Dr.
Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of
Management Information Systems at the
University of Arizona. He received the
B.S. degree from the National Chiao-Tung
University in Taiwan, the MBA degree from
SUNY Buffalo, and the Ph.D. degree in
Information Systems from the New York
University. Dr. Chen had served as a
Scientific Counselor/Advisor of the
National Library of Medicine (USA),
Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and National
Library of China (China). Dr. Chen is a
Fellow of IEEE and AAAS. He received the
IEEE Computer Society 2006 Technical
Achievement Award. He is author/editor of
20 books, 25 book chapters, 180 SCI
journal articles, and 120 refereed
conference articles covering Web
computing, search engines, digital
library, intelligence analysis, biomedical
informatics, data/text/web mining, and
knowledge management. His recent books
include: Mapping Nanotechnology Knowledge
and Innovation (2008), Digital Government:
E-Government Research, Case Studies, and
Implementation (2007); Intelligence and
Security Informatics for International
Security: Information Sharing and Data
Mining (2006); and Medical Informatics:
Knowledge Management and Data Mining in
Biomedicine (2005), all published by
Springer. Dr. Chen was ranked #8 in
publication productivity in Information
Systems (CAIS 2005) and #1 in Digital
Library research (IP&M 2005) in two
bibliometric studies.
He serves on ten editorial boards
including: ACM Transactions on Information
Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics, Journal of the
American Society for Information Science
and Technology, Decision Support Systems,
and International Journal on Digital
Library. He has been an advisor for major
NSF, DOJ, NLM, DOD, DHS, and other
international research programs in
digital library, digital government,
medical informatics, and national security
research. Dr. Chen is founding director of
Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman
E-Commerce Lab. The UA Artificial
Intelligence Lab, which houses 30+
researchers, has received more than $25M
in research funding from
NSF, NIH, NLM, DOD, DOJ, CIA, DHS, and
other agencies. The Hoffman E-Commerce
Lab, which has been funded mostly by major
IT industry partners, features one of the
most advanced e-commerce hardware and
software environments in the College of
Management. Dr. Chen is conference
co-chair of ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on
Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2004 and has
served as the conference/program co-chair
for the past eight International
Conferences of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL),
the premiere digital library meeting in
Asia that he helped develop.
Dr. Chen is also (founding) conference
co-chair of the IEEE International
Conferences on Intelligence
and Security Informatics (ISI) 2003-2009.
The ISI conference, which has been
sponsored by NSF, CIA, DHS, and NIJ, has
become the premiere meeting for
international and homeland security IT
research. Dr. Chen's COPLINK system, which
has been quoted as a national model for
public safety information
sharing and analysis, has been adopted in
more than 1600 law enforcement and
intelligence agencies. The COPLINK
research had been featured in the New York
Times, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times,
Washington Post, Boston Globe, and ABC
News, among others. The COPLINK project
was selected as a finalist by the
prestigious International Association of
Chiefs of Police (IACP)/Motorola 2003
Weaver Seavey Award for Quality in Law
Enforcement in 2003. COPLINK research has
recently been expanded to border
protection (BorderSafe), disease and
bioagent surveillance (BioPortal), and
terrorism
informatics research (Dark Web), funded by
NSF, CIA, and DHS. In collaboration with
selected international terrorism research
centers and intelligence agencies, the
Dark Web project has generated one of the
largest databases in the world about
extremist/terrorist-generated Internet
contents (web sites, forums, blogs, and
multimedia documents). Dark Web research
supports link analysis, content analysis,
web metrics analysis, multimedia analysis,
sentiment analysis, and authorship
analysis of international terrorism
contents. The project has received
significant international press coverage,
including: Associated Press, USA Today,
NSF Press, Washington Post, Fox News, BBC,
PBS, Business Week, Discover magazine,
WIRED magazine, Government Computing Week,
Second German TV (ZDF), Toronto Star, and
Arizona Daily Star, among others.
Dr. Chen is the founder of the Knowledge
Computing Corporation, a university
spin-off company and a market leader in
law enforcement and intelligence
information sharing and data mining. He
has
also received numerous awards in
information technology and knowledge
management education and research
including: AT&T Foundation Award, SAP
Award, the Andersen Consulting Professor
of the Year Award, the University of
Arizona Technology Innovation Award, and
the National Chiao-Tung University
Distinguished Alumnus Award. Dr. Chen had
served as a keynote speaker in major
international security informatics,
medical informatics, information systems,
knowledge management, and digital library
conferences. He is a
Distinguished/Honorary Professor of
several major universities in Taiwan and
China. Dr. Chen serves as the Program
co-Chair of the International Conference
on Information Systems (ICIS) 2009, to be
held in Phoenix, Arizona. |