CeDER News and Announcements
- Prof. Panos Ipeirotis's research on crowdsourcing featured in Bloomberg BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal.
- Prof. Arun Sundararajan on Hewlett Packard on BBC News, on Google's privacy changes in Information Week.
- Profs. Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan on EU Privacy Rules.
- Prof. Sinan Aral's research cited in MIT Sloan Management Review, Advertising Age.
- Prof. Anindya Ghose featured as the FT Lexicon Professor of the Week.
- Prof. Sinan Aral featured in MIT Sloan Management Review for his research on product contagion.
- Prof. Arun Sundararajan's op-ed on India's UID Project in WSJ's livemint.com
- Prof. Anindya Ghose and Doctoral Student Jason Chan received the Best Paper Award at WHITE 2011 held at the Smith School of Business, Univ. of Maryland.
- Profs. Anindya Ghose and Panos Ipeirotis's research on online product reviews is featured in Knowledge@Wharton and the Financial Times.
- Prof. Sinan Aral discusses Social Contagion at TEDx Silicon Valley
- Profs. Alex Tuzhilin and Anindya Ghose on the growth of high-tech firms- Washington Square News.
- Profs. Anindya Ghose and Panos Ipeirotis's research on impact of online customer reviews was featured in the Freakonomics blog, Reuters, Slate and the Harvard Business Review blog.
- Profs. Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan author op-ed on corporate data protection (Financial Times).
- Prof. Sinan Aral's research on making products viral featured in HBR.
- Profs Russell Winer and Alexander Tuzhilin are highlighted for their roles in NYU's new partnership with the University of the People - The New York Times, International Herald Tribune and Targeted News Service
- Prof. Ilan Lobel’s research, which applies “Bayesian” learning principles to modern social networks, is featured - Computerworld and CFOWorld.com
- Profs. Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan on data governance (CIO)
- Prof. Panos Ipeirotis's research on Mechanical Turk is featured in The Economist, ABC News, The New York Times and The Toronto Star
- Prof. Vasant Dhar on the increasing importance of the CIO (WSJ and ITBusinessEdge.com).
- CeDER Co-Directors Vasant Dhar and Anindya Ghose appointed as two of the co-principal investigators to establish a research center at NYU Abu Dhabi and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Security and Privacy in Abu Dhabi (CRISSP-AD).
- Prof. Panos Ipeirotis on the economic impact of online product reviews - Geek.com
- Prof. Sinan Aral research on how people get new information from their social networks is featured in Wired Magazine
- IS Doctoral Student Sean Taylor wins Yahoo's Key Scientific Challenges Program Award 2011
- Profs. Anindya Ghose and Arun Sundararajan were cited in the Washington Square News for their thoughts on the reasons behind social media companies’ recent expansion of operations to New York City
- Professors Anindya Ghose and Panagiotis Ipeirotis and IS PhD student Beibei Li receive Best Paper Award at 2011 International World Wide Web Conference.
Profs Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan on the Epsilon data breach- CNBC, Reuters and Sun Herald.
- Professor Arun Sundararajan’s co-authored study, examining the organizational requirements for a company to successfully migrate their operations to the cloud, was featured on the Cloud Power blog.
- Prof. Anindya Ghose’s research on the benefits of corporate blogging is featured on Forbes.com, NY Times, Bloomberg Business Week and Internet Business News
- Prof. Arun Sundararajan is featured in an article on his co-authored research with Prof. Sinan Aral on cloud computing (Forbes, 2/28)
- Prof. Panagiotis Ipeirotis’s research on Mechanical Turk is referenced in Washington Post, TIME, Bloomberg Businessweek, CNN Money.
- Professors Vasant Dhar and Anindya Ghose’s research on sponsored search is featured in BusinessWire and Investment Weekly News
- Professor Anindya Ghose named Marketing Science Institute 2011 Young Scholar
- Professor Anindya Ghose on internet privacy (Reuters TV).
- Professor Sinan Aral Named PopTech Science Fellow
- Professor Arun Sundararajan and co-author on India's Unique Identification Project
- Professor Panos Ipeirotis and collaborator receive $70,000 Google Research Award
- The 2nd Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) was held Sept. 24-25, 2010 at NYU Stern.
- NSF Awards Professor Anindya Ghose and Four NYU Colleagues $2.9 million Grant
- Professor Panos Ipeirotis's blog was named by Comtechtor as one of the top-50 computer science blogs.
- CeDER Director Vasant Dhar's commentary published on Forbes.com- "New Phase For Publishing Industry" (4/28/2010).
- The Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) was held in Phoenix, AZ on December 14-15, 2009.
- The 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems took place at NYU Stern on October 22-25, 2009.
- The Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) took place in San Diego, CA on October 10-11, 2009.
- Professor Natalia Levina and co-author received OCIS division's Caroline Dexter Award at Academy of Management Conference.
- The 2008-2009 CeDER Annual Report.
