UMass Boston

Lei Zheng, Assistant Professor, Management Science & Info Sys

Lei Zheng

Department:
Management Science & Information Systems
Title:
Assistant Professor
Location:
McCormack Hall Floor 05 00413
Phone:
617.287.7677

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Biography

Lei (Nico) Zheng is an Assistant Professor at the College of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston. She received her Ph.D. in Data Science from Stevens Institute of Technology. Dr. Zheng's research interests include Open Collaboration, Bots and AI Algorithms, Human-Machine Collaboration, and Online Platform Governance. Her work has been published in the Journal of Management Information Systems, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, and in the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

Area of Expertise

Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Social Network Analysis, Deep Learning, and Large Language Models

Degrees

Ph.D., Data Science, School of Business, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, 2023

M.S., Business Intelligence & Analytics, Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, 2018

B.S., Economics and Management, Dual degree, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE), Sichuan, China, 2014

Professional Publications & Contributions
  • Zheng, L. N., Chen, Z., Mai, F. (2024), To Automate or Not? How Open Collaboration Communities Decide on Bot Adoption. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
  • Zheng, L. N., Mai, F., Yan, B., & Nickerson, J. V. (2023). Stigmergy in Open Collaboration: An Empirical Investigation Based on Wikipedia. Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)
  • Chen, Z., Zheng, L. N., Lu, C., Yuan, J., Zhu, D. (2023), ChatGPT Informed Graph Neural Network for Stock Movement Prediction. Workshop on Robust NLP for Finance (RobustFin), Long Beach, California, USA.
  • Chen, Z., Zheng, L. N., Mai, F. (2023). Making Sense of Bot Moderation in Online Communities with Large Language Models. INFORMS Annual Meeting.
  • Zheng, L. N., Mai, F., Yan, B., & Nickerson, J. V. (2022) The Effect of Learning Bots on User Participation in Open Collaboration Communities. ACM Collective Intelligence.
  • Zheng, L. N., Mai, F., Yan, B., & Nickerson, J. V. (2022). The Effect of Learning Machines on Online Community Governance. INFORMS Annual Meeting.
  • Zheng, L. N., Mai, F., Yan, B., & Nickerson, J. V. (2021). The Effect of Learning Machines on Online Community Governance. Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS).
  • Zheng, L. N., Albano, C. M., Vora, N. M., Mai, F., & Nickerson, J. V. (2019). The Roles Bots Play in Wikipedia. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 3 (CSCW), 1-- [Best Paper Honorable Mention Award]
  • Zheng, L. N., Mai, F., Gordan, D. M., & Nickerson, J. V. (2019). Bursty Coordination in Online Communities. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
  • Zheng, L. N., Nickerson, J. V., & Albano, C. M. (2019). Knowledge Production by Collectives Composed of Humans and Machines. ACM Collective Intelligence.
  • Zheng, L. N., Albano, C. M., & Nickerson, J. V. (2019). Steps toward Understanding the Design and Evaluation Spaces of Bot and Human Knowledge Production Systems. The Wiki Workshop.
  • Zheng, L. N., Mai, F., Gordan, D. M., & Nickerson, J. V. (2018). Bursty Coordination in Online Communities: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach. Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS).
  • Zheng, L. N., & Nickerson, J. V. (2018). Understanding the Algorithmic Nature of Human Behavior by Analyzing Interactions in Wikipedia. Workshop on The Changing Contours of “Participation” in Data-driven, Algorithmic Ecosystems: Challenges, Tactics, and an Agenda at CSCW.
  • Nickerson, J. V., Zheng, L. N., Bouwense, C., Mai, F., & Gordan, D. M. (2018). Implicit Coordination in Peer Production Networks.  ACM Collective Intelligence.

Additional Information

Teaching

  • MSIS 680 Advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
  • MSIS 685 Introduction to Big Data Analytics