Jingjing Li

Jingjing Li (李静静)

Designing AI, measuring its impact

Associate Professor of IT and Innovation

Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellow
McIntire School of Commerce · University of Virginia

EDITORIAL & COMMUNITY
Associate Editor, Information Systems Research
Former Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly
Vice President, INFORMS Information Systems Society
PROGRAM LEADERSHIP
Academic Director, M.S. in Business Analytics (MSBA)
Associate Director, Center for Business Analytics

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About Me

I am an Associate Professor of IT and Innovation at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, a Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellow, and Academic Director of the M.S. in Business Analytics program, offered jointly with the Darden School of Business. My work sits at the intersection of design science and the economics of digital technology: I build AI systems, deploy them in the field, and measure what happens when people work with them. Before joining academia, I was a scientist at Microsoft, where I built large-scale machine learning and AI solutions for core products and services — an industry grounding that still shapes how I build and study AI.

Research

My research focuses on the design, development, and management of artificial intelligence and data analytics systems, with applications in healthcare, marketing, platforms, and public policy.

Work appears in: MIS Quarterly · Information Systems Research · Journal of Marketing · Strategic Management Journal · Journal of Management Information Systems · npj Digital Medicine · Review of Economics and Statistics · ACM Transactions on Information Systems · Harvard Business Review

Awards & Funding

I have received the INFORMS Design Science Award and Best Paper awards from CIST, WITS, and the INFORMS Data Science Workshop, and my research was a finalist for the Journal of Marketing's Shelby D. Hunt/Harold H. Maynard Award in 2020. In 2026 I was named a Shannon Center Mid-Career Fellow at the University of Virginia, following a three-year term as Andersen Alumni Associate Professor (2023–2026).

My research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, the 4-VA initiative, the Jefferson Trust, UVA's Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE) Grand Challenge, the UVA LaCross AI Institute, and the UVA Data Analytics Center.

Service & Teaching

I am an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research. I was an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly 2022-2025 (receiving MISQ's Outstanding Associate Editor Award in 2024) and served on the Journal of the Association for Information Systems Editorial Review Board 2024-2025. I serve as Vice President of the INFORMS Information Systems Society, and have co-chaired flagship events including WITS 2024 (Outstanding Service Award), the INFORMS Data Science Workshop 2023, and the INFORMS ISS Doctoral Consortium 2025.

I teach AI and analytics across undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs, and was named a Poets&Quants Best Undergraduate Professor in 2023, received the Annual Faculty Recognition Award from The Order of Claw and Dagger at UVA in 2024, and previously the Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2012.

Beyond the office

Away from work, I'm a pianist — Level 10 certificate, the highest level for amateur players in China — and an avid hiker.

Selected Publications

Grants

Federal & Commonwealth of Virginia

University of Virginia

Industry & Research Community

Program Leadership

Teaching Recognition

Teaching

University of Virginia — McIntire School of Commerce · 2014–Present

University of Colorado Boulder — Leeds School of Business · 2011–2012

Fellowships & Chaired Appointments

Research & Best Paper Awards

Editorial & Service Awards

Teaching Awards

Early Career & Industry

Professional Service

Editorial Positions

Society & Board Leadership

Conference Leadership

Mentoring & Advisory

Reviewing

University Service

Program & Center Leadership

University of Virginia

McIntire School of Commerce

I design AI and measure its impact — and that work is best done together: with organizations facing real analytics and AI questions, and with scholars across disciplines. Whether you're an industry partner, a fellow researcher, a student, or a journalist, a short note on who you are and what you have in mind is plenty — I read everything, and email is the fastest way to reach me.

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