Edwin J. Faulkner Professor
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Database Management
North America Regional Editor, Requirements Engineering
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Database Research Book Series
Vice President for Education, Association for Information Systems
Management

Contact Information

CBA 255
P.O. Box 880491
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491
Phone: +1-402-472-3078
Fax: +1-402-472-5855
ksiau@unl.edu

Joined the college in September 1996.

Expertise

• Systems Analysis and Design
• Design Science
• Web 2.0, Virtual World, and 3-D Web
• Supply Chain Integration and Management
• Electronic, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Commerce

Education

• Professor Keng Siau received his Ph.D. degree in Business Administration in 1996 from the University of British Columbia (UBC) (in Vancouver, Canada) where he majored in Management Information Systems (MIS) and minored in Cognitive Psychology. UBC is a top research university in Canada and consistently ranked as one of the best research schools in the world
• Professor Siau's M.S. and B.S. (Hons) degrees are in Information and Computer Sciences from the National University of Singapore, which is ranked as one of the top 30 universities in the world by The QS World University Rankings
• Professor Siau is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the top-ranked Journal of Database Management, which has an impact factor of 2.121. Professor Siau is also the North America Regional Editor of the Requirements Engineering journal, which has an impact factor of 0.862
   

Research Interests

• Design Theory/Design Science
• Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web
• E-Business, E-Government, Mobile Business, and Ubiquitous Commerce
• Supply Chain Management
• Human Factors in Information Systems

Teaching Interests

• Business Analytics/Business Intelligence
• Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web
• Mobile and Ubiquitous Commerce
• Information Systems Management
• Supply Chain Management 
  
   

Published In

• Management Information Systems Quarterly
• Journal of the Association for Information Systems
• Communications of the ACM
• Information Systems Journal
• Journal of Strategic Information Systems
• Journal of Information Technology
• Decision Support Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics
• IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication
• IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine
• IEEE Transactions on Education
• IEEE Computer
• IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Information Systems
• ACM SIGMIS’s Data Base
• Data and Knowledge Engineering
• Requirements Engineering
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
• International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
• Journal of Database Management
• Behavior and Information Technology
• Information and Software Technology
• International Journal of Mobile Communication
• International Journal of Electronic Business
• Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce
• Journal of Computer Information Systems
• Communications of the AIS
• Journal of Creative Behavior
• Industrial Management and Data Systems
• Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
   

Refereed Publications

• Professor Siau has published 250+ academic works. He has 100+ journal papers and 100+ conference papers
• He has edited/co-edited 15+ scholarly books, 10+ journal special issues, and 9 conference proceedings
• He has published 25+ book chapters

Awards

Research and Honors:

• Citation count according to ISI Web of Science: > 1600
• Citation count according to Google Scholar: > 4000
• H-index according to Harzing’s Publish or Perish: 33
• IBM Faculty Innovation Award in 2010
• IBM Faculty Award in 2006 and 2008
• Ranked as one of the top researchers in the IS field based on h-index and productivity rate in the article entitled “Analyzing Information Systems Researchers’ Productivity and Impacts: A Perspective on the H Index” by Hu, P. and Chen H. (2011), in ACM Transactions of Management Information Systems, Vol. 2, No. 2, Article 7
• Ranked as one of the top e-commerce researchers in th/e world (Arithmetic Rank of 7, Geometric Rank of 3) in the study by Kim, S., Aiken, M., and Vanjani, M. "Profiles in Electronic Commerce," Business Research Yearbook, Adams, M. and Alkhafaji, A. eds. (2006). Vol. 13, 464-469
• Citation count for Professor Siau’s paper “Building Customer Trust in Mobile Commerce’ is ranked in the top 1% within its field according to Essential Science Indicators (in 2005)
• Received the 2005 CBA Faculty Research Award
• Received the Best Paper Award from The Second Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, 2003
   

Teaching:

• Received the 2000/2001 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Distinguished Teaching Award
• Received the 2000/2001 College of Business Administration Distinguished Teaching Award

Leadership and Service:

• Outstanding Leader Award from the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) in 2008
• IFIP Outstanding Service Award in 2006. IFIP stands for International Federation for Information Processing and has a total membership of over half a million
• Outstanding Leader Award from the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) in 2004
• Organizational Leadership Award given by the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) in 2000
• Organizational Leadership Award given by the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) in 2000
   

Additional Information

Funding and Grants:

• Professor Siau has received more than $3 million of funding and hardware/software grants from National Science Foundation, Research Council of Norway, University of Nebraska, IBM, and several other IT companies

Advisory Boards and Steering Committees:

• Senior Advisory Board Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design (SIGSAND)
• Chair, SIGSAND-Europe Advisory Board
• Steering Committee Member, Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on IS in Asia Pacific (SIG-ISAP)
• Executive Council member of the Information Resources Management Association
• Steering Committee Member, International Conference on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD)
• Advisory Committee Member, Workshop on Conceptual Modeling of Service-Oriented Software Systems (CoSS2006)
• Steering Committee Member, International Workshop on Quality of Information Systems (QoIS)
• Advisory Panel Member, SAGE Design Science volume
• Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Computer Information Systems

Service to the research community:

• Professor Siau is the founder of the International Conference on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD). He served as the EMMSAD Organizing and Program Chairs/Co-chairs from 1996-2005
• Professor Siau has served on the Organizing Committees of AMCIS 2005, ER 2006, AMCIS 2007, and ICMB 2009.
• Professor Siau chaired a number of tracks for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), America Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), and Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)
• He has served on the program committees of 100+ international conferences/workshops

Documents & Links

• Advances in Database Research (ADR) Book Series
• Journal of Database Management
• Management Information Systems (MIS) Program

Research