Mingfeng Lin

PhD 2010, University of Maryland, College Park

Update:
I have moved to Eller College of Management, University of Arizona. Please find my new contact information here. Thank you. 

• IT-enabled decentralization and disintermediation
• Social networks in e-commerce
• Entrepreneurship and the role of IT

• Dissertation: Essays on online social networks, decentralization and information asymmetry (Chair: Professor Siva Viswanathan; Co-Chair: Professor Hank Lucas)
  • Essay 1: Judging Borrowers by the Company They Keep: Social Networks and Adverse Selection in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending.  Working paper available at SSRN (under review).
• Internet and entrepreneurial financing
• Internet auctions (with Professor Wolfgang Jank)
• Internet banking (with Professors Joseph Bailey and Hank Lucas)

• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Grant, 2009-2010 (Link)
• Economic Club of Washington Doctoral Fellow, 2008-2009 (Link)
• Best Doctoral Student Paper award, Conference on Information Systems and Technology (INFORMS-CIST), San Diego, CA (October 2009)
• Nominated for Best Conference Paper award for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS); Phoenix, AZ (December 2009)
• Best Entrepreneurship Paper Awards, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Research Competition (May 2009); first-prize in work-in-progress category, and second-prize in working paper category.
• Research Grant on Social Value Creation, Smith School of Business (with Professor Siva Viswanathan, May 2009)
• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Entrepreneurship Research Boot Camp, 2009
• Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Summer Doctoral Program 2008 at Oxford University, UK (July 2008), with OII Scholarship; co-hosted by the Web Science Research Initiative
• Best Entrepreneurship Paper Award, Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship Research Competition (April 2008)
• Goldhaber Travel Grant, The Graduate School, University of Maryland, College Park (Dec 2008)
• Dean's Summer Research Fellowship (2005-2010), Smith School of Business
• Graduate Assistantship (2005-2010), Smith School of Business
• Invitation to attend Doctoral Consortium of Communities and Technologies Conference, with financial support from the National Science Foundation (NSF); State College, Pennsylvania; June 2009.
• Invitation to attend Doctoral Consortium of the America's Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, CA; August 2009

• "Can Social Networks Mitigate Information Asymmetry in Online Markets?", with Professors Siva Viswanathan and N. Prabhala, forthcoming in the Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Information Systems, Phoenix, Arizona, US (Refereed)
• "Peer-to-peer Lending: An Empirical Investigation", published in the Proceedings of the 2009 America’s Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California, US (Refereed)
• "Bidder Migration", with Wolfgang Jank, published in the Proceedings of the 2008 America’s Conference on Information Systems, Toronto, Canada (Refereed)
• "Informational Value of Online Social Networks", with Professors Siva Viswanathan and N. Prabhala; Western Finance Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, June 2009 (Acceptance rate 12.7%; presented).
• Invited guest speaker at LINKS Center Colloquium, University of Kentucky; Lexington, Kentucky; November 6th, 2009. Co-sponsored by the Management Area and the Decision Science and Information Systems Area of the School of Management.
• "Value of Online Social Networks in E-commerce: Evidence from an Online Peer-to-Peer Lending Marketplace", with Professors Siva Viswanathan and N. Prabhala; INFORMS Annual Meeting 2009, San Diego, CA.
• "Social Networks in Electronic Commerce", with Professors Siva Viswanathan and N. Prabhala; Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, Pittsburg, PA; May 2009 (presented).
• "Financial Values of Social Capital: An Empirical Study of Online Peer-to-Peer Lending", with Professors Siva Viswanathan and N. Prabhala; Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Paris, France (presented); December 2008
• "How Much Are Your Friends Worth? A Study of Online Peer-to-Peer Lending"; with Professors Siva Viswanathan and N. Prabhala; Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University, Oxford, UK; July 2008 (presented).
• "Is more always better? Large sample and false discoveries", with Professors Hank Lucas and Galit Shmueli; under review at MIS Quarterly.
• "Banking efficiency from internet adoption", with Professors Joseph Bailey and Hank Lucas, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, Montreal, Canada, December 2007 (presented).
• (Please see the PDF version of my CV for a full list of my presentations)

• Information Systems Research (ISR)
• Production and Operation Management Journal (POM)
• International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
• Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
• America's Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

• Association for Information Systems
• INFORMS
• American Economic Association
• American Finance Association
• Royal Economic Society

• Econometrics and statistics: Stata / R
• Social network analysis: UCINET / NetDraw / Pajek
• Data collection and processing: VBScript / Perl / Python / C# etc.

Instructor, BMGT 301 (Undergraduate Core Course), Introduction to Information Systems, Fall 2007 (Rating: 4.36/5)

Social Chair, Association for Doctoral Students, Smith School of Business, 2007 - 2009

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