Research

Working Papers

Identifying AI Jobs in Online Job Postings: Existing Versus Newly Developed LLM-Based Approaches and A Dataset on Demand for AI Jobs among Russell 1000 Firms, 2018–2025 AI & LaborMethodology in Business AI

Hanwen Shi, Anil Gupta, Waverly Ding, Kunpeng Zhang
Reject & Resubmit at Strategic Management Journal

UMD-LinkUp AIMaps · Model

A large-scale dataset and LLM-based pipeline for identifying AI jobs from online job postings, with ongoing updates via UMD-LinkUp AIMaps. Featured in: The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Bloomberg, and Poets & Quants, among others.

White Papers & Reports

Heterogeneous Graph Learning for Market Structure DiscoveryFinancial AIMethodology in Business AI

Hanwen Shi*, Mike Nguyen*, P.K. Kannan, Kunpeng Zhang (*Equal contribution)
Major Revision at Production and Operations Management

Early versions presented or accepted at:

  • 4th Artificial Intelligence In Management (AIM) Conference, Los Angeles, CA, 2024
  • Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Atlanta, GA, 2025

Robust Risk Assessment under Strategic Language Optimization: An Adversarial Learning Approach Financial AIMethodology in Business AI

Hanwen Shi, Kunpeng Zhang
In Preparation for Submission

Supported by Finance, Economics, Strategy, and Technology (FEST) Research Grant Program, Ed Snider Center, University of Maryland

Early versions presented at:

  • 22nd Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR), Tokyo, Japan, 2026

From Human Expertise to Multi-Agent Intelligence: A Multi-Agent System for Equity Research Report Generation and Financial Decision MakingFinancial AIMethodology in Business AI

Hanwen Shi, Bingze Xu, Kunpeng Zhang
In Preparation for Submission


Other Publications

Enhancing Clinical Trial Patient Matching Through Knowledge Augmentation and Reasoning with Multi-agent Healthcare Informatics

Hanwen Shi, Jin Zhang, Kunpeng Zhang
In Proceedings of 14th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)

Early versions presented at:

  • 35th Annual Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Atlanta, GA, 2025
  • 16th Annual Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA), DC, 2026

Seleted Work in Progress

The Diffusion of AI: Evidence from Large-Scale Job Posting Data AI & Labor

with Waverly Ding, Anil Gupta, Kunpeng Zhang (in alphabetical order)

Supported by Smith Internal Research Grants, University of Maryland


Symbolic or Substantive? AI Narratives, Human Capital Investment, and Data Complementarity in AI Adoption AI & Labor

with Waverly Ding, Anil Gupta, Siva Viswanathan, Jianing Wang, and Kunpeng Zhang (in alphabetical order)


Evidence-Grounded Clinical Information Extraction with Multi-Agent Healthcare Informatics

with Feiyu E, Kunpeng Zhang

Early versions presented at:

  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, 2024
  • 14th Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA), Washington, DC, 2024
  • Workshop on e-Business (WeB), Atlanta, GA, 2025