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Invitation to the 2019 SMA Best Student Paper Award for the INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section

  • 1.  Invitation to the 2019 SMA Best Student Paper Award for the INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section

    Posted 09-24-2019 09:05
    ​Dear Colleagues,

    We invite you all to attend the 2019 SMA Best Student Paper Award for the INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section at the INFORMS annual conference in Seattle. The award session has five presentations which will take place on Monday morning, Oct 21st, 11am-12:30pm in Room 223. The awards will be announced at the SMA business meeting. We invite you all to attend our business meeting as well. Please come and enjoy free beer and food.

    Our finalists and the titles of their presentation are listed as the following. 

    1. Yun Young Hur, Georgia Institute of Technology, “Sympathy to the Seemingly Needy: Does Social Influence Alleviate Inequalities in Medical Crowdfunding?”
    2. Yang Gao, University of Rochester, “Does Social Media Speed Up Product Recalls? Evidence From Pharmaceutical Industry”
    3. Tamar Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Detecting Customer Trends for Optimal Promotion Targeting”
    4. Sanghoon Cho, University of South Carolina, “The Effect of User Generated Content on Hotel Demand: The Role of Competitive Perception Spillovers”
    5. Enhao Liu, The Ohio State University, “A Twitter-Based Cyber Security Warning and Prioritization System”

     Looking forward to seeing you at the award session and business meeting.

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    Julie Zhang
    Associate Professor
    University of Massachusetts, Lowell
    Lowell MA
    juheng_zhang@uml.edu
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