Information Systems Faculty

Administration - Undergraduate Students - Graduate Students - PhD Students - PhD Alumni

Professors - Associates - Assistants - Senior University Lecturers - Emeriti - Joint Appointments
Research Professors - Research Affiliates


Professors


Michael Bieber
Email: bieber@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-2681
Office: 5500 GITC
Skype/IM-AIM/Google/Yahoo: profbieber
Video Introduction

Ph.D. in Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.

Interim Department Chair; Co-Director Collaborative Hypermedia Lab

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Hypermedia and Web Engineering
  • Digital Libraries
  • Collaborative Learning
  • Virtual Communities
  • Relationship Analysis (Software Requirements Engineering)


Fadi Deek
Dean, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Email:  deek@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-3676
Office: Cullimore Hall, Room 504

Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences, NJIT.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Learning Systems
  • Collaborative Technologies
  • Software Engineering
  • Computing Education
  • Open Source Software


Associate Professors


Quentin (Gad) Jones
Email: qjones@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-5290
Office: GITC, Room 5600
IM-Yahoo: qjones, AIM: gadjonesq

Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, Graduate School of Business, University of Haifa, Israel.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW)

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

  • Pervasive Computing

  • Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)

  • Virtual Community Systems


David Mendonça
Email: mendonca@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-5212
Office: GITC, Room 4106

Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Director, electric Arts Habitat lab (eARTh)

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Improvisation
  • The management of critical infrastructure systems
  • Decision making under time pressure
  • Multi-criteria decision making
  • Knowledge management


Michael Recce
Email:  mlrecce@gmail.com  
Phone: 973-596-5535     
Office: GITC, Room 4103

Ph.D. in Neurophysiology, University College, London.

Director, Neurological Computation Lab

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Pattern Matching
  • Transaction Mining
  • "Smart" gun technology


Julian Scher
Email:  JulianScher@gmail.com
Phone: 973-596-3395
Office: GITC, Room 4105
IM- Google: julianscher

Ph.D. in Operations Research/Computer Science, New York University.

Associate Chair; Director of IS Undergraduate Program.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Open Source Video
  • Discrete event computer simulation languages
  • Probabilistic and statistical methodologies used in simulation
  • Applications of computer simulation to the study of operational systems
  • Database Design - theory and software
  • Semantic Object Database Modeling
  • Desktop Database Management Systems and Application Design


George Widmeyer
Email: widmeyer@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-5897
Office: GITC, Room 4108
IM-Yahoo: profwidmeyer

Ph.D. in Information Systems, School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Decision Support
  • Design Science
  • Virtual Organizations
  • Massively Multiplayer Online Games
  • Design for Education / Follow-the-Sun Software Design


Brook (Yi-fang) Wu
Email: wu@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-5285
Office: GITC 4104
IM-Yahoo: profbrookwu

Ph.D. in Information Science, State University of New York at Albany.

Director of Ph.D. Program; Co-Director Informatics Research Lab

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Medical Text Mining
  • Information Extraction
  • Knowledge Organization
  • Information retrieval, natural language processing
  • Recommander Systems





Assistant Professors


Min Song
Email: song@njit.edu                                          
Phone: 973-596-5291                                             
Office: GITC, Room 4102
Skype: Min.Song

Ph.D. in Information Systems, Drexel University.

Co-Director Informatics Research Lab

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Text mining
  • Bioinformatics
  • Creating a lexical ontology of abbreviations in the Biomedical literature
  • Automatic Query expansion with key phrases and POS Phrase categorization for Effective Biomedical Text Mining
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Extraction
  • Digital Libraries


Professor Emeriti

Professor Emeriti may lead IS Masters projects and Masters theses.  They also may serve as Ph.D. applicant advocates and mentors, as well as lead IS Ph.D. dissertation committees.


Starr Roxanne Hiltz
Email: hiltz@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-3388
Office: GITC, Room 4204

Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University

Co-Director Collaborative Hypermedia Lab

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
  • Group Decision Support Systems
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Marilyn Tremaine
Email: tremaine@njit.edu                  
Phone: 732-445-5055                        
Office:  GITC, Room 4404                 
Skype: rosemarypotatoes

Ph.D. in Communication Theory, Annenberg School, University of Southern California

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Multimodal Interfaces
  • Auditory Interfaces
  • Mobile Collaboration
  • Accessibility Design
  • Interfaces for Telerehabilitation

Murray Turoff
Email: turoff@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-3399
Office:  GITC, Room 4206

Ph.D. in Physics, Brandeis University

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Mediated Communication Systems
  • Delphi Design, Policy Analysis, Planning Methodolgies
  • Interface Design, Systems Evaluation
  • Technological Forecasting and Assessment
  • Collaborative Systems and Group Decision Support Systems
  • Management Information Systems


Research Professors

Research Professors may lead IS Masters projects and Masters theses.  They also may serve as Ph.D. applicant advocates and mentors, as well as lead IS Ph.D. dissertation committees.


