Planned Title of Dissertation: The Influence of Organizational and Information Systems Factors on the Effectiveness of Post-Merger Technology Integration

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Alok Chakrabarti (Chair), Dr. Fadi Deek, Dr. Julian M. Scher, Dr. Vassilka Kirova (Lucent), Dr. Robert W. Zmud (University of Oklahoma)

From: Tainan, Taiwan

Research Interests:

• Group Support Systems
• Decision Making Processes
• Human Computer Interaction
• On-line Education / E-Learning

Planned Title Of Dissertation: Building and Validating a Framework for Voting in Group Support Systems

Dissertation Commitee: Fadi Deek (Chair), Dr. James A. McHugh, Dr. David Mendonça,  Dr. Il Im (Yonsei University), Dr. Stephen B. Seidman (University of Central Arkansas)

CHRIS LEBERKNIGHT

From: Great Meadows, New Jersey

Research Interests:

• Information Assurance
• Pervasive Computing
• Location Aware Systems
• Systems Analysis and Design

Advisors: Dr. Michael Recce and Dr. George Widmeyer

Planned Title of Dissertation: The  convergence of physical and logical security: An investigation in to the use of biometrics for perimeter defense and facility access

From: Bangkok, Thailand

Research Interests:

• E-commerce
• Cross Cultural
• Context of E-commerce
• E-consumer Behavior

Planned Title of Dissertation: cross cultural impacts on consumer trust in business to Consumer (B2C) E-Commerce.

ROBIN PRIVMAN

Email: robin@homer.att.com

From: Russia, Israel, US

Research Interests:

• Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN)
• Partially Distributed Teams (PDT)

Advisor: Dr. Roxanne Hiltz

Dissertation: Aligning Team Work in ALN with Learning from Industry

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Hiltz, Dr. Tremaine, Dr. Turoff, Dr. Amento (AT&T Research) and Dr. Widmeyer

Affiliation: AT&T

YANLIANG QI (TONY)

From: Beijing, China 

Research Interests:

• Text Mining

Research Interests:

• Delphi Systems
• Strategic Collaboration
• Emergency Response Systems

Planned Title Of Dissertation: Dynamic Large Scale Collaborative Judgment Under Uncertainty and Over Time

Advisor: Dr. Murray Turoff

Email: rlutz@gmail.com

From: Scotch Plains, NJ

Research Interests:

• Ubiquitous computing
• Utility computing
• Accessibility
• Audio and speech interfaces
• Sensor networks
• Geo-locational computing

Planned Title of Dissertation:  Taux: A System for Evaluating Sound Feedback In Navigational Tasks

Advisor: Marilyn Tremaine

Committee: (Ph.Ds)- Brian Amento (AT&T Research), Katia Passerini, Julian Scher, Aries Arditi (Lighthouse International)

Affiliation: Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems

Email: txw5999@njit.edu

From: Rockaway, NJ

Research Interests:

• Emergency Response
• Text Mining
• Information Retrieval
• Information Seeking Behavior
• User Interface design Software Engineering Computer supported collaborative work Virtual teams
• Using information technology to increase profitability

Committee: Brook Wu (co advisor), Il Im (co advisor), Ming Song, Vincent Oria.

Dissertation: Increasing Intellectual Capital though personalized text mining

Affiliation: NJIT, ACM, SAM (Society for the Advancement of Management), ASPA (American Society for Public Administration)

Email: Roger.Raj@oracle.com

From: Madras, India

Research Interests:

• Information Security, especially Role-Based and Fine-grained Access Control

Dissertation: Implementation issues with Fine-grained Access Control

Affiliation: Senior Technical Director, Oracle Corporation

Email: Lubliner@njit.edu

From: New Jersey

Research Interests:

• Knowledge Management
• Medical Informatics/Medical Records

Dissertation: Collaborative Learning: Utilizing a Shared Data Repository Spanning Multiple Courses to Enhance Learning Outcomes in Asynchronous Learning Environments

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Fadi Deek (Co-Chair) and Dr. George Widmeyer (Co-Chair), Dr. Julian Scher, Dr. Thomas Juliano (NJIT) and Dr. William Tereshkovich (PaineWebber)

Affiliation: NJIT Faculty/Program Coordinator  in the Computer Technology Program

From: Nanjing, China

Research Interests:

• Group Decision Making
• Group Decision Support Systems
• Emergency Management

Planned Title of Dissertation: Group Information Foraging under Severe and Time-constrained Situations: An Application to Emergency Response

Advisor: Dr. David Mendonça

Committee: Dr. David Mendonça (Chair, NJIT), Dr. Tuncay Bayrak (Western New England College), Dr. Allen Milewski (Monmouth University), Dr. Marilyn Tremaine and Dr. Yi-fang Brook Wu