CIS Friends and Former CIS Faculty
We would like to 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

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/

Associate Professor of Speech Department of Speech, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (member), JungHyun Nam (member), Matthew Sharritt (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Candace Chien-Tzu Chou (member), Steve Takaki (member)

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)

Associate Professor Botany Department, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
Interests: computer cartography; analysis of seagrass ecosystems, including factors controlling distribution patterns; scientific visualization studies as an adjunct to data analysis and statistics; development of Web-based tools for a range of scientific and instructional applications
CIS Dissertation Committees: Vichianin Yudthaphon (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Randall Larsen (member)
Website: http://www.hawaii.edu/intlrel/
Research Assistant Communication and Information Sciences Program, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: Former teaching assistant
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jeng-Chung Chen (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kelly Burke (chairperson), Hyosun Kwon (chairperson), Zhengfu Liu (member), John F. Morton (chairperson), Hsiao-Hui Wang (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Carleton Allen Moore (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: John Lee Reardon (member)

CIS Dissertation Committees: Mark Alan Hukill (member), Ryota Ono (member), Jenifer Sunrise Winter (member)
Website: http://www.futures.hawaii.edu
CIS Dissertation Committees: John Lee Reardon (member)

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/

Professor (deceased) Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: David Stone (chairperson)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Dadong Wan (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jingxiang He (chairperson), Beverly G. Hope (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: David K. Lassner (member)
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)

Associate Professor Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Patricia Donohue (member), Tsui-Chuan Lin (member), Stephanie Rolfe (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~ehoffman/
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), 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
CIS Dissertation Committees: David K. Lassner (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut (member), T. N. Kamala (member), Leorey O. Marquez (member)

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

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

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)

Professor College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (chairperson)
Website: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/MBBE/faculty/leung.html

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/
CIS Dissertation Committees: Randall Larsen (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: T. N. Kamala (member), Zhengfu Liu (member)
Professor and Chairperson Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Paulo Maurin (member)
Associate Professor of Finance Department of Financial Economics and Institutions, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Shakti S. Rana (member)
(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)
Director National Biocomputation Center, Stanford University
CIS Dissertation Committees: Marc Le Pape (member)

Associate Professor Department of Mathematics University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: biking, hiking, hang gliding
CIS Dissertation Committees: Zhi Cheng Li (member)

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
CIS Dissertation Committees: Diane M. Nahl (member)

CIS Dissertation Committees: LeAnn Garrett (member), David Stone (member)
Website: http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~marvin/
CIS Dissertation Committees: Ryota Ono (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Justin M. W. Goo (member)

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/
CIS Dissertation Committees: Hai Huang (member), Asanga Porage (member), Lai Kuen So (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Kumiko Aoki (member), Shakti S. Rana (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Mauricio Sanchez Featherman (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Anthony Wong (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Sophea Chea (member), Beverly G. Hope (member), Margaret Luo (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Joyce Yukawa (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: LeAnn Garrett (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Dara Lee Howard (member), Zhengfu Liu (member), Koji Takeda (member)
Department of Sociology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Anthony Wong (member)
Website: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~steinhof/
CIS Dissertation Committees: Lotus Elizabeth Y. W Kam (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Randall Larsen (chairperson)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Karen Rebecca Clark-Kraut (chairperson), Dara Lee Howard (chairperson), T. N. Kamala (chairperson), Diane M. Nahl (chairperson)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Dadong Wan (member)
professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Richard Peyton Halverson (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Jingxiang He (member), Beverly G. Hope (chairperson)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Su-Chin Wu (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Asanga Porage (member)

Specialist Department of Educational Technology, University of Hawai`i at Manoa
CIS Dissertation Committees: Peter Leong (member)

CIS Dissertation Committees: Jingxiang He (member), Leorey O. Marquez (member), Hsiao-Hui Wang (member)
CIS Dissertation Committees: Xiangdong Ke (member)
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Mechanical Engineering University of Hawai`i at Manoa
Interests: control, robotics, design
CIS Dissertation Committees: Ya Liu (member)

