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 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), Marc Le Pape (chairperson), Paulo Maurin (chairperson), Matthew Sharritt (chairperson), Ravi K Vatrapu (chairperson), Anthony Wong (member), Joyce Yukawa (member)
Website: http://lilt.ics.hawaii.edu/~suthers/
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
Assistant Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Japenese/ Japanese American Print Cultures, Asian Librarianship, Censorship
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, neural computation, machine learning
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kyungim/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: networking, systems, languages, wireless networking, wireless sensor networks, security
Website: http://www2.ics.hawaii.edu/~esb/
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: artificial intelligence, software design for mobile devices, human-computer interaction
CIS Dissertation Committees: Sophea Chea (member), David Pai (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~binsted/
Professor and Graduate Chair Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: electronic commerce, information policy, economics of IT, group decision and negotiation
CIS Dissertation Committees: JungHyun Nam (chairperson), Sunyeen Pai (member), Siong Meng Tay (member), Miwa Yamazaki (member), Vichianin Yudthaphon (member)
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: high performance computing, distributed systems
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: information technology architecture and system integration, global information system development.
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (member), Lai Kuen So (member)
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: artificial intelligence, natural language processing, user modeling, intelligent agents, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent software maintenance, empirical evaluation, 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)
Website: http://www2.ics.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 and Chair 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: Sungwon Cho (chairperson), Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (chairperson), Patricia Donohue (chairperson), Yun Du (chairperson), LeAnn Garrett (member), T. N. Kamala (member), Xiangdong Ke (member), Asanga Porage (member), Ravi K Vatrapu (member), Rita Michele Vick (chairperson), Dadong Wan (member)
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
CIS Dissertation Committees: Gregory H Carlton (member), Sophea Chea (member), Soussan D Djamasbi (member), Tsui-Chuan Lin (chairperson), Margaret Luo (member), Paulo Maurin (member), Carleton Allen Moore (member), John Lee Reardon (chairperson), Siong Meng Tay (chairperson), Rita Michele Vick (member), Vichianin Yudthaphon (chairperson)
Associate Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Social impact of communication technologies and computer-based services, creativity as the essence of research and innovation
CIS Dissertation Committees: Hyosun Kwon (member), Miwa Yamazaki (chairperson)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dineh/
Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: experiences and skills needed for dealing with international assignments and cultural diversity in the context of international business, diplomacy, education, technology transfer, immigration, criminal justice, intercultural marriage, tourism, and the delivery of service
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Aoki (member)
Assistant Professor Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: how people integrate diverse types of knowledge, from collections of diverse documents to the work of people with different kinds of expertise.
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~gazan/
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: Peter Leong (member), Matthew Sharritt (member), Joyce Yukawa (chairperson)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~vharada/
Assistant Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: human-computer interaction, user research, emerging communication technologies
CIS Dissertation Committees: David Pai (member), Stephanie Rolfe (member)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=huard@hawaii.edu
Assistant Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: human-computer interaction, human-robotic interaction, robotics
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~cikehara/
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: database systems, expert systems, logic programming, information and computer sciences
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 libraries, bibliometrics/scientometrics, Database content and software evaluation, advanced information retrieval issues (citation-based searching, similarity searching, ranking results by relevance/pertinence and the direct and indirect performance indicators of authors, institution and publication sources
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, high-tech entrepreneurship
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (member), Carleton Allen Moore (chairperson), Dadong Wan (chairperson)
Website: http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/~johnson/
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: software engineering, human-computer interaction
Associate Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: public relations, online media, teaching and learning with new media, mass/mediated communication theory, communication campaigns
CIS Dissertation Committees: Miwa Yamazaki (member)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=tkell@hawaii.edu
Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: communication research methods, communication theories, development communication, health communication, international communication, network analysis, diffusion of innovations, communication campaigns, organizational communication
CIS Dissertation Committees: Michael Cress (member), Tsui-Chuan Lin (member), Matthew 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: information policy, children's materials, international librarianship, history of the book and libraries
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jennifer L Campbell-Meier (chairperson), Jeng-Chung Chen (chairperson), Sungwon Cho (member), Justin M. W. Goo (member), JungHyun Nam (member), Sunyeen Pai (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~knuth/
Assistant Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: new communication technologies, multimedia, telecommunication
CIS Dissertation Committees: Marc Le Pape (member), Jenifer Sunrise Winter (member), Anthony Wong (chairperson)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=colin@hawaii.edu
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), Patricia Donohue (member), Tsui-Chuan Lin (member), Paulo Maurin (member), Steve Takaki (member), Siong Meng Tay (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
CIS Dissertation Committees: Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (member)
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: risks in information systems, organizational communication and technology
CIS Dissertation Committees: Gregory H Carlton (chairperson), Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut (member), Michael Cress (chairperson), Mauricio Sanchez Featherman (chairperson), Justin M. W. Goo (chairperson), John F. Morton (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/
Assistant 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 information systems, software engineering
Assistant 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/
Emeritus Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: information technology management, human judgment and forecasting, artificial intelligence and neural networks
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (member), Sophea Chea (chairperson), Soussan D Djamasbi (chairperson), Mauricio Sanchez Featherman (member), Richard Peyton Halverson (member), Jingxiang He (member), Claire Hitosugi (chairperson), Beverly G. Hope (member), Hai Huang (member), Zhi Cheng Li (member), Margaret Luo (chairperson), Leorey O. Marquez (chairperson), David Pai (chairperson), Asanga Porage (member), Shakti S. Rana (member), Lai Kuen So (member), David Stone (member), Dadong Wan (member), Sonja Wiley-Patton (member)
Assistant Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, Digital Democracy
CIS Dissertation Committees: Marc Le Pape (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~scottpr/
Professor Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: information sciences, decision support systems, electronic document management, management of information systems
CIS Dissertation Committees: Johannes Meier (member), David Pai (member)
Associate Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Computer hypermedia, human-computer interaction, cognitive science
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~janst/
Assistant 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)
Professor 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), Mauricio Sanchez Featherman (member), Richard Peyton Halverson (member), Jerome B. Heath (member), Claire Hitosugi (member), Mark Alan Hukill (chairperson), Xiangdong Ke (member), Hyosun Kwon (member), David K. Lassner (chairperson), Tsui-Chuan Lin (member), Ryota Ono (chairperson), Sunyeen Pai (member), Shakti S. Rana (member), John Lee Reardon (member), Stephanie Rolfe (chairperson), Matthew Sharritt (member), Hsiao-Hui Wang (member), Jenifer Sunrise Winter (chairperson), Su-Chin Wu (chairperson)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=danw@hawaii.edu
Assistant 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/
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
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: Justin M. W. Goo (member), Dara Lee Howard (member), Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (member), John Lee Reardon (member)
CIS Cooperating Graduate Faculty
Associate Professor Public Administration Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Organizational communication, leadership, and intercultural issues in public administration
CIS Dissertation Committees: Soussan D Djamasbi (member), Jerome B. Heath (member), John F. Morton (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, global branding
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: ethnography of communication, communication and law, social theory, news media
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jerome B. Heath (chairperson), Randall Larsen (member), Diane M. Nahl (member), JungHyun Nam (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: learning technology; Japanese language and translation pedagogy, Japanese telecommunications, distance learning.
CIS Dissertation Committees: Yun Du (member), Claire Hitosugi (member), Rita Michele Vick (member)
Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/eall/ppl/jpn/AshworthDavid.html
Assoc Spec & Assoc Dir Curriculum Research & Development Group
CIS Dissertation Committees: Patricia Donohue (member)
Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/crdg/
Professor Department of Management and Industrial Relations, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: cross-cultural communication
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: mass communications, ethics, cross-cultural communication
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=tbrislin@hawaii.edu
Dir. Telehealth Research Institute John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Professor Department of Management and Industrial Relations, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: international business, organizational behavior, strategy
Website: http://mir.shidler.hawaii.edu/faculty/robert_doktor.htm
Professor Computer Science Department, University of Hawai`i at Hilo
Interests: database design, client/server systems, user-interface design
Website: http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/cs/people/staff/index.html#john
Professor and Chair Computer Science Department, University of Hawai`i at Hilo
Interests: theoretical computer science, fault tolerant computing, computer science education
Website: http://cs.uhh.hawaii.edu/cs/people/staff/index.html#judy
Assoc Prof Department of Psychology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Claire Hitosugi (member)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=psy&faculty=hayashik@hawaii.edu
Professor Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: instructional technology
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Aoki (member), Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (member), Hyosun Kwon (member), Peter Leong (chairperson), 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: computer cartography, geographical information systems
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~matt/
Asst Prof John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Marc Le Pape (member)
Website: http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/faculty/bio.php?facultyid=195
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-Chung Chen (member), Michael Cress (member), Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (member), Peter Leong (member), Margaret Luo (member), Steve Takaki (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: electrical engineering
CIS Dissertation Committees: Dara Lee Howard (member)
Senior Fellow Emerita
Interests: telecommunication economics
CIS Dissertation Committees: Mark Alan Hukill (member), David K. Lassner (member), Ryota Ono (member), Shakti S. Rana (chairperson), Stephanie Rolfe (member), Hsiao-Hui Wang (chairperson)
Website: http://www.eastwestcenter.org/about-ewc/directory/?class_call=view&staff_ID=60&mode=view
Emeritus Professor School of Communications, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: public affairs reporting, evaluating race and ethnicity in the news, media history
CIS Dissertation Committees: Randall Larsen (member)
Website: http://socialsciences.people.hawaii.edu/faculty/?dept=com,jour&faculty=bkeever@hawaii.edu
Adjunct Faculty Library and Information Science Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: information systems, library automation
CIS Dissertation Committees: 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)
Professor Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: medical informatics, international public health, issues in the electronic medical record and in telemedicine, computer science as an enabler for change in professional industries, translational science
CIS Dissertation Committees: JungHyun Nam (member), Stephanie Rolfe (member), Miwa Yamazaki (member), Vichianin Yudthaphon (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~strev/