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Mingdi Xin

Education

New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York, NY
Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences
Ph.D., Information Systems, January 2009
Dissertation:
From Product- to Service-oriented Strategies in the Enterprise Software Market
Committee: Roy Radner (co-chair), Natalia Levina (co-chair), Arun Sundararajan
M.Phil., May 2005

Peking University, Beijing, China
B.S., Information Systems
Minor, Computer Science, June 2001

Research Interests

Software and services pricing, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) adoption and IT sourcing strategies, IT service contracts, IT workforce and compensation structure

Publications

Natalia Levina, and Mingdi Xin. “Comparing Information Technology Workers’ Compensation in US versus Singapore: Demographic, Human Capital and Institutional Factors,” Information Systems Research (18:2), June 2007, pp. 193-210.

Mingdi Xin, and Natalia Levina. “Software-as-a-Service Model: Elaborating Client-side Adoption Factors,” Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 2008.

Mingdi Xin. “From Selling to Subscription Model in the Software Market: A Paradigm Shift?” Proceedings of the 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2006.

Natalia Levina, Mingdi Xin, and Shinkyu Yang. “Understanding IT Workforce Structure in IT vs. non-IT Firms: Implications to IT Outsourcing,” Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), March, Maassey, and DeGross (eds), December 2003, pp. 759-766 (15% acceptance rate).

Work-in-Progress

“Dynamic Pricing of Business Software with Value Uncertainty: Motivation for Selling Software-as-a-Service” (solo-authored).

“Software-as-a-Service Model: Elaborating Client-side Adoption Factors” (with Natalia Levina).

“Estimating the Productivity and Performance Effects of Enterprise Software for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises” (with Sinan Aral and Arun Sundararajan).

“Pricing Cloud Computing: Inelasticity, Uncertainty and Demand Discovery ” (with Sinan Aral and Arun Sundararajan).

“An Economic Analysis of Enterprise Adoption of Open Source Software,” (with Evangelos Katsamakas), funded by Network, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications (NET) Institute Summer Grant, June 2005.

Other Publications

Mingdi Xin. “Adopting the SaaS Model for Business Applications,” Cutter Consortium Executive Report, June 2009, vol. 12, no. 6.
Mingdi Xin. “Adopting the SaaS Model: A Client Perspective,” The Cutter IT Journal (21:6), June 2008, pp. 12-17.

Conference Presentations

Mingdi Xin, and Natalia Levina. “Software-as-a-Service Model: Elaborating Client-side Adoption Factors,” the 29th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 2008, Paris, France.

Mingdi Xin, and Natalia Levina. “Software-as-a-Service Model: Elaborating Client-side Adoption Factors,” INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), October 2008, Washington D.C.

Mingdi Xin. “From Product- to Service-Oriented Strategies in the Enterprise Software Market,” Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), December 2006, Evanston, IL.

Natalia Levina, Mingdi Xin, and Shinkyu Yang. “Understanding IT Workforce Structure in IT vs. non-IT Firms: Implications to IT Outsourcing,” the 24th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), December 2003, Seattle, WA.

Other Invited Presentations

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)Business School; University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business; University of Notre Dame, Mendoza College of Business; University of Texas at Austin, McCOMBS School of Business; McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, January/February 2009

Teaching Experience

New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York, NY
• Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics, undergraduate core, fall 2006
Delivered recitation sessions twice weekly, held office hours, co-developed homework assignments, midterm and final exams
• Teaching Assistant, IT in Business and Society, undergraduate core, fall 2005
Delivered two guest lectures on “IT, productivity and sourcing,” held lab sessions and office hours, and graded all written assignments
• Teaching Assistant, “Computer-based Systems for Management Support”, undergraduate core, fall 2004
Delivered a guest lecture on “Software Licensing,” held lab sessions and office hours, co-developed homework assignments and exams, and graded all written assignments

Honors and Awards

• $200,000 Research Grant, SAP. Enterprise by Design: Productivity, Demand Prediction and Pricing in the SME Market for Enterprise Software as a Service (with Sinan Aral and Arun Sundararajan), 2008
• IBM Shared University Research (SUR) Fellowship, April 2007
• Paul Willensky Fellowship, NYU Stern School of Business, 2006-2007
• Selected for AMCIS 2006 Doctoral Consortium, August 2006
• NET Institute Summer Grant, June 2005
• Doctoral Fellowship, NYU Stern School of Business, 2002-2006
• Dong Orient Scholarship, Peking University, October 2000
• Guang Cai Scholarship, Peking University, October 1999
• IET Scholarship, Peking University, October 1998

Academic Service and Community Membership

• Discussant: NET Institute Conference on Network Economics, April 2006, 2007
• Reviewer: Journal of Strategic Information Systems; International Conference on Information Systems; Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
• Member of Association for Information Systems (AIS)
• Participant: NYU-IBM Workshop on Global Sourcing, January 2007, 2008
• Participant: Industrial Organization Workshop, Stern School of Business Department of Economics, September 2006, 2007
• Participant: New York University Summer Workshop on Economics of IS, 2005, 2006

Work Experience

• Client Service Manager, CCID Datasource Corporation, Beijing, China 10/01-7/02
• Quality Assurance (QA), Baidu.com, Inc., Beijing, China 2/01-5/01
• Project Assistant, part-time, IDG Expo. (Asia) Limited, Beijing, China 8/99-9/00

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