Gijs Overgoor

Dallas, Texas, USA

govergoor@smu.edu · gijsovergoor.com

Academic Positions

Southern Methodist University
Assistant Professor of Marketing
2024–present
Rochester Institute of Technology
Assistant Professor of Marketing
2021–2023
North Carolina State University
Visiting Scholar
2017–2021

Education

University of Amsterdam
PhD Marketing
Co-chairs: Willemijn van Dolen and Bill Rand
Dissertation: Visual Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Marketing
2021
University of Amsterdam
MS Econometrics
Specialization: Big Data in Business Analytics
2016
University of Amsterdam
BS Econometrics and Operations Research
2015

Research Interests

Visual Marketing, Advertising, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Econometrics, Digital Platforms, Platform Misinformation and Fake-Review Detection, Neuroscience

Published Papers

S. He, B. Hollenbeck, G. Overgoor, D. Proserpio, A. Tosyali (2022), “Detecting Fake Review Buyers Using Network Structure: Direct Evidence from Amazon,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (47).

Authors listed in alphabetical order.

Finalist, 2024 Robert D. Buzzell MSI Best Paper Award

G. Overgoor, W. Rand, W. Van Dolen, M. Mazloom (2022), “Simplicity is not Key: Understanding Marketer-Generated Social Media Images and Consumer Liking,” International Journal of Research in Marketing, 39 (3), 639–655.

G. Overgoor, M. Chica, W. Rand, A. Weishampel (2019), “Letting the Computers Take Over: Using AI to Solve Marketing Problems,” California Management Review, 61 (4), 156–185.

Working Papers

How Consistency and Timing Shape Consumer Responses to Racial Representation in TV Advertising
Gijs Overgoor, Lijing Wang, Gokhan Yildirim, Yakov Bart, Koen Pauwels
Revise and resubmit at Journal of Marketing Research

NeuroViT: A Brain-Aligned Vision Transformer for Product Image Analysis
Gijs Overgoor, Hang-Yee Chan, William Rand, Willemijn van Dolen
Under review at Journal of Marketing Research

Correcting Toward the Wrong Target: LLM-Annotated Regressors Under Noisy Human Benchmarks
Gijs Overgoor, Samsun Knight, Yakov Bart
In preparation

Public traces expose coordinated fake review campaigns on digital platforms
Gijs Overgoor, Ali Tosyali, Ethan Feldman, Anol Bhattacherjee
In preparation

Selected Work in Progress

The Dollar Value of Better Ad Content: Tracing the Relationships Between Ad Creatives, Zapping Rates, and Ad Elasticities — Samsun Knight, Gijs Overgoor, Tsung Hsieh, Yakov Bart

Shades of Representation: Auto-Detection and Perception of Skin-Tone Diversity in Visual Marketing Communication — Wen Xie, Gijs Overgoor, H.H. Lee, Z. Han

Neurosensory Response to Advertising — Gijs Overgoor, Hang-Yee Chan

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

W. Xie, Y. Zhu, G. Overgoor, Y. Bart, A. Lapedriza Garcia, S. Ostadabbas (2026), “AdSum: Two-Stream Audio-Visual Summarization for Automated Video Advertisement Clipping,” International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, 261–275.

G. Overgoor, M. Mazloom, R. Rietveld, M. Worring, W. Van Dolen (2017), “A Spatio-Temporal Category Representation for Brand Popularity Prediction,” in Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Bucharest, Romania, 233–241.

