← Back to Main Page
2025 AI in Business Conference logo - Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University

2025 AI in Business Conference
Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University
Complete Schedule

Full conference schedule by day
Keynotes & Opening
Presentation Sessions
Breaks
Meals
Social Events

Thursday, October 2, 2025

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Breakfast
Blackwell Inn Ballroom
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Registration
Blackwell Inn Foyer
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM
Opening Remarks – Ravi V. Bellamkonda, Ph.D., Provost of The Ohio State University
Blackwell Inn Ballroom

Ravi V. Bellamkonda, Ph.D.

Ravi V. Bellamkonda serves as the executive vice president and provost of The Ohio State University. As chief academic officer, he oversees the institution’s academic enterprise, which includes 15 colleges, four regional campuses and more than 8,600 faculty who serve nearly 67,000 students. He also leads the Office of Academic Affairs, which drives Ohio State’s academic excellence and supports the students, faculty and communities the university serves. This collective effort fosters Ohio State’s reputation as one of the world’s preeminent public research universities and the flagship land-grant institution of Ohio.

Click here to read Provost Bellamkonda's complete biography.

8:15 AM – 9:00 AM
Academic Keynote - Anindya Ghose, Ph.D.
Blackwell Inn Ballroom

Anindya Ghose

Anindya Ghose is the Heinz Riehl Chair Professor of Technology and Marketing at at New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he holds a joint appointment in the Marketing and Technology, Operations, and Statistics departments. He is also the Director of the Masters of Business Analytics Program and a Leonard Stern Faculty Scholar with an MBA scholarship (the Ghose Scholarship) named after him.

He is the author of TAP: Unlocking The Mobile Economy, a double winner at the 2018 Axiom Business Book Awards, and THRIVE: Maximizing Well-Being in the Age of AI . His rapid promotion from assistant to full professor in 8.5 years is considered one of the fastest in global business school history.

Click here to read Professor Ghose's complete biography.

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Break
Move to Pfahl Hall
9:10 AM – 10:30 AM
Presentation Session 1
Pfahl Hall Rooms 140, 202, and 240

Room 140: Human-in-the-Loop AI

  • A Human-in-the-Loop AI Agent for Meta-Analysis Coding
    Hanyi Min* (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Sohee Kim (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Feng Guo (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)
  • Qualitative Coding with Hybrid AI and Human-in-the-Loop
    Christina Dressel* (John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University), Megan LePere-Schloop (The Ohio State University), Lucia Gomez Teijeiro (Bern University of Applied Sciences and University of Geneva)
  • Ethics by Co-Design: Embedding Responsibility in Human-in-the-Loop AI Systems
    Jordan Etsio* (University of the Cumberlands)

Room 202: AI in Healthcare & Learning

  • AI-Assisted Triage of Patient Messages: A Clinically Calibrated Human–AI Framework for Healthcare Operations
    Mohamed Megahed* (The Ohio State University), Nathan Craig (The Ohio State University), Aravind Chandrasekaran (The Ohio State University)
  • Dual Applications of Large Language Models: Specialty Triage and Patient-Friendly Discharge Summaries
    Xiguang Liu* (University of Florida), Haocheng Ren (University of Michigan), Tianrun Pan (Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine), Tianhe Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Liangfei Qiu (University of Florida)
  • From Copy-Paste to Cognitive Lift: A Design Theory for AI-Assisted Mastery
    Lori Kendall* (The Ohio State University)
  • Improving Student Engagement and Personalized Learning In Business Analytics with AI
    John Draper* (The Ohio State University), Ismael Talke (The Ohio State University)

