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EIC for ACM TMIS

Heng Xu was appointed by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Publications Board to a three-year term (May 15, 2024 - May 14, 2027) as the Editor-in-Chief for the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems....

01 May 2024

Privacy Measurement Project

We gratefully acknowledge Meta Research for their generous support of our project “Addressing biases in measurement of self-reported privacy constructs”, which was selected as part of the 2021 People’s Expectations and Experiences with Digital Privacy...

29 Nov 2021

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Testing of Reverse Causality Using Semi-Supervised Learning

Two potential obstacles stand between the observation of a statistical correlation and the design (and deployment) of an effective intervention, omitted variable bias and reverse causality. Whereas the former has...

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31 Mar 2025

Jeanneret Award from the Society for I-O Psychology

“Reducing Subgroup Differences in Personnel Selection through the Application of Machine Learning”, a paper written by Nan Zhang, Heng Xu, and 11 other co-authors, has been honored with the 2025...

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28 Mar 2025

Social Justice Best Paper Award

A paper co-authored by Heng Xu and Nan Zhang, “Fairness of Ratemaking for Catastrophe Insurance: Lessons from Machine Learning,” published at Information Systems Research, has been honored with the INFORMS...

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20 Oct 2024

Is AI Useful for Scientific Assessments?

On September 25, 2024, Dr. Heng Xu was invited to speak on “AI Landscape and Tools for Scientific Assessments” to the Committee to Advise the U.S. Global Change Research Program...

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25 Sep 2024

AI and State/Local Government Services and Equity

On August 22, 2024,Dr. Heng Xu moderated a discussion session titled “AI Peer-to-Peer Series: AI and State and Local Government Services and Equity,” organized by the National Academy of Sciences’...

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22 Aug 2024

Navigating the AI Landscape

On April 9, 2024, Dr. Heng Xu was invited, along with Rayid Ghani (Carnegie Mellon University) and Santiago Garces (Boston’s Chief Innovation Officer), to speak at an event titled “Navigating...

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09 Apr 2024

National Academies Board on Human-System Integration

Dr. Heng Xu will join leaders in science, engineering, and industry to serve on the Board on Human-Systems Integration, National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. The board was established...

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01 Feb 2024

Goal Orientation for Fair Machine Learning Algorithms

A key challenge facing the use of Machine Learning (ML) in organizational selection settings (e.g., the processing of loan or job applications) is the potential bias against (racial and gender)...

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22 Jan 2024

CES APA Panel on What Firms Need to Know about Privacy

Heng Xu joined a panel of experts hosted by the American Psychological Association (APA) at CES 2024 to discuss about what companies need to know about how people understand privacy....

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09 Jan 2024