The Institute of Data Science and Intelligent Decision Making was established in 2019 based on the Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Application, and is currently an important research branch of the Key Laboratory of Brain-Machine Intelligence for Information Behavior (Ministry of Education and Shanghai). It aims to face the major strategic needs of the National and Shanghai Municipality's application of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, and to meet the needs of the development of the Big Data industry, to carry out research on the cross-cutting areas of cutting-edge disciplines in the field of information management and business decision-making that is beneficial to the sustainable development of the society and the business, to make contributions to the solution of the major scientific and technological problems in the field of information management and business decision-making, and to become a high-level research institute in the field of Big Data and intelligent High-level research institute in the field of decision-making. Combining research methods and tools from information science, operations research, statistics, user behavior, decision science, etc., we explore how to help decision makers in the business field make more scientific, systematic, and efficient decision-making judgments on the basis of big data business analytics.
The institute members have long been engaged in artificial intelligence, data science, decision optimization, etc., and have been published more than 50 papers in top and authoritative journals at home and abroad, such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Information Processing, and Information Technology. He has published more than 50 papers in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Information & Management, Information Processing & Management, Journal of Management Science in China, Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice, Journal of Management Science. In the past five years, they have undertaken important scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Beijing Social Science Foundation, and their research achievement have been applied to China Mobile, China Telecom, Dianping.com and other famous enterprises in China. They has been awarded the National Teaching Achievement Award, the Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Award, the China Information Economics Theory Contribution Award, the Top Ten Outstanding Papers of the Journal of Management World 2020, and Best Paper Award of CNAIS, Best Paper Award of Wuhan International Conference on Electronic Commerce, and other teaching and research awards. They have been selected for talent programs such as National Young Talents and Shanghai Youth Talent Support Program.