Yuan Zhang - Department of Management Information Systems

Dr. Yuan Zhang is an assistant professor in Management Information Systems in the
Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis. Mainly using
applied econometrics, experiments, and causal inference machine learning, her research
investigates user experience, user behaviors, and IT artifacts design focusing on
usability and affordance primarily in the contexts of social media and video games.
Her research has been published in major information systems and interdisciplinary
journals including JAIS and I&M and presented at major conferences including CIST,
INFORMS, WISE, HICSS, WITS, ACR.
Dr. Zhang discusses recent research on The Influence of Live Streaming on the Gaming Industry:
