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College of Business Administration

Keng L. Siau

Keng L. Siau

E.J. Faulkner Professor of MIS and Full Professor of Management
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Database Management
North America Regional Editor, Requirements Engineering
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Advances in Database Research Book Series
Director, UNL-IBM Global Innovation Hub

Management, CBA 255
P.O. Box 880491
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491, USA
Phone: (402) 472-3078
Fax: (402) 472-5855
E-mail: Email

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 2.0 and an immediacy index of 1.368. Professor Siau is also the North America Regional Editor of the Requirements Engineering journal, which has an impact factor of 1.625.

Research Interests:

(i) Design Science (ii) Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web (iii) E-Business, E-Government, Mobile Business, and Ubiquitous Commerce (iv) Systems Analysis and Design (v) Human-Computer Interaction

Teaching Interests:

(i) Managing Global Information Systems (ii) Virtual Worlds and 3-D Web (iii) Mobile and Ubiquitous Commerce (iv) Systems Analysis and Design (v) Data Quality and Database Management

Published in the following:

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 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

Awards:

Research: Professor Siau received the IBM Faculty Award in 2006 and 2008. Professor Siau is ranked as one of the top e-commerce researchers in the 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 The 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). Professor Siau received the 2005 CBA Faculty Research Award. Best Paper Award – The Second Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, 2003
Teaching: Professor Siau received the 2000/2001 University of Nebraska-Lincoln Distinguished Teaching Award. Professor Siau received the 2000/2001 College of Business Administration Distinguished Teaching Award.
Leadership and Service: Professor Siau received the second Outstanding Leader Award from the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) in 2008. Professor Siau received the IFIP Outstanding Service Award in 2006. IFIP stands for International Federation for Information Processing and has a total membership of over half a million. Professor Siau received the Outstanding Leader Award from the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) in 2004. Professor Siau received the Organizational Leadership Award given by the Information Resource Management Association (IRMA) in 2000.

Refereed Publications:

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



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 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 is serving/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). In addition, he has served on the program committees of 100+ international conferences/workshops.

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