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SooCheong (Shawn) Jang is a Professor at the White Lodging-J.W. Marriott School of Hospitality and Tourism Management at Purdue University. He serves as the Director of the Center for Hospitality & Retail Industries Business Analytics (CHRIBA). His research interests bridge hospitality finance and strategic management alongside hospitality and tourism marketing. Jang has over 200 published articles in top-tier hospitality and tourism management journals, and his work has garnered him numerous accolades including the W. Bradford Wiley Memorial Research Paper of the Year Award in 2009 and the Michael D. Olsen Research Achievement Award in 2015. He was also recognized as a Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism in 2019. His contributions to the discipline have made him a top-ranked author in hospitality and tourism academia over the past decade. Additionally, he is frequently invited to speak at interdisciplinary research conferences internationally, sharing insights on trends and developments in hospitality research.
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