Faculty Profile

Guodong "Gordon" Gao
Assistant Professor

4325 Van Munching Hall
Phone: 301-405-2218
Email: ggao@rhsmith.umd.edu
Personal Web site
Gordon Gao

Guodong "Gordon" Gao is an assistant professor in the Decision, Operations and Information Technologies Department at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. His research interests include Business Value of Information Technology (with a focus on product variety), IT-enabled organizational changes, online reviews, and industrial organization.

He has papers accepted by ICIS (2003, 2004), Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (2004), Informs (2004), and HICSS (2006). His research has won several grants and the 1st Runner-up for Best Paper Award in ICIS 2004.

He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and B.A. in Economics from Tsinghua University in 1998, his M.B.A. from the Tsinghua-MIT Sloan Joint Program in 2000, and PhD degree in Operations and Information Management from the Wharton School of University of Pennsylvania in 2005.