Wolfgang Jank, Ph.D. (see movie)

Associate Professor 

Phone: 301-405-1118

Fax:      301-405-8655

E-mail: wjank@rhsmith.umd.edu

Biography

Resume 

Media Coverage

Research:

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PhD Students

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Affiliations:

Center for Electronic Markets & Enterprises

Applied Math & Scientific Computation

UMD Statistics Consortium 

News:

Prof. Jank was elected program chair for the Section on Statistics and Marketing of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for the Joint Statistical Meetings 2010 in Vancouver.

On June 18, 2008, the Office of Science & Technology (OST) at the Embassy of Austria, and ASciNA (Austrian Scientists and Scholars in North America) are hosting a round table discussion on “eCommerce, Prediction Markets and Data Mining: How Technology impacts Business Decision Making” with Prof. Jank. To view the formal invitation, click here. A summary of the presentation can be found here. 

New working papers on "An Automated and Data-Driven Bidding Strategy for Online Auctions" "Dynamic Forecasting Simultaneous Online Art Auctions" and a new tutorial on "Statistical Challenges in eCommerce"

Prof. Jank and Prof. Shmueli  have edited a book on the topic "Statistical Methods in eCommerce Research" (forthcoming at Wiley)

New study on "Consumer Surplus in Online Auctions" (by Bapna, Jank & Shmueli), forthcoming in Information Systems Research (ISR). To hear more about the impact of this study, click here (Effect of Online Auction Surplus) or here (Winners & Losers). Click here for the corresponding Smith news release. Also, see Reuters or New York Times or Wired articles on the study. 

Synopsis of the invited session program of the Statistical Computing Section of the ASA at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Denver, August 2008. 

The Fourth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research will take place May 18&19, 2008 at NYU . (Link to the Inaugural Workshop held in 2005 at the University of Maryland ). 

Research report on Forecasting Online Auctions (featured in Research@Smith)

Check out the upcoming Global Studies Course on "Competing on Analytics in Europe", May 21 - June 1, 2008. 

Forthcoming Marketing Science Institute (MSI) report on Pre-release Forecasting via Functional Shape Analysis of the Online Virtual Stock Market, jointly with Natasha Foutz. 

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