Prof. Xin (Robert) Luo, The University of New Mexico, USA
Dr. Xin
(Robert) Luo is an Endowed
Dean's Professor of Research
Excellence and tenured
Black, Albert & Mary Jane
Full Professor of Management
Information Systems at the
Robert O. Anderson School of
Management of The University
of New Mexico (UNM) in
Albuquerque, New Mexico,
USA. He also serves as the
Special Assistant to the
Dean for Research
Advancement and the Director
of International Programs at
the Anderson School of
Management. He is ranked
No.17 worldwide for
publication in the top 6 MIS
journals, including ISR,
MISQ, JMIS, JAIS, EJIS, and
ISJ, for 2020-2023.
Additionally, he has been
listed in the Top 2% Global
Scientists list published by
Stanford University and
Elsevier. His Google Scholar
profile, including citations
& h-index and i-10 index, is
at
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=FemyycMAAAAJ
His research interests
center around behavioral
information systems security
management, privacy
protection,
E-commerce/M-commerce,
social commerce, innovative
technologies (e.g.,
blockchain, artificial
intelligence vs. human
interactions, cloud
computing, green IS,
e-healthcare, social
network, etc.) for strategic
decision-making and
development, and
cross-cultural IT
management. Before joining
academia, he had worked as
business associate, web
project manager, assistant
director, and senior web
developer in China and USA.
He has received grants from
NSA and NSF. His research
articles have appeared or
will be published in leading
MIS or business journals
including
Information Systems Research
Journal of Operations
Management
Production and Operations
Management
Journal of Management
Information Systems
Journal of the Association
for Information Systems
European Journal of
Information Systems
Information Systems Journal
Journal of Strategic
Information Systems
Journal of Information
Technology
Decision Sciences
Decision Support Systems
Information & Management
Computers & Security
IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management
He received his Ph.D. in
Management Information
Systems from Mississippi
State University. His
doctoral dissertation chair
was Dr. J.P. Shim, and his
dissertation title was "An
Empirical Investigation of
User’s Trust and Trying
toward Mobile Banking
Adoption in Cross-cultural
Settings: An Analysis of
U.S. and Chinese Users." The
other dissertation
committees members were Dr.
Kirk Arnett, Dr. Merrill
Warkentin, Dr. Robert
Otondo, Dr. Joe Sullivan,
and Dr. Jianzhong Xu. He
received his MBA from The
University of Louisiana and
MSIS in Information Systems
from Mississippi State
University.
He now is a Co-Editor in
Cheif for International
Journal of Accounting and
Information Management
(SCIMago Q1, impact factor
4.2), ad-hoc Associate
Editor for MIS Quarterly,
Associate Editor for Journal
of the Association for
Information Systems (January
2021 - now), Decision
Sciences (April 2015 - now),
European Journal of
Information Systems(2013-
12/2020), Information &
Management (January 2020 -
now), Electronic Commerce
Research (August 2014 -
now), Journal of Eletronic
Commerce Research(August
2013 - now), Journal of
Intellectual Capital
(January 2020 - now), and
International Conference on
Information Systems. He also
sits on the Editorial Review
Board of Information Systems
Research, and serves as a
Senior Editor for
Organizational Cyberseuciryt
Jurnal: Practice, Process
and People.
He also has published many
book chapters and conference
proceedings such as
International Conference on
Information Systems (ICIS),
America's Conference on
Information Systems (AMCIS),
Hawaii International
Conference on System
Sciences (HICSS), IFIP WG
8.11/WG 11.13 Information
Systems Security Research
Worksohp, Decision Sciences
Institute (DSI), Information
Resource Management
Association (IRMA),
Pre-ICIS, Information
Security Curriculum
Development Conference,
ISOneworld, Global
Conference on Business and
Finance, and International
Conference on Electronic
Business, etc.
He holds memberships of AIS
(Association for Information
Systems), DSI (Decision
Sciences Institute), ACM
(Association for Computing
Machinery), and
International Chinese
Information System
Association (ICISA).
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Prof. Anjala Krishen, University of Nevada, USA
Dr. Anjala Krishen is the Mel Larson Endowed Chair of Marketing, a Professor of Marketing and International Business (MIB), and Department Chair of MIB for the Lee Business School. Previously, she served as the Director of the MBA program for the college and successfully navigated the MBA program's transition online and into a hybrid format during the pandemic. Anjala holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University and three graduate degrees, including an M.S. in Marketing, MBA, and Ph.D. in Marketing from Virginia Tech. She held full-time corporate positions for 13-years before pursuing a doctorate. To date, Anjala has over 80 published journal papers. Her research spans three sub-disciplines of consumer behavior: (1) advertising and retailing, (2) interactive, e-marketing and information processing, and (3) marketing pedagogy. Fifty-seven of these publications have come post-tenure; 28 are A- level or above, four are in high-quality hospitality journals, two are in high-quality policy journals, and six are in pedagogical journals. Serving as a strong research mentor, she has published more than 20 journal papers co-authored with current or former UNLV graduate students and more than fifteen journal papers with junior faculty. Anjala has received both research and teaching awards, including the UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching award (2015), the Barrick Scholar Award (2016), the Harold and Muriel Berkman Research Grant Award (2016), the UNLV Alumni Association Outstanding Faculty Recipient (2019), and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award (2022). In early 2016, she gave a TEDx talk at UNR entitled, “Opposition: The light outside of the dark box,” which discusses the important role that opposition plays in our lives. Later in 2016, she gave a UNLV Creates speech based on her pedagogical research entitled, “Consuming to Creating, Watching to Doing, Seeing to Being.” In 2019, she co-edited the book, Marketing & Humanity: Discourses in the Real World, in which she co-authored five chapters. As of 2024, she has completed over 75 marathons, seven 100(+) miler ultramarathons, and holds a black belt in Taekwondo.
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Prof. Xu Chen, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Dr. Xu Chen is Professor of operations and supply chain management at School of Management and Economics, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. His current research interests include coopetition management, supply chain management, and operations management. His publications have appeared in Production and Operations Management, IISE Transactions, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science, Journal of Business Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics: Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Annals of Operations Research, and other journals. His research has been supported by grants from the National Sciences Foundation of China (NSFC), Major Program of National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC), and National Key R&D Program of China.
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