- The Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) was held at NYU Stern on September 25th-26th, 2009.
- The Managing Data Risk Workshop was held at NYU on April 24, 2009.
- Sinan Aral wins Best Overall Paper Award at the 2008 International Conference on Information Systems.
- The 20th Annual Workshop on Information Systems and Economics took place on December 13-14, 2008, in Paris, France.
- The NYU Global Delivery of Professional Goods Conference took place May 30 and 31, 2008, at the NYU Stern Henry Kaufman Management Center in conjunction with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
- The first NY Computer Science and Economics day (NYCE day) was held on October 3, 2008, at the NY Academy of Sciences.
- The fourth annual symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR) took place at NYU Stern on May 18 and 19, 2008. The theme of this year's symposium is Social Networks and User-Generated Content.
- On May 9, 2008, the Center for Digital Economy Research held a Workshop on Teaching Information Technology in business curricula. Approximately 45 academics from the nation's top IS programs were in attendance.
- INFORMS 2008: Arun Sundararajan and his former student Gal Oestreicher-Singer won best paper award for their paper titled "The Visible Hand of Recommendation Networks."
- Provost and Ipeirotis win best paper runner-up award at the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
- CeDER working paper "Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews" by Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose, and Panos Ipeirotis is an SSRN "all time hit" in the category of entrepreneurship and marketing.
- Sinan Aral wins the 2007 ACM SIGMIS award at the annual conference on Information Systems in Montreal (ICIS 2007). Anindya Ghose also was a runner up for the ISR 2007 best paper award.
- An opinion piece co-authored by Professor Arun Sundararajan was published on September 5, 2007, in the Economic Times, India's leading business newspaper. The authors argue that government intervention, in the form of company subsidies, is needed to create the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology (3G) for India. Also required is the quick implementation of network infrastructure, adoption of 3G capable devices, and content and applications to be delivered to these devices.
- Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan publish their article Information Technologies in Business: A Blueprint for Education and Research in the June 2007 issue of Information Systems Research.
- CeDER Director Vasant Dhar featured in Bloomberg Magazine discussing artificial intelligence and trading. Watch the interview.
- Professor Natalia Levina recieves IBM's Shared University Research Award to conduct research on vendor's strategy, management, and performance in global outsourcing.
- Professors Ghose and Ipeirotis awarded the Microsoft Virtual Earth Award.
- Professors Ghose and Ipeirotis awarded prestigious NSF CAREER grants.
- Professor Aral wins 2006 ICIS Best Overall Paper Award for "Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence" and best paper in the IT Business Value track for "Which Came First, IT or Productivity? The Virtuous Cycle of Investment and Use in Enterprise Systems"
- NYU-IBM Workshop on Global Sourcing took place on January 26th, 2007 at the NYU Stern Henry Kaufman Management Center. The workshop was organized by the Center for Digital Economy Research in collaboration with the IBM T.J. Watson Research. It involved about 45 invited participants including leading IS scholars conducting cutting edge research in the area of Global Offshoring and Outsourcing as well as faculty members and graduate students from NYU and affiliate universities and researchers from IBM.
- Tulin Erdem joins CeDER as Director of Research.
- CeDER, together with the IBM Data Governance Council and BITS Financial Services Roundtable, hosted the Data Governance and Risk Calculation Forum at NYU Stern on Friday, October 31, 2006.
- The Greater New York Area DB/IR Day took place at NYU Stern on Friday, October 6th, 2006. This a semi-annual conference was aimed to bring together interested parties in the New York Metropolitan area for one day of interaction and discussion.
- June 26, 2006 - Assistant Professor of Information Systems Panagiotis (Panos) Ipeirotis received the "Best Paper" Award at the SIGMOD 2006 Conference for his research paper "To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks," coauthored with Eugene Agichtein (Microsoft Research), Pranay Jain (Columbia University) and Luis Gravano (Columbia University). SIGMOD is one of two premier database conferences; SIGMOD 2006 received 446 research paper submissions, out of which 58 (or 13%) were accepted for publication.
- Microsoft awarded NYU Stern Professors Anindya Ghose and Panagiotis Ipeirotis a Live Labs Search Award for their research proposal entitled, “Combining Econometric and Text Mining Approaches for Measuring the Effect of Online Information Exchange.” Professors Ghose and Ipeirotis received one of the 12 specially funded awards, following a highly competitive selection process in which Microsoft chose their work from more than 180 submissions. Microsoft Live Labs is a partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research that centers on applied research for Internet products and services. This award consists of a significant unrestricted cash gift for one year and access to a proprietary dataset of a few million search queries detailing various aspects of consumer search on the Internet.
- Professor Anindya Ghose awarded the 2005 ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award for his work entitled "The Strategic Impact of Electronic Secondary Markets on Firm Performance, Market Structure and Social Welfare."
- January 19, 2005 - NYU Stern Professor Natalia Levina recieves Alfred P. Sloan Industry Fellowship.
