September 2008 Archives
Dr. Chu's research includes information and cyber security
(especially in wireless security, intrusion detection, security and risk
management, and cyber forensics), intelligent technologies (expert systems,
fuzzy modeling, neural networks, and genetic algorithms) and their applications
in communication network design, data mining (e.g., bioinformatics and privacy
preserving processing) and manufacturing systems design, supply chain
management and integration, and information technology for
manufacturing/operations management.
Dr. Chu has published more than 100 refereed articles in
top-ranking journals and in proceedings such as IEEE Transactions on
Evolutionary Computation, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems,
Electronic Commerce Research, Journal of Operations Management, IIE
Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, European Journal of
Operational Research, International Industrial Engineering Conference, IEEE
International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and many other high-quality of
outlets. Besides, he is coauthor of the book PROSIM (http://net1.ist.psu.edu/chu/prosim.htm):
A Production Management Simulation by Harper Collins (second edition) and
Irwin/McGraw-Hill (third edition).
Chu has taught a large variety of courses across business and
information technology fields such as networking and telecommunications,
computer and cyber forensics, wireless security, IT and systems integration,
intelligent information processing; decision support systems (DSS);
object-oriented systems analysis and design; enterprise resources planning
(ERP); process reengineering; competitive manufacturing management, strategic
quality management, and many others. All the course materials can be found
through this link: http://net1.ist.psu.edu/chu/course.htm.
My adviser is Dr. Chao-Hsien Chu,
Professor of Information Science and Technology and Affiliate Professor of
Management Science and Information Systems in the Penn State University. He was born and raised in Taiwan
and earned his MBA degree from Tatung University and B.E. in Industrial
Engineering from Chung Yuan University in Taiwan. After that, he came to the
United States to pursue his Ph.D. study in 1980 majoring in Operations
Management and Management Information System at Penn State. After graduation,
Dr. Chu had been working in industry in New York and as a faculty in Iowa State
University. However, he was tired of busy life in big cities and the tornados
in Iowa were bothering. Finally, he came back to State College that he always
looked forward to live for his life. Dr. Chu has a happy family also
living in State College. His wife is a nice woman teaching music and prepares
lunch for Dr. Chu every day. He has two daughters in colleges, one is studying
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the other is studying
piano at John Hopkins. They occasionally come back to State College and
sometimes Dr. Chu drives to their college to see them. Dr. Chu does not have special
hobbies but he enjoys walking a lot. He is very hard working, always staying in
his office from 9am to 6pm and sometimes at weekends. Otherwise, he is probably
in our lab. I had a lot of email
correspondences with Dr. Chu when I was in China applying for Penn State. He
not only provided me with his research interests and papers but also offered
much help for my application. After Zang and I came here, he taught us where to
eat, how to live and what to do. For me, he is not only an advisor in my
research but also a great advisor in life!
Opened in 1999 as one of the pioneers of the I-School community,
the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is Penn State's
visionary response to the rapidly growing need in almost every field for
leadership in information sciences and related technologies. The
foundation of IST is the ITP (Information Technology People) triangle which
specifies the interaction and the synergy between the three components -
Information, technology and people. The governing idea is that these three
components constantly impacts and influences each other during their
interaction. IST favors interdisciplinary study and research that integrates
traditional disciplines such as computer science, business, psychology and
sociology to solve the new emerging problems with the proliferation of the
Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) today. With a new comprehensive lens, IST
fulfills pragmatic requirements to address and resolve issues that need
different skills and methodologies to be underpinned. So the strength of IST is
in collaboration and openness to leverage from the synergistic approach of
diverse perspectives. With no separating departments, IST
is vaguely structured into several research groups such as Human Computer
Interaction, Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Geographic Information
Systems, Cyber Security and Privacy and etc. Faculty with diverse background
contributes to one or more research areas and works with other faculty members
collaboratively (see table 1). According to the Social Network Analysis project
conducted last fall in my IST511 class, IST faculty members work closely with
each other in small research groups on interdisciplinary topics and have
connection with others in different research groups occasionally on special
topics. They solve pragmatic problems effectively. Although different from
other colleges with diverse departments specifying branch studies, IST performs
very well in this information age without clear structure. With my background in Software
Engineering, I am familiar with technology
and deal with information but I have
little touch on the people side. IST
provides me an excellent environment to do interdisciplinary research. For the technology side, we have a lot of RFID
devices such as tags, readers and some middleware in our RFID lab. We also
develop some applications to show the RFID technology. For the information side, RFID technology will
generate a huge amount of data most of which are meaningless. Thus, extracting
meaningful information at the application level for business management is
critical in RFID adoption. For the people
side, implementation of RFID technology will lead to privacy issues that are
uppermost important to customers in supermarkets and patients in hospitals. If
these issues are not taken care of, the technology will never come into real
life successfully.
I-Schools are interested in the relationship between information, technology and people (ITP),
characterized by a commitment to learning and understanding the role of
information in human endeavors. By bringing together faculty from a range of
more traditional disciplines (e.g. computer science, library science,
sociology, psychology, business, etc.) to conduct multidisciplinary research,
I-Schools aim to provide efficient solutions to problems that require skills of
various disciplines. Thus, they help improve understanding of the users and
users of information, as well as information technologies and their
applications, so as to maximize the utility of information technology to
benefit people and the society. For example, the mission of the School of Information in
UC Berkley is to "explore and develop solutions and shape policies that
influence how people seek, use and share information to create knowledge"
(http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu). IST in Penn State is also a
leading information school whose foundation is "in research and education
that revolves around the creation, implementation, and impact of information
technology by drawing from multiple theories, methods, disciplines, and
perspectives" (http://www.ist.psu.edu). The fundamental assumption of information
schools is with the proliferation of internet and new technology, the new
merging problems become more complex and difficult to solve with knowledge only
from one discipline. The perspective of one discipline is always limited
because the traditional discipline is not willing to find intersection with
others. Computer science only cares about technology and sociology only
concerns people and society. Thus, for new the merging complicated problems, a
new lens integrating skills and knowledge from multiple disciplines is needed
to address them. The most remarkable thing about the I-Schools
is the variety of their origins and the broad embrace of their intellectual
interests. The rising of I-Schools in the following three principle ways bring
different challenges to the establishment of I-School identity (King, j. L.,
2006): from the repurposing of pre-existing schools; from the merging of
pre-existing but disparate academic programs; and from the creation of
altogether new programs by hiring faculty primarily from outside the
institution. The most prominent is the balancing of endowment identity
inherited from the founding population of the school against emergent identity
embracing competing visions of the future (King, j. L., 2006). Understand the identity of I-Schools and their
developing trend in future takes me the way here, College of Information Science
and Technology at Penn State. ·
John Leslie King.
Identity in the I-School Movement. April/May 2006.
http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-06/king.html.
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