Room 240: AI in Services & Interaction

  • Does Machine Learning Help Flights Depart on Time? The Value of Machine Learning Tools on Airlines' Operational Performance
    Rang Gong* (The Ohio State University), Xiang (Sean) Wan (The Ohio State University)
  • Does Objective Service Quality Guarantee Subjective Service Quality? An AI Application of Facial Recognition on Flight On-Time Performance and Passenger Sentiment
    Xiang (Sean) Wan* (Fisher College of Business), Hongshuang (Alice) Li (Fisher College of Business), Zenan Zhou (W. P. Carey School of Business)
  • Information-Seeking from AI Chatbots: Tradeoff between Judgment and Misinformation Concerns under Stigma
    Aravinda Garimella* (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Behnaz Bojd (University of California, Irvine), Haonan Yin (University of California, Irvine)
  • Leadership in the Loop: Business Roles in Responsible AI Innovation
    Shixian Xie* (Carnegie Mellon University), John Zimmerman (Carnegie Mellon University), Motahhare Eslami (Carnegie Mellon University)
10:30 AM - 10:40 AM
Break
Pfahl Hall Foyer
10:40 AM – 12:00 PM
Presentation Session 2
Pfahl Hall Rooms 140, 202, and 240

Room 140: Logistics, Procurement & Markets

  • When AI Acts Human (and When It Doesn’t): Validating Generative Agent-Based Models in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
    Vince Castillo* (The Ohio State University)
  • Human-AI Congruence in Supplier Selection from Public Procurement Bids
    Finnegan McKinley* (University of Arkansas), Anne Dohmen (Michigan State University), Vince Castillo (The Ohio State University)
  • The Impact of Industrial AI Agent on B2B Procurement: Evidence from a Field Experiment
    Ricky Tan* (China Europe International Business School), Shichen Zhang (Tianjin University), Ruyu Chen (Stanford University), Xiande Zhao (China Europe International Business School)
  • Teaching Algorithms the Art of the Deal: Lessons from Reverse Auction Blunders
    Piyush Shah* (Florida Gulf Coast University), Irita Mishra (University of Wisconsin-River Falls), Senali Amarasuriya (Middle Tennessee State University)

Room 202: Trust, Emotion & Human Experience

  • Between Awe and Shame: The Emotional and Interpersonal Consequences of Workplace AI Use
    Justin Woodall* (University of Georgia), Yihao Liu (University of Georgia), Szu-Han (Joanna) Lin (University of Georgia), Jack Ting-Ju Chiang (Peking University), Zheng Wang (Zhejiang University)
  • Can an AI Be Sorry? Ameliorating the Human-AI Gap in Customer Service Apologies
    Rasam Dorri* (University of California, Riverside), Rami Zwick (University of California, Riverside), Ye Li (University of California, Riverside)
  • Emotional Agents: Human-AI Interaction and Emotional Diversity in Adversarial Prompt Engineering
    Guohou Shan* (Northeastern University), Kofi Arhin (Lehigh University), Yi Tong (University of Florida), Michael Rivera (Lehigh University), Liangfei Qiu (University of Florida)
  • If It's Easier, Why Do I Feel Worse? Impostor Thoughts Triggered By Generative AI Assistance
    Hanho Lee* (The Ohio State University), Zixu Zhang (University of Arizona), Hun Whee Lee (The Ohio State University), Sarah P. Doyle (University of Arizona), Robert B. Lount, Jr. (The Ohio State University)

Room 240: Hiring, Careers & Investment

  • Does Machine Learning Shift Job Requirements? Impacts on Entry-Level Opportunities
    Yuanyang Liu* (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Chuanren Liu (University of Tennessee), Tingliang Huang (University of Tennessee)
  • Modeling the Interviewer: Leveraging LLMs to Uncover Personality Mismatch Effects in Interview Assessment
    Rachit Kamdar* (University of Maryland), Balaji Padmanabhan (University of Maryland), Siva Viswanathan (University of Maryland)
  • What Do Early-Stage Investors Ask? An LLM Analysis of Expert Calls
    Victor Lyonnet (University of Michigan), Amin Shams* (The Ohio State University), Shaojun Zhang (The Ohio State University)
  • A Framework for Interventions in Human-AI Collaboration
    Paul Wynns* (UC San Diego), On Amir (UC San Diego)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch & Networking
Blackwell Inn Ballroom
1:00 PM – 2:40 PM
Presentation Session 3
Pfahl Hall Rooms 140, 202, and 240

