Affiliated Faculty

Ph.D., Information Transfer, Syracuse University, August 1985
M.Sc. (Hons.), Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, (Pilani, India), 1978

• PhD in Management Sciences, Purdue University, 1970
• MS in Mathematics, Iowa State University, 1964
• BA in Mathematics, Luther College, 1960

Interests:

• Database Management Systems
• Design of computer networks
• E-Commerce Management
• Management of information systems
• Distributed database design

PhD, University of Minnesota, 1994
Research Interests: Bayesian Statistics, Computational Statistics, Biomedical and Environmental Applications

Research interests: computer graphics, virtual environments, simulation, integration of numeric and symbolic computing, geometric modeling, problem solving environments.

Academic History

• PhD in Management information systems, University of Arizona, 2004
• MBA in Information Systems and Finance, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India, 1997
• BComm in Commerce, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India, 1995

Expertise

• Databases and data management. Conceptual data modeling, database constraints, spatial and temporal data, XML Schema, and RFID data management. Applications in the areas of data provenance, health informatics and supply chain management.

David Eichmann is Associate Director for Biomedical Informatics in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science. He is also an Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Science, with a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He is a member of the Health Informatics Steering Committee and a member of the Executive Council for the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

• Ph.D., Computer Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. (2001)
• M.S., Computer Science, Georgia Tech., Atlanta, GA, USA. (1995)
• B.S., Nuclear (major) and Electrical Engineering, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-chu, Taiwan (world map)

Haowei Hsieh's research interests are in the areas of human-centered computing, including human-information interaction, hypertext, digital libraries, and computer-supported cooperative work. His prior work focused on building visual information systems to help users organize information and build knowledge representations. His research studies how people work with information, investigates how information tools affect people's work practices and collaboration, and explores ways to improve interactions among users, information, and tools.

Patricia Katopol's research interests are in the areas of knowledge management, organizational culture and information exchange, and information policy. She is particularly interested in helping small businesses and nonprofit organizations develop low cost knowledge management processes. She examines human information behavior in organizations from a holistic perspective using the Cognitive Work Analysis framework. Her research using this framework has included a study of the information gathering behavior of black graduate students in majority institutions and the relationship of support staff information culture to managerial decision-making.

Ph.D., Minnesota, 1983
Interests

• Simulation
• Virtual Environments
• Animation
• Human Computer Interaction

B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1980 Computer Engineering (Honors)

A.B. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1980 Music Theory (Distinction)

M.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1983 Electrical Engineering

Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1987 Electrical Engineering

PhD in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
MS in Computer Science, DePaul University, 1990
BA in Mathematics and Computer Science, Drake University, 1985

PhD, Cornell University, 1980
Fellow, American Statistical Association

Research Interests: Bayesian Statistics, Approximate Bayesian Methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Statistical Computing, Computing Environments for Statistics, Dynamic Graphics