Until I am told I passed the candidacy exam, I am not a Ph.D. candidate yet. Technically, I am currently a second-year graduate student in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at the Pennsylvania State University. My research areas span a variety of areas, including IT investment, IT standard and standardization and IT adoption and diffusion. Generally, they are all about social or organizational aspects of information technology. I integrate theories across multiple disciplines including Economics, Information Sciences, Management and social psychology. I use multiple methods (e.g., survival analysis, qualitative data coding, panel data models, social network analysis and computational modeling) to test new theories.
My advisor is Dr. AngsanaTechatassanasoontorn. I have been collaborating with her in several research projects. One project that is about to pull
off soon is developing new theories and empirically testing factors that drive the diffusion of municipal broadband wireless network. Through a longitudinal study on the diffusion of municipal wireless networks among cities in the United States, we attempt to explain how interested actors shape the structure and culture of communities in order to facilitate the adoption and use of community technologies.
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