E-mail: ashokambashanker@yahoo.com

From: Chennai, India

Research Interests:

• B2B e-commerce
• EDI
• Web Services
• ebXML

Committee: Dr. George R. Widmeyer (Advisor)

Affiliation: Project Manager, Infosys Technologies Limited

E-mail: fc48@njit.edu

From: Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China

Research Interests:

• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Financial Risk Management
• Decision Support System

Dissertation Topic: Variance Reduction Techniques for Quantile Estimation and Applications in Finance

Committee:

Dr.Marvin Nakayama (Advisor, CS/IS),

Dr.George Widmeyer (IS),

Dr.Julian Scher (IS),

Dr. Michael Recce (IS),

Dr. Renraw Chen (Finance, Fordham University),

Dr. James Calvin (CS)

Affiliation: N/A

E-mail: ali.cirik@njit.edu

From: Istanbul, Turkey

Research Interests:

• Decision Making in Emergency Response

Committee:

Dr. David Mendonça (Advisor)

E-mail: kamolbhan_s@yahoo.com, ks83@njit.edu

From: Bangkok, Thailand

Research Interests:

• Technology adoption
• Trust and user behavior
• E-commerce
• Virtual Worlds and Web 3.0
• Social networking systems
• Human-computer Interaction.

Dissertation Topic: Impacts of Perceived Affordances, Trusting Beliefs and Need satisfaction on the Adoption of Virtual World Commerce

Committee:

Dr. George R. Widmeyer (chair) - IS, NJIT

Dr. Starr Roxanne Hiltz - IS, NJIT

Dr. Julian M. Scher - IS, NJIT

Dr. Sanchoy K. Das - Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, NJIT

Dr. Jia Shen - College of Business Administration, Rider University

E-mail: muq2@njit.edu

From: Sarghoda, Pakistan

Research Interests:

• Web Caching
• Information Retrieval
• Data Management
• Recommender Systems

Dissertation Topic: Active Caching for Recommender Systems

Committee:
Dr. Vincent Oria (Advisor)

Dr. Brook Wu (Co-Advisor)

Dr. Min Song

Dr.Dimitrios Theodoratos

Dr. Il Im

Affiliation: NJIT, Association of Information Systems, Alpha Epsilon Lambda

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

E-mail: as459@njit.edu

From: Madras/Chennai, India

Research Interests:

• Information Retrieval
• Text Mining
• Digital Libraries

Committee:

Dr. Brook Wu (Advisor)

First year PHD student

E-mail:  yw95@njit.edu

From: Sichuan, China

Research Interests:

• Data mining
• Knowledge discovery

E-mail: wx7@njit.edu

From: Wuhan, China

Research Interests:

• Text Mining
• Information Seeking Behavior

E-mail: mw34@njit.edu

From: Jammu and Kashmir, India

Research Interests:

• Web Text Mining
• Search Engines
• Multilingual Web Mining

Dissertation

Textual Web Mining of Social Networks

Committee: Dr.Brook Wu (Advisor)