About

Dr. Zhaoqi “ZQ” Cheng is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He obtained his PhD in Information Systems from Boston University, M.Sc. in Business Technologies from Carnegie Mellon University, and Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University.

His research interests include the development and responsible use of generative AIs for managerial and societal insights. His work primarily focuses on the interpretable representation and exploration of significant business constructs in text corpora, with a particular emphasis on patents and open-source projects. Additionally, his research extends to harnessing generative AIs for social good. Current projects in this domain include an ethical examination of deceptions in conversational AI and the characterization of misinformation interventions leveraging large language model agents.

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Selected Projects

InnoVAE: Generative AI for Understanding Patents and Innovation
Zhaoqi Cheng, Dokyun Lee, Prasanna Tambe
Presented at CIST 2020, INFORMS WDS 2020 and WISE 2020
Under Review at Management Science [SSRN]

M&A and Innovation: A New Classification of Patents
Zhaoqi Cheng, Ginger Zhe Jin, Mario Leccese, Dokyun Lee, Liad Wagman
Published at AEA Papers and Proceedings [DOI]

Guided Diverse Concept Miner: Interpretable Deep Learning for Text Exploration
Dokyun Lee, Zhaoqi Cheng, Emaad Manzoor, Chengfeng Mao
Published at Information Systems Research [DOI]

The less tangled web: Why AI should practice deceit less than humans
Tae Wan Kim, Joy Lu, Kyusong Lee, John Hooker, Zhaoqi Cheng, Yanhan Tang
Presented at SBE Annual Meeting 2021 [arXiv]

Towards Cognition-Aware Language Agents: An Analysis in the Context of Misinformation
Zhaoqi Cheng, Yusen Wu, Dokyun Lee
Presented at WISE 2023