Qiwei Han

I am an Assistant Professor of Business Analytics (tenure-track) at Nova School of Business and Economics, where I am also an Affiliated Researcher at the Data, Operation & Technology Knowledge Center. My research lies at the intersection of econometrics, machine learning, and computational social science, with applications in healthcare, tourism, digital marketing, and online platforms.

Research Interests

  • Econometrics and causal inference with machine learning methods
  • Computational social science and consumer behavior
  • Digital health and healthcare informatics
  • Online platforms, social media, and e-commerce
  • ICT policy and the economics of digitization

Recent News

  • 2026 — Paper accepted at BMC Health Services Research: “Dissecting Medical Referrals in Health Services: Role of Physician Professional Networks”
  • January 2026 — Paper presented at HICSS 2026: “Quantifying Founder-Market Fit: A Machine Learning Approach to Startup Success Prediction”
  • December 2025 — Paper presented at IEEE BigData 2025: “Cross-Platform E-Commerce Product Categorization and Recategorization: A Multimodal Hierarchical Classification Approach”
  • July 2025 — Two papers presented at IEEE ICDH 2025: voice-based AI agents for digital health, and C-PATH conversational patient triage system
  • 2025 — Book chapter published in The Cambridge Handbook of Algorithmic Price Personalization and the Law: “Personalized Pricing in the Age of Big Data”
  • 2025 — Paper published in Nature Communications: immunodiagnostic plasma amino acid biomarkers for early cancer detection

Contact

Nova School of Business and Economics Santander Hall B-107, Rua da Holanda n.1 Carcavelos, Portugal 2775-405 Email: qiwei.han@novasbe.pt