Wenqi Zhou, Ph.D.

Tenured Associate Professor of Information Systems & Technology

PwC Alumni Faculty Fellow of IST

Inaugural David Warco Faculty Fellow (21'~24')

Managing Director, Viragh Institute for Business Ethics

VP of Operations, Association for Information Systems SIG eBiz

Palumbo-Donahue School of Business

Duquesne University

901 Rockwell Hall | 600 Forbes Avenue | Pittsburgh, PA 15282

Phone: 412.396.2537 | Email: zhouw@duq.edu

Affiliated Faculty with CMU CASOS, CMU IDeaS & Duquesne Grefenstette Center

Bio

I am Associate Professor of Information Systems and Technology in the Palumbo Donahue School of Business at Duquesne University. I currently hold the PwC Alumni Fellowship in IST and was previously awarded the Inaugural David Warco Faculty Fellowship (2021-2024) in recognition of my exemplary scholarship and contributions to higher education teaching. Research wise, I am affiliated with Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) and IDearS Center at Carnegie Mellow University, and Duquesne University Grefenstette Center.

I received Ph.D. from George Washington University School of Business. Recently, I have been interested in studying AI, online user-generated contents, Healthcare IS and economics, information disclosure and transparency, and tech ethics issues on e-commerce and social media platforms. My works have been published in Journal of MIS, PLoS ONE, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Internet Research, IEEE TIFS, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, IEEE Computer, etc.

I am the Conference Chair for Workshop on e-Business 2026, 2025, an Associate Editor of Information and Management, and an Area Editor of AI and Management Science of Comput Math Organ Theory. Currently, I'm editing Business and Society 360 Book Series Volume 7 with co-EIC Dr. David Wasieleski. I also served as a Guest Associate Editor for Electronic Commerce Research and Applications.

At Duquesne, I am the founder and faculty director of IST mentorship program at Duquesne. This annual program connects Duquesne IST students with senior managers, directors and CIOs in the region. I teach introductory information systems and business intelligence in the undergraduate program, and behavioral analytics and AI for business in the graduate program.

Awards and Grants

Research

Duquesne School of Business Primary Areas Summer Research Grant, 2025

Best Paper Award Runner Up, 2024 SBP-BRiMS Conference, 2024

Duquesne School of Business Dean's Award for Excellent in Research, 2025, 2024, 2022, 2020

Paluse Faculty Research Grant, 2022-2023

Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law Faculty Scholar, 2021-2022

Best Paper Award at Workshop on e-Business, 2018

Beard Research Fellowship in Ethics, 2017, 2018

Duquesne School of Business Annual Summer Research Grant, 2014 - 2019

Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper, 2017

Duquesne School of Business Excellent in Scholarship, 2017, 2016

Duquesne Presidential Scholarship Award, 2015

Best Paper Award at Workshop on e-Business, 2012

GWU Business School Doctoral Research Enhancement Fund, 2011, 2012

Teaching

Duquesne School of Business Excellent in Teaching, 2025

Duquesne School of Business Dean's Award for Excellent in Teaching, 2024, 2022

Faculty Development Funds, Center for Teaching Excellence/Grefenstette Center, 2024

Service

Michael J. Shaw Best Reviewer Award, Workshop on e-Business, 2021