Lab Director

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520.621.2748 office
520.621.2433 fax
hchen@eller.arizona.edu
McClelland Hall 430

Curriculum Vitae

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Founder/Director, AI Lab
Founding Director, Hoffman E-Commerce Lab
Founder, Knowledge Computing Corporation (now part of i2)

In Memoriam

In remembrance of Jingo Chen (1961-2000)

Hsinchun Chen, Ph.D.
McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems and
Director, Artificial Intelligence Lab

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Bio

Dr. Hsinchun Chen is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona. He received the B.S. degree from the National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan, the MBA degree from SUNY Buffalo, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from the New York University. Dr. Chen had served as a Scientific Counselor/Advisor of the National Library of Medicine (USA), Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and National Library of China (China).

Dr. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE and AAAS. He received the IEEE Computer Society 2006 Technical Achievement Award, the 2008 INFORMS Design Science Award, the MIS Quarterly 2010 Best Paper Award, and the IEEE 2011 Research Achievement and Leadership Award in Intelligence and Security Informatics. He is author/editor of 20 books, 25 book chapters, 230 SCI journal articles, and 140 refereed conference articles covering Web computing, search engines, digital library, intelligence analysis, biomedical informatics, data/text/web mining, and knowledge management. His recent books include: Sports Data Mining (2010); Infectious Disease Informatics (2010); Terrorism Informatics (2008); Mapping Nanotechnology Knowledge and Innovation (2008), Digital Government (2007); Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security (2006); and Medical Informatics (2005), all published by Springer.

Dr. Chen’s publication productivity in Information Systems was ranked #1 in a bibliometric study for 2005-2009 of publications in top-tier IS journals (CAIS 2011), #9 in EJIS (2007), and #8 in a previous CAIS study (CAIS 2005). He was ranked #1 in Digital Library research in a study in IP&M (2005), #1 in JASIST publications for 1998-2007 in JASIST (2008), and #5 in h-index in IEEE Intelligent Systems publications for 1986-2010 in IEEE IS (2010). His overall h-index is 54, which is among the top three in the MIS.

He is the Editor in Chief (EIC) of the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS) and Springer Security Informatics (SI) Journal, and the Associate EIC of the IEEE Intelligent Systems. He serves on ten editorial boards including: ACM Transactions on Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Decision Support Systems, and International Journal on Digital Library.

He has been an advisor for major NSF, DOJ, NLM, DOD, DHS, and other international research programs in digital library, digital government, medical informatics, and national security research. Dr. Chen is founding director of Artificial Intelligence Lab and Hoffman E-Commerce Lab. The UA Artificial Intelligence Lab, which houses 20+ researchers, has received more than $30M in research funding from NSF, NIH, NLM, DOD, DOJ, CIA, DHS, and other agencies (90 grants, 40 from NSF). Dr. Chen has also produced 25 Ph.D. students who are placed in major academic institutions around the world. The Hoffman E-Commerce Lab, which has been funded mostly by major IT industry partners, features one of the most advanced e-commerce hardware and software environments in the College of Management.

Dr. Chen was conference co-chair of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) in 2004 and has also served as the conference/program co-chair for the past eight International Conferences of Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), the premiere digital library meeting in Asia that he helped develop. Dr. Chen served as the Program Chair for the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2009, held in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Chen is also the (founding) conference co-chair of the IEEE International Conferences on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) 2003-present. The ISI conference, which has been sponsored by NSF, CIA, DHS, and NIJ, has become the premiere meeting for international and homeland security IT research.

Dr. Chen’s COPLINK system, which has been quoted as a national model for public safety information sharing and analysis, has been adopted in more than 3500 law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The COPLINK research had been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and ABC News, among others. The COPLINK project was selected as a finalist by the prestigious International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)/Motorola 2003 Weaver Seavey Award for Quality in Law Enforcement in 2003. COPLINK research has recently been expanded to border protection (BorderSafe), disease and bioagent surveillance (BioPortal), and terrorism informatics research (Dark Web), funded by NSF, DOD, CIA, and DHS. In collaboration with selected international terrorism research centers and intelligence agencies, the Dark Web project has generated one of the largest databases in the world about extremist/terrorist-generated Internet contents (web sites, forums, blogs, and multimedia documents). Dark Web research supports link analysis, content analysis, web metrics analysis, multimedia analysis, sentiment analysis, and authorship analysis of international terrorism contents. The project has received significant international press coverage, including: Associated Press, USA Today, The Economist, NSF Press, Washington Post, Fox News, BBC, PBS, Business Week, Discover magazine, WIRED magazine, Government Computing Week, Second German TV (ZDF), Toronto Star, and Arizona Daily Star, among others.

Dr. Chen is also a successful entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Knowledge Computing Corporation (KCC), a university spin-off IT company and a market leader in law enforcement and intelligence information sharing and data mining. KCC was acquired by a major private equity firm for $40M in the summer of 2009 and merged with I2, the industry leader in crime analytics.

Dr. Chen has received numerous awards in information technology and knowledge management education and research including: AT&T Foundation Award, SAP Award, the Andersen Consulting Professor of the Year Award, the University of Arizona Technology Innovation Award, and the National Chiao-Tung University Distinguished Alumnus Award. He was named Distinguished Alumnus by SUNY Buffalo. Dr. Chen has served as a keynote or invited speaker for major international security informatics, medical informatics, information systems, knowledge management, and digital library conferences and major international government meetings (NATO, UN, EU, FBI, CIA, DOD, DHS). He is a Distinguished/Honorary Professor of several major universities in Taiwan and China (including Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and was named the Distinguished University Chair Professor of the National Taiwan University.

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Notable News

Productivity Rankings:
2011: Dr. Chen was ranked #1 in publication productivity in a Communications of the Association for Information Systems study (2011), an update to the previous 2005 study.
2010: Dr. Chen's Google Scholar h-index is 51, which is among the top 5 in MIS.
2008: Dr. Chen was ranked #1 in publication productivity in JASIST in a 2008 study published in the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
2007: Ranked #9 in IS research productivity in a study published in the European Journal of Information Systems in 2007 (Vol. 16, pgs. 36-53).
2005: Ranked #8 in publication productivity in MIS in a Communications of the Association for Information Systems study (2005), #1 in publication productivity in Digital Library in an Information Processing & Management Study (2005).

Dr. Chen and Dr. Henry Lee at ISI 2008 Dr. Chen was a keynote speaker at IEEE ISI 2008 and PAISI 2008 in Taiwan. Dr. Henry Lee, center, and Dr. Chen, left of center, at IEEE ISI 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan.

Dr. Chen See the Associated Press article on Dark Web.

Dr. Chen is the author of several new and forthcoming books about: Nanotechnology, Digital Government, National Security, Terrorism Informatics, and Intelligence and Security Informatics.

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