CIS Faculty
The faculty contributing to the Communication and Information Sciences PhD Program reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the program. CIS Graduate Faculty are appointed tenure track faculty from the four partner programs, and may serve as advisors to CIS PhD students, dissertation committee chairpersons, and inside dissertation committee members. CIS Cooperating Graduate Faculty and CIS Affiliate Graduate Faculty may also serve as inside dissertation committee members for CIS PhD dissertations. Friends have served as outside members. (We also used the "Friends" category elsewhere on this web site for persons who have other relationships to the CIS program.)
CIS Program Chair
Associate Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: How people integrate diverse types of knowledge, in informal information environments such as social Q&A communities, or in professional and academic environments such as the NASA Astrobiology Institute.
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~gazan/
CIS Program Staff
Coordinator Communication and Information Sciences Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: CIS Program staff and Philosophy PhD student. Research interests: philosophy of law and philosophy of religion.
CIS Graduate Faculty
Associate Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Japanese and Japanese American print cultures, Asian librarianship, and censorships. In particular, she investigates the anti-Japanese Movement in Hawaii and other USA States from World War II to present days
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~asaton/
Assistant Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: computer vision, computational models and mechanisms of visual perception and pattern recognition, neural computation, machine learning and bioinformatics
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kyungim/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Networking, systems and languages, especially concerning the issues of power, security, routing and reliability in wireless networks. Currently interested in networking security, he is still open to work in past focus areas such as protocol implementation strategies, specialized networking protocols design, advanced languages for systems programming, continuations in OS design, and the interaction of congestion control with protocol performance
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jeng-Her Chen (member), Hanae K. Kramer (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~esb
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Affective and entertaining intelligent interfaces for language learning and computational astrobiology. Recent research focuses on human communication and information management during space explorations
CIS Dissertation Committees: Sophea Chea (member), David Pai (member), Zach Tomaszewski (chairperson)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~binsted/
Assistant Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Information inequality, social and community informatics, citizenship, and democracy.
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=wbuente@hawaii.edu
Professor and Graduate Chair Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Computer-supported group decision and negotiation, e-commerce, information policy, economic evaluation of information technology, and emergency response systems
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kim Chi Diep (member), JungHyun Nam (chairperson), Sunyeen Pai (member), Siong Meng Tay (member), Louis Tomsic (member), Vichianin Yudthaphon (member)
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Parallel and distributed computing, grid computing, theoretical and practical aspects of scheduling, as well as modeling and simulation of computing platforms
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Service engineering and business-IT alignment, software architecture design, adoption in the framework of business organizations and electronic customer relationship management in business, healthcare and tourism
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (member), Lai Kuen So (member)
Website: http://hmchen.shidler.hawaii.edu
Professor and Chair Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Artificial intelligence, in particular natural language processing and intelligent agents, moreover, his research spans from user modeling and intelligent user interfaces to intelligent software maintenance and geographic information systems
CIS Dissertation Committees: Sungwon Cho (member), Hai Huang (member), Zhengfu Liu (member), Asanga Porage (chairperson), Koji Takeda (member), Rita Michele Vick (member), Xiaobo Wang (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~chin
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Telecommunications, medical informatics, information technology
CIS Dissertation Committees: Mark Alan Hukill (member), Johannes Meier (chairperson), Sunyeen Pai (chairperson), Sonja Wiley-Patton (chairperson)
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Human-computer interaction, human factors, cognitive science, user models
CIS Dissertation Committees: Donna Bair-Mundy (member), Sungwon Cho (chairperson), Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (chairperson), Patricia Donohue (chairperson), Yun Du (chairperson), LeAnn Garrett (member), T. N. Kamala (member), Xiangdong Ke (member), Laurel King (chairperson), Asanga Porage (member), Ravi K Vatrapu (member), Rita Michele Vick (chairperson), Dadong Wan (member), Laura Welsh (chairperson)
Professor and Chair Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Social implications of information technologies in organizational settings, requirements definition in systems development, and organizational change associated with information technology systems. She is also interested in qualitative methods and discourse analysis. Current research examines blogging as discursive activity and critical analysis of technology discourse in general
