Associate Professor, Business Analytics

PhD in Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems, University of Cincinnati

MS in Statistics, Miami University

BA in Mathematics, Wabash College

Natural Language Processing, AI, Cultural Analytics, FinTech, Social Media

John L. Weinberg/IRRCI Research Paper Award Competition, 2023

EURO Award for the Best EJOR Paper - Association of European Operational Research Societies, 2022

Honorable Mention, Best Paper Award - Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW) - ACM, 2019

Wang, K., Mai, F., Shan, Z., Zhang, D., & Peng, X. (In Press). (2024). Analyzing Professional Ethics of Physicians Using Online Patient Reviews: a Machine Learning Approach. Production and Operations Management. DOI: 10.1177/10591478251318885.

Yan, B., Mai, F., Wu, C., Chen, R., & Li, X. (2024). A Computational Framework for Understanding Firm Communication During Disasters. Information Systems Research. 35 (2) pp. 441-916.

Zheng, L., Mai, F., Yan, B., & Nickerson, J. V. (2023). Stigmergy in Open Collaboration: An Empirical Investigation Based on Wikipedia. Journal of Management Information Systems. 40 (3) pp. 983-1008.

Kai, L., Mai, F., Yan, X., & Shen, R. (2021). Measuring Corporate Culture Using Machine Learning. The Review of Financial Studies. 34 (7) pp. 3265–3315.

Mai, F., Tian, S., Lee, C., & Mai, L. (2019). Deep learning models for bankruptcy prediction using textual disclosures. European Journal of Operational Research. 274 (2) pp. 743-758.

Mai, F., Fry, M. J., & Ohlmann, J. (2018). Model-based capacitated clustering with posterior regularization. European Journal of Operational Research. 271 (2) pp. 594-605.

Mai, F., Shan, Z., Bai, Q., Wang, X., & Chiang, R. H. (2018). How does social media impact Bitcoin value? A test of the silent majority hypothesis. Journal of Management Information Systems. 35 (1) pp. 19-52.