Brian Amento
Email: brian@research.att.com
Phone: 973-360-8032
Office: AT&T Labs - Research, Building 103,
B282, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park, NJ 07932

AT&T Research

Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science and Applications, Virginia Tech.


Michael Chumer
Email: chumer@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-5484
Office: GITC 4107

Ph.D. in Communication and Information Science. School of Communication, Information and Library Science, Rutgers University.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Homeland Security
  • Command and Control
  • Socio-technical and Social Informatics
  • Emergency Response Management Information Systems
  • Techno-Pedagogy
  • Critical Information Systems


Elizabeth Churchill

Human Computer Interaction


Michael Gurstein

Email: gurstein@gmail.com    

Ph.D. in Business Administration, University of Quebec at Montreal

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Community Informatics
  • Knowledge Management

Stephen Hanson

Email: jose@psychology.rutgers.edu
Phone: 973-353-5440 x 221
Office: Rutgers University, Psychology Dept., Smith Hall Rm 324

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Categorization
  • Connectionist Models
  • Neural Networks
  • Cognitive Modeling
  • Mathematical and Computational Modeling

Vassilka Kirova
Email: kirova@alcatel-lucent.com        
Lucent Technologies

Ph.D. in Computer Science, NJIT.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Software Engineering

Bartel Van de Walle

Email: bartel@uvt.nl 
Department of Information Systems, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands

Ph.D. in Mathematics University of Gent, Belgium

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Emergency Management
  • Decision Support
Steve Whittaker
Email: s.whittaker@shef.ac.uk

Research Faculty University of Scheffield

Ph.D. in Psychology, St. Andrews University

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Computer mediated communication
  • Design and implementation of collaborative systems
  • Personal information management
  • Interfaces for information retrieval


Senior University Lecturers


Elizabeth Avery Gomez
Email: elizabeth.avery@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-5481
Office: GITC, Room 4206
IM-AIM: egomez0328

Ph.D. in Information Systems NJIT.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Crisis Management
  • Community Outreach
  • Homeland Security
  • Public Health
  • Adapting Communication for Mobile Technologies


Rich Egan
Email: egan@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-5314
Office: GITC, Room 4101
IM-Yahoo: lecturerrich

Ph.D. in Information Systems, NJIT.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Dispersed Software development

  • IS Disaster Planning and Recovery

  • Software Engineering


Joint Appointments

Joint appointment faculty may lead IS Masters projects and Masters theses.  They also may serve as Ph.D. applicant advocates and mentors, as well as lead IS Ph.D. dissertation committees.


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.

Joint Appointment with the School of Management

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Group Decision Support
  • Customer Relationship Management


Marvin Nakayama

Email: marvin@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-3398
Office: GITC Room 4312
Joint Appointment with the Computer Science Department

Ph.D. in Operations Research, Stanford University.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Simulation
  • Modeling
  • Fault-tolerant computing
  • Reliability
  • Applied Probability
  • Statistics


Vincent Oria

Email: vincent.oria@njit.edu
Phone: 973-596-5767
Office: GITC, Room 4302
Joint appointment with the Computer Science Department

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Ecole Nationale Sup?rieure des T?l?communications, Paris, France.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Virtual Malls

  • Courseware

  • Distributed Image Database


Katia Passerini

Email: pkatia@njit.edu                  
Phone: 973-642-7328
Office: Central Avenue Building, Room  4022
Joint appointment with the School of Management

Ph.D. in Information & Decision Systems, George Washington University.

Research and Professional Interests:

  • Computer-Mediated Communication/Learning
  • Knowledge Mgt & IT Outsourcing
  • Global IT

Research Affiliates


Mojgan  Mohtashami
Email: mohtashami@optonline.net

Ph.D. in Information Systems, Rutgers University.

Research and Professional Interests:

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