IST's faculty at University Park grew by seven this fall as experts from prestigious American and international universities, as well as from industry, joined in the school's learning and research initiatives.
Together these scholars add to IST's portfolio in-depth knowledge of cyberlaw, security, collaborative technologies, mobile telecommunications technology, information systems design, and the human-computer interface. New to the school this fall are:
—John Bagby, professor of information sciences and technology.
—Christopher Hoadley, assistant professor of information sciences and technology, and assistant professor of instructional systems.
—Dongwon Lee, assistant professor of information sciences and technology and assistant professor of computer science and engineering.
—Peng Liu, assistant professor of information sciences and technology and assistant professor of computer science and engineering.
—Carleen Maitland, assistant professor of information sciences and technology
— Sandeep Purao, associate professor of information sciences and technology.
—Brian Smith, associate professor of information sciences and technology and associate professor of instructional systems.
John Bagby, also the co-director of the Institute for Information Policy, comes to the School of IST after eighteen years with Penn State's Smeal College of Business Administration where, most recently, he was a professor of business law. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas in 1973, and a J.D. from the University of Tulsa-College of Law in1976, before receiving an M.B.A. in1978, also from the University of Kansas. In addition, he did postgraduate M.B.A. work at New York University. Bagby's areas of expertise integrate cyberlaw, securities regulations, regulatory process and policy, and business organizations. He has completed funded research projects in liability risk management, and technology transfer and he has taught courses in regulatory process, business organizations, securities regulation, and intellectual property. Bagby has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, articles, and research reports, including three just-published textbooks on e-commerce and the law of technology and information science. Prior to joining IST, Christopher Hoadley was a research cognitive and computer scientist at the Center for Technology in Learning at SRI International and a consulting assistant professor of learning, design, and technology at Stanford. Hoadley received a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkley, in 1998 from SESAME, an interdepartmental Graduate Group in Science and Mathematics Education. He holds an M.S. in computer science from Berkeley and an S.B. degree in cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Hoadley designs, builds, and studies ways for computers to enhance thinking and learning. His research focuses on collaborative technologies and computer support for cooperative learning and knowledge management. Other interests include the use of design activities as a teaching method, uses of artificial intelligence and recommender systems in collaborative learning, the psychology of computer programming, and science and technology education.
Dongwon Lee received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2002. His primary teaching interests are in the principles of programming and computer science. His research is centered on the World Wide Web and database systems, especially XML and semi-structured models and their applications. He is interested in XML schema normalization and modeling, conversion between XML and other models, design and optimