PARAM VIR SINGH

 

Carnegie Bosch Junior Chair in Information Sciences

Assistant Professor of Information Systems
David A. Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-3585

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Param Vir Singh
Carnegie Bosch Junior Chair in Information Sciences

Assistant Professor of Information Systems
David A Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213

 

EDUCATION

 

2008 PhD, Information Systems, Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2008 M.S. in Business Administration, Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
2004 M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.
2000 B.E. in Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

 

POSITIONS HELD

 

2008 Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University.

             

 


PUBLICATIONS

 

Articles in Refereed Journals (i.e., Critical Peer Review Before Publication):

 

  1. Yingda Lu, Kinshuk Jerath, Param Vir Singh. The Emergence of Opinion Leaders in a Networked Online Community: A Dyadic Model with Time Dynamics and a Heuristic for Fast Estimation, Forthcoming at Management Science.
  2. Param Vir Singh, and Corey Phelps. Networks, Social Influence and the Choice Among Competing Innovations: Insights from Open Source Software Licenses, Forthcoming  at Information Systems Research.
  3. Nachiketa Sahoo, Param Vir Singh, and Tridas Mukhopadhyay. A Hidden Markov Model of Collaborative Filtering. Forthcoming at Management Information Systems Quarterly.
  4. Rohit Aggarwal, Ram Gopal, Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, and Param Vir Singh. Blog, Blogger, and the Firm: Can Negative Posts by Employees Lead to Positive Outcomes. Forthcoming at Information Systems Research, (Available under online articles in advance).
  5. Param Vir Singh, Yong Tan, and Nara Youn. A Hidden Markov Model of Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects. Information Systems Research, 2011, 22(4), 790-807.
  6. Tridas Mukhopadhyay, Param Vir Singh, and Seung Hyun Kim. Learning Curves of Agents with Diverse Skills in Information Technology Enabled Physician Referral Systems. Information Systems Research, 2011, 22(3), 586-605.
  7. Param Vir Singh, Yong Tan, and Vijay Mookerjee. Network Effects: The Influence of Structural Social Capital on Open Source Software Project Success. Management Information Systems Quarterly, 2011, 35(4), 813-829. (Appeared as lead research article).
  8. Param Vir Singh. The Small World Effect: The Influence of Macro Level Properties of Developer Collaboration Networks on Open Source Project Success.  ACM Transactions of Software Engineering and Methodology, 2010, 20 (2), 6:1-6:27.
  9. Param Vir Singh and Yong Tan. Developer Heterogeneity and Formation of Communications Networks in Open Source Software Projects. Journal of Management Information Systems, 2010, 27(3) pp 179-210.


  


Articles in Refereed Conference Proceedings:

 