Room 140: Best Presentation Competition – Doctoral Students

  • The AI Management Paradox: How Algorithmic Performance Systems Drive Efficiency but Erode Consumer Trust
    Qiaowen Guo* (Washington University in St. Louis), Xiang Hui (Washington University in St. Louis), Fuqiang Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis), Tianjuan Feng (Fudan University)
  • Algorithm Aversion in Supplier Selection - The Role of Cognitive Style and Interface Design
    Abhinav Hasija* (The Ohio State University), Aravind Chandrasekaran (Ohio State University), Terry Esper (Ohio State University), Thomas Goldsby (University of Tennessee), Walter Zinn (Ohio State University)
  • Why Students Reject AI for Human Counselors in College Applications: A Field Experiment
    Hemanshu Das* (Yale School of Management), Sofoklis Goulas, (Yale School of Management), Faidra Monachou (Yale School of Management)
  • Breaking the Sound Barrier: Asymmetric Impacts of AI Dubbing on Multilingual Engagement on YouTube
    Minjie Han* (University of Rochester), Mikhail Lysyakov (University of Rochester), Yang Gao (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
  • AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
    Jiannan Xu* (University of Maryland), Gujie Li (National University of Singapore), Jane Yi Jiang (Ohio State University)

Room 202: AI, Work & Organizations

  • AI and the Extended Workday: Productivity, Contracting Efficiency, and Distribution of Rents
    Junyoung Park* (Auburn University), Wei Jiang (Emory University), Rachel Xiao (Fordham University), Shen Zhang (Fordham University)
  • Large Language Models in the Workplace: The Role of Social Class Background
    Yao Yao* (University of Houston), Meng Li (University of Houston), Lai Wei (Boston College)
  • When Age Helps or Hinders AI Use: A Goal Orientation and Appraisal Perspective
    Hun Whee Lee* (The Ohio State University), Christopher Dishop (Auburn University), Nai-Wen Chi (National Sun Yat-Sen University), Yonghwan Lee (University of Seoul), Wu Wei (Wuhan University), Ke Michael Mai (China Europe International Business School)
  • Work Design for AI Agents: Tool and Socio-Technical System Design for AI Performance
    Cory Eisenhard* (Michigan State University), Frederick P. Morgeson (Michigan State University), Dhruv K. Toprani (Michigan State University)
  • When Told by a Machine: Human Perception and Responses to AI-Generated Information and Misinformation
    Lan Wu* (California State University, East Bay), Richard R. Klink (Loyola University Maryland), Jing-Wen Yang (California State University, East Bay)

Room 240: AI in Finance & Accounting

  • Artificial Intelligence, Opportunity, and Regulatory Uncertainty: Implications for Asset Pricing
    Kris Shen* (The Ohio State University)
  • Auditing in the Age of AI: Private Equity vs. the Public Interest
    Rajib Doogar* (University of Washington Bothell), Sri Ramamoorti (University of Dayton), Cory A. Campbell (Indiana State University)
  • Developing a Better Mousetrap: An Advanced Machine Learning Approach for Detecting Corporate Accounting Fraud in the Presence of Noisily Labeled Training Data
    Waleed Muhanna* (Ohio State University)
  • The Intelligence May Be Artificial, but the Story Must Be Human: Rethinking Audit Value, Ethical Pricing, and Client Perceptions in AI-Enhanced Professional Services
    Kristina Harrison* (Indiana University), Sri Ramamoorti (University of Dayton), Cory Campbell (Indiana State University)
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM
Break
Pfahl Hall Foyer
3:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Presentation Session 4
Pfahl Hall Rooms 140, 202, and 240

Room 140: Best Presentation Competition – Junior Faculty

  • Improving Recycling Quality through AI & GreenNudges: Evidence from a Field Experiment
    Erin McKie* (The Ohio State University), Nikhil Sharma (The Ohio State University), Sanghoon Cho (Texas Christian University), Aravind Chandrasekaran (The Ohio State University)
  • Strategic Algorithmic Advice Taking
    Tobias Rebholz* (Duke University), Maxwell Uphoff (University of Minnesota Twin Cities), Christian H. R. Bernges (University of Tübingen), Florian Scholten (University of Tübingen)
  • When Influencers Delegate Replies: How Social AI Agents Shape User Engagement
    Maggie Zhang* (University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce), Yang Gao (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jingjing Li (University of Virginia), Steven L. Johnson (University of Virginia)
  • The Adoption and Efficacy of Large Language Models: Evidence From Consumer Complaints in the Financial Industry
    Minkyu Shin* (City University of Hong Kong), Jin Kim (Northeastern University), Jiwoong Shin (Yale School of Management)
  • The Impact of AI in Operations and Supply Chain on Firm Productivity
    Jafar Namdar (Michigan State University), Yuanyang Liu (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville), Nima Safaei* (The Ohio State University), Sachin Modi (University of Cincinnati)

