
careers. He is on the advisory board of AI startups Aifi and KindWorks.ai. Kuo
is also an independent director on the boards of Skymizer and the National
Tsing Hua University North America Foundation.
Kuo is a former Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, retiring in 2021 after
more than 25 years. While at Microsoft, Kuo founded and managed Microsoft’s
computer vision and cloud AI services product teams. He also led cross-
company technical and strategic initiatives in the areas of context-optimized,
deployment-aware machine learning and AI at scale.
In 2021, Kuo was named by Business Insider as one of “the 11 power players
leading artificial intelligence at Microsoft, helping guide CEO Satya Nadella’s
grand pivot to AI.” He is also the recipient of the Inaugural Chinese Institute
of Engineers/USA-SEA Asian American Luminary Award in Science and
Engineering Innovation in 2018 for his pioneering work in cloud AI services.
Kuo holds 11 US and international patents on Internet search and AI
technologies.
In 2018, Kuo established Microsoft’s Computer Vision Group, where he
managed a global engineering and science organization that developed state-of-
the-art technologies in the areas of computer vision and the metaverse. He
helped found Microsoft’s AI R&D Centers in Belgrade, Cambridge (UK),
Taipei, and Zürich where the company works on advanced computer vision and
mixed reality capabilities.
In 2016, Kuo led Microsoft's acquisition of London-based SwiftKey, the top
AI-powered mobile keyboard, and served as its post-acquisition general
manager. In 2015, Kuo founded and launched Microsoft’s Azure Cognitive
Services, the first publicly available suite of AI services for developers, helping
democratize AI technology for the industry and reaching millions of developer
customers. In 2014, Kuo served as Technical Advisor to the Executive Vice
President of Microsoft’s AI and Research Group, where he led technical
strategy, planning, incubation, and strategic prototyping.
Kuo started his career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. He
joined Microsoft as a technical evangelist in 1996. Kuo attended National Tsing
Hua University, Stanford University, MIT and the University of Oxford. He
was named a distinguished alum of the College of Science at National Tsing
Hua University in 2020. In 2021, Kuo was inducted into the Tsing Hua
Entrepreneur Network as an overseas member.
Kuo and his family live in the Seattle area and enjoy exploring unique corners of
the world together.
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