IFI Summer School 2013

J. Leon Zhao is Head and Chair Professor in Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong. He was Interim Head and Eller Professor in MIS, University of Arizona. He holds Ph.D. from Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley. His research is on information technology and management, with a particular focus on collaboration and workflow technologies and business information services. He is director of Lab on Enterprise Process Innovation and Computing funded by NSF, RGC, SAP, and IBM among other sponsors. He received IBM Faculty Award in 2005 and was awarded Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University in 2009. He has been associate editor of ACM Transactions on MIS, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Information Systems Frontiers among others. He has chaired numerous conferences including the IEEE International Conference on Service Economics (SE'12), the International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, Switzerland (DESRIST'10), the 2010 International Conference on Electronic-Business Intelligence (ICEBI'10), and IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, Bangalore, India (SCC'09

Emerson Murphy-Hill is an assistant professor at North Carolina State University. His research interests include the intersection between human-computer interaction and software engineering. In 2010, completed a post-doc with Gail Murphy at the University of British Columbia. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Portland State University in 2009 under Andrew P. Black. He holds a B.S. from the Evergreen State College.

Mia Hubert is professor at the department of Mathematics of the University of Leuven, and member of the Leuven Statistics Research Centre (LStat). She is teaching several courses in statistics for bachelor and master students in mathematics, statistics and social sciences. She is specialized in the development and study of robust and nonparametric methods for univariate, multivariate , high-dimensional and functional data.  She has been an associate editor of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Currently she is associate editor of Technometrics and member of the editorial board of Journal of Chemometrics.

Shirley Gregor is Professor of Information Systems at the Australian National University, Canberra, where she is a Director of the National Centre for Information Systems Research. Professor Gregor’s current research interests include the innovative and strategic use of information and communications technologies, intelligent systems, human-computer interaction and the philosophy of technology.  Dr Gregor has published in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, European Journal of Information Systems and Information Technology & People. Professor Gregor was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honour’s list in June 2005 for services as an educator and researcher in the field of information systems and for work in e-commerce in the agribusiness sector. She is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. She was a Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly 2008-2010 and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association of Information Systems 2010-2013

Natalia Levina is an Associate Professor in the Information, Operations, and Management Sciences department at the Stern School of Business, New York University and a Visiting Full Professor of Information Systems at the Warwick Business School. Prof. Levina uses organizational theories to understand strategic and operational complexities involved in managing multi-party collaborative relationships focused on innovation. She investigates how diverse professional, organizational, and cultural backgrounds of project participants influence collaboration effectiveness and innovation on projects. Her current research focuses on open innovation, global sourcing, and crowdsourcing.  She has been awarded an NSF grant for studying open innovation and crowdsourcing as well as Alfred P. Sloan Industry Studies Fellowship and IBM faculty fellowship for studying innovation management practices in global sourcing. Prof. Levina’s work has been published in numerous academic journals including among others Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of MIS, Decision Sciences, Organization Science, and Academy of Management Journal and received a number of awards from academic societies. She serves as a senior editor at Information Systems Research and as invited Senior Editor on a special issue of the European Journal of IS as well as invited Associate Editor at MIS Quarterly (2 special issues). She is an editorial board member of Information and Organizations and has been an editorial board member at Organization Science. She has served as an Associated Editor in ICIS conferences throughout the past ten years and is the incoming program co-chair for ICIS 2016 Dublin. She is the founding vice chair for the AIS Special Interest Group (SIG) on Grounded Theory Methods (GTM). She is also an executive board member of OCIS division of the Academy of Management. Prof. Levina’s teaching portfolio includes such courses as “Globalization, Open Innovation, and Crowdsourding,” (MBA and Exec MBA), “IT in Business and Society” (undergraduate), and “IT in Organizations” (PhD seminar). She has received her B.A. in Computer Science and Mathematics from Boston University, M.A. in Mathematics from Boston University, and Ph.D. in Information Technologies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management.

