Dr. Jianqing Chen
- Professor of Information Systems
- Ashbel Smith Professor
The University of Texas at Dallas supports the Ashbel Smith Professorship. Dr. Ashbel Smith was the first president of the UT System Board of Regents. He had a long and distinguished career in medicine, education and public service. During his term on the Board of Regents, Smith was dedicated to recruiting the best faculty members available and to developing a curriculum befitting a “university of the first class.” Smith became known as both the “father of Texas medicine” and the “father of The University of Texas.”
“The supportive and inspiring environment of the Jindal School of Management and The University of Texas at Dallas has constantly motivated me to strive for excellence. I am deeply honored to receive this award, and I will continue to explore the new and unknown at the intersection of technology and business.”
Dr. Jianqing Chen’s broad interests focus on understanding the business value and economic effects of information systems on consumer behavior and firm strategy.
Chen’s current research aims to understand, explain and suggest improvements to the broad economic issues of emerging digital phenomena such as online platforms.
Chen has written dozens of research articles for business journals, including MIS Quarterly, Management Science, Journal of Marketing and Journal of Marketing Research, and has received several best paper and other academic awards. He was named Information Systems Research Associate Editor of the Year in 2019. He is also a department editor for Business & Information Systems Engineering, an associate editor for the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and a senior editor of Production and Operations Management.
In 2016 Chen received the Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award from the Information Systems Society of INFORMS. The award recognizes early-career individuals who have earned a PhD within the past 10 years and are on a path toward making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.
Chen co-chaired the 10th China Summer Workshop on Information Management in 2016, co-chaired eBusiness Cluster of INFORMS in 2013, co-chaired Information Systems Cluster of INFORMS in 2014, and served as president of INFORMS eBusiness Section in 2020.
Chen joined The University of Texas at Dallas as a faculty member in the Naveen Jindal School of Management in 2011. He had previously taught at UT Austin and was an assistant professor at the University of Calgary from 2008 to 2011.
Chen received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He earned a master’s degree in economics and a PhD in management science and information systems from UT Austin.