Manlu Liu
Professor
Manlu Liu
Professor
Education
MBA, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong); Ph.D., University of Arizona
Bio
Manlu Liu is the Benjamin Forman Endowed Professor for Research and the Director of Master in Business Analytics Program at the Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. degree in Management Information Systems from Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. She obtained an MBA degree major in Accounting and Finance from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. She had six years of working experience as a consultant and venture capital analyst. She also had financial analyst working experience at the investment banking.
Prior to join Rochester Institute of Technology, Dr. Liu was an Associate Professor at the School of Management at Zhejiang University in China. Her research interests include AI and Business Intelligence, Big Data, Accounting and Finance Analytics, Open Innovation, Blockchain Technology, and Health Informatics. She started to examine community-based open source phenomenon in 2005. She is one of the researchers who introduced this phenomenon to MIS academic field and developed research models for community source evolution and sustainability. Dr. Liu is passionate about how data analytics applies to accounting and finance field. She co-initiated the Advanced Certificate of Accounting and Financial Analytics. She designed and developed the graduate level Accounting Analytics course. She is the college representative of AI Task Force at RIT. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Information and Organization, European Accounting Review, Information Systems Journal, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Global Information Management, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Systems and Software, Electronic Commerce Research etc. She served as a Guest Co-Editor for Journal of Electronic Commerce Research in 2012-2013. She serves as the member of the Editorial Review Board for the following journals: Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, Electronic Government: An International Journal, and International Journal of Electronic Finance. She has been serving as a program chair/session chair/program committee member for various international conferences including the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), the Southwest Decision Science Institute Conference (SWDSI), Human Computer Interaction (HCI) International Conference, SIGBPS – Blockchain and Financial Analytics etc. She is co-chairing the Workshop on E-Business (WeB) 2024.