Yong Tan
Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor of Information Systems

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Experience

• Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, Foster School of Business
  Chair, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, 2020 - 2026
  Michael G. Foster Endowed Professor of Information Systems, 2018 -
  Neal and Jan Dempsey Professor of Information Systems, 2012 - 2018
  Professor of Information Systems, 2011 -
  Associate Professor of Information Systems, 2006 - 2011
• USTC-UW Institute for Global Business and Finance Innovation
  Associate Director, 2017 - 2020
• Department of Management Science, University of Washington Business School
  Assistant Professor of Information Systems, 2000 - 2006
• Mathematical Physics Group, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom
  EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 1994 - 1995
• Laboratoire de Physique Quantique, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  Visiting Scientist, 1993 - 1994

Honors

• Member, Washington State Academy of Sciences, 2023 -
• Ph.D. Program Mentoring Award, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021
• Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, Foster School of Business, 2018
• 2017 Management Science Best Paper Award in Information Systems, 2017
• Pacific Coast Banking School Dean's Leadership Award, Foster School of Business, 2017, 2022
• Distinguished Fellow Award, INFORMS Information Systems Society, 2016
• Andrew V. Smith Award for Excellence in Research, Foster School of Business, 2016
• Chang Jiang Scholar Visiting Chair Professorship, Tsinghua University, 2015 - 2017
• Best Publication of 2012 Award, Association for Information Systems, December 2013
• Information Systems Research 2012 Best Paper Runner Up Award, October 2013
• Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2013
• Faculty Recognition Award, MSIS Program, Foster School of Business, 2013, 2015
• Neal and Jan Dempsey Professorship, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, 2012 - 2018
• Evert McCabe Faculty Fellowship, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, 2007 - 2012
• Dean's Faculty Research Award, University of Washington Business School, 2006
• Dean's Junior Faculty Research Award, University of Washington Business School, 2005
• Undergraduate Professor of the Year in Information Systems, University of Washington Business School, 2005
• Lex N. Gamble Family Award for Excellence in the Field of E-Commerce, University of Washington Business School, 2003
• Neal and Jan Dempsey Faculty Fellowship, University of Washington Business School, 2003 - 2007
• Tyler Scholarship, University of Washington Business School, 1999 - 2000
• Edna Benson Fellowship, University of Washington Business School, 1998
• Dean's Achievement Award, University of Washington Business School, 1998
• EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, United Kingdom, 1993 - 1995
• Yilida Prize, University of Science and Technology of China, 1987

Professional Activities

• Senior Editor: Information Systems Research (2015 - 2022)
• Senior Editor: Production and Operations Management
• Associate Editor: Management Science (2006 - 2014)
• Associate Editor: Information Systems Research (2008 - 2010)
• Board of Editors: Journal of Management Information Systems
• Senior Editor: Journal of Electronic Commerce Research
• Co-Chair, INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, Seattle, 2019
• Co-Chair, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Auckland, 2014
• Co-Chair, Structural Modeling Applications for Research on Technology (SMART) Workshop, 2014, 2017
• Track Co-Chair, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2013, 2021
• Cluster Chair, INFORMS Annual Conference, Information Systems Cluster, 2012
• Co-Chair, Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Austin, 2010
• Co-Chair, 3rd China Summer Workshop on Information Management, Guangzhou, 2009
• Faculty Mentor, Doctoral Internationalization Consortium in Information Systems, Seattle, 2005
• Program Committee Member
  10th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Brisbane, 2000
  11th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, New Orleans, 2001
  12th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Barcelona, 2002
  13th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Seattle, 2003 (Local Arrangement Chair)
  14th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Washington DC, 2004
  15th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Las Vegas, 2005
  16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Milwaukee, 2006
  17th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Montreal, 2007
  19th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, Phoenix, 2009
  20th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, St. Louis, 2010
  1st China Summer Workshop on Information Management, Shanghai, 2007
  2nd China Summer Workshop on Information Management, Kunming, 2008
  4th China Summer Workshop on Information Management, Wuhan, 2010
  7th IFIP WG 8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design, Toronto, 2002
  8th IFIP WG 8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design, Velden, Austria, 2003
  10th IFIP WG 8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design, Porto, Portugal, 2005
  7th International Conference on Electronic Commerce, Xi'an, China, 2005 (Track Co-Chair)

