Xiaofeng Liu



Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Zicklin School of Business
Baruch College, City University of New York

Email: xiaofeng.liu@baruch.cuny.edu



Research Interests

  • Topics: Fin-Tech, Digital Platforms, and Open Innovation

  • Methodologies: Econometrics, Structural Modeling, and Machine Learning

Education

  • Ph.D. in Innovation, Technology and Operations, 2023

    University of California San Diego

  • M.S. in Statistics, 2016

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  • B.A. in Economics, 2015

    South China University of Technology

Research

Working Papers:

 

  • Strategic Release and Co-Creation: Empirical Insights for Managing Open Source Software (with Wei Chen, Vish Krishnan, and Kevin Zhu), Information Systems Research, under 3rd round review. [SSRN]

  • Token Incentives and Platform Competition: A Tale of Two Swaps (with Wei Chen and Kevin Zhu), Management Science, under revision for 2nd round review. [SSRN]

  • Growth versus Competition in Growing Digital Markets Evidence from Amazon Prime’s Effects on Competitors (with Zhe Zhang and Kevin Zhu), Information Systems Research, reject and resubmit. [SSRN]

Teaching

Instructor, Baruch College:

  • CIS 3620 - FinTech: Principles and Applications (2024 Spring)

 

Teaching Assistant, UC San Diego:

  • MGT403 - Quantitative Analysis

  • MGT495 - Web Data Analytics

  • MGT495 - Math and Programming for Business Analytics

  • MGT127/MGT451 - Technology and Innovation Strategy

  • MGT172/MGT450/MGTA460 - Project Management

 

Online Tutorial Videos:

  • Radiant Tutorial Series:
    • I designed and created a series of 28 technical tutorial videos for Radiant, an open-source platform-independent browser-based interface for business analytics in R.
    • Topics cover decision analysis, probability basics, hypothesis testing, linear regression analysis, and simulation.
    • Each video contains examples and reproducible code.