Wei Chen

Wei Chen is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management (OPIM) at the School of Business, University of Connecticut. He is also the academic director of the UConn Digital Frontiers Initiative, which aims to facilitate collaborations between industry and academia, with a current emphasis on the business applications of generative AI.

Wei's research studies platforms & crowds, financial technologies (FinTech), and the design and governance of generative AI. Utilizing theoretical models and granular data, he seeks to provide rigorous evidence to inform system and market design in these areas. His work has been published in leading academic journals, such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly.

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2024

Nov 8 Presented Gen AI for Knowledge Workers at Southwest CT Tech Hub.
Oct 29 Discussed "GenAI and the Future of Business Intelligence" with Stamford BIT network.
Oct 20 Deeply honored to receive the Sandra A. Slaughter Early Career Award from the INFORMS Information Systems Society.
Apr 24 Finished our first GenAI Workshop. Enjoyed the discussion and learned a lot from the participants.
Apr 5 We successfully launched our Digital Frontiers Initiative with the first annual Digital Frontiers Banquet.
Mar 27 Talked at Hartford AI Day 2024 about GenAI and the future of business, and how to customize large language models with prompt engineering and retrieval augmented generation. [UConn Today]
Mar 22 Discussed "How Has Generative AI Affected Education, Research, and Practice" in a panel at the MIS 50th academic conference.
Mar 21 Gave a talk about our recent paper about the transprancy of foundation models and firms' strategic fine-tuning efforts in a research seminar at the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego.
Feb 23 We started the Digital Frontiers Seminar series with a talk about "Generative AI and the Future of Business" at UConn Stamford.
Jan 11 Gave a talk to high school students at the Academy of Information Technology and Engineering (AITE) in Stamford.

2023

Aug 23 Joined the UConn School of Business as an Associate Professor in the Operations and Information Management Department, with an additional appointment as the Academic Director of the Connecticut Information Technology Institute.
Apr 28 Obtained my tenure letter from the University of Arizona.