About

Hi, my name is Harry Wang (Chinese: 王建楠). I am a Full Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Delaware with more than 18 years' research, teaching, and management experience in AI, Data Science, Social Computing, and Enterprise Systems. I am also an affiliated faculty at the Data Science Institute and the Institute for Financial Services Analytics.

I currently serve as the Founder and CEO of PaperFox.ai, the first all-in-One AI platform for academic conferences. Previously, I was the Chief Scientist of Tezign Inc. (a unicorn startup based in Shanghai) and an Independent Director for So-Young International Inc. (NASDAQ: SY). I also served as the Founding Director of OneConnect (NYSE: OCFT) U.S. Research Institute based in New York City from 2018 to 2019 and the VP of Technology for the Association for Information Systems from 2015 to 2018.

I also founded and created a number of startup products since 2015, including Takin.ai, HiddenArt, ReplicableArt, and Conferency.

In my spare time, I enjoy coding, sports, music, design, art, and woodworking. I created a brand KU (which means warehouse in Chinese) for my woodworking projects: KuWarehouse.com.

Selected Publications

  • "The Double-Edged Roles of Generative AI in the Creative Process: Experiments on Design Work", with Lei Wang et al., Information Systems Research, 2025.
  • "Digital Resilience to Covid-19: Evidence from the Medical Aesthetics Industry", with Wenli Zou et al., Production and Operations Management, 2025.
  • "Unifying Online and Offline Preference for Social Link Prediction", with Fan Zhou et al., INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2021.
  • "Peer Effects in Competitive Environments", with Zhuoxin Li and Gang Wang, MIS Quarterly, 2021.
  • "On Risk Management with Information Flows in Business Processes", with Xue Bai et al., Information Systems Research, 2013.

Selected Teaching