RESEARCH INTERESTS
Business Intelligence/analytics, Data Quality, Data Integration
Diffusion of Technological Innovations
Software Economics
Software Project Management

EDUCATION
PhD, Management Science (Information Systems concentration), University of Texas at Dallas, 2005
MS, Computer Science, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2000
MBA, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2000

RESEARCH

    Journal Publications

1.   Jiang, Z., D. Jain. "A Generalized Norton-Bass Model for Multigeneration Diffusion." Management Science (forthcoming).

2.   Jiang, Z., S. Sarkar, V. S. Jacob. "Post-Release Testing and Software Release Policy for Enterprise-Level Systems." Information Systems Research (forthcoming).

3.   Jiang, Z. "A Decision-Theoretic Framework for Numerical Attribute Value Reconciliation." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (forthcoming).

4.   Jiang, Z. "How to Give away Software with Successive Versions." Decision Support Systems, Volume 49, Issue 4, November 2010, pp. 430-441.

5.   Jiang, Z., S. Sarkar. "Speed Matters: The Role of Free Software Offer in Software Diffusion." Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 26, no. 3, Winter 2010, pp. 207-240.

6.   Jiang, Z., S. Sarkar, P. De and D. Dey. "A Framework for Reconciling Attribute Values from Multiple Data Sources." Management Science, Vol. 53, No. 12, December 2007, pp. 1946-1963. (PDF, E-Companion).

7.   Jiang, Z., F. M. Bass, P. I. Bass. "The Virtual Bass Model and the Left-Hand Data-Truncation Bias in Diffusion of Innovation Studies." International Journal of Research in Marketing, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2006, pp. 93-106. (PDF)

8.   Jiang, Z., V. Mookerjee, S. Sarkar. "Lying on the Web: Implications for Expert Systems Redesign." Information Systems Research, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 2005, pp. 131-148. (PDF)

    Refereed Conference Proceedings

1.    Jiang, Z. and S. Sarkar, "Optimal Software Release Time with Patching Considered." Proceeding of the 13th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Seattle, December 2003.(PDF)

2.    Jiang, Z. and S. Sarkar. "Free Software Offer and Software Diffusion: The Monopolist Case." Proceeding of the 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle, December 2003. (PDF)

3.   Jiang, Z. S. Sarkar, P. De and D. Dey. "Reconciling Attribute Values from Multiple Data Sources." Proceeding of the 25th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Washington DC, December 2004. (PDF)

4.   Jiang, Z. "Reconciling Continuous Attribute Values From Multiple Data Sources." Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), Suzhou, China July 2008.

5.   Jiang, Z. "Optimal Free Offer Policy for Successive Software Versions." Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on e-Business (WeB), Paris, France, December 2008.

6.   Jiang, Z. "Taking Data Usage into Consideration in Data Integration." Proceedings of 18th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Paris, France, December 2008.

7.   Jiang, Z., K. Scheibe, and S. Nilakanta. "Rethinking the Role of Public Beta Testing." Proceeding of INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, October 2011.

8.   Jiang, Z., K. Scheibe, and S. Nilakanta. "The Economic Impact of Public Beta Testing: The Power of Word-Of-Mouth." Proceeding of the 32nd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Shanghai, China, December 2011.

COURSES TAUGHT

• MIS 432: Information Systems Analysis
• MIS 431: Advanced Programming in Visual Basic
• Programming in C++
• Business App. of Microcomputer Software
• Web Development

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

• Associate Editor: Information Technology and Management 2008 – present
• Session Chair: Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) 2010, 2011.
• Session Chair: Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Suzhou, China 2008
• Program Committee: Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2011
• Program Committee/Session Chair: Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) 2009-2011.
• Program Committee: Workshop on E-Business (WEB) 2011
• Program Committee: International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB), 2009
• Discussant: International Conference on Information Systems, Milwaukee, 2006
• Reviewer: Management Science, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Data and Information Quality, Decision Support Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering, European Journal of Operations Research, Data Base, Production and Operations Management, Information Technology and Management, ICIS, CIST, HICSS, AMCIS, PACIS, WITS, ER, WeB