CIS Dissertation Committees: Gregory H Carlton (member), Sophea Chea (member), Soussan D Djamasbi (member), Patrick Gilbert (member), Tsui-Chuan Lin (chairperson), Margaret Luo (member), Maureen A. MacLeod (chairperson), Paulo Maurin (member), Carleton Allen Moore (member), John Lee Reardon (chairperson), Siong Meng Tay (chairperson), Rita Michele Vick (member), Vichianin Yudthaphon (chairperson)
Website: http://davidson.shidler.hawaii.edu/
Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: People's and organizations' experiences and skills for international assignments and cultural diversity in the context of international business, diplomacy, and education. Moreover, his interests cover technology transfer, immigration, criminal justice, intercultural marriage, tourism, and the delivery of service. He is currently researching on global swarming of multinational enterprises
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Aoki (member), Hanae K. Kramer (member), Laura Welsh (member)
Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Information literacy instruction, instructional design and assessment, school library leadership
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kim Chi Diep (member), Peter Leong (member), Matthew James Sharritt (member), Joyce Yukawa (chairperson)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~vharada/
Assistant Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Human-computer interaction, robotic and human-robotic interaction, as well as software design, network and digital data security
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cikehara/
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Online education, computer graphics and animation databases
CIS Dissertation Committees: Yun Du (member), Dara Lee Howard (member), Xiangdong Ke (chairperson), Zhi Cheng Li (chairperson), Ya Liu (chairperson)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~itoga/
Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Digital librarianship, search engines and user interfaces, citation indexing and journal impact factor calculation
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jennifer L Campbell-Meier (member), Justin M. W. Goo (member), Jenifer Sunrise Winter (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~jacso/
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Software engineering, collaborative software, artificial intelligence, and their applications for environmental sustainability
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (member), Carleton Allen Moore (chairperson), Danurahardjo Tjahjono (chairperson), Dadong Wan (chairperson)
Website: http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/~johnson/
Associate Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: The impact of information and communication technologies on journalism and the larger media environment. The use of technology to promote healthy aging and social well being. Computer-assisted research and production, including the construction of geographic information systems using U.S. Census data.
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=kevinyk@hawaii.edu
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Software architecture, human-computer interaction, IT Economics and service engineering
Website: http://kazman.shidler.hawaii.edu/
Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Public relations, teaching and learning with new media, mass/mediated communication theory, as well as online media and communication campaigns
CIS Dissertation Committees: Dan Smith (chairperson), Louis Tomsic (chairperson), Miwa Yamazaki (member)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=tkell@hawaii.edu
Associate Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Communication research methods and communication theories, in particular development, health and international communication, network analysis and diffusion of innovations
CIS Dissertation Committees: Michael Cress (member), Tsui-Chuan Lin (member), Matthew James Sharritt (member)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=joungim@hawaii.edu
Associate Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: International, interdisciplinary and comparative inquiry into intellectual freedom (access to information as a human right), international librarianship, literacy, the history of books and libraries, book burning, genocide, and the link between extremism and cultural destruction
CIS Dissertation Committees: Donna Bair-Mundy (chairperson), Jennifer L Campbell-Meier (chairperson), Jeng-Her Chen (chairperson), Jeng-Chung Chen (chairperson), Sungwon Cho (member), Justin M. W. Goo (member), Kumiko Hachiya (member), JungHyun Nam (member), Sunyeen Pai (member), Laura Welsh (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~knuth/
Assistant Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Information management, database technology, web data management, data stream, XML and semi-structured data
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lipyeow
Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Information Behavior, Affective Computing, Human System Interaction, and Information Technology Literacy
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jennifer L Campbell-Meier (member), Sophea Chea (member), Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (member), Kim Chi Diep (chairperson), Patricia Donohue (member), Tsui-Chuan Lin (member), Maureen A. MacLeod (member), Paulo Maurin (member), Steve Takaki (member), Siong Meng Tay (member), Zach Tomaszewski (member), Vichianin Yudthaphon (member), Joyce Yukawa (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nahl/
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Compilers, computability, artificial intelligence and electronic medical systems
CIS Dissertation Committees: Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (member), Laurel King (member)
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Risks in information systems, organizational communication and technology, spreadsheets and human errors
