IS Faculty

Faculty - Ph.D. Students - Ph.D. Alumni - Administration

 Professors - Associate - Assistant  - Senior University Lecturers - Emeriti - Joint Appointments - Research Professors - Research Affiliates


Professors

 

Michael Bieber

Email: bieber@oak.njit.edu

Phone: 973-596-2681

Office: 5500 GITC

Skype/IM-AIM/Google/Yahoo: profbieber

Ph.D.  in Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1990

Chair, Information Systems Department

Acting Director, Undergraduate and PhD Programs

Director of Collaborative Hypermedia Research Lab.

Research and Professional  Interests:

- Hypermedia and Web Engineering

- Digital libraries

- Collaborative Learning

- Virtual communities

- Relationship Analysis (Software Requirements Engineering)

Fadi Deek

Email:  fadi.deek@njit.edu

Phone: 973-596-3676

Office: Cullimore Hall, Room 504

Ph.D. in Computer and Information Sciences,  NJIT

 Dean, College of Science and Liberal Arts

Research and Professional  Interests:

- Learning systems

- Collaborative Technologies

- Software engineering

- Computing science education

 

Associate Professors

 

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, 2001

On Sabbatical until September, 2009

Research and Professional Interests:

- Decision Making in critical circumstances

- Decision Support Systems

- Cognitive Modeling

- Improvisation

- The management of critical infrastructure systems

- Multi criteria decision making

- Knowledge management.

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, 2002

Research and Professional  Interests:

- Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing

- Social Networking

- Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW)

- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)

Michael Recce

Email:  mlrecce@gmail.com  

Phone: 973-596-5535     

Office: GITC, Room 4103

Ph.D. in Neurophysiology, University College, London 1994

Research Interests:

- Pattern recognition methods

- Behavioral biometrics

- Machine guided learning

- Detection of unusual behavior in transaction data

- Enterprise software architecture

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, 1971.

Associate Chair; Director of IS Undergraduate Program

On Sabbatical until September, 2009

Research and Professional  Interests:

- 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, 1986

Director of the MS Programs

Research and Professional  Interests:

- Decision Support

- Knowledge Management

- Virtual Organizations

- Multi player Game 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, 2001

Director of Ph.D. Program

On Sabbatical until September, 2009.

Research and Professional  Interests:

- Text mining

- Information extraction

- Knowledge organization

- Information retrieval, natural language processing.

Assistant Professors

 

Robb Klashner

Email: klashner@njit.edu

Phone: 973-596-5481 

Office:

Ph.D. in Information Systems, University of California, Irvine, 2002

Research Interests

- Software Architecture

- Software integration within complex socio-technical Systems

Min Song

Email: song@njit.edu                                           

Phone: 973-596-5291                                              

Office: GITC, Room 4102

Skype: Min.Song                                     

Ph.D. in Information Systems, Drexel University, 2005

Research and Professional Interests:

- Text Mining

- Bioinformatics

- Creating a Lexical Ontology of Abbreviations in the Biomedical literature

- Automatic Query Expansion with Keyphrases and POS Phrase Categorization for Effective Biomedical Text Mining

- Information Retrieval

- Information Extraction

- Digital Libraries

Senior University Lecturers

 

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, 2002

Research and Professional Interests:

- Homeland Security

- Command and Control

- Socio-technical and Social Informatics

- Emergency Response Management Information Systems

- Techno-Pedagogy

- Critical Information Systems

Rich Egan

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

Doctoral Candidate in Information Systems, NJIT, 2007

Research and Professional Interests

- Dispersed Software Development

- IS Diaster Planning and Recovery

- Software Engineering

Professor Emeriti

 

Starr Roxanne Hiltz

Email: hiltz@njit.edu

Phone: 973-596-3388

Office: GITC, Room 4204

Ph.D. in Sociology, Columbia University, June 1969

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:

- Computer Mediated Communication Systems

- Delphi Design, Policy Analysis, Planning Methodologies

- Interface Design, Systems Evaluation

- Technological Forecasting and Assessment

- Collaborative Systems and Group Decision Support Systems

- Management Information Systems

Joint Appointments

 

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

Joint appointment with the School of Management

Vanessa Liu

Email: vliu@njit.edu

Office: Central Avenue Building, Room 3028

IM-AIM: liuvanessa

Ph.D. in Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, 2005

Joint appointment with the School of Management

 

Marvin Nakayama

Email: marvin@njit.edu

Phone: 973-596-3398 

Office: GITC Room 4312

Ph.D. in Operational Research, Stanford University, 1991

Joint Appointment with the Computer Science Department

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


Ph.D. in Computer Science,  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris, France, 1994

Joint appointment with the Computer Science Department

Research and Professional Interests

- Virtual Malls

- Courseware

- Distributed Image Database

Katia Passerini

Emailpkatia@njit.edu                     

Phone: 973-642-7328                                  

Office: Central Avenue Building, Room  4022

Ph.D. in Information & Decision Systems, George Washington University, 2000

Joint appointment with the School of Management

Research and Professional Interests

- Computer-Mediated Communication/Learning

- Knowledge Mgt & IT Outsourcing

- Global IT

Research Professors

 

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 Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2001

Elizabeth Churchill

Ph.D. in Cognitive Science, Cambridge University, 1991.

Research Interests:

- mobility and mobile work

- distributed collaboration

- interaction in graphical and textual virtual spaces

- augmentation of public spaces with digital artifacts

Michael Gurstein

Email: gurstein@gmail.com                                             

Ph.D. in Sociology University of Cambridge, 1976

Executive Director, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, Vancouver, British Columbia

Research and Professional Interests:

- Community Informatics

- ICT for Development

- E-Government/E-Governance

- Knowledge Management

Stephen Hanson

Email:  jose@psychology.rutgers.edu            

Phone: 973-353-5440 x 221                        

Office: Rutgers University, Psychology Dept., Smith Hall Room 324                         

Rutgers University, Department of Psychology

Professional and Research 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, New Jersey Institute of Technology, 1998.

Bartel Van de Walle

Email: bartel@njit.edu  

Department of Information Systems, University of Tilburg, The Netherlands            

Ph.D. in Mathematics, University of Gent, Belgium

Research and Professional Interests

- Energy Management

Steve Whittaker

Email: S.whittaker@shef.ac.uk

Research Faculty University of Sheffield

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

Brian Whitworth

Email: bwhitworth@acm.org

Skype: Brian.Whitworth

Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey University, New Zealand

Ph.D. in Information Systems, Waikato University, New Zealand

Research and Professional Interests

- IS/IT Performance in design and evaluation

- Social requirements for technical system

- Human processes computer interaction (matching psychological and technical processes)

- Online group processes

Research Affiliates

 

Mojgan  Mohtashami

Email: mojgan@njit.edu 

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

Research and Professional 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