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Department of Computer Information Systems

Meet the Robinson Computer Information Systems faculty

Ephraim McLean

Ephraim R. McLean, Ph.D.
Chairman
Regents' Professor
George E. Smith Eminent Scholar's Chair of Information Systems

Email: chair@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7448

Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SM, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ME, Cornell University
BME, Cornell University

Research Interests: Management of information systems, strategic planning for information systems, using information systems for competitive advantage, decision support and end-user systems
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/emclean

Richard Baskerville

Richard Baskerville, Ph.D.
Board of Advisors Professor
Email: rbaskerville@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7362

Education: Ph.D.,University of London (System Analysis)
MS, The London School of Economics (Accounting)
BS, University of Maryland (Business and Management), European Division, Heidelberg
Research

Research Interests: Information systems security, interaction of information systems and organizations, qualitative research methods, diffusion of IT innovations, knowledge management
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/rbaskerville

Michael Gallivan

Michael Gallivan
Associate Professor
Email:
mgallivan@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7363

Education: Ph.D., MIT Sloan School of Management (IT)
MBA, University of California, Berkeley (MIS)
MPH, University of California, Berkeley
BA, Harvard University, Cambridge

Research Interests: IT human resource management, management of IT outsourcing, adoption and diffusion of innovations, organizational learning from innovations
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/mgallivan

Sidney Harris

Sidney Harris
Professor, former Dean of the Robinson College (1997-2004)
Email:
sidneyharris@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7017

Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
MS, Cornell University
BS, Morehouse College

Research Interests: Strategic management of technology, global practices in technological innovation and management, regional studies on China and Asia culture of high-performance organization
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Personal website:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwseh

Mark Keil

Mark Keil
John B. Zellars Professor of Computer Information Systems

Email: mkeil@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7365

Education: D.B.A., Harvard Business School
SM, MIT Sloan School of Management
BSE, Princeton University (Chemical Engineering)

Research Interests: Software project management, including software project escalation and de-escalation; software project risk; identifying and removing barriers to software use
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Personal website:
http://sites.google.com/site/markkeil/

Lars Mathiassen

Lars Mathiassen
Professor, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar

Email: lmathiassen@ceprin.org
Phone: 404-413-7855

Education: Dr. Techn., University of Aalborg, Denmark (Software Engineering)
Ph.D., University of Oslo, Norway (Computer Science)
MS, University of Aarhus, Denmark (Computer Science)

Research Interests: Software practice improvement, business process innovation, health informatics, action research methodology
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Personal website:
http://www.larsmathiassen.org

David McDonald

David McDonald
Associate Professor and Director of Emerging Technologies

Email: davemcdonald@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7368

Education: Ph.D., Georgia State University
MS, Georgia State University

Research Interests: Practitioner-oriented, focusing on new learning technologies
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/dmcdonald/

Jeong-ha Oh

Jeong-ha Oh
Assistant Professor

Email: jhoh@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7364

Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
MS, University of Chicago
MS, Seoul National University
BS, Seoul National University

Research Interests: Healthcare analytics, healthcare IT, online social networks and social media
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Arun Rai

Arun Rai
Regents' Professor and Harkins Chair of Information Systems

Email: arunrai@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7857

Education: Ph.D., Kent State University
SM, Clarion University of Pennsylvania
MS, Birla Institute of Technology & Science (India)

Research Interests: Strategic management of IT; IT-enabled innovation; Supply chain management; Health information technology
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Personal website:
http://arunrai.us/

Balasubramaniam Ramesh

Balasubramaniam Ramesh
Board of Advisors Professor
Email:
bramesh@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7372

Education: Ph.D., Stern School of Business, New York University
MBA, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India
BS, Engineering (Honors), University of Madras, India

Research Interests: Software engineering, knowledge management, data mining, requirements engineering and traceability, electronic commerce
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/bramesh

William Robinson

William Robinson
Associate Professor

Email: wrobinson@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7374

Education: Ph.D., University of Oregon (Computer Information Systems)
MS, University of Oregon (Computer Information Systems)
BS, Oregon State University (Computer Science)

Research Interests: Requirements engineering, electronic commerce, intelligent systems
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/wrobinson

J. P. Shim

J.P. Shim
Professor, Executive Director of Korean-American Business Center

Email: jpshim@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7370

Education: Ph.D., University of Nebraska
MBA, Seoul National University
Certificate: Harvard Business School (Information Systems)

Research Interests: Wireless telecommunication, decision support technology and applications, social networking, cellular phone TV, digital multimedia broadcasting, u-commerce
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/jpshim/SHIM3.html