CIS Dissertation Committees: Gregory H Carlton (chairperson), Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut (member), Michael Cress (chairperson), Mauricio Sanchez Featherman (chairperson), Patrick Gilbert (chairperson), Justin M. W. Goo (chairperson), John F. Morton (member), Dan Smith (member), Steve Takaki (chairperson)
Website: http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/
Assistant Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Image and signal processing algorithms applied to clinical medical image analysis
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~julia4/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Bioinformatics, cognitive informatics, machine learning
Website: http://navet.ics.hawaii.edu/~poisson/BiL/index.html
Assistant Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Software economics, management of information systems, software engineering
CIS Dissertation Committees: Louis Tomsic (member)
Website: http://db-itm.shidler.hawaii.edu/drupal/index.php?q=users/dport
Associate Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: information filtering systems, virtual collaboration, information retrieval, databases, library systems
CIS Dissertation Committees: Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lquiroga/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, cognitive modeling, diagnosis, expert systems, knowledge-based systems, knowledge acquisition, medical informatics, and real-time systems
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~nreed/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Democracy
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jeng-Her Chen (member), Marc Le Pape (member), Zach Tomaszewski (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~scottpr/
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Management of information systems, in particular decision support systems, electronic document management, and strategic systems planning
CIS Dissertation Committees: Johannes Meier (member), David Pai (member)
Website: http://sprague.shidler.hawaii.edu/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Hypermedia, human-computer interaction, software architectures for the acquisition, evaluation, and visualization, of biometrics data
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~janst/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Machine Learning, Interactive learning, Predictive models of time series data, Analysis of animal communication sounds, Unsupervised learning / Cluster analysis, Computational Neuroscience, Foundations of Information Theory, Bioinformatics, Robotics, Neuromorphic engineering
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sstill/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: algorithms and distributed computing
CIS Dissertation Committees: Hai Huang (member), Zhi Cheng Li (member), Ya Liu (member), Koji Takeda (member), Xiaobo Wang (member)
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Cognitive, social and computational perspectives on designing and evaluating software for learning, collaboration, and community
CIS Dissertation Committees: Patricia Donohue (member), Patrick Gilbert (member), Marc Le Pape (chairperson), Maureen A. MacLeod (member), Paulo Maurin (chairperson), Matthew James Sharritt (chairperson), Ravi K Vatrapu (chairperson), Anthony Wong (member), Joyce Yukawa (member)
Website: http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/~suthers/
Professor Emeritus School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: telecommunication policy and planning, new media and society, forecasting methods and application in communication development in Asia and the Pacific
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Aoki (chairperson), Jennifer L Campbell-Meier (member), Gregory H Carlton (member), Jeng-Chung Chen (member), Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut (member), Michael Cress (member), Kim Chi Diep (member), Mauricio Sanchez Featherman (member), Richard Peyton Halverson (member), Jerome B. Heath (member), Claire Hitosugi (member), Mark Alan Hukill (chairperson), Xiangdong Ke (member), Hanae K. Kramer (chairperson), Hyosun Kwon (member), David K. Lassner (chairperson), Tsui-Chuan Lin (member), John Locke (chairperson), Ryota Ono (chairperson), Sunyeen Pai (member), Shakti S. Rana (member), John Lee Reardon (member), Stephanie Rolfe (chairperson), Matthew James Sharritt (member), Dan Smith (member), Hsiao-Hui Wang (member), Laura Welsh (member), Jenifer Sunrise Winter (chairperson), Su-Chin Wu (chairperson)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=danw@hawaii.edu
Associate Professor and Chair Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: information science, library history, Japanese-American print culture
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~wertheim/
Assistant Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Policy and planning particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, emerging technologies, privacy, social informatics, futures studies, information and communication technologies literacies
CIS Dissertation Committees: Hanae K. Kramer (member)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=jwinter@hawaii.edu
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: statistics, information technology management
CIS Dissertation Committees: Patrick Gilbert (member), Justin M. W. Goo (member), Dara Lee Howard (member), Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (member), Laurel King (member), John Lee Reardon (member)
CIS Cooperating Graduate Faculty
Associate Professor Public Administration Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Organizational communication, leadership, intercultural issues in public administrations, national differences in public institution cultures, and fostering regional and multinational cooperation between public institutions
CIS Dissertation Committees: Soussan D Djamasbi (member), Jerome B. Heath (member), John F. Morton (member), Dan Smith (member), Siong Meng Tay (member)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=puba&faculty=jady@hawaii.edu
