Daning Hu, Ph. D.

 

448 Torito Lane

Diamond Bar CA 91765

Email: hdaning@gmail.com

Website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~hud

Phone: (520)-4017029 (US), (852)-97965070 (Hong Kong)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Business Intelligence
2. Social Network Analysis
3. Knowledge Management
4. Online Community and Web 2.0

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (minor in Finance), 2004-2009

Eller College of Management, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Dissertation Title: "Analysis and Application of Social Network Formation: The Case of Open Source Developer Networks"

Advisor: Dr. J. Leon Zhao (Chair), Dr. Jay F. Nunamaker, Dr. Zhu Zhang

 

B.Sc in Computer Science and Engineering (minor in English), 2000-2004

College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R.China

 

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1.      Daning Hu, Xinlei Zhao, and J. Leon Zhao "Strategic Choices of Inter-organizational Information Systems:A Network Perspective", Accepted by Information Systems Frontier (ISF)..

2.      Daning Hu, Siddharth Kaza, and Hsingchun Chen. "Identifying Significant Facilitators of Dark Network Evolution," Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) (60:4), March 2009, pp 655-665.

3.      Jie Xu, Daning Hu, and Hsingchun Chen. " Dynamics of Terrorist Networks," Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (6:1), Jan 2009.

4.      Xin Li, Daning Hu, Yan Dang, Hsinchun Chen, Mihail C. Roco, Cathy Larson and Joyce Chan. "Nano Mapper: A Knowledge Mapping System for Nanotechnology Developments," Journal of Nanoparticle Research (11:3), 2009, pp 529-552.

5.      Daning Hu, Hsingchun Chen, Zang Huang and Mihail Roco. "Longitudinal Study on Patent Citations to Academic Research Articles in Nanotechnology (1976-2004)," Journal of Nanoparticle Research (9:4), Aug 2007, pp 529-542.

 

 JOURNAL PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

6.      Daning Hu and J. Leon Zhao "Cultivating Trust for Open Source Success: An Empirical Study on Determinants of Positive Evaluation", under reivew at Journal of Association for Information Systems (JAIS).

 

 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

7.      Daning Hu, and J. Leon Zhao "Discovering Determinants of Project Participation in an Open Source Social Network," Full Research Paper accepted by International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS ‘09), Phoenix, Arizona, December 15-18, 2009 

8.     Daning Hu, Xinlei Zhao, and J. Leon Zhao “Strategic Choices of Inter-organizational Information Systems: A Customer-Supplier Network Perspective,” accepted by Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS ‘ 10 ), Hawaii, Jan 5-8 th, 2010

9.      Daning Hu, and J. Leon Zhao "Expert Recommendation via Semantic Social Networks," Full Research Paper in the Proceedings of International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS ‘08), Paris, France, December 14-17, 2008.

10.     Daning Hu, Surendra Sarnikar, and J. Leon Zhao "Towards a Process-Driven Intelligent Forum System (PIFS) for Efficient Organizational Knowledge Transfer," RIP in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS ‘07), Montréal, Québec, Canada, December 9-12, 2007.

11.     Daning Hu, and J. Leon Zhao "A Comparison of Evaluation Networks and Collaboration Networks in Open Source Software Communities," in the Proceedings of 14^th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS ‘08), Toronto, ON, Canada, August 14-17, 2008.

12.     Daning Hu, Zhu Zhang, and J. Leon Zhao. "Expert Recommendation in Social Networks: Development and Comparison of Three Approaches," in the Proceedings of the 18^thWorkshop on Information Technologies & Systems (WITS ‘08), Paris, France, December 14, 2008.

13.    J. Leon Zhao, Daning Hu, and Shaokun Fan. "SOFTFLOW: A Prototype System for Software Change Workflow," in the Proceedings of the 17^thWorkshop on Information Technologies & Systems (WITS ‘07), Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2007.

14.   Shaokun Fan, Daning Hu, and J. Leon Zhao "Integrating Workflow and Forum via Event Management," in the IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises (AMIGE’08), Tianjin, China, September 28-29, 2008.

15.    Siddharth Kaza, Daning Hu, Homa Atabakhsh, and Hsinchun Chen. "Predicting Criminal Relationships Using Multivariate Survival Analysis," in the Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Government Research (DGO ‘07), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2007.

16.    Siddharth Kaza, Daning Hu, and Hsinchun Chen. "Dynamic Social Network Analysis of a Dark Network: Identifying Significant Facilitators," in the Proceedings of 5^th IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI ‘07), New Brunswick, New Jersey, May 23-24, 2007.

