Manning School of Business

Xiaobai (Bob) Li


Bob Li
Xiaobai (Bob) Li
Professor of Information Systems

Expertise: Data mining, information privacy, information economics, databases and decision support systems


Phone: 978-934-2707
Fax: 978-934-4043
Office: Southwick 201B
Email: Xiaobai_Li@uml.edu

Educational Background

Professor Li holds a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina and an MBA from the University of New Hampshire.

Scholarly Interests

Prof. Li's research focuses on data mining, information privacy and information economics. He has received funding for his research from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). He has published in Information Systems Research, Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, among others.

Bio Sketch

Xiaobai (Bob) Li is a professor of information systems. His research focuses on data mining, information privacy and information economics. He has received funding for his research from National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Science Foundation (NSF). He has published in Information Systems Research, Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Communications of the ACM, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, among others.

Professor Li has taught database management, programming languages, decision support systems, and other MIS courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to joining UMass Lowell, Professor Li taught at the University of Texas at Dallas. In addition, he had worked in industry for 10 years as an engineer, an analyst and a manager.


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