Invited Talks

  • 2026: Amazon, Imperial College London, King's College London, Tilburg University
  • 2025: PepsiCo, Toyota Research Institute, Advertising Research Foundation – Marketing Effectiveness Accelerator
  • 2024: Symposium on Marketing AI at Wisconsin School of Business, Presented new paper at Brown Bag Seminar
  • 2023: Southern Methodist University, NC State Business Analytics Initiative Roundtable, SUNY Geneseo Marketing Seminar
  • 2022: George Washington University, Northeastern University, EMAC Annual Conference — Special Session for the Doctoral Dissertation Competition
  • 2020: University of Texas at El Paso, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • 2019: Teradata Universe
  • 2018: Teradata Analytics Universe

Conference Presentations

  • 2026: Symposium on AI in Marketing, AMA Winter Academic Conference
  • 2025: Scholar Session, BizAI Conference, Marketing AI Symposium, Marketing Strategy Consortium
  • 2024: BizAI Conference, Marketing Dynamics, EMAC Annual Conference, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research
  • 2023: Marketing Science DEI Conference, Marketing Dynamics
  • 2022: EMAC Annual Conference, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research
  • 2021: Marketing Science Conference, AMA Summer Academic Conference
  • 2020: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Marketing Science Conference, AMA Summer Academic Conference
  • 2019: AMA Winter Academic Conference, Winter Conference on Business Analytics, Theory and Practice in Marketing, EMAC Annual Conference, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research, Marketing Science Conference
  • 2018: AMA Winter Academic Conference, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research
  • 2017: ICT Open, International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval

Teaching

SMU Cox School of Business
Fundamentals of Marketing (Undergraduate): Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Fall 2026

Rochester Institute of Technology
Social Media Marketing (Undergraduate): Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Rochester Institute of Technology
Marketing Analytics (Undergraduate): Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023

Rochester Institute of Technology
Marketing Analytics (MBA and MS Business Analytics): Spring 2022

University of Amsterdam
Management Research Methods 2 (Executive MBA): 2019, 2020

University of Amsterdam
Quantitative Data Analysis 2 (Undergraduate): 2018
Teaching Assistant

University of Amsterdam
Master Thesis Supervision (Master's): 2018 (10 students), 2019 (10 students), 2020 (4 students)
Supervisor

Students and Advising

Wen Xie — PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston
Role: Dissertation Committee Member

Bishoy Galoaa — MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Role: Research Mentor

Akshay Nagireddy — MS, Data Analytics Engineering, Northeastern University
Role: Research Mentor

Pragna Bollam — MS, Computer Science, North Carolina State University
Role: Research Mentor; Placement: Amazon

Rohan Mestri — MS, Computer Science, North Carolina State University
Role: Research Mentor; Placement: Amazon

Consulting and Expert Witness Work

I undertake consulting and expert witness work. To discuss a potential engagement, email me or connect with me on LinkedIn.

Media Coverage

Awards

  • Finalist, 2024 Robert D. Buzzell MSI Best Paper Award
  • Amazon Research Awards Funding ($26,000 plus $20,000 in AWS credits)
  • Third Place, EMAC-AiMark Doctoral Dissertation Competition
  • RIT Grant Writing Bootcamp Proposal Award ($8,000)
  • Marketing Science Institute Research Grant ($10,000)
  • Finalist, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Best Paper Award
  • ISMS Marketing Science Doctoral Consortium Fellow
  • Finalist, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Best Paper Award
  • Co-author, Awarded Persistent AI-Based Threat Detection Phase I Grant Proposal
  • Research Assistant to PI Bill Rand, DARPA Adaptive Feature Oriented Recommender Engine Phase II ($160,000)
  • Data Science and Business Analytics in Marketing PhD Funding, Amsterdam Business School (Four years of funding)

Academic Service

  • Editorial Review Board Member — Journal of Retailing
  • Ad Hoc Reviewer: Journal of Marketing Research; Journal of Marketing; Marketing Science; Management Science; International Journal of Research in Marketing; Information Systems Research; Journal of Consumer Research
  • Organizer — SMU Marketing Seminar Series
  • Committee Member — Saunders Distinguished Speaker Committee
  • Organizer — Saunders Annual Business Analytics Competition

Technical Strengths and Languages

Modeling and Analysis: Python, PyTorch, statsmodels, linearmodels, PyFixest, SQL

Languages: Dutch (fluent), English (fluent), Spanish (proficient)