Dr. Youngjin Yoo is a Professor of Information Systems and Innovation in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is widely recognised as one of the leading intellectual voices on digital innovation with more than 32,000 citations. He is Senior Editor for Information Systems Research. He has published over 170 peer-reviewed scholarly articles in leading academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, the Academy of Management Journal, Information & Organization, and the Communications of the ACM, among others.
Before joining LSE, he held the Elizabeth M. and William C. Treuhaft Professorship in Entrepreneurship. He served as a Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Design & Innovation at Case Western Reserve University. He has been a visiting professor at LUISS Business School in Italy, ESSEC in France, Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany, Hitotsubashi University in Japan, Aalto University in Finland, City University of Hong Kong, and the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as an Innovation Architect at University Hospitals in Cleveland, overseeing digital transformation efforts at one of the largest teaching hospital systems in the country. He was also a visiting research fellow at NASA. He has received over $10 million in research grants from various public and private sources, including the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Knight Foundation, the Walmart Foundation, the Economic Development Administration, and Samsung Electronics. Throughout his career, he has successfully led interdisciplinary initiatives, notably establishing the xLab at Case Western Reserve University and the Urban Apps & Maps Studios at Temple University. Additionally, he has worked with other prominent US companies, including Penske, Goodyear, Progressive Insurance, Key Bank, Sotera Health, and American Greetings. He co-founded Halo Harbor, a decentralised privacy-preserving data platform for AI-enabled digital service ecosystems.