PhD Student News and Awards

Associate Professor Kai Larsen and PhD Graduate Jingjing Li Receive the Distinguished INFORMS ISS Design Science Award

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 17:06:23 +0000

Associate Professor Kai Larsen and PhD Graduate Jingjing Li Receive the Distinguished INFORMS ISS Design Science Award Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 01/06/2020 - 10:06

Associate professor of Information Management Kai Larsen; Jingjing Li (´13, PhD), who is now an assistant professor at the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia; and Ahmed Abbasi, associate dean and Murray Research chaired professor of Information Technology at the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, recently received the 2019 INFORMS ISS Design Science Award.

The INFORMS ISS Design Science Award recognizes research efforts that use an experimental research approach, such as building and evaluating working IT systems or creating IT artifacts. The award “is principally focused on the quality, novelty and significance of the IT artifact created and validated,” and is widely seen as the top award for design scientists.

Larsen, Li and Abbasi are credited with developing a search engine for behavioral research, which in design experiments outperformed Google’s academic search engine by between 40% and 120%.

Their design is grounded on their paper “Theoryon: A Design Framework and System For Unlocking Behavioral Knowledge Through Ontology Learning.” The paper has been conditionally accepted by the top information systems journal; MIS Quarterly.

Congratulations to professors Larsen, Li and Abbasi.

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Leeds' Vic Marsh (OBIS), Phoenix Van Wagoner (OBIS) and Nick Light (MKTG) Recognized for Graduate Teaching Excellence

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 14:10:05 +0000

Leeds' Vic Marsh (OBIS), Phoenix Van Wagoner (OBIS) and Nick Light (MKTG) Recognized for Graduate Teaching Excellence Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 05/02/2019 - 08:10

Vic Marsh (OBIS), Phoenix Van Wagoner (OBIS), and Nick Light (MKTG) have been awarded the United Government of Graduate Students (UGGS) Graduate Teaching Excellence Award for their work as a GPTI for the academic year 2018/2019. The award includes a monetary prize of $400.

They were among a small group of award winners in “the most competitive process we've had in years” as described by UGGS.

Congratulations Vic, Phoenix and Nick!

Vic Marsh (OBIS)

Phoenix Van Wagoner (OBIS)

Nick Light (MKTG)

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Phoenix Van Wagoner recognized for teaching award

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Apr 2019 19:42:48 +0000

Phoenix Van Wagoner recognized for teaching award Anonymous (not verified) Tue, 04/09/2019 - 13:42

Congratulations to 4th year OBIS PhD student, Phoenix Van Wagoner for being selected to receive the 2018-2019 Graduate Part-Time Instructor Teaching Excellence Award. Phoenix was nominated in fall 2018 by the DCPC and selected by the Graduate School to receive this award.

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Jessica Jones selected for ��ϳԹ� Summer Graduate School Fellowship

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:23:38 +0000

Jessica Jones selected for ��ϳԹ� Summer Graduate School Fellowship Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 03/21/2019 - 14:23

Congratulations to 4th year SEO PhD student, Jessica Jones for being selected to receive the 2019 Summer Graduate School Fellowship. Jessica was nominated by the DCPC and selected by the Graduate School to receive this award. The purpose of the Fellowship is to provide financial assistance to students as they pursue their dissertation research and writing. The Fellowship carries a $6,000 summer award.

Jessica joins previous Summer Graduate School Fellowship recipients; Tony Ding (2018) and Nikki Skinner (2017).

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PhD Student News and Awards

Associate Professor Kai Larsen and PhD Graduate Jingjing Li Receive the Distinguished INFORMS ISS Design Science Award

Leeds' Vic Marsh (OBIS), Phoenix Van Wagoner (OBIS) and Nick Light (MKTG) Recognized for Graduate Teaching Excellence

Phoenix Van Wagoner recognized for teaching award

Jessica Jones selected for ���ϳԹ� Summer Graduate School Fellowship

Jessica Jones selected for ��ϳԹ� Summer Graduate School Fellowship