Pan, Yang

Yang Pan teaches advanced data management in the Master of Business Analytics program. She joins A. B. Freeman School of Business from Louisiana State University, where she served as an assistant professor of information systems and taught database management and data analytics in the master's program. She received her PhD in 2017 from the University of Maryland–College Park. Her research focuses on incumbent firms’ behaviors in the IT industry, responding to new entry threats. She has developed a novel measure of threats from entrepreneurial firms using big unstructured data and text mining. She uses various business analytics methods, such as econometrics, text mining and machine learning in her research. Her work has appeared in Information Systems Research and Management Information Systems Quarterly. Pan holds a master’s degree in software engineering from Peking University. Prior to entering academia, she worked at IBM, where she consulted for IBM’s major customers on issues related to technology transfer.