Professor Department of Marketing, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Marketing communications, health care marketing, and global branding; he has significantly contributed to the introduction of a cross-cultural approach in the area, particularly through his works in cross-cultural consumer behavior and Southeast Asian studies
CIS Dissertation Committees: Mauricio Sanchez Featherman (member)
Website: http://mkt.shidler.hawaii.edu/docs/faculty/alden/index.html
Associate Professor Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Processes of social ordering and law through structured communication. He is interested in the entire range of institutionalized systems of communication about social conflict, art, ritual, and news
CIS Dissertation Committees: Donna Bair-Mundy (member), Kumiko Hachiya (chairperson), Jerome B. Heath (chairperson), Hanae K. Kramer (member), Randall Larsen (member), Diane M. Nahl (member), JungHyun Nam (member), Zach Tomaszewski (member), Sonja Wiley-Patton (member)
Website: http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/People/Faculty/Arno/index.html
Associate Professor of Japanese Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Japanese language and translation pedagogy, Japanese telecommunications, learning technology and distance education particularly in Japanese studies
CIS Dissertation Committees: Yun Du (member), Claire Hitosugi (member), Laurel King (member), Rita Michele Vick (member)
Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/ppl/jpn/AshworthDavid.html
Professor Department of Management and Industrial Relations, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Intercultural interaction and cross-cultural psychology, particularly in the field of industrial relations. Current research covers mentoring, cross-cultural training, and the experiences of business people on overseas assignments
CIS Dissertation Committees: Ravi K Vatrapu (member)
Website: http://mir.shidler.hawaii.edu/faculty/richard_brislin.htm
Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Media ethics, film and culture, global media and cross-cultural communication
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=tbrislin@hawaii.edu
Professor Department of Management and Industrial Relations, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: International business, organizational behavior, strategy and operations research
Website: http://mir.shidler.hawaii.edu/faculty/robert_doktor.htm
Professor Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Instructional technology, distant learning and hybrid classrooms, particularly in the context of the Pacific area
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Aoki (member), Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (member), Hyosun Kwon (member), Peter Leong (chairperson), John Locke (member), John F. Morton (member), Diane M. Nahl (member), Su-Chin Wu (member), Joyce Yukawa (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~curtis/
Principal Investigator, Curriculum Research & Development Group Department of Educational Psychology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Youth and early childhood education, decolonizing evaluation practices in Hawaiian educational system
CIS Dissertation Committees: Steve Takaki (member)
Associate Professor Department of Geography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Representational, perceptual and cognitive issues in cartography and geographical information systems; technical issues in information representation in spatial databases; secondary interest in algorithms, techniques, and the logic of processing spatial data
Interests: financial technologies, real estate markets
CIS Dissertation Committees: Gregory H Carlton (member)
Professor Department of Marketing, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: marketing, international business, marketing research methods
Website: http://mkt.shidler.hawaii.edu/Professors/wills.html
Interests: education psychology, quantitative research methodology, statistics and second language acquisition
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jeng-Her Chen (member), Jeng-Chung Chen (member), Michael Cress (member), Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (member), Peter Leong (member), Margaret Luo (member), Dan Smith (member), Steve Takaki (member), Louis Tomsic (member), Anthony Wong (member), Su-Chin Wu (member)
Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/edtech/fac.htm
CIS Affiliate Graduate Faculty
Emeritus Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Communication systems, satellite networks, and data network. His work in random multiple access has significantly contributed to the development of modern data networks. He directed the construction and operation of the first wireless packet network, the ALOHAnet, which went into operation in 1970, throughout the state of Hawaii
CIS Dissertation Committees: Dara Lee Howard (member)
Website: http://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Norman_Abramson
Adjunct Faculty Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Information systems, library automation
CIS Dissertation Committees: Donna Bair-Mundy (member), Jeng-Chung Chen (member), Sungwon Cho (member), Yun Du (member), LeAnn Garrett (chairperson), Jingxiang He (member), Jerome B. Heath (member), Beverly G. Hope (member), Xiangdong Ke (member), Zhengfu Liu (chairperson), Leorey O. Marquez (member), Carleton Allen Moore (member), Koji Takeda (member), Xiaobo Wang (member)
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Medical informatics and includes biomedical informatics, international health policy, global health informatics, issues in the electronic medical record, telemedicine, and computer science as an enabler for change in professional industries
CIS Dissertation Committees: JungHyun Nam (member), Stephanie Rolfe (member), Miwa Yamazaki (member), Vichianin Yudthaphon (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~strev/