Lina Zhou is a professor in the Department of Business Information Systems and Operations Management (BISOM) in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. Her research interests span the areas of social media analytics, deception detection, knowledge management, biomedical informatics, and intelligent mobile interface. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, Zhou held a professorship at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and a research scientist position at the University of Arizona. She has published articles in journals, such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, ACM Transactions, IEEE Transactions, Information & Management, and Decision Support Systems. Her scholarly work has been sponsored by NSF, NSA, CDC, VA, DoE, among others. Dr. Zhou’s research and scholarly contributions have been recognized with the 2024 Belk College Distinguished Scholarship Award and as a finalist for the 2026 Charlotte’s Distinguished Research Award. Stanford University’s global citation studies have consistently ranked her among the top 2% of most cited researchers in the field of information systems.