The Weeklings!

Weekly meetings of Information Systems PhD Students Since 2025

Department of Operations and Information Systems

David Eccles School of Business - The University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT, USA, 84112

The Weeklings Concept

These weekly peer meetings are designed as informal learning forums that complement formal doctoral training. Drawing on experiences from peer groups across universities, the series emphasizes regular, low-stakes exchange among PhD students to surface practical knowledge that can meaningfully support research progress and professional development.

The series uses a rotating set of session formats, including a Works-in-Progress (WIP) Clinic, Paper Clinic, Methods Clinic, Data/Code Clinic, and Practice Talk, chosen to match participants’ immediate needs. Topics are not restricted to any single area within Information Systems; discussions may range across substantive domains, theories, methods, and tools that participants find intellectually compelling or useful. In addition, the series invites external guest speakers, including senior scholars, to broaden exposure to diverse research agendas and to offer perspectives on publishing, academic careers, and emerging directions in the field.

Not limited to academic talk, these meetings are also augmented by socialization and friendly conversations, sometimes sponsored by the PhD office with snacks to create a more relaxed atmosphere.

Fall 2025

Weekly on Mondays - 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM MST - SFEBB 5155

07/30/2025 - PILOT Meeting
08/18/2025 - PILOT Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA
08/25/2025 - PILOT Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA
09/15/2025 - Inaugural session with DESB OIS students - Discussion on "Can ChatGPT Perform a Grounded Theory Approach to Do Risk Analysis? An Empirical Study" from JMIS and "Fake News and True News Assessment: The Persuasive Effect of Discursive Evidence in Judging Veracity" from MIS Quarterly.
09/22/2025 - Discussion on "Machine-assisted social psychology hypothesis generation" from American Psychologist
09/29/2025 - Presentation by Kimia Mohammadi Jozani (ISE@VirginiaTech) titled "Proactive and Need-based Epidemic Resource Allocation Through an Integrated Supply Chain Framework: Insights from a COVID-19 Study."
10/06/2025 - Discussion on "Privacy Choice During Crisis" from ISR
10/20/2025 - Discussion on programs of CIST 2025 + INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2025
11/03/2025 - Discussion on experiences from CIST 2025 + INFORMS Workshop on Data Science 2025
11/10/2025 - Discussion on program of ICIS 2025 + Discussion on "Augmenting Password Strength Meter Design Using the Elaboration Likelihood Model: Evidence from Randomized Experiments" from ISR and "Find the Good. Seek the Unity: A Hidden Markov Model of Human-AI Delegation Dynamics" from MIS Quarterly
11/17/2025 - Discussion on "Timely, Granular, and Actionable: Designing a Social Listening Platform for Public Health 3.0" from MIS Quarterly and "Human-Centric Information Systems Research on the Digital Future of Healthcare" from ISR
11/24/2025 - Final session of the semester - Added new students! - Discussion on "Individualized Value Discovery using LLMs for Short Video Recommendation" from ICIS Proceedings.

Spring 2026

Weekly on Fridays - 1:15 PM to 3:00 PM MST - SFEBB 7122

01/09/2026 - Inaugural session with new students! - Infrastructure Talk (GPU + Storage)
01/23/2026 - Review on the latest issues of ISR and MISQ, discussion papers "Judgmental Bot: Conversational Agents in Online Mental Health Screening" from MIS Quarterly and "Understanding and Mitigating the Robot Disadvantage in Luxury Services: The Role of Desire for Superiority" from ISR
01/30/2026 - Discussion on "Artificial Intelligence in Utilitarian vs. Hedonic Contexts: The “Word-of-Machine” Effect" from the Journal of Marketing and "Unveiling the Mind of the Machine" from the Journal of Consumer Research.
02/06/2026 -Discussion on program of HICSS 59 and details.
02/13/2026 - Our 1st idea generation tournament
02/20/2026 - (Weeklings PhD Panel) Presentation by Meixian Wang (MIS@Temple Fox) on "The Impact of Realism and AI Disclosure on Virtual Influencer Effectiveness: A Large Field Experiment."
02/27/2026 - (Weeklings PhD Panel) Presentation by Feiyang Amber Xu (ISOM@Tilburg) on "AI-assisted Programming May Decrease the Productivity of Experienced Developers by Increasing Maintenance Burden."
03/06/2026 - (Weeklings PhD Panel) Presentation by Xinyuan Zhang (Analytics@Notre Dame Mendoza) on "Empirical Bayes Tensor Decomposition: A Holistic and Interpretable Representation of Digital Trace Patterns."
03/11/2026 - (Weeklings Scholar Panel) Chat with senior IS scholar Professor Gautam Pant (IS@UIUC Gies)
03/20/2026 - (Weeklings Scholar Panel) Chat with senior IS scholar Professor Xiao Fang (MIS@Delaware Lerner)
03/27/2026 - (Weeklings Scholar Panel) Chat with senior IS scholar Professor Kai R. Larson (IS@CU Boulder Leeds)
04/03/2026 - (Weeklings Scholars Panel) Presentation by Dr. Alisa Wu (Marketing@Utah DESB) on "“Recycle Me!” Product Anthropomorphism Can Increase Recycling Behavior" and "Digital Therapy for Negative Consumption Experiences: The Impact of Emotional and Rational Reviews on Review Writers" published in JCR.
04/10/2026 - (Weeklings PhD Panel) Presentation by Caitlin Cunningham (IS@UW Foster) on "Agreeing to Disagree: AI Influence in Ethical Decision-Making."
04/17/2026 - TBD
04/24/2026 - TBD
05/01/2026 - Final session of the semester - TBD

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