  1. Yan Huang, Param Vir Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan (2011) Crowdsourcing Blockbuster Ideas: A Dynamic Structural Model of Ideation, Conference of Information Systems and Technology, Charlotte 2011.
  2. Yingda Lu, Param Vir Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan (2011) How to Retain Smart Customers in Crowdsourcing Efforts? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Crowdsourcing Customer Support and Ideation, Conference of Information Systems and Technology, Charlotte 2011.
  3.  Yan Huang, Param Vir Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan (2011) Crowdsourcing Blockbuster Ideas: A Dynamic Structural Model of Ideation, International Conference of Information Systems, Saint Louis 2011.
  4. Yingda Lu, Param Vir Singh, and Baohong Sun (2011) Learning From Peers on Social Media Platforms, International Conference of Information Systems, Shanghai 2011.
  5.  Yingda Lu, Param Vir Singh, Kannan Srinivasan (2011) How to Retain Smart Customers in Crowdsourcing Efforts?  A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Crowdsourcing Customer Support and Ideation, Workshop on Information Systems and Technology, Shanghai 2011.
  6. Yan Huang, Param Vir Singh, and Anindya Ghose (2010) An Empirical Analysis of Competitive Dynamics in Enterprise Social Media, Workshop on Information Systems Economics, Saint Louis 2010.
  7. Param Vir Singh, Nachiketa Sahoo, and Tridas Mukhopadhyay (2010) Seeking Variety: A Dynamic Model of Employee Blog Reading Behavior, Workshop on Information Systems Economics, Saint Louis 2010.
  8. Yan Huang, Param Vir Singh, and Anindya Ghose (2010) Show Me the Incentives: A Dynamic Structural Model of Employee Blogging Behavior, International Conference of Information Systems, Saint Louis 2010.
  9. Yingda Lu, Param Vir Singh, Baohong Sun (2010) Blind Men Can Judge No Color: A Dynamic Structural Model of Enterprise Expertise Sharing, Workshop on Information Systems and Technology, Saint Louis 2010.
  10. Yan Huang, Param Vir Singh, and Anindya Ghose (2010) Show Me the Incentives: A Dynamic Structural Model of Employee Blogging Behavior, Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Austin 2010.
  11. Yingda Lu, Param Vir Singh, Baohong Sun (2010) Blind Men Can Judge No Color: A Dynamic Structural Model of Enterprise Expertise Sharing, Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Austin 2010.
  12. Yingda Lu, Kinshuk Jerath, and Param Vir Singh. The Emergence of Opinion Leaders in Online Review Communities. Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR), 2010, Austin, Texas.
  13. Param Vir Singh, Nachiketa Sahoo, and Tridas Mukhopadhyay. Modeling Blog Reading Dynamics. Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR), 2010, Austin, Texas.
  14. Param Vir Singh, Nachiketa Sahoo, and Tridas Mukhopadhyay. Modeling Blog Reading Dynamics. Utah Information Systems Winter Conference, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah.
  15. Liye Ma, Param Vir Singh, and Michael Smith. No Meaningful Impact: The Effect of Pre-release Piracy on Movie Box Office Sales. Proceedings of Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), 2009, Phoenix, Arizona.
  16. Param Vir Singh, Ray Reagans, and Ramayya Krishnan. Forbidden to Simmelian Ties: Dynamics of Expertise Sharing Communities. Proceedings of Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), 2009, New York City, New York.
  17. Rob Schonlau and Param Vir Singh. Board Networks and Merger Performance. Financial Management Association's Annual Meeting, 2009, Reno, Nevada.
  18. Liye Ma, Param Vir Singh, and Michael Smith. No Meaningful Impact: The Effect of Pre-release Piracy on Movie Box Office Sales. Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR), 2009, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
  19. Param Vir Singh. Open Source Software and the Small World Phenomenon: An empirical Investigation of Macro Level Network Properties on Project Success, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2007, Montreal, Canada.
  20. Param Vir Singh, Yong Tan, and Vijay Mookerjee. Social Capital, Structural Holes and Team Composition: Collaborative Networks of the Open Source Software Community, Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2007, Montreal, Canada.
  21. Param Vir Singh, Corey Phelps, Ming Fan, and Yong Tan. Determinants of Open Source Software Development License Choice: A Social Influence Perspective, Proceedings of Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), 2007, Montreal, Canada.
  22. Param Vir Singh and Yong Tan. Planning to First Release: A Conditional Hazard Function Approach for Investigating Open Source Software Development Time, Proceedings of Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2006, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pp 127-133.
  23. Param Vir Singh and Yong Tan. Stability and Efficiency of Communications Networks in Open Source Software Development, Proceedings of Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada, pp 177-182.
  24. Param Vir Singh and Eric Walden, Flexibility and Cost in IT Outsourcing: Balancing Opposing Goals, Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, Tampa, Florida, August 4-6, 2003, pp. 1653-1663. Nominated for Best Paper Award.

 

 

Articles in Non-refereed Proceedings:

 

  1. Yan Huang, Param Vir Singh and Kannan Srinivasan, Crowdsourcing “Blockbuster” Ideas: A Dynamic Structural Model of Ideation, INFORMS Annual Meeting 2011, Charlotte, NC, November, 2011.

  2. Yingda Lu, Param Vir Singh, and Baohong Sun. A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Enterprise Knowledge Sharing, INFORMS Marketing Science Conference 2011, Houston, Texas.