Veda Storey

Veda Storey
Tull Professor of Computer Information Systems

Email: vstorey@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7377

Education: Ph.D., University of British Columbia (MIS)
MS, Queen's University
BS, Mt. Allison University, Mathematics & Computer Science

Research Interests: Database management systems, intelligent systems, data quality, knowledge management
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/vstorey

Detmar W. Straub

Detmar W. Straub
Regents' Professor
J. Mack Robinson Distinguished Professor of Information Systems
Director or Robinson Ph.D. Programs and Research

Email: dstraub@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7378

Education: D.B.A., Indiana University (MIS)
MBA, Gannon University (MIS)
Ph.D., Penn State University (English)
MA, City University of New York (English)
BA, Hobart College (English)

Research Interests: E-commerce metrics, IS security, technological innovation, cross-cultural IS research
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Personal website:
http://www.detmarstraub.com

Carl Stucke

Carl Stucke
Associate Chair of CIS Department

Email: cstucke@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7379

Education: Ph.D., Emory University (Mathematics)
BS, Mathematics, Emory University

Research Interests: Information systems security & privacy
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/cstucke

Duane Truex

Duane Truex
Associate Professor

Email: dtruex@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7380

Education: Ph.D., Watson School of Engineering, SUNY (CS/IS)
MBA, State University of New York (SUNY Binghamton)
BA, Music, Ithaca College

Research Interests: The impact of IT on people and organizations, philosophical structures of information systems, systems development methods and method engineering, e-commerce infrastructures
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/dtruex

Vijay K. Vaishnavi

Vijay K. Vaishnavi
Board of Advisors Professor

Email: vvaishna@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7381

Education: Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University, Canada (Computer Science)
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, India (Electrical Engineering/Computer Science)
M.Tech, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India (Electrical Engineering/Computer Science)
BE, National Institute of Technology, Srinagar, India (Electrical Engineering)

Research Interests: Workflow and electronic commerce coordination, formal software specifications and their maturity, object modeling and design, object-oriented metrics, research methodologies
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/vvaishnavi

Upkar Varshney

Upkar Varshney
Associate Professor

Email: uvarshney@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7382

Education: Ph.D., University of Missouri-Kansas City (CS/Telecom)
MS, University of Missouri-Kansas City(Computer Science)
BE, University of Roorkee (Electrical Engineering)

Research Interests: Wireless and mobile networks, wireless e-commerce, multicast, wireless ATM
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Personal website:
http://www.cis.gsu.edu/uvarshney

Richard J. Welke

Richard J. Welke
Professor

Email: rwelke@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7863

Education: Ph.D., SUNY Buffalo (Management Systems)
M.B.A., The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
BSE, Tau Beta Pi (Industrial Engineering)

Research Interests: Open standards information architecture, e-commerce strategy, development methods and tools, workflow systems
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Personal website:
http://ceprin.org/Personnel/Welke/Welke.PhP



Meet the Robinson Computer Information Systems Joint Appointment faculty

(Faculty with main appointment in another department or college)

Bijan Fazlollahi

Bijan Fazlollahi
Professor, Institute of International Business and Director of Center for Business Development in Transitional Economies
Email:
bijan@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7283

Education: Ph.D., Syracuse University  (Business Administration)
MBA, Syracuse University (Operations Management)
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mechanical Engineering)

Research Interests:  Medical care organization, operations management, health information systems
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Abhay N. Mishra
Assistant Professor
Email: amishra@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7638

Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
MBA, Xavier Labor Relations Institute, Jamshedpur, India
B. Tech, Karnataka Regional Engineering College, Surathkal, India

Specializations: Adoption and diffusion of information technologies in the healthcare industry, the transformation of the healthcare industry, electronic procurement and supply-chain management, business value of information and technologies, organizational innovation, information technology strategy
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Yi Pan

Yi Pan
Chair and Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Computer Information Systems
Email:
pan@cs.gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-5719

Education: Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh (Computer Science)
M.Eng., Tsinghua University, China (Computer Engineering)
B.Eng., Tsinghua University, China (Computer Engineering)
Research Interests:  Parallel and distributed computing, optical networks, wireless networks, bioinformatics
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Andrew T. Sumner
Director and Associate Professor, Joe Taylor Chair in Health Administration

Email: asumner@gsu.edu
Phone: 404-413-7634

Education: Sc.D., John Hopkins University
MSIE, Georgia Institute of Technology
BIE, Georgia Institute of Technology

Specializations: Medical care organization, operations management, health information systems
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