EDUCATION
Ph.D., Computer Science and Engineering, graduated with Dean’s Citation, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, May 2003
Dissertation
title: “Agent-based Demand
Forecasting in Supply Chain Management”
Management Science Ph.D. Program, Clemson University, Clemson, SC (1996-1999)
Master of Science, Textile Science, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, December 1995
Thesis
title: “A Quantitative
Analysis of Spinning Performance and Yarn Quality”
Bachelor of Science, Mathematical Sciences, National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., June, 1988
AWARD AND HONOR
2018 Best Learning and
Education Research Paper Award at the 2018 Decision Sciences Annual Conference
with paper titled “Performance Dashboard in Higher Education: A University
Career Service Case Study.”. Co-authored with B Lea.
2015 “Missouri University of
Science and Technology Outstanding Teaching Award for 2014-15”, Missouri
University of Science and Technology, November 2015.
2015 “Global Learning 2015
Outstanding Teaching Award of Excellence”, Missouri University of Science and
Technology, April 2015.
2012 “Global Learning 2011
Outstanding Teaching Commendation Award”, Missouri University of Science and
Technology, April 2012.
2011 “Global Learning 2011 Outstanding
Teaching Award of Excellence”, Missouri University of Science and Technology,
May 2011.
2005 "Intelligent Enterprise Decision Simulator: Architecture Design and a Prototype.” British Telecom Short-Term Research Fellowship. Co-recipient with B. Lea., June 2005.
2003 Graduate Dean’s Citation, University of Louisville. Election to Phi Kappa Phi, National all University Honor Society.
2001 Graduate Research Assistant of the Year, Logistics and Distribution Institute, University of Louisville
1999 Election to Alpha Epsilon Lambda (AEL), the Honor Society of Graduate and Professional School Students, Clemson University.
1998 Donald W. Fogarty International Student Paper Competition, First Place, American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) Educational and Research Foundation, co-winner with H. Moss
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
“Analytics 1 and 2” SAP UCC
2018 Summer Faculty Workshops at UW-Milwaukee July 16-19, 2018
“Text Analytics Using SAS
Text Miner”, SAS Academic Programs Summer Professor Workshops, Cary, NC, July 13-14,
2017
“Introduction to SAP HANA
and HANA Application Development” SAP UCC 2016 Summer Faculty Workshops at
UW-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, July 18-21, 2016
“Text Analytics Using SAS
Text Miner”, SAS Global Academic Workshops, Cary, NC, July 13-14, 2015
“Advanced Predictive
Modeling Using SAS(R) Enterprise Miner” and “SAS Visual Analytics for
Professors”, SAS Global Academic Workshops, San Diego, CA, January 12-15, 2015
“Analytics” workshop, SAP
Academic Conference Americas 2014 Atlanta, GA, March 27- 29, 2014
“SAP HANA” workshop, SAP
University Alliances 2013 summer workshops, Milwaukee, WI, July 9-12, 2013
“Analytics” workshop, SAP
University Alliances summer on-line workshop, June 17-21, 2013
“Analytic Applications and
Global Bike, Inc.” workshops, SAP University Alliances Curriculum Congress
2013, Milwaukee, WI, February 21-13, 2013
“Analytics Application
(Business Intelligence)” and “Data Warehousing” workshops, SAP University
Alliances Americas Summer 2012 workshops, Milwaukee, WI, July 9-12, 2012
“Sybase® Unwired Platform
(mobile)” and “Analytics” workshops, SAP Academic Conference Americas 2012, San
Antonio, TX, March 22-24, 2012.
“Business Intelligence (BI)”
workshop, SAP University Alliances Curriculum Congress 2011, Monterey, CA,
March 10-12, 2011.
“SAS Advanced Predictive
Modeling”, Rolla, MO, May 7th 2010.
“Business Intelligence I & II” SAP University Alliances Summer Workshops at California State University, Chico. August 4-8, 2008.
“Mining Textual Data Using SAS Text Miner” SAS Data Mining Training for Educators Summer Program. Cary, North Carolina, July 24-25, 2008.
"SAP NetWeaver Business Programming” NetWeaver pre-conference workshop, SAP University Alliances Curriculum Congress ’08, Atlanta Georgia, February 28-March 1, 2008.
"Advanced Predictive Modeling Using SAS Enterprise Miner" and "Decision Tree Modeling" SAS Summer Program for Educators Teaching Data Mining, Cary NC, August 6-11, 2007.
"SAP Enterprise Portals" NetWeaver Pre-Conference Workshop, SAP Curriculum Congress ’07, Vancouver Canada, March 1-4, 2007.
"Data Mining Using SAP NetWeaver" Business Intelligence Pre-Conference Workshop, SAP Curriculum Congress ’06, Dallas (Grapevine) TX, March 2-5, 2006.
"On Course: Two-day workshop in helping students get on course". January 6-7 2005.
"New Faculty Development Consortium" The 35th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute, Boston, MA, November 20-23, 2004.
"New Faculty Teaching
Scholar Program” University of Missouri System 2004-2005
Course Design Retreat: 30 September - 2 October 2004
Teaching Renewal Conference: 24 - 26 February 2005
Building Your Academic Portfolio: 16 - 18 May 2005
"On Course: professional instructional enhancement program" August 16-17 2004.
"BW Configuration & Data Warehousing" SAP University Alliances Workshop at California State University, Chico, CA. July 19- 23, 2004.
"BW Reporting” SAP University Alliances Workshop at University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO, July 26-30, 2004.
"Introduction to ERP and SAP” University of Missouri-Rolla, Rolla, MO, October 23-25, 2003.