  3. Yingda Lu, Kinshuk Jerath, and Param Vir Singh. Emergence of Opinion Leaders in Online Review Communities. CORS Informs, 2009, Toronto, Canada.
  4. Yingda Lu, Kinshuk Jerath, and Param Vir Singh. Emergence of Opinion Leaders in Online Review Communities. Informs Annual Meeting, 2009, San Diego, California.
  5. Param Vir Singh, Nara Youn, and Yong Tan. Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects: A Hidden Markov Modeling Approach. Informs Marketing Science Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.
  6. Param Vir Singh. Collaboration Software Development and the Small World Phenomenon, Informs Annual Meeting, 2007, Seattle, Washington.

 

 

Completed Working Papers:

 

  1. A Structural Model of Employee Behavioral Dynamics in Enterprise Social Media, with Yan Huang and Anindya Ghose.
  2. Seeking Variety: A Dynamic Model of Employee Blog Reading Behavior, with Tridas Mukhopadhyay and Nachiketa Sahoo.
  3. The Effect of Pre-release Movie Piracy on Box Office Revenue, with Liye Ma, Mike Smith, and Alan Montgomery.
  4. Learning from Peers on Social Media Platforms: A Dynamic Structural Model, with Yingda Lu and Baohong Sun.
  5. Incentivizing Enterprise Social Media Participation under Employee Heterogeneity, with Nachiketa Sahoo and Tridas Mukhopadhyay.
  6. Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas under Consumer Learning, with Yan Huang and Kannan Srinivasan.
  7. Learning to Cross Boundaries in Online Knowledge Communities: Fading of Surface-level and Rise of Deep-level Similarity with Experience, with Elina Hwang and  Linda Argote.
  8. Community Costs? Analyzing the Contingent Association Between Internal Cohesion and Relationships with Outsiders, with Ray Reagans and Ramayya Krishnan .

 

 

Media Mentions:

 

Yan Huang, Param Vir Singh, and Anindya Ghose (2011) A Structural Model of Employee Behavioral Dynamics in Enterprise Social Media.  


Mentioned by:

 

  1. Susan Adams, “Personal Blogging at Work increases Productivity” March 1, 2011, Forbes.
  2. John Egen, “Blogging for Fun, Blogging for Work Should Harmonize in Corporate World” March 12, 2011, Technorati.
  3. David Spark, “Prohibiting leisure blogging of employees has a negative effect on productive blogging” Jan 20, 2011, Smart Blogs on Social Media.
  4. AACSB, “The Benefits of Blogging” BizED Magazine, 2011.
  5. Workplace HR and Safety HR, “Blogging and Employee Productivity” March 29, 2011, Open HR resources.
  6. Jason Hensel, “Blogging Helps Worker Productivity” April 29, 2011, PlusPoint.
  7. “Fun Blogging on Company Time” March 13, 2011, AU Social Media Class.
  8. “NYU Stern Releases Findings Showing Benefits of Blogging in the Workplace” March 3, 2011, Internet Business News.
  9. “Workplace Blogging” CMU Homepage Story on Global Society and Economy.
  10.  “Blogging on Company Time? CMU-Led Research Shows Long-Term Organizational Benefits when
  11. "Employees Blog at Work” March 18, 2011, CMU Heinz College Story.

 

Rohit Aggarwal, Ram Gopal, Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, and Param Vir Singh. Blog, Blogger, and the Firm: Can Negative Posts by Employees Lead to Positive Outcomes.

