Depth across disciplines
Not one field, but a web of them — from the mathematics of markets to the wisdom of technology. My strongest and most distinctive work first; every entry links to the real paper, and each figure is drawn from the paper itself (hover to look closer).
Mechanism design & market security
Buy-price English auctionZoltán Hidvégi, Wenli Wang, Andrew B. Whinston · Journal of Economic Theory, 2006 · Journal of Economic Theory — top-tier, accepted without revision
The world’s first buy-price “button” to end a live ascending auction — properly set, it raises social welfare and every agent’s payoff under risk-aversion, the auction-theoretic foundation behind the instant “golden-buzzer” win.
Binary Vickrey auction — a robust, efficient multi-unit sealed-bid auction against buyer false-name bidsZoltán Hidvégi, Wenli Wang, Andrew B. Whinston · Decision Support Systems, 2007
A multi-unit sealed-bid auction that stays efficient and can’t be gamed by splitting one bidder into many false names — robust by design.
Designing mechanisms for e-commerce security: An example from sealed-bid auctionsWenli Wang, Zoltán Hidvégi, Andrew B. Whinston · International Journal of Electronic Commerce, 2001
A cryptographic protocol that blocks false-name bidding in sealed-bid auctions while staying computationally efficient.
Formal verification & systems assurance
E-process design and assurance using model checkingWenli Wang, Zoltán Hidvégi, Andrew D. Bailey, Andrew B. Whinston · IEEE Computer, 2000 · IEEE Computer — flagship computing journal
Formal model-checking brought to business-process design — proving an e-process correct before it ships, not debugging it after.
AI governance, security & explainable AI
Generative AI governance for cybersecurity: An integrated approachJohn Casamassa, Wenli Wang, Masialeti Masialeti · Issues in Information Systems, 2025
An integrated governance approach for generative AI in cybersecurity — guardrails woven into the workflow, not bolted on after.
The mediating role of explainable AI on phishing susceptibilityMasialeti Masialeti, Wenli Wang · IEEE TPS-ISA (invited), 2025
Explaining ‘why’ a message is phishing — not just flagging it — lowers employees’ susceptibility. It’s the explainability, not the alert, that changes behavior.
- Measuring privacy literacy on Generative AI: A pilot study of Generation Z
Jing Hua, Wenli Wang · IEEE TPS-ISA (invited), 2025
A validated instrument for how well Gen-Z actually grasps their privacy exposure to generative AI — you can’t govern what you can’t measure.
Wisdom & technology
In bed with technology? Peril, promise, and prudenceDavid Pauleen, Nikunj Dalal, David Rooney, Ali Intezari, Wenli Wang · Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2015 · Invited national panel
An invited panel on our entanglement with technology — the wisdom question, a decade before it was fashionable.
Authenticity and social mediaWenli Wang, Robert J. Skovira · AMCIS Proceedings, 2017
What ‘authenticity’ even means when the self is mediated by platforms — a philosophy-of-IS lens on identity online.
Digital twins · healthcare & industry
Human digital twin initiativesWilliam Glascoe, Wenli Wang · Issues in Information Systems, 2024
A framing of human-digital-twin efforts — the promise, and the hard open problems of modeling a living person.
Acceptance and use of data-visualization technologies in mining short-interval control systemsMasialeti Masialeti, Jim Mahony, Wenli Wang · Issues in Information Systems, 2024
What makes frontline miners actually adopt real-time visualization dashboards — technology acceptance in a high-stakes industrial setting.
The impact of mobile applications on maternity education: A quantitative study of KenyaHussein Abdinoor Mohamed, Chaza Abdul, Wenli Wang, Nancy Mimm · Issues in Information Systems, 2020
A quantitative study of mobile apps for maternal-health education in Kenya — mobile health where it saves the most lives.
Beyond these, an extensive body of work in AI & IS education and online learning — course-delivery effectiveness, curriculum design, and learning technology across many universities.
Full academic publication list → · Full CV (PDF) →
Additional work under review at leading journals — available on request.
The research is the foundation
Decades of peer-reviewed work — across the disciplines that meet in AI.
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