17.   Jialun Qin, Jie Xu, Daning Hu, Mark Sageman, and Hsinchun Chen. "Analyzing Terrorist Networks: A Case Study of the Global Salafi Jihad Network," in the Proceedings of 3^rd IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI ‘05), Atlanta, Georgia, May 18-19, 2005.

 

WORKING PAPERS

18.     "Discovering Determinants of Open Source Project Participation," with J. Leon Zhao, to be submitted to with the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS)

19.     "A Framework of Semantic Analysis of Social Newtorks for Organizational Applications," with J. Leon Zhao, to be submitted to Communications of the ACM (CACM).

20.     "A Process-Driven Intelligent Forum System (PIFS) for Efficient Knowledge Transfer in Enterprise Software Development," with Shaokun Fan, and J. Leon Zhao, in preparation for submission to Decision Support Systems (DSS).

21.     "Evaluating Social Network Based Expert Recommendation Systems" with Zhu Zhang, and J. Leon Zhao in preparation for submission to IEEE Intelligent Systems .

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor:

Summer 2007, University of Arizona (* Received 2008 Eller College Dean's Teaching Award )

            MIS 304 Using Management Information Systems (MIS Professional Core Course)

            Overall rating: 4.6/5.0, Class size: 24

           

Teaching ratings relative to historical course mean:

·        Teaching effectiveness: 4.6/5.0; Course mean: 4.2/5.0

·        Value of time spent on course 4.5/5.0; Course mean: 4.0/5.0

·        Student treatment: 4.9/5.0; Course mean: 4.7/5.0

 

Teaching Assistant and Lab Lecturer:

Fall 2007, 2008, and 2009 University of Arizona

MIS 528: Business Process Management Systems (Graduate Course)

MIS 304: Database Management

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Research Fellow:

2009-Present, Department of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

 

Research Associate:

2004-2009, Department of MIS, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona, Tucson

• Project lead, NSF Sponsored Project (0725336) “SOFTSIM – a Testbed for Process-Driven and Simulation-Based Knowledge Conglomeration in Enterprise Software Development”.
• Investigated technigues for mining and analyzing semantics of social networks in open source communities.
• Studied the feasibility of a design science approch for improving orgnizational knowledge transfer efficiency.
• Developed knowledge mapping systems for categorization, analysis, and visualization of Nanoscale science and engineering development.

 

Research Assistant:

2003-2004, Workflow Group in Grid Computing Lab, College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P. R. China

• Conducted research related to the use of Web Service for organizational applications.

 

System Architect 2007- Present:

• Developed a process-driven intelligent forum system (PIFS) for efficient organizational knowledge transfer (http://process.eller.arizona.edu:81/jbpm-console/sa/processes.jsf).
• Developed an integrated NanoMapper system for Nanotechnology patent and literature retrieval, analysis, and visualization (available at: http://nanomapper.eller.arizona.edu:8080/NanoMapper/).

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1.      Member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and INFORMS.

2.      Reviewed manuscripts for the following journals and conferences:

Journals: Decision Support Systems (DSS), IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC), Information System Frontiers (ISF), IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (IEEE TSC), Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (ECRA), Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Information Systems and e-Business Management Journal (ISeBM).

Conferences: Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Workshop on e-Business (WEB), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC), IEEE Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises (AMIGE), IEEE Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS).

 

3.      Webmaster and System Administrator for Conferences: IEEE International Symposium on Advanced Management of Information for Globalized Enterprises (AMIGE 08)

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

1.      ICIS Doctoral Consortium (2008)

2.      Eller College Dean's Teaching Award, the University of Arizona (2008)

3.      Graduate College Travel Grants (Merit-based, $500), the University of Arizona (2008)

4.      Graduate Research Assistantship, National Science Foundation (2004-Present)

5.      Graduate Resident Tuition Scholarship (GRS), the University of Arizona (2004-Present)

6.      HongKong - Mainland Exchange Student Scholarship, Ministry of Education, P. R. China (2003)

 

IS TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: Java, C\C++, Prolog, Python

Statistical Software: SAS, Stata, SPSS

Workflow Software: Ultimus, jBoss jBpm

Database Systems: MS SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, MS Access

Internet Technologies: JSP, HTML, XML(Certified by IBM), Applet, Servlet, JDBC, TOMCAT, Apache