 

Mentioned By:

 

  1. Lynn Turner and Lewis Glass, “Blogging Employees Can Help Their Firms—By Dumping on Them” May, 2007, Ideablog.
  2. "Moderate corporate self-criticism increase readership, reputation, study says" Published: Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011 3:51 p.m. MST, Desert News.
  3. "Surprise! Going Negative Might Be Good for Business Blogging" by Steve Woods., November 16, 2011, Technoratti Media.
  4. "Negative Blog Posts Can Have Positive Impact on Business" November 16, 2011 09:01 AM Eastern Time, Business Wire. Yahoo Finance, Reuters, finanznachrichten, streetinsider, Dailyfinance,Boston.com, Investorpoint.com,
  5. "Even negative blogs have a positive impact" Nov 16, 2011, http://www.adigaskell.org.
  6. "The Positive Side of Negative Employee Blogs" November 17, 2011 by Jeanette Mulvey, Business News Daily.
  7. "Negative Employees can be good for business" November 17, 2011, Yahoo News.

 

Param Vir Singh, Yong Tan, and Vijay Mookerjee. Network Effects: The Influence of Structural Social Capital on Open Source Software Project Success.

 

Mentioned By:

 

  1. Allan Alter, “The Secret of Open source Project Success” April 9, 2008, CIO Insights.

 

 

Yan Huang, Param Vir Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan. (2011). Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas under Consumer Learning.


Mentioned by:

 

  1. "3 Ways to Improve the Ideas You Get from Crowdsourcing" February 13, 2012, Hazel McHugh, Getsponge.com.
  2. "Reducing Crowdsourcing Clutter" February 29, 2012, Peter Llyod, Ideaconnection.com.
  3. "Carnegie Mellon Defends Crowdsourcing" February 2, 2012, Eric Mack, Crowdsourcing.org.
  4. "Listen Up! Two Way Communication Key Lesson in Crowdsourcing" February 6, 2012 Kathy Gill, Wired Pen.
  5. "Studies Refutes Three Major Criticisms of Crowdsourcing" February 3, 2012, Paul A. Ideaconnection.com.
  6. "Crowdsourcing Can Generate Valuable Ideas for Firms" Crowdsourcing.org, Techjournalcouth.com, Niuzer.com, Silobreaker.com, Scoop.it, Congoo.com.
  7. "New CMU Study Shows How Firms Can Successfully Crowdsource High Potential New Product Ideas From Consumers" February 2, 2012, Yahoo Finance, prnewswire, World News, Crowdsourcing.org.
  8. "New Academic Study Confirms Success of CRowdsourcing Ideas from Consumers" February 6, 2012, Steve Bygnhall, Results From Corwd.
  9. "Crowdsourcing has a Longer Term Pay-off than Originally Thought" February 6, 2012, Joe McKendrick, Smart Planet.

 

 

RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS

 

Awarded to Date

 

Crowdsourcing New Product Ideas
Center For Future of Work
2011-2012 ($25000)
Role: Principal Co-Investigator)

 

Social Networks and Knowledge Transfer

Center for Future of Work
2010-2011 ($10000)
Role: Principal Investigator

 

Developer Learning Dynamics in Open Source Software Projects

Center for Organizational Learning, Innovation, and Performance, Carnegie Mellon University
2008-09 ($5000)
Role: Principal Investigator
(with Yong Tan, Foster School of Business, University of Washington, and Nara Youn, Tippie School of Business, University of Iowa)

 

Determinants of Open Source Software Licensing Choice: A Social Influence Perspective
Berkman Faculty Development
2009-10 ($4000)
Role: Principal Investigator

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Seminars at Other Academic Institutions

 

  1. Research Seminar at Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, November 2011.
  2. Research Seminar at Krannert School of Business, Purdue University, March 2011.
  3. Research Seminar at Information and Decision Sciences Department, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, (October 24, 2008).
  4. Research Seminar at Decisions, Operations, and Information Technology Department, Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (November 13, 2009).  

 

 

Awards, Prizes, Honors

 


  1. Faculty Giving Chair, AY 2011-2012.
  2. America's Winner of Google Online Marketing Challenge, 2009-10.
  3. Awarded $5000 research grant by the Center for organizational learning, innovation and performance, Carnegie Mellon university, 2008.
  4. Awarded Dean's Achievement Award 2005-2006.
  5. Participant at Doctoral Consortium, Center for International Business Education and Research, Seattle, Washington, 2005.
  6. Awarded University of Washington Graduate School Top Scholar Award (2004-2005)
  7. Foster Endowed Fellowship dissertation funding, 2007 and 2008.
  8. Nominated for University of Washington Business School Instructor of the Quarter award, Winter 2007.
  9. Best Paper Nomination for AMCIS, Tampa, Florida, 2003.

