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Research

Research Interests

·         Business Intelligence

·         Data Mining

·         Social Network Analysis

·         Knowledge Management

·         Information Visualization

·         Human-Computer Interaction

·         Electronic Commerce

 

Research Overview

     My research focus is on network analysis for knowledge management and business intelligence. By mining structural and dynamical patterns in social networks, company alliances, the Internet, World-Wide Web, collaboration networks, and many other networks my research is aimed to help decision makers

·         locate critical resources in a network

·         identify community structure in a network

·         extract the "big picture" out of a complex network

·         discover design principles of a network

·         capture and predict the dynamics of a network

     My research on network data mining has resulted in several publications in leading IS journals including ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Journal of Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Decision Support systems (DSS), Communications of the ACM (CACM), and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST). My current research focuses on the development of fast clustering algorithms to extract community structures and dynamical properties in collaboration networks and IT company alliance networks.

     My research interests also include Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I have been working as a Co-PI on an NSF-funded project on ERP usability (NSF-SRS: "Design and Evaluation Methodologies for Enhancing ERP System Usability,” $400,000, Bentley College, 2008-2012).

 

 

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