Doctoral Students (initial placement or current appointment)

1. Xingchen (Cedric) Xu, 2024 -
2. Jingwen Zhang (Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), 2023 - 2025
3. Ye Liu (Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology), 2023 - 2025
4. Lijia Ma (Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte), 2023 - 2025
5. Mingrui (Ray) Zhang (Assistant Professor, University of Denver), 2022 - 2024
6. Yu (Rain) Kan (Assistant Professor, Indiana University), 2022 - 2024
7. Maria Mitkina, 2021 - 2023
8. Yuchen Liu (Assistant Professor, University of Florida), 2021 - 2023
9. Yifan Yu (Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin), 2021 - 2023
10. Jiaying Deng (Assistant Professor, Fordham University), 2020 - 2022
11. Zibo Liu (Assistant Professor, Fudan University), 2020 - 2022
12. Zhen Fang (Assistant Professor, Fudan University), 2020 - 2022
13. Kyungmin Park, 2019 - 2021
14. Tongxin Zhou (Assistant Professor, Arizona State University), 2019 - 2021
    • INFORMS ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award Runner-up
15. Zhijin Zhou (Data Scientist, Amazon), 2019 - 2021
16. Juan Qin (Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology of China), 2016 - 2021
17. Zixuan Meng (Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Dallas), 2018 - 2020
18. Vipul Aggarwal (Applied Scientist, Amazon), 2017 - 2020
19. Kyungsun (Melissa) Rhee (Assistant Professor, University of Florida), 2018 - 2019
20. Shahryar Doosti (Assistant Professor, Chapman University), 2016 - 2019
21. Behnaz Ghahestani Bojd (Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine), 2017 - 2019
22. Yang Jiang (Assistant Professor, Nanjing University), 2015 - 2019
    • INFORMS ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award Runner-up
23. Jinyang Zheng (Assistant Professor, University of Rochester), 2016 - 2017
    • INFORMS ISS Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award
24. Jane Xue Tan (Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University), 2015 - 2017
    • INFORMS ISS Gordon B. Davis Young Scholar Award
    • INFORMS ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award Runner-up
25. Yi-Chun Chad Ho (Associate Professor, George Washington University), 2011 - 2014
    • INFORMS ISS Sandra Slaughter Early Career Award
26. Hossein Ghasemkhani (Assistant Professor, Purdue University), 2010 - 2013
27. Lin Hao (Associate Professor, Fordham University), 2010 - 2012
28. Lucy Yan (Chair Professor, Indiana University), 2008 - 2012
    • INFORMS ISS Sandra Slaughter Early Career Award
29. Young Jin Lee (Professor, University of Denver), 2007 - 2010
30. Cath Jeong-ha Oh (Assistant Professor, Georgia State University), 2005 - 2010
31. Param Vir Singh (Chair Professor, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University), 2006 - 2008
    • INFORMS ISS Distinguished Academic Fellow
    • INFORMS ISS Sandra Slaughter Early Career Award
32. Grace Guoying Zhang (Professor and Chair, Midwestern State University), 2005 - 2007
33. Peng Han (Microsoft), 2003 - 2006
34. Yung-Ming Li (Professor, National Chiao Tung University), 2003 - 2005

• Doctoral Dissertation Committee Member
  Aravinda Garimella (Information Systems), 2016 - 2018
  Haoyan Sun (Information Systems), 2015 - 2017
  Mohsen Sharifani (Operations Management), 2011 - 2016
  Azin Farzan (Operations Management), 2009 - 2013
  Aysun Ozler (Operations Management), 2009 - 2011
  Daniel Choi (Operations Management), 2009 - 2012
  Aussadavut Dumrongsiri (Operations Management), 2005 - 2008
  Conglei Zhang (Information Systems), 2003 - 2011
  Mustafa Gurbuz (Operations Management), 2003 - 2006
  Pisun Xu (Finance), 2002 - 2006
  Zhongju Zhang (Information Systems), 2001 - 2003
  Graduate School Representative: Sijie Sun (Bioengineering), 2012 - 2014
  Graduate School Representative: Aaron Finkle (Economics), 2003 - 2004
  Graduate School Representative: Anson Hatch (Bioengineering), 2003 - 2004