Ph.D. in Information Systems, NJIT, 2007

From: Tainan City, Taiwan

Research Interests:

• Modeling Cognition and Behavior in Consumer Choice
• E-commerce : Interactive and dynamic web personalization
• Interaction Design: Interface design and usability
• Emergency Management: Decision making and improvisation under pressure
• Online Community and Virtual Team: Collaborative work and knowledge sharing

Dissertation Committee: Dr. David Mendonça (Chair), Dr. Roxanne Hiltz, Dr. Il Im(Yonsei University), Dr. George Widmeyer, Dr. Marios Koufaris (Baruch College, CUNY)

Dissertation: Sifting customers from the clickstream: Behavior pattern discovery in a virtual shopping environment.

XIAOYU CHEN

Research Interests:

• Designing a Gesture and Touch Input Mechanism on a PDA for the Visually Impaired
• Investigating User Interaction Patterns in a Non-Visual Multimodal Context
• Designing a Non-Visual Multimodal Information Access on Desktop Computers
• Surveying the State of the Art of Non-Visual Human-Computer Interaction Design
• Evaluating an Online Chat System Used in Distance Learning
• Survey of Participatory Design in Software Lifecycle

Dissertation: Designing Non-Visual Multimodal Interactions for Sighted and Blind Users

Dissertation Committee:  Dr. Marilyn Tremaine (Chair), Dr. Murray Turoff, Dr. Quentin Jones, Dr. Brian Whitworth (Massey University), Dr. Ephraim Glinert (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

JERRY FJERMESTAD

Email: fjermestad@njit.edu

Phone: 973-596-3255

Office: Central Avenue Building, Room 3031

Ph.D. in Computer and Information Systems, Rutgers University, 1982

Associate Professor, NJIT  School of Management (Joint appointment with IS Department)

Ph.D. in Information Systems, NJIT, 2007

From: Whippany, New Jersey

Research Interests:

• Logical Data Modeling and Relational Database Design
• Knowledge Management and Information Engineering
• Business Reengineering
• Information Mapping and Design
• Instructional Design
• Spanish Translations

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Norbert Elliot and Dr. Murray Turoff.(Chairs)

Ph.D. in Information Systems, NJIT, 2006

Research Interests:

• Text Mining
• Data Mining
• Knowledge Discovery
• Information Retrieval

Dissertation: People Search: Searching People Sharing Similar Interests from the Web

Dissertation Commitee: Dr. Brook Wu (Chair), Dr. Murray Turoff, Dr. Julian Scher, Dr. Vincent Oria, Dr. Il Im (Yonsei University)

Email: mojgan@njit.edu 

Ph.D. in Information Systems, Rutgers University, 2006

Research Interests:

• Inter-organizational collaboration and communication
• Organizational knowledge learning
• Collaborative software development
• Inter-organizational management and organizational performance metrics
• Electronic eCommerce
• Impact of technology on organizational learning
• Measuring communication effectiveness in inter-organizational collaboration

Dissertation: The Antecedents and Impacts of Information Processing Effectiveness in Inter-Organizational Collaborative Software Development

Dissertation committee: Dr. Fadi  P. Deek (advisor), Dr. Il Im (co-advisor), in alphabetic order Dr. Fariborz Damanpour, Dr. Vassilka Kirova, Dr. Thomas Marlowe, Dr. Julian M. Scher,  and Dr. Cheickna Sylla.

Email: lz34@njit.edu

Ph.D. in Information Systems, Rutgers University, 2007

From: Belleville, NJ

Research Interests:

• software engineering
• human-computer interaction
• healthcare decision support systems
• interoperability
• open source software
• application of latest information technologies in the business domain

Dissertation: Exploratory Inspection - A User-based Learning Model for Improving Open Source Software Usability

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Fadi Deek (Chair), Dr. James McHugh, Dr. Terri Kurtzberg (Rutgers Univ.), Dr. Keng Siau (Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Current Affiliation: Member Research Staff, Philips Research North America

Email: cmchiu@mgt.ncu.edu.tw

From: Taiwan, Republic of China (R.O.C.)

