【Speaker】LIN Zhangxi, Professor, Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University

【Topic】The Life Cycle of Online Sellers in the C2C Auction Market

【Time】9:30-10:30am, 2010-05-27, Thursday

【Venue】Shunde 306, Tsinghua SEM

【Language】English

Biology of Speaker

Dr. LIN Zhangxi is a Professor at the Rawls College of Business Administration, and Director of Center for Advanced Analytics and Business Intelligence (CAABI,http://caabi.ba.ttu.edu), Texas Tech University. He is also an adjunct professor for a number of Chinese universities, including Tongji University (Shanghai), Fujian University of Technology (FJUT, Fuzhou), and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics (SWUFE, Chengdu). He received an M. Eng. degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1982, and an M.S. degree in economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He earned his Ph.D. degree in information systems in 1999 from the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include electronic commerce, data communications, information economics, and business intelligence. He has published papers inInformation Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Communications of AIS, Information Technology and Management, Journal of Global Information Management,and a few more. He has more than 20-year experience in information technology applications covering large-scale data processing, management information systems, and e-commerce systems. His extensive working experience in China for more than twenty-five years helped him maintaining connections in China's academic community and the industry.

Dr. LIN Zhangxi is initiating and coordinating a number of on-going international projects:

1) Joint Business Intelligence Lab by CAABI and SWUFE established in July 2007

2) eBEREA - A joint education program between two European universities and two Chinese universities, launched in 2007

3) Joint education programs in business intelligence between the Rawls College and the Business School of Nankai University

4) Joint research projects in business intelligence between CAABI and SWUFE and Guangdong University of Business Studies.

Dr. LIN Zhangxi is a board member of Lubbock Chinese Community and the Faculty Advisor for Association of Chinese Students and Scholar in Lubbock (ACSSL).