Room 202: AI in Markets, Consumers & Branding

  • Accuracy Obsession: Humans Prioritize Immaterial AI Accuracy Over Their Own Compensation — Unless We Educate Them
    Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo* (Harvard Business School), Kris Johnson Ferreira (Harvard Business School)
  • Addressing Consumers’ Sensitive Attributes in Product Recommendations: An Explainable AI Recommendations System Approach
    Piyush Anand* (Rice University)
  • Backpropagating from Customer Value
    Midam Kim* (ServiceNow), Fabio Casati (ServiceNow), Darrell Penta (ServiceNow), Delaney Kipple (ServiceNow), Catherine Martin (ServiceNow), Minyoung Kim (The Ohio State University), Di Yan (TU Delft)
  • Cultural Differences in Receptivity to AI Branding
    Archer Yue Pan* (Wayne State University), Manoj Thomas (Cornell University)
  • Consumer Strategizing as Human-in-the-Loop: Gaming the Pricing Algorithm
    Joshua Gerlick* (Case Western Reserve University)

Room 240: Governance & Responsible AI

  • Deepfakes for Good: Empirical Analysis and AI Agentic Framework for Bias Mitigation
    Yizhi Liu* (University of Maryland, College Park), Balaji Padmanabhan (University of Maryland, College Park), Siva Viswanathan (University of Maryland, College Park)
  • From Slip to Spiral: Behavioral Implications of Boundary-Pushing AI-Generated Content for Platform Governance
    Lei Wang* (Indiana University), Lu Huang (Penn State University), Ram Gopal (University of Warwick)
  • Stress-Energy-Trust (SET): Constraints and Affordances for Ethical Artificial Intelligence Transformation in Management
    Huan (Harry) Wang* (Siena University), Michael D. Johnson (University of Washington)
  • AI-Powered Virtual Stress-Testing: A Data-Driven Framework for Strategic Resilience Investment in Power Grids
    Mazin Al-Mahrouqi* (The Ohio State University), Abdollah Shafieezadeh (The Ohio State University), Jieun Hur (The Ohio State University)
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM
Break
Visit Simon's Lounge in the Blackwell Lobby

Friday, October 3, 2025

7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Breakfast
Blackwell Inn Ballroom
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
Registration
Blackwell Inn Foyer
8:00 AM – 8:50 AM
AI in Education Keynote - Mary Strain, Amazon Web Services
Blackwell Inn Ballroom

Mary Strain, Amazon Web Services

Mary Strain leads strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning in the US public sector at AWS. Mary began her career as a middle school teacher in the Bronx, NY. Since that time, she has held leadership roles in public sector technology organizations as a product lead, and vice president of business development. Mary has advised higher education, technology companies, state and local government on innovative policies and practices leveraging artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to advance access and efficiencies. As an advisor to The Education Design Studio at The University of Pennsylvania, The State of NJ AI Task Force and the California State University AI Workforce Acceleration Board. Mary has been on the leading edge of bringing innovative solutions to serve the public interest for two decades. Mary holds a BA from Fordham University and an MPA from The City University of New York.

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Break
Blackwell Inn Foyer
9:00 AM – 9:50 AM
Industry Expert Panel
Blackwell Inn Ballroom

AI in Business: Perspectives from Industry Leaders

Panelists:
  • Stephen Bartos, Ph.D.
    VP - Digital Transformation, AI, & Data Analytics, Worthington Steel
  • Will Burrus
    Chief Product Officer, Expeed Software
  • Susan White, PhD, RHIA, CHDA
    Chief Analytics Officer, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Moderator:
Michael Leiblein, Ph.D.
Professor of Strategic Management, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University
9:50 AM - 10:00 AM
Break
Move to Pfahl Hall
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Presentation Session 5
Pfahl Hall Rooms 140, 202, and 240

