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Long Xia

Associate Professor of Management Information Systems

Department: Management and Entrepreneurship

Location: Koury Business Center, Office 330
Mailing address: 2075 Campus Box Elon, NC 27244

Phone number: (336) 278-5934

Brief Biography

Long Xia is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems in the Love School of Business at Elon University. He received his Ph.D. in Business Analytics and Information Systems in 2020 from Virginia Tech, under the direction of Dr. G. Alan Wang and Dr. Weiguo Fan. His teaching and research interests focus on Information Systems, Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Decision Support Systems, and Machine Learning. His prior works have been published in journals such as the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), International Journal of Information Management, Tourism Management, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Production Planning & Control, and Information Discovery and Delivery. He also has several works under review at many premier journals, including the Journal of Operations Management (JOM), the International Journal of Tourism Research, etc.

News & Notes

Education

Virginia Tech: 

  • Ph.D. in Business Information Technology, Emphasis: Business Analytics and Machine Learning

Virginia Tech: 

  • Master of Science in Medicinal Chemistry

Courses Taught

Elon University: 

Undergraduate Level: 

  • BUS 2110: Management Information Systems
  • MGT 4250: Data Visualization and Storytelling

Graduate Level: 

  • MSBA 6605: Data-Driven Analytical Models
  • MSBA 6615: Information Storage and Data Visualization
  • MSBA 6970: Analytics for Business Strategies Capstone
  • MSBA 6620: Business Data Mining
  • MSBA 6750: Analytics for Business Strategies
  • MSBA 6610: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning for Business
  • MSBA 6660: Deep Learning for Business
  • HCA 5600: Advanced Machine Learning for Healthcare

Virginia Tech: 

BIT 2405: Business Statistics, Analytics, and Modeling, 2019 Spring

Awards

  • Beta Gamma Sigma Elon University Chapter Professor of the Year, 2023
  • Love School of Business Dean’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, 2022-2023
  • Love School of Business Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2021-2022
  • AMCIS Doctoral Consortium, 2019
  • Deloitte Foundation Data Analytics Fellowship, 2018–2019 ($10,000)
  • Summer Research Grant, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, 2018 ($6,000)
  • Research Grant from NCI Information Systems, Inc., 2017–2018 ($50,000, Co-PI)
  • Summer Research Grant, Pamplin College of Business, Virginia Tech, 2017 ($6,000)
  • Best Paper Award Runner-Up at the International Conference on Smart Health, 2017
  • Leidos Research Fellowship, 2016–2017 ($20,000)