Andrea Censi is a postdoctoral scholar in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology. He received the Laurea and Laurea Specialistica degrees (summa cum laude) in control engineering and robotics from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Control & Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2012. He is broadly interested in perception and decision making problems for natural and artificial embodied agents, and in particular in estimation, filtering, and learning in robotics.

Nenad Medvidović is a Professor and Associate Chair for Ph.D. Affairs in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California (USC). Between 2009 and 2013 Medvidović served as Director of USC’s Center for Systems and Software Engineering (CSSE). He was the Program Co-Chair of the 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011). Medvidović received his Ph.D. from the Department of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER (2000) award, the Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2005), the IBM Real-Time Innovation Award (2007), and the USC Mellon Mentoring Award (2010). He is a co-author of the ICSE 1998 paper titled “Architecture-Based Runtime Software Evolution”, which was recognized as that conference’s Most Influential Paper. Medvidović’s research interests are in the area of architecture-based development of distributed software-intensive systems. He is a co-author of a textbook on software architectures. Medvidović is a member of ACM, ACM SIGSOFT, IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society.

Craig Boutilier is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto and co-founder of Granata Decision Systems. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1992, and worked as an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia from 1991 until his return to Toronto in 1999. He served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Toronto from 2004-2010. Boutilier was a consulting professor at Stanford University from 1998-2000, an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia from 1999-2010, and a visiting professor at Brown University in 1998, at the University of Toronto in 1997-98, at Carnegie Mellon University in 2008-09, and at Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) in the spring of 2011. He served on the Technical Advisory Board of CombineNet, Inc. from 2001 to 2010. Boutilier's research interests have spanned a wide range of topics, from knowledge representation, belief revision, default reasoning, and philosophical logic, to probabilistic reasoning, decision making under uncertainty, multiagent systems, and machine learning. His current research efforts focus on various aspects of decision making under uncertainty: preference elicitation, mechanism design, game theory and multiagent decision processes, economic models, social choice, computational advertising, Markov decision processes, reinforcement learning and probabilistic inference. He has published over 200 articles in refereed journals, conference proceedings, and other edited collections. He holds four patents (with six more pending). Boutilier is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). He also serves as an Associate Editor with the ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation (TEAC); is a past Associate Editor with the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), the Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), and Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS); and he has sat on the editorial/advisory boards of several other journals. Boutilier has organized several international conferences and workshops, including his work as Program Chair of the Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-2000) and Program Chair of the Twenty-first International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-09). He has also served on the conference program committees of over 40 leading international conferences. Boutilier is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He has been awarded the Isaac Walton Killam Research Fellowship and an IBM Faculty Award. He also received the Killam Teaching Award from the University of British Columbia in 1997

Dr. Victor Pankratius' research embraces multicore parallel systems and software engineering. He advances automation in performance tuning, in debugging, and in empirical studies for programming language productivity and usability. He worked with industry partners such as Intel, Sun Labs, Oracle to identify research problems and advance multicore programming. Victor currently advances this field as a computer research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Haystack Observatory, and as a collaborative partner of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Following his passion for space science and astronomy, Victor works with computer scientists, astronomers, geoscientists, and physicists to advance multicore in astroinformatics. Victor Pankratius earned a Habilitation degree in Computer Science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Doctorate in Economics and Business Engineering with distinction from the University of Karlsruhe. At the University of Muenster, he earned a Diplom (M.S.) in Business Computer Science best of class and a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems (BScIS).

Tudor Gîrba (http://tudorgirba.com) attained his PhD in 2005 from the University of Berne, and he now works as Innovation Lead at CompuGroup Medical Schweiz, and as software assessment consultant through netstyle.ch. Among others, since 2003 he leads the work on Moose, an extensive open-source platform for software and data analysis (http://moosetechnology.org). He is advocating that assessment must be recognized as a critical software engineering activity. He developed the humane assessment method (http://humane-assessment.com), and he is currently helping companies to rethink the way they manage complex software systems and data sets.