Santa Clara University

Mu Xia

Assistant Professor of OMIS

Mu Xia, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Operations Management and Information Systems. He serves as the faculty advisor for the OMIS Student Network, the undergraduate student organization for MIS majors, minors, and AIS majors.

Prof. Xia regularly teaches OMIS 34 (Science, Information Technology, Business and Society), OMIS 111 (Business Data Communications and Networking), and MSIS 605 (Telecommunications and Business Networks). He also supervises capstone projects for the Master of Science in Information Systems (MSIS) program.

Prior to joining Santa Clara in the fall of 2009, he was a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's business school. Before that, he also taught at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, where he was a Ph.D student and a research assistant in the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce under the guidance of Professor Andrew B. Whinston.

His research interests include e-business standardization, online communities especially peer-to-peer networks, business models of business-to-business electronic commerce, and combinatorial auctions. His work has been published or has been accepted for publication in scholarly journals including Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, European Journal of Operational Research, and Decision Support Systems. He recently won the best paper award at the Workshop on e-Business (WeB) 2010, a leading academic conference on e-Business.

He also serves on the editorial board of journals such as Journal of Database Management and Information Systems and E-business Management.

Professor Xia received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and his Bachelor's of Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.