 

 

EDITORIAL ROLES

 

Associate Editor: International Conference on Information Systems, 2011, Shanghai, China.

 

Ad Hoc Referee for Management Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, International Conference on Information Systems., Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Workshop on Information Systems and Technology.

 

 

SERVICE

 

Tepper School of Business

 

  1. Coordinator, Information Systems Seminar Series (2008-09)
  2. Coordinator, Information Systems Seminar Series (2009-10)
  3. Coordinator, Information Systems Seminar Series (2010-11)
  4. Member, Information Systems Faculty Search Committee (2008-09)
  5. Member, Information Systems Faculty Search Committee (2010-11)
  6. Undergraduate Coordinator for Information Systems (2010-12)
  7. Member, Information Systems Faculty Search Committee (2011-12)

 

Conference Chair

 

  1. Informs Annual Meeting, Information Systems Cluster Chair, 2011, Charlotte, NC.
  2. Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2012, Phoenix, Arizona.
  3. Workshop on Information Systems and Economics, 2012, Orlando, Florida.

 

Conference Program Committee Member

 

  1. Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2009, San Diego, California.
  2. Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2010, Austin, Texas.
  3. Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2011, Charlotte, NC.
  4. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2009, Stanford, California.

 

Conference Session Chair

 

  1. CORS-INFORMS, 2009, Toronto, Canada.
  2. Informs Annual Meeting, 2009, San Diego, CA.
  3. Informs Annual Meeting, 2010, Austin, TX.
  4. Session Chair: Informs Annual Meeting, 2010, Austin, TX.
  5. Session Chair/Discussant: Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2010, Austin, TX.
  6. Session Chair: Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2011, Charlotte, NC.

 

Conference Discussant

 

  1. International Conference on Information Systems, 2008, Paris, France.
  2. Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2009, San Diego, California.
  3. Conference on Information Systems and Technology, 2010, Austin, TX.

 

 

STUDENT SUPERVISION


Doctoral Student Supervision (at Carnegie Mellon)

 

  1. Yingda Lu, supervising jointly with Kinshuk Jerath for a research paper, “The Emergence of Opinion Leaders in Online Review Communities.”
  2. Yingda Lu, supervising jointly with Baohong Sun for a research paper, “A Dynamic Structural Model of Enterprise Knowledge Sharing.”
  3. Yan Huang, supervising jointly with Anindya Ghose for a research paper, “Show Me the Incentives: A Dynamic Structural Model of Enterprise Blogging.”
  4. Yan Huang, supervising jointly with Kannan Srinivasan for a research paper, “Crowdsourcing Blockbuster Ideas: A Dynamic Structural Model of Ideation.”
  5. Liye Ma, supervising jointly with Michael Smith and Alan Montgomery for a research paper, “No Meaningful Impact: The Impact of Pre-release Piracy on Box Office Sales.”
  6. Elina Hwang, supervising jointly with Linda Argote for studying effect of network ties on knowledge sharing.
  7. Yi Liang, supervising jointly with Tridas Mukhopadhyay for studying optimal design of crowdsourcing contests.

 

 
OTHER EDUCATIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS (at CARNEGIE MELLON)

 

Courses Taught

 

45-877 Strategic Uses of Information Technology (A3-10, M3-10, A4-11, M4-10, E5-11) (Completely redesigned, developed and taught)
70-453 System Analysis and Design (SP-08, SP-09)
70-455 Information Resource Management (SP-08, SP-09, SP-10)

70-339 Information Technology for Finance (M3-12) (New Course: Completely developed and Taught)

70-443 Digital Marketing and Social Media Strategy (SP-12) (New Course: Completely developed and Taught)
45-890 Doctoral Seminar in Information Systems (A1-09, A1-10)