Dr. Ai Ren joined SUNY New Paltz School of Business as an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics in 2020. He teaches courses in Statistics and Business Analytics at both Undergraduate and Graduate levels.

Dr. Ren’s primary research areas include artificial intelligence, deterministic and stochastic processes, probabilistic methods, business analytics, machine learning, deep learning, and optimization. He also studies market power and antitrust policy in the market, and how artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital technologies impact business, government, and civil society. His research papers have been published in well-reputed academic journals such as the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, International Journal of Medical Informatics, Information Technology & People, Industrial Management & Data Systems, The Service Industries Journal, and Electronic Markets.

My primary research areas include artificial intelligence, deterministic and stochastic processes, probabilistic methods, business analytics, machine learning, deep learning, and optimization. I also study market power and antitrust policy in the market, and how artificial intelligence, robotics, and digital technologies impact business, government, and civil society.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Deterministic and Stochastic Processes
• Probabilistic Methods
• Business Analytics
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning and optimization
• Robotics

• X Li, Z Liu, B Gong, A Ren, Customers' Decision Pattern Based on Mobile Reviews in Digital Economy, Kybernetes, (2024), Vol. 53 No. 2, pp. 709-733. https://doi.org/10.1108/K-03-2023-0345
• X Li, Z Liu, Y Chen, A Ren, Consumer Avoidance toward Message Stream Advertising on Mobile Social Media: a Stimulus-Organism-Response Perspective, Information Technology & People, Vol. 2023 ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/ITP-11-2020-0761
• S Zhang, G Tang, X Li, A Ren, The Effects of Appearance Personification of Service Robots on Customer Decision-Making in the Product Recommendation Context, Industrial Management & Data Systems, 2023 Vol. 123 No. 2, pp. 578-595. https://doi.org/10.1108/IMDS-11-2021-0662
• S Zhang, C Huang, X Li, A Ren, Characteristics and Roles of Streamers in E-Commerce Live Streaming, The Service Industries Journal 2022 Vol. 42 (13-14), pp. 1001-1029
• S Zhang, Z Hu, X Li, A Ren, The Impact of Service Principal (Service Robot vs. Human Staff) on Service Quality: The Mediating Role of Service Principal Attribute, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management 2022 Vol. 52, pp. 170-183 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhtm.2022.06.014
• Q Li, A Campan, A Ren, WE Eid, Automating and Improving Cardiovascular Disease Prediction Using Machine Learning and EMR Data Features From a Regional Healthcare System, International Journal of Medical Informatics 2022 Vol. 163, 104786, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2022.104786
• X Li, Z Liu, A Ren, B Gong, What Fuzzy Requests Bring to Frontline Employees: An Absorptive Capacity Theory Perspective, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 2022 Vol. 67, 102986, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2022.102986
• X Li, L Huang, A Ren, Q Li, X Zeng, The Effect of Production Structure Roundaboutness on the Innovation Capability of High-Tech Enterprises—The Mediating Role of Technology Absorption Path, Sustainability 2022, Vol. 14(9), 5116; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14095116
• X Li, A Ren, Q Li, Exploring Patterns of Transportation-Related CO2 Emissions Using Machine Learning Methods, Sustainability 2022, 14(8), 4588; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14084588
• S Zhang, X Lin, X Li, A Ren, Service robots’ anthropomorphism: Dimensions, factors and internal relationships, Electronic Markets 2022 Vol. 32, pp. 277–295
• S Zhang, C Huang, X Li, A Ren, Understanding impacts of service robots with the revised gap model, Sustainability 2022, Vol. 14(5), 2692; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052692
• W Song, A Ren, X Li, Q Li, The Orchestrating Role of Carbon Subsidies in a Capital-Constrained Supply Chain, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2021, Article ID 8920624, 13 pages, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/8920624.
• A Ren, B Golden, F Alt, E Wasil, M Bjarnadottir, L Pimentel, J M Hirshon. Impact of Global Budget Revenue Policy on Emergency Department Efficiency in the State of Maryland, West J Emerg Med. 2019 Nov; 20(6): 885–892.
• J Ding, A Ren, C Tao. Embedded Surface Attack on Multivariate Public Key Cryptosystems from Diophantine Equations. International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology (LNCS, vol 7763), pp 122-136, 2013. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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