Zenan (Alan) Chen
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Zenan (Alan) Chen

PhD Student in Minneapolis, He, Him

Working on my dissertation

3 years ago

At the University of Minnesota, I employ both empirical and analytical methods to study the effects of design, usage, and provision of productivity-enhancing technologies.

Education

2018 — Now
Minneapolis, MN

Information Systems & Decision Sciences

2014 — 2018

Projects

2020

Investigating the Impact of Block Difficulty and Immediacy of Social Media Blockers on Productivity

2020
Coordination of Functionality Richness, First-party Content Quality, and Revenue-sharing

Working paper with Soumya Sen

2022
Less is not always more at Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
Minneapolis, MN

Investigating the Impact of Block Difficulty and Immediacy of Social Media Blockers on Productivity

2022
Less is not always more at Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR)
Madrid, Spain

Investigating the Impact of Goal Difficulty and Immediacy of Social Media Blockers on Productivity

2022
Less is Not Always More at Industry Studies Association (ISA) Annual Conference
Philadelphia, PA

Investigating the Impact of Block Difficulty and Immediacy of Social Media Blockers on Productivity

2021
Plaorm Integraon Tools Investment, Third-party Content Creaon, and First-party Advantage in Bundling Businesses at WITS
Austin, TX

Presenting my paper with Soumya Sen

2021
Platform Integration, First-party Advantage and Third-party Content Creation at CWEIST
Virtual
2021
Effcts of Attendance Tracking on Academic Performance at Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR)
Virtual
2020
Net Neutrality: Network Congestion, Social Welfare and Service Tiering Regulations at CWEIST 2020
Virtual
2020
Two-­sided Platform Pricing & Integration, First­party and Third­party Content Creation at CIST 2020
Online

Supervised by Soumya Sen

2019
Net Neutrality: Network Congestion, Social Welfare and Service Tiering Regulations at CIST 2019
Seattle

Joint work with Soumya Sen and Alok Gupta

Work Experience

2018 — Now
Teaching Assistant at MSBA & MBA Program @ Carlson School of Management
Minneapolis, MN

MSBA 6410: Exploratory Data Analytics
IDSC 6444: Business Analytics for Managers

2020 — 2020
Instructor at Carlson School of Management
Minneapolis, MN

IDSC 4444: Descriptive and Predictive Analytics.
4.7/5 Student Evaluation on RateMyProfessor.com
5.23/6 Instructor evaluation in official anonymous SRT

2017 — 2017
Teaching Assistant at Peking University HSBC Business School
Shenzhen

A two-month data journalism boot-camp designed for professional journalists and journalism students to get started in data journalism, with proficiency in basic Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Web Scraping, and Web Front-end Engineering, including d3.js, echarts.js, etc.

Awards

2022

for paper "Less is Not Always More: Investigating the Impact of Block Intensity and Immediacy of Social Media Blockers on Work Time"

2022
Best Student Paper Award from WITS

for paper "Less is Not Always More: Investigating the Impact of Block Intensity and Immediacy of Social Media Blockers on Work Time"

2022
Dissertation Fellowship from Carlson School of Management

Awarded based on scholarly record and research significance, with limited number of students receiving the award

2021

I am the faculty mentor for a team of 4 brilliant undergraduate students. The team won the first place with a $6000 prize.

2020
Dean's Small Research Grant from Carlson School of Management

Granted $10000 for social media blocker research project

Contact

Twitter
GitHub
Telegram

Volunteering

2021 — Now
Coordinator at MISQ Insider

As one of the founding coordinators of MISQ Insider, I coordinate the publication of MISQ Insider and contribute content.

Side Projects

2020

Standalone macOS App for Jupyter Lab or Jupyter Notebook

2020

Produce wonderful Miku music with your keystroke as you type!

2019

Insert cite keys in a breeze on any app using Alfred and Zotero.

2017

An independent, progressive student magazine.

2014

A platform for publishing thoughts, ideas, opinions for CUHK(SZ) undergraduate students.