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Zhepeng (Lionel) Li

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

Selected Articles

(*Area Top-tier Outlets, [c] Correspondence Author, [i] Industrial Collaborator)

  1. Yanan Wang, Yong Ge, Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Li Li [i], Rui Chen [i]. 2024. M3 Rec: A Context-aware Offline Meta-level Model-based Reinforcement Learning Aproach for Cold-start Recommendation. ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS) 42(6), Article 146: 1-27. (2023 Impact factor = 5.4, 5-year IF = 6.0)

    • Joint Work in Recommender Systems
    • Earlier version accepted by Offline Reinforcement Learning Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020)

  2. Zhepeng (Lionel) Li [c], Yong Ge, Xue Bai. 2021. What Will be Popular Next? Predicting Hotspots in Two-mode Social Networks. MIS Quarterly (MISQ)* 45(2): 925-966. (2023 Impact factor = 7.0, 5-year IF = 10.4)

    • SSRN Most Download in CompSciRN: Computational (Topic). click to SSRN manuscript.
    • SSRN Top Ten Download in Econometrics: Econometric & Statistical Methods - Special Topics eJournal
    • Best Paper Nominee at INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2017

  3. 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. (2023 Impact factor = 2.5, 5-year IF = 3.1)

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

  4. 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. (2023 Impact factor = 4.6, 5-year IF = 6.1)

    • SSRN Top Ten Download in Information Technology & Systems, Innovation & Networks, Sociology of Innovation, and Sources of Innovation. click here to SSRN manuscript
    • SSRN Top Ten Download in DecisionSciRN: Business Analytics (Topic) and DecisionSciRN: Predictive Analytics (Sub-Topic)

  5. Xiao Fang, Paul Hu, Zhepeng (Lionel) Li and Weiyu Tsai (Alphabetically). 2013. Predicting Adoption Probabilities in Social Networks. Information Systems Research (ISR)* 24(1): 128-145. (2023 Impact factor = 5.0, 5-year IF = 7.8)

    • 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

Joint-research Articles

  1. 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. (2023 Impact factor = 3.5, 5-year IF = 3.8)

    • Joint Work in Science of Science

  2. Wade Cook, Wanghong Li, Zhepeng (Lionel) Li, Joe Zhu. 2021. Efficiency Measurement for Hierarchical Situations. Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS) 72(3): 654-662. (2023 Impact factor = 2.7, 5-year IF = 3.0)

    • Joint Work in Optimization & Analytical Modeling

  3. Wade Cook, Wanghong Li, 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. (2023 Impact factor = 2.7, 5-year IF = 3.0)

    • Joint Work in Optimization & Analytical Modeling

  4. Wanghong Li, 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. (2023 Impact factor = 6.2, 5-year IF = 5.9)

    • Joint Work in Optimization & Analytical Modeling

  5. Wade D. Cook, Chuanyin Guo, Wanghong Li, 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). (2023 Impact factor = 1.1, 5-year IF = 1.1)

    • Joint Work in Optimization & Analytical Modeling

Misc. Articles

  1. Weiping Wang, Wenhui Chen, Zhepeng Li, Huaping Chen. 2006. Comparison Model and Algorithm for Distributed Firewall Policy. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) 4114: 545-556.
  2. Weiping Wang, Bing Deng, Zhepeng Li. 2007. Application of Oblivious Transfer Protocol in Distributed Data Mining with Privacy-preserving. The First International Symposium on Data, Privacy, and E-Commerce (ISDPE 2007): 283-285.
  3. Weiping Wang, Rong Ji, Wenhui Chen, Bo Chen, Zhepeng Li. 2007. Firewall Rules Sorting Based on Markov Model. The First International Symposium on Data, Privacy, and E-Commerce (ISDPE 2007): 203-208.
  4. Zhe-peng Li, Wei-ping Wang, Wen-hui Chen. 2006. An Anti-Collusion Solution for Privacy-preserving Data Mining. International Conference on Communication Technology: 1-5.