Honored to receive the 2026 INFORMS ISS Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award for work on generative AI education: the textbook Generative AI for Business, its openly shared instructor resources, and the courses behind them. Read more →
Wei Chen is an Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management (OPIM) at the School of Business, University of Connecticut. He serves as Director of AI Transformation at the UConn School of Business, after three years as Academic Director of the UConn Digital Frontiers Initiative. This site is the home for his bio, research, teaching, and current academic updates.
His research focuses on how organizations design and govern generative AI capabilities to transform decision-making, knowledge work, and operations. His work has been published in leading journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly.
His current projects extend across two connected initiatives: The T-W-O Project, which houses the T-W-O framework and The Owner, and GenAI4All.org, which supports the textbook Generative AI for Business and related teaching materials.