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Zhepeng (Lionel) Li

Associate Professor in IIM, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong

Journal Articles

(*Area Top-tier Outlets, [s] PhD Student, [i] Industrial Collaborator)

  1. Jiangning He, Fan Zhang[s], Weikun Wu[s], Zhepeng (Lionel) Li. Accept. Mitigating Exposure Bias for Recommendations in Physical Spaces: An Unbiased Pairwise Ranking Approach Using Spatial Movement. Information Systems Research (ISR)*. (Impact Factor = 5.0)

    • Work in Recommendation and Personalization

  2. Dongjun Wei[s], Michael Chau, Zhepeng (Lionel) Li. Accept. Relieving Bias in Hate Speech Detection with a Small Number of Expert Annotations: A Prompt-based Learning Approach. MIS Quarterly (MISQ)*. (Impact Factor = 7.0)

    • Work in Large Language Models and Fairness in AI Methods

  3. Yanan Wang[s], Yong Ge, Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Li Li[i], Rui Chen[i]. 2024. M3 Rec: A Context-aware Offline Meta-level Model-based Reinforcement Learning Approach for Cold-start Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 42(6), Article 146: 1-27. (Impact Factor = 5.4)

    • Work in Recommendation and Personalization
    • Earlier version accepted as poster presentation by Offline Reinforcement Learning Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems NeurIPS 2020

  4. Chen Peng, Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Chaojiang Wu. 2023. Researcher Geographic Mobility and Publication Productivity: An Investigation into Individual and Institutional Characteristics and the Roles of Academicians. Scientometrics 128: 379-406. (Impact Factor = 3.5)

    • Work in Science of Science

  5. Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Yong Ge, Xue Bai. 2021. What Will be Popular Next? Predicting Hotspots in Two-mode Social Networks. MIS Quarterly (MISQ)* 45(2): 925-966. (Impact Factor = 7.0)

    • Work in Network Analysis and Machine Learning
    • SSRN Most Download in CompSciRN: Computational (Topic). click to SSRN manuscript.
    • Best Paper Nominee at INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2017

  6. Wade Cook, Wanghong Li[s], Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Joe Zhu. 2021. Efficiency Measurement for Hierarchical Situations. Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS) 72(3): 654-662. (Impact Factor = 2.7)

    • Work in Optimization & Analytical Modeling

  7. Wade Cook, Wanghong Li[s], Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Liang Liang, Joe Zhu. 2020. Efficiency Measurement with Products and Partially Desirably Co-Products. Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS) 71(2): 335-345. (Impact Factor = 2.7)

    • Work in Optimization & Analytical Modeling

  8. Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Xiao Fang, and Olivia R. Liu Sheng. 2018. A Survey of Link Recommendation for Social Networks: Methods, Theoretical Foundations, and Future Research Directions. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) 9(1): 1-26. (Impact Factor = 2.5)

    • Work in Link Recommendation and Machine Learning
    • SSRN Top Ten Download in Networks, Information Technology & Systems, and IO:Theory. click to SSRN manuscript

  9. Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Xiao Fang, Xue Bai, and Olivia R. Liu Sheng. 2017. Utility-based Link Recommendation for Online Social Networks. Management Science (MS)* 63(6): 1938-1952. (Impact Factor = 4.6)

    • Work in Link Recommendation and Machine Learning
    • SSRN Top Ten Download in Information Technology & Systems, Innovation & Networks, Sociology of Innovation, and Sources of Innovation. click here to SSRN manuscript

  10. Wanghong Li[s], Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Liang Liang, Wade D. Cook. 2017. Evaluation of Ecological Systems and the Recycling of Undesirable Outputs: An Efficiency Study of Regions in China. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 60: 77-86. (Impact Factor = 6.2)

    • Work in Optimization & Analytical Modeling

  11. Wade D. Cook, Chuanyin Guo[s], Wanghong Li[s], Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Liang Liang, Joe Zhu. 2017. Efficiency Measurement of Multistage Processes: Context Dependent Numbers of Stages. Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR): 34(6). (Impact Factor = 1.1)

    • Work in Optimization & Analytical Modeling

  12. Xiao Fang, Paul Hu, Zhepeng (Lionel) Li[s] and Weiyu Tsai (Alphabetic Order). 2013. Predicting Adoption Probabilities in Social Networks. Information Systems Research (ISR)* 24(1): 128-145. (Impact Factor = 5.0)

    • Work in Network Analysis and Machine Learning
    • Media Coverage by MIT Technology Review and mass media, e.g., Herald News, Yahoo!News, Vancouver Sun etc.
    • SSRN Top Ten Download in Information Technology & Systems. click to SSRN manuscript

  13. Weiping Wang, Wenhui Chen[s], Zhepeng Li[s], Huaping Chen. 2006. Comparison Model and Algorithm for Distributed Firewall Policy. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 4114: 545-556.

    • Work in Communication Network Analysis