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Brief Vita

(Updated Oct 2009)

Jack Zheng
Department of Computer Information System, Georgia State University,
35 Broad St. RCB 924, Atlanta, GA 30302
Email: gzheng (at) cis.gsu.edu

Research Interests

  1. Web information systems, web engineering
  2. Information architecture, web information seeking, web usability
  3. Business intelligence system, visual information exploration
  4. Design science research in information system and technology

Teaching Interests

  1. Web engineering, web application development, information architecture
  2. Information system analysis and design
  3. Database design, management and application
  4. Application level programming, web programming, web design
  5. Decision support systems and business intelligence systems
  6. System/application integration
  7. E-Business and systems
  8. Information security, Internet and web security
  9. Introduction to information systems/technologies

Education

  1. PhD (Computer Information Systems), J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
  2. MS Business Administration, San Francisco State University
  3. Bachelor of Economics, Southwestern University of Finance & Economics

Work

  1. 2009 - Present: Clinical Assistant Professor, Computer Information System, Georgia State University
  2. 2005 - 2008: Part-time instructor, Georgia State University
  3. 2004 - 2007: Graduate Research Assistant, Georgia State University
  4. 2002 - 2003: Application Developer, College of Business, San Francisco State University
  5. 1999 - 2000: Application Developer/Manager Assistant, DongTie I.T. Development Co.

Awards and Honors

  1. College of Business GTA Teaching Excellence Award, 2009
  2. GSU Dissertation Grant, 2008
  3. AMCIS Doctoral Consortium, 2007
  4. GSU Scholarly Support Grant, 2007
  5. College of Business GTA Teaching Excellence Award, 2007
  6. Microsoft Certified Application Developer, 2006

Services/Activities

  1. Information Architecture Institute translation team (2009).
  2. Initiating a web portal for the DESRIST community (http://desrist.org).
  3. Pending patent (application in progress) on “Trusted Query Network” with our research group (Application Number: 11/839318).
  4. Organizing committee member of DESRIST 2008 (3rd International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology), http://desrist2008.cis.gsu.edu
  5. Webmaster/treasurer, Chinese Student Union, GSU (2004-2007)
  6. College of Business Strategic Planning Committee, San Francisco State University (2003).
  7. President/treasurer, Chinese Students and Scholars Association, SFSU (2003)
  8. President/webmaster, Information Management and System Association, SFSU (2000-2003)

Publications

  1.  "A Multi-dimensional and Visual Exploration Approach to Project Prioritization and Selection", with Vijay Vaishnavi, Proceedings of the 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, CA, Aug 2009
  2. "The Influence of Checklists and Roles on Software Practitioner Risk Perception and Decision-Making", with Mark Keil, Lei Li, Lars Mathiassen, Journal of Systems and Software, vol 81(6), pp.908-919, June 2008
  3. "A Historical Perspective of Web Engineering", in Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations, edited by Goran Putnik and Maria Chunha, the Information Science Reference, 2008
  4. "A Multi-dimensional and Visual Exploration Approach to Project Prioritization", with Vijay Vaishnavi and Art Vandenberg, short paper presentation for the third international conference on design science research in information systems and technology, Atlanta, GA, May 2008
  5. "TQN: A Novel Approach to Generating Information Security Data", with Vijay Vaishnavi, Art Vandenberg, Richard Baskerville, Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Milewaukee, Wisconsin, 2006
  6. "ZWebNav: Integrated Web Navigation Manager", prototype demo presented at the 16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Milewaukee, Wisconsin, 2006
  7. "The Influence of Checklists and Roles on Software Practitioner Risk Perception and Decision-Making", with Mark Keil, Lei Li, Lars Mathiassen, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06)
  8. "Semantic Heterogeneity: Problem and Solution Frameworks", with Vijay Vaishnavi, Art Vandenberg, Roop Singh, Computing Letters, 1(2), 2005, page 75-82
  9. "Critical Themes in Electronic Commerce Research: A Meta-Analysis", with  Jonathan Wareham, Detmar Straub, Journal of Information Technology, Volume 20, Number 1, February 2005
  10. "A Methodology for Semantic Integration of Metadata in Bioinformatics Data Sources", with Lei Li, Roop Singh, Art Vandenberg, Vijay Vaishnavi, Sham Navathe, proceedings of ACMSE 2005