Room 140: AI & Scaling

  • Scaling Human Capital with Artificial Intelligence: Codified Selves and Value Creation and Appropriation
    Natarajan Balasubramanian* (Syracuse University), Prithwiraj Choudhury (London School of Economics), Mingtao Xu (Tsinghua University)
  • Scalable Virtual Influencer Creation Using LLMs, VAEs, and Stable Diffusion Models: A Human-in-the-Loop Generative Framework
    Yuan Lu* (The Ohio State University), Alice Li (The Ohio State University), Greg Allenby (The Ohio State University)
  • Why the Best Machine May Not Be the Best: Incentivizing Human–Machine Collaboration
    Xiaotong Guan* (The University of Texas at Dallas), Anyan Qi (The University of Texas at Dallas), Shouqiang Wang (The University of Texas at Dallas)

Room 202: Law, Policy & Professional Services

  • LLM-Assisted Formalization Enables Deterministic Detection of Statutory Inconsistency in the Internal Revenue Code
    Steven Keith Platt* (Loyola University Chicago), Borchuluun Yadamsuren (Loyola University Chicago), Miguel Diaz (Loyola University Chicago)
  • Reuniting Forcibly Separated Families Through Shared Memories
    Huifeng Su* (Yale University), Lesley Meng (Yale School of Management), Edieal J. Pinker (Yale School of Management)
  • The Impact of Responsible AI Management (RAIM) on Organizational and Market Performance
    Christopher Yaluma* (The Ohio State University), Aravind Chandrasekaran (The Ohio State University), Dennis Hirsch (The Ohio State University), Rakesh Mallipeddi (The Ohio State University)

Room 240: Roundtable

  • Generative AI as an Equalizer: Enabling Entrepreneurs in Underrepresented Regions
    Faisal Altalhi* (Kent State University) - Roundtable Discussion
  • Rethinking Professional Ethics in Accounting for the Age of Agentic AI
    Sridhar Ramamoorti* (University of Dayton), George Botic (PCAOB), Ellen Graper (PCAOB), Dana Foote (KPMG), Kristi Kleinbrink (KPMG), Lori Hallmark (PwC), Mark DeLong (CohnReznick), Michael Voinovich - Roundtable Discussion
  • Can Generative AI Acquire Tacit Knowledge? Revisiting Strategic Assumptions in the Age of Large Language Models
    Ezekiel Leo* (Grand Valley State University) - Roundtable Discussion
11:00 AM – 11:10 AM
Break
Pfahl Hall Foyer
11:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Presentation Session 6
Pfahl Hall Rooms 140, 202, and 240

Room 140: AI & Responses

  • Collaborative Intelligence: Reconstructing the Invisible Consumer from Fragmented Survey Data
    Alice Li* (The Ohio State University), Jiyeon Hong (Seoul National University), Qing Liu (Northeastern University)
  • AI in the Pen: How Real-Time AI Writing Guidance Shapes Online Reviews
    Zaiyan Wei* (Purdue University), Fangyan Wang (Purdue University), Sai Liang (Purdue University)
  • It's Not Just What You Say, But When You Say It
    Max Tu* (The Ohio State University), Alice Li (The Ohio State University), Greg Allenby (The Ohio State University)

Room 202: Human-AI Futures

  • Designing Human-Automation Redundancy: Overreliance, Automation Shirking, and the Operator's Dilemma
    Doron Cohen* (Carnegie Mellon University), Yefim Roth (University of Basel), Joerg Rieskamp (University of Basel), Markus Schöbel (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • When Peers and Chatbots Disagree: How Conflicting Advice Shapes Auditor Voice
    Dongsheng Li* (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Emily Griffith (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Dan Zhou (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
  • The AI Echo Chamber: AI-Generated Summaries in Prediction Markets
    Yi Tong* (University of Florida), Kaiyu Zhang (University of Florida), Qili Wang (University of Florida), Liangfei Qiu (University of Florida)

Room 240: (No Session)

  • Only two parallel sessions in this time slot
12:10 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch & Concluding Remarks
Blackwell Inn Ballroom