Mingdi Xin is a PhD candidate in the Information, Operations, and Management Sciences Department/Information Systems Group at New York University's Stern School of Business. In her work, Ms. Xin seeks to understand client firms' motivations to adopt the SaaS model for their business applications, as well as software vendors' optimal product and pricing strategies given clients' preferences. She has published her work in Information Systems Research and theProceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems. Ms. Xin holds a bachelor's degree in information sciences from Peking University (China) and a master's degree in information systems from New York University Stern School of Business. She can be reached at mxin at stern.nyu.edu.