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Prof. Song LIN
Academic qualification
- PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MPhil University of New South Wales
- BA Peking University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Associate Professor, HKUST (2021 - present)
- Assistant Professor, HKUST (2015 - 21)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Generative AI
- Advertising
- Pricing
- Platform design
- New product and innovation
- Consumer attention, search, and learning
PUBLICATIONS
- Shan Huang and Song Lin, "Do More “Likes” Lead to More Clicks? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Social Advertising (with), Journal of Marketing (first published online December 2024).
- Song Lin, "Media Formats of Advertising," (previously circulated as “The Medium of Advertising” (previously circulated as “The Medium of Advertising”), Marketing Science, 43(5), September–October, 1031–1051.
- Ke Te and Song Lin (2020), "Informational Complementarity," Management Science, 66(8), 3699-3716.
- Song Lin (2020), "Two-Sided Price Discrimination by Media Platforms," Marketing Science, 39(2), 317–338.
- Song Lin, (2017), "Add-on Policies under Vertical Differentiation: Why Do Luxury Hotels Charge for Internet While Economy Hotels Do Not?," Marketing Science, 36(4), 610-625.
- INFORMS Society for Marketing Science Doctoral Award. - Song Lin, Juanjuan Zhang, and John Hauser (2015), "Learning from Experience, Simply," Marketing Science, 34(1), 1-19, lead article.
- John D.C. Little Best Paper Award, finalist. - Eric Anderson, Song Lin, Duncan Simester, and Catherine Tucker (2015), "Harbingers of Failure," Journal of Marketing Research, 52(5), 580-592, lead article.
- Weitz-Winer-O’Dell Award, winner.
- Featured by more than 100 media outlets including the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg, NBC, BBC, NPR, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, Kellogg Insight, MIT Technology Review, MIT News, etc.
REVIEWING FOR
Associate Editor: Marketing Science.
Editorial Board: Journal of Marketing Research.