EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Information Systems (minors in Computer Science and Statistics), Expected Summer 2008
McCombs School of Business
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Dissertation: "Essays on Network Dynamics in Virtual Communities"
Thesis Committee: Prabhudev Konana (chair), Bin Gu (co-chair), Andrew Whinston, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, Raj Raghunathan

M.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering, June 2004
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Thesis: "Action Movies Segmentation and Summarization Based on Tempo Analysis"

B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering, June 2002
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Graduated with Phi Tau Phi Honor

HONORS AND AWARDS

- Doctoral Consortium Fellow, ICIS 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Dec 2007
- McCombs School of Business Dean's Fellowship, 2004-2007
- Burham Fellowship, 2005-2007
- Preemptive Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2004-2006
- National Women's League of the Republic of China Scholarship, 2003
- Presidential Award, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 2002
- Reuter Foundation Scholarship, 2002

RESEARCH INTERESTS

My research interests include virtual communities, network economy, and data mining for networked environments. Specifically, I investigate the underlying network dynamics in virtual communities and their implications. I have focused primarily on user interaction, information transmission and the competition among virtual communities. My research will contribute a better understanding of the value of virtual communities as information media and how they shape online user behavior in today's networked economy.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Management information systems, electronic commerce/IT and strategy, data mining and business intelligence, systems analysis and design, data communications.

REFERRED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

"Competition Among Virtual Communities and User Valuation: The Case of Investor Communities," with Bin Gu, Prabhudev Konana, and Balaji Rajagopalan. 2007. Information Systems Research, 18(1), March 2007, 68-85.

WORKING PAPERS

"Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? - Community Fragmentation and Polarization in Virtual Communities," with Bin Gu and Prabhudev Konana. 2007. McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Under preparation for submission to Management Science. (Working paper available.)

"Error-Based Active Learning for Classifier Induction," with Maytal Saar-Tsechansky and Vasant Dhar. 2007. McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Under preparation for submission to Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. (Working paper available.)

"The Economic Consequences of Amazon Online Co-Purchase Recommendations," with Bin Gu and Prabhudev Konana. 2007. McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. (Initial results available.)

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND PRESENTATIONS

"Variance-Based Active Learning for Classifier Induction," with Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. 2005. Proceedings of the 15th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS '05), Las Vegas, NV, 2005, 27-32.

"Empirical Evaluation of Methods for Cost-Sensitive Direct Marketing," with Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. 2005. 2005 International Workshop on Customer Relationship Management: Data Mining Meets Marketing, New York City, NY, 2005.

"Action Movies Segmentation and Summarization Based on Tempo Analysis," with Kuo, J., Chu, W., and Wu, J. 2004. Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR '04), New York City, NY, 251-258.

"A Multi-Modal-Feature Based Algorithm for Parsing News Program Videos," with Kuo, J., Yeh, J., and Wu, J. 2003. Proceedings of 2003 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP '03), Vol. 3, 177-180, Hong Kong.

"E-Vanguard for Emergency – A Wireless System for Rescue and Healthcare," with Chen, S., Lee, A., Chao, K., Huang, Yu., and Lai, F. 2003. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Enterprise Networking and Computing in Healthcare Industry, 29-35, Santa Monica, CA.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, University of Texas at Austin
MIS 301: Information Technology in Business, Fall 2007
MIS undergraduate core class with 54 students. (Mid-semester Evaluation: 4.0/5.0)

Teaching Assistnat, University of Texas at Austin
MIS 382N.9/373 and MKT 372: Data Mining, Spring 2006
Instructor: Prof. Saar-Tsechansky. MBA and BBA electives.

Guest Lecturer, University of Texas at Austin
MIS 381N: Introduction to Electronic Commerce, Spring 2005
Instructor: Prof. Andrew Whinston. IS PhD core.
Topic: "E-mail Spam and Filtering"

Teaching Assistant, National Taiwan University
Introduction to Computing, Sep. 2002-Jan. 2003
Instructor: Prof. Chiou-Shann Fuh. CS undergraduate core.

INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer, Jul. 2000-Feb. 2001
IBM, Taipei, Taiwan
Engaged in web-based application development for IBM B2B/B2C services as well as designing e-learning system for internal staff.

SELECTED COURSES TAKEN

- Information Systems: IS Concepts and Readings (Dr. Sirkka Jarvenpaa), Decision Support Systems (Dr. Andrew Whinston), Introduction to E-Commerce (Dr. Andrew Whinston)
- Economics: Microeconomics I (Dr. Thomas Wiseman), Microeconomics II (Dr. Svetlana Boyarchenko), Econometrics I (Dr. Stephen Donald)
- Computational Learning: Machine Learning (Dr. Raymond Mooney), Data Mining (Dr. Joydeep Ghosh), Concepts of Information Retrieval (Dr. Miles Efron)
- Statistics: Statistics (Dr. Gary Borich), Discrete Multivariate Models (Dr. Thomas Pullum), Experimental Design (Dr. Gary Borich), Marketing Models (Dr. Frenkel Ter Hofstede)

ACADEMIC SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS

- Ad-hoc Reviewer: Decision Support Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS)
- Member of Association for Information Systems
- ACM Student Member
- INFORMS Student Member
- DSI Student Member

SKILLS

- Programming Languages: C, Java, Delphi, Visual Basic, Perl, HTML/PHP/JSP/MySQL
- Platforms: Microsoft Windows XP/NT/2000/Vista, Linux
- Languages: English (fluent), Chinese Mandarin (native), Taiwanese (native), Japanese (basic)
 

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