Research Interests:

• E-Commerce
• Knowledge Management
• Virtual Community

Advisor: Michael Bieber

Dissertation: 1997, Rutgers: Fusing the World Wide Web and the open hypermedia system technologies

Affiliation: Professor, Department of Information Management, National Central University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Email: RanaAjaz@hotmail.com

From: Pakistan

Dissertation: 1995, Rutgers: Peer Review Process and Group Support Systems: Theory Development and Experimental Validation

Advisor/Dissertation Committee: Roxanne Hiltz, Murray Turoff, Richard Hoffman, Richard Scherl

Affiliation: Director Development, American Lawyers Media

Email: jiashen@rider.edu

From: Beijing, China

Research Interests:

• Human Computer Interaction
• Computer Supported Cooperative Work
• Asynchronous Learning Networks
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
• Knowledge Management

Advisor: Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz

Dissertation: Field Experiments on Collaborative Learning through Online Assessments

Dissertation Committee: Dr. Michael Bieber, Dr. Il Im, Dr. Katia Passerini, Dr. Julian Scher, Dr. Dorothy Leidner

Email: ssabet@njit.edu

From: Cairo, Egypt

Research Interests:

• Decision Support Systems
• Knowledge Management Systems
• Fault Analysis in Mission Critical Infrastructures

Dissertation: 2006, NJIT. The viability of IS enhanced knowledge sharing in mission-critical command and control centers

Dissertation committee: Dr. Klashner, Dr. Turoff, Dr. Mendonca, Dr. Widmeyer, Dr. James McDonald

Affiliation: NMS Systems Development Tyco Telecommunications R&D

Email: szhang@kean.edu

From: China

Research Interests:

• Global Software Team Management
• Virtual Team Development
• Leadership, Small Business Information Technology Management

Dissertation: 2007, NJIT. Leader Delegation and Trust in Global Software Teams

Dissertation committee: Dr. Marilyn Tremaine and Dr. Jerry Fjermestad  (co-advisors) Dr. Roxanne Hiltz, Dr. Allen Milewski, Dr. Surinder Kahai

Affiliation: Kean University

Email: dezhi.wu@gmail.com

From: Mainland China

Research Interests:

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Asynchronous Learning Networks
• Personalization Systems
• Mobile Computing

Dissertation: 2005, NJIT. Supporting Individual Time Management Through the Capture and Display of Temporal Structures

Dissertation committee: Dr. Marilyn Tremaine (Chair), Dr. Roxanne Hiltz, Dr. Brook Wu, Dr. Il Im (Yonsei University), Dr. Elizabeth Churchill (Yahoo! Research)

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Information Systems, Computer Science & Information Systems Department, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah

Email: jss22@njit.edu

Research Interests:

• Information Visualization
• Asynchronous Learning Networks
• High Performance Computing / Grid Computing
• Software Development

Advisor: Professor Hiltz

Affiliation: IS Managing Director Chase Card Services-JP Morgan Chase

Email: iw2@njit.edu

Ph.D. in Information Systems, NJIT, 2005

From: Hong Kong

Advisor: Dr. Roxanne Hiltz

Research Interests:

• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Architecture
• Enterprise Integration Architecture
• Application Architecture
• Enhancing cognition in Asynchronous Learning Networks
• Virtual Team: Collaborative Work and knowledge sharing

Dissertation: Using Content and Process Scaffolds for Collaborative Discourse in Asynchronous Learning Networks.

Dissertation Committee: Dr. S.R. Hiltz, (Chair), Dr. M. Bieber, Dr. K. Passserini, Dr. N. Rotter, Dr. K. Swan (Kent State)

SOTA: Using Concept Structure and Structured Activities to Scaffold Collaborative Discourse

Email: hhan@georgiasouthern.edu

Rutgers August, 2003, NJIT

From: South Korea

Advisor: Hiltz, Roxanne (NJIT)

Research Interests:

• Pervasive Information Technology (Ubiquitous Computing)
• Group Decision Support Systems
• E-Commerce

Dissertation: Virtual teams combining mobile devices with web-based communication on group decision making

Committee: Fjermestad, Jerry (NJIT), Tremaine, Marilyn M. (NJIT), Im, Il (Yonsei University, South Korea), Ocker, Rosalie (The Pennsylvania State University)

Affiliation: Georgia Southern University

Email: catanio@lasalle.edu

Phone: 215.951.1142

Ph.D. In Information Systems, NJIT, 2004

Research Interests:

• Information Systems
• Systems Analysis and Design
• Collaborative Software Engineering
• Business Process Improvement
• Project Management
• Educational Software and Tools

Dissertation: Relationship Analysis: Improving The Systems Analysis Process

Committee: Dr. Michael P. Bieber (Chair), Dr. Jane Cheng (Bloomfield College), Dr. Fadi P. Deek, Dr. Il Im (Yonsei University), Dr. Vassilka Kirova, Dr. Ravi Paul (East Carolina University)

Affiliation: La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA.

Email: tburns1@ramapo.edu

NJIT 2007

From: Fishkill, NY

Advisor: Fadi Deek

Research Interests:

• Software Development
• Development Methodologies
• Design Science

Dissertation: A Collaborative, Hierarchical, and Incremental Problem Solving Model

Committee: Vassilka Kirova, Robb Klashner, James McHugh , George Widmeyer

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of IS,  Ramapo College