Author: Keng Leng Siau

Keng Siau is the E. J. Faulkner Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln (UNL). He is the Director of the UNL-IBM Global Innovation Hub, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Database Management, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Advances in Database Research series. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC), where he majored in Management Information Systems and minored in Cognitive Psychology. His master and bachelor degrees are in Computer and Information Sciences from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Siau has over 200 academic publications. He has published more than 100 refereed journal articles, and these articles have appeared (or are forthcoming) in journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems, ACM SIGMIS's Data Base, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Journal of Information Technology, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Behaviour and Information Technology, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, and others. In addition, he has published more than 100 refereed conference papers (including 10+ ICIS papers), edited/co-edited more than 15 scholarly and research-oriented books, edited/co-edited 9 proceedings, and has written more than 15 scholarly book chapters. Professor Siau has received numerous research, teaching and service awards. He was ranked as one of the top ten e-commerce researchers in the world (Arithmetic Rank of 7, Geometric Rank of 3) in the study by Kim, S., Aiken, M., and Vanjani, M. “Profiles in Electronic Commerce,” Business Research Yearbook, Adams, M. and Alkhafaji, A. eds. (2006). Vol. 13, 464-469. He served as the Organizing and Program Chairs of the International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD) (1996 - 2005). He also served on the organizing committees of AMCIS 2005, ER 2006, AMCIS 2007, EuroSIGSAND 2007, and ICMB 2009. He received the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award in 2006.