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Associate Professor |
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Wolfgang Jank |
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The paper Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions was selected by the Senior Scholars Best Publications Committee of 2008 as one of the five best Information Systems papers published in 2008 . The results of the Google Challenge are in. One team almost made it to the semi-finals. Prof. Jank is participating in the Google Challenge with several undergraduate and MBA teams. On March 27, Prof. Jank will talk in the Smith Thought Leadership Series on Forecasting with Prediction Markets.
Prof. Jank was Visiting Professor at the Chair for eCommerce, Department of Marketing, at the University of Frankfurt/Main, and at the Department of Statistics and Mathematics at the Vienna University of Business and Economics during the Fall 2008. Prof. Jank will give a tutorial on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce at INFORMS 2008. Prof. Jank will speak at a Google panel on the Online Marketing Challenge at INFORMS 2008. Prof. Jank will speak at a panel discussion on What Data Mining Isn’t at the 2008 Frontiers in Service Conference. Prof . Jank will teach a course on Applying Technology to Services at Peru’s CAME Institute, in conjunction with Smith’s Center for Excellence in Service. Prof. Jank was elected program chair for the Section on Statistics and Marketing of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for the Joint Statistical Meetings 2010 in Vancouver. On June 18, 2008, the Office of Science & Technology (OST) at the Embassy of Austria, and ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) are hosting a round table discussion on “eCommerce, Prediction Markets and Data Mining: How Technology impacts Business Decision Making” with Prof. Jank. To view the formal invitation, click here. New working papers on "An Automated and Data-Driven Bidding Strategy for Online Auctions" "Dynamic Forecasting Simultaneous Online Art Auctions" and a new tutorial on "Statistical Challenges in eCommerce” Prof. Jank and Prof. Shmueli have edited a book on the topic "Statistical Methods in eCommerce Research" (forthcoming at Wiley)
New study on "Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions" (by Bapna, Jank & Shmueli), forthcoming in Information Systems Research (ISR). To hear more about the impact of this study, click here (Effect of Online Auction Surplus) or here (Winners & Losers). Click here for the corresponding Smith news release. Also, see Reuters or New York Times or Wired articles on the study. Synopsis of the invited session program of the Statistical Computing Section of the ASA at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Denver, August 2008.
The Fourth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research will take place May 18&19, 2008 at NYU . (Link to the Inaugural Workshop held in 2005 at the University of Maryland ). Research report on Forecasting Online Auctions (featured in Research@Smith)
Check out the upcoming Global Studies Course on "Competing on Analytics in Europe", May 21 - June 1, 2008. Forthcoming Marketing Science Institute (MSI) report on Pre-release Forecasting via Functional Shape Analysis of the Online Virtual Stock Market, jointly with Natasha Foutz.
Check out the Choice Symposium and in particular the session on Competition between Auctions, to be held in June 2007 at Wharton. Prof. Jank, Prof. Elmaghraby and Prof. Karaesmen will offer a research class (RIT) on Pricing, Data Mining and Optimization. For more details see here. Interested students please contact any of the three professors directly.
The Third Workshop on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research will take place May 19-20, 2007 at the University of Connecticut . (Link to the First Workshop, held in 2005 at the University of Maryland ). Prof. Jank and Prof. Shmueli will edit a book on the topic "Statistics in Electronic Commerce" (to be published by Wiley)
Collection of term papers by students of the PhD class BMGT 808X “Applied Regression Analysis.” These term papers cover different aspects of Online Auction Research. Interview on Online Auction Research in the Minneapolis Startribune which covers work on consumer surplus and price forecasting with my colleagues Ravi Bapna and Galit Shmueli (permanent link).
The Second Workshop on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research will take place May 22-23, 2006 at the University of Minnesota. (Link to the First Workshop, held in 2005 at the University of Maryland. The special issue of Statistical Science on Statistical Challenges in E-commerce (jointly guest-edited with Prof. Shmueli) is scheduled to come out in May. Many thanks to all the contributors and all the referees without whom this would not have been possible! For a look into the opening remarks, see here.
Interview on Online Auction Research in several German TV, Print and Online Media (Link, Another Link, More Links). Forthcoming article in Amstat News taking a look back at the First Interdisciplinary Workshop on Statistical Challenges in E-commerce.
Prof. Jank & Prof. Shmueli will be guest editors of a forthcoming special issue of Statistical Science on statistical challenges in e-commerce. Prof. Jank & Prof. Shmueli organized the First Interdisciplinary Workshop on Statistical Challenges in E-commerce, May 22-23, 2005, at the University of Maryland. The second Workshop will take place in spring '06 at the University of Minnesota.
PhD class on Applied Regression Models in the Spring of 2006 (Flyer).
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