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CIS Friends and Former CIS Faculty

We gratefully acknowledge the valuable contributions of former CIS faculty, faculty who serve as outside members on dissertation committees, and friends of the CIS PhD Program.

CIS Friends

Denise E. Antolini

Associate Professor William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Paulo Maurin (member)

Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~antolini/

Kelly Aune

Associate Professor of Speech Department of Speech, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (member), JungHyun Nam (member), Matthew James Sharritt (member)

Frederick T. Bail

CIS Dissertation Committees: Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (member), Steve Takaki (member)

Kathleen Berg

Assoc Spec & Assoc Dir Curriculum Research & Development Group

CIS Dissertation Committees: Patricia Donohue (member)

Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/crdg/

Dharm Bhawuk

CIS Dissertation Committees: Gregory H Carlton (member), Soussan D Djamasbi (member), Claire Hitosugi (member), David Pai (member), Siong Meng Tay (member), Ravi K Vatrapu (member)

Kent W. Bridges

Associate Professor Botany Department, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Interests: Ethnobotany (especially in the Pacific and Southeast Asia regions), sustainability (particular of minimal-size ecosystems), long-term monitoring of rare/endangered species in remote areas, seagrass ecosystems, and computer tools to support visualization and research in his field

CIS Dissertation Committees: Patrick Gilbert (member)

Sven-Erik Bursell

Dir. Telehealth Research Institute John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Miwa Yamazaki (member)

Website: http://www.tri.jabsom.hawaii.edu/tri/

John Casken

CIS Dissertation Committees: Vichianin Yudthaphon (member)

Website: http://www.nursing.hawaii.edu/john-casken.html

Richard Chadwick

CIS Dissertation Committees: Randall Larsen (member)

Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/intlrel/

Toni Chalaire

Research Assistant Communication and Information Sciences Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: Former teaching assistant

Robert L. Cheng

CIS Dissertation Committees: Jeng-Chung Chen (member)

Laku Chidambaram

CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (chairperson), Hyosun Kwon (chairperson), Zhengfu Liu (member), John F. Morton (chairperson), Hsiao-Hui Wang (member)

James Corbett

CIS Dissertation Committees: Carleton Allen Moore (member), Danurahardjo Tjahjono (member)

Sharon P. Cox

CIS Dissertation Committees: John Lee Reardon (member)

Thomas Craven

Professor Department of Mathematics University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Louis Tomsic (member)

Website: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~tom/

James Dator

CIS Dissertation Committees: Mark Alan Hukill (member), Ryota Ono (member), Jenifer Sunrise Winter (member)

Website: http://www.futures.hawaii.edu

Dineh Davis

Interests: Currently studying non-user population and "perpetual novices" as well as the intersection of creativity and culture from a phenomenological perspective in Hawaii and global implications of the interaction of culture and creativity online

CIS Dissertation Committees: Hyosun Kwon (member), Miwa Yamazaki (chairperson)

Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~dineh/

John Engel

CIS Dissertation Committees: Michael Cress (member)

Robert G. Fichman

CIS Dissertation Committees: John Lee Reardon (member)

Stephen Freeland

Project Manager NASA Astrobiology Institute, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa

Interests: Evolutionary biology, Astrobiology, Interdisciplinary Science

Website: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/UHNAI/

Catherine Fulford

Professor and Chair Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: Instructional Design, Visual Design, Photography, Video

CIS Dissertation Committees: Sunyeen Pai (member)

Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~fulford/

Will Gersch

Professor (deceased) Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: David Stone (chairperson)

John M. Gersting

Professor (Retired) 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

Judith L. Gersting

Professor and Chair (retired) 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

Steve Goldberg

CIS Dissertation Committees: Dadong Wan (member)

Kenneth A. Griggs

CIS Dissertation Committees: Jingxiang He (chairperson), Beverly G. Hope (member)

L. S. Harms

CIS Dissertation Committees: David K. Lassner (member)

Kentaro Hayashi

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

John Head

CIS Dissertation Committees: Jerome B. Heath (member)

Timothy R. Hill

Professor of Management Information Systems

Interests: e-Learning/Technology-Supported Learning (Immersive Interactive Tutorial Environments) Collaborative Teaching and Learning Technologies Multimedia and Content-layered e-Documents Emerging Technology Applications/Methods: Mobile/Pen-based Computing, Web-Intelligence e-Learning/Blended Learning Methodologies e-Commerce/e-Learning Marketplace Issues

CIS Dissertation Committees: Leorey O. Marquez (member)

Ellen Hoffman

Associate Professor Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Kim Chi Diep (member), Patricia Donohue (member), Hanae K. Kramer (member), Tsui-Chuan Lin (member), Maureen A. MacLeod (member), Stephanie Rolfe (member), Dan Smith (member)

Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ehoffman/

William E. Howden

Professor University of California at San Diego

CIS Dissertation Committees: Danurahardjo Tjahjono (member)

Website: howden@cse.ucsd.edu

Ruth Huard

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

Marie K. Iding

Professor Department of Educational Psychology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Jennifer L Campbell-Meier (member), Sungwon Cho (member), Yun Du (member), Laurel King (member), Carleton Allen Moore (member), John F. Morton (member), Ravi K Vatrapu (member), Rita Michele Vick (member), Sonja Wiley-Patton (member), Miwa Yamazaki (member)

Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/coe/departments/edep/miding.shtml

Theodor Irmer

CIS Dissertation Committees: David K. Lassner (member)

Miles M. Jackson

CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Aoki (member), Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut (member), Mark Alan Hukill (member), Hyosun Kwon (member), David K. Lassner (member), Ya Liu (member), Diane M. Nahl (member), Ryota Ono (member), Hsiao-Hui Wang (member)

Leon Jakobovits

CIS Dissertation Committees: Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut (member), T. N. Kamala (member), Leorey O. Marquez (member)

Leon James

Professor Department of Psychology, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: John Locke (member)

Meheroo F. Jussawalla

Senior Fellow Emerita (deceased) East-West Center

Interests: Telecommunication economics

CIS Dissertation Committees: Mark Alan Hukill (member), David K. Lassner (member), John Locke (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

Beverly Keever

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

Anthony Kuh

Professor of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: machine learning (learning theory, kernel machines, reinforcement learning), adaptive signal processing, and sensor networks

Elisabeth N. Kunimoto

CIS Dissertation Committees: Soussan D Djamasbi (member), Kumiko Hachiya (member), Margaret Luo (member), Su-Chin Wu (member)

Sumner J. La Croix

Professor of Economics Department of Economics University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: economic history and development of the Asia-Pacific region; industrial organization; law and economics

CIS Dissertation Committees: Johannes Meier (member)

Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lacroix

Roberta Lamb

Assistant Professor (deceased) Department of Information Technology Management, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Sonja Wiley-Patton (member), Jenifer Sunrise Winter (member)

Jintae Lee

CIS Dissertation Committees: Danurahardjo Tjahjono (member)

PingSun Leung

Professor College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (chairperson), Laura Welsh (member)

Website: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/MBBE/faculty/leung.html

Art Y. Lew

Professor (deceased) Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: systems programming, systems analysis, software engineering, information and computer sciences

CIS Dissertation Committees: Richard Peyton Halverson (chairperson), Lai Kuen So (chairperson)

Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~artlew/

Robert Littman

CIS Dissertation Committees: Randall Larsen (member)

Gerald W. Lundeen

CIS Dissertation Committees: T. N. Kamala (member), Zhengfu Liu (member)

Colin G. R. Macdonald

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

Lorenz Magaard

Professor and Chairperson Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Paulo Maurin (member)

Website: http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/ICCS/MagaardICCS.htm

Eric L. Mais

Associate Professor of Finance Department of Financial Economics and Institutions, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

James B. Marsh

CIS Dissertation Committees: Shakti S. Rana (member)

Isao Miyamoto

(former graduate faculty) Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: software engineering

CIS Dissertation Committees: Hai Huang (chairperson), Ya Liu (member), Koji Takeda (chairperson), Xiaobo Wang (chairperson)

Kevin Montgomery

Director National Biocomputation Center, Stanford University

CIS Dissertation Committees: Marc Le Pape (member)

Website: http://biocomp.stanford.edu/people/kevin/

Dale Myers

Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: biking, hiking, hang gliding

CIS Dissertation Committees: Zhi Cheng Li (member)

Website: http://www/~dale/hiking/hiking_trails.html

Deane Neubauer

Department of Political Science, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: public policy, political economy

Website: http://www.politicalscience.hawaii.edu/Faculty/neubauer/neubauer.htm

Walter Nunokawa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Diane M. Nahl (member)

Janet Onopa

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

Marvin E. Ortel

CIS Dissertation Committees: LeAnn Garrett (member), David Stone (member)

Website: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~marvin/

Joseph N. Pelton

CIS Dissertation Committees: Ryota Ono (member)

Michael Peters

CIS Dissertation Committees: Justin M. W. Goo (member)

Wesley W. Peterson

Professor (deceased) Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: Theoretical Computer Science, Cryptography

CIS Dissertation Committees: LeAnn Garrett (member), Richard Peyton Halverson (member), T. N. Kamala (member), Zhi Cheng Li (member), Lai Kuen So (member), David Stone (member)

Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~wes/

Alex Quilici

CIS Dissertation Committees: Hai Huang (member), Asanga Porage (member), Lai Kuen So (member), Danurahardjo Tjahjono (member)

Syed A. Rahim

CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Aoki (member), Shakti S. Rana (member)

Neil Ramiller

Professor

CIS Dissertation Committees: Maureen A. MacLeod (member)

Robert Randall

CIS Dissertation Committees: Mauricio Sanchez Featherman (member)

Gay Reed

William E. Remus

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)

Website: http://itm.shidler.hawaii.edu/ITMRemus.html

Everett M. Rogers

CIS Dissertation Committees: John Locke (member)

Mark Rosenbaum

CIS Dissertation Committees: Anthony Wong (member)

Pauline J. Sheldon

CIS Dissertation Committees: Sophea Chea (member), Beverly G. Hope (member), Margaret Luo (member)

Helen B. Slaughter

CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Hachiya (member), Joyce Yukawa (member)

Hisami K. Springer

CIS Dissertation Committees: LeAnn Garrett (member)

David Lynn Stampe

CIS Dissertation Committees: Dara Lee Howard (member), Zhengfu Liu (member), Koji Takeda (member)

Patricia Steinhoff

Department of Sociology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

CIS Dissertation Committees: Anthony Wong (member)

Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~steinhof/

Clyde S. Tamaru

CIS Dissertation Committees: Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (member)

Majid Tehranian

CIS Dissertation Committees: Randall Larsen (chairperson)

Carol Tenopir

CIS Dissertation Committees: Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut (chairperson), Dara Lee Howard (chairperson), T. N. Kamala (chairperson), Diane M. Nahl (chairperson)

James Tiles

Professor Department of Philosophy, University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Interests: Ethics, Epistemology, currently returned to research on Greek, Roman, and medieval European philosophy.

CIS Dissertation Committees: Donna Bair-Mundy (member)

Website: http://hawaii.edu/phil/index.php?view=category&id=128%3Ajames-tiles&option=com_content&Itemid=54

Jaw-Kai Wang

Emeritus Professor Dept. of Molecular Biosciences & Bioengineering

Interests: Jaw-Kai Wang, founder and past president of the Aquaculture Engineering Society, was a consultant to the U.S. Department of State, Rockefeller Foundation and World Bank.

CIS Dissertation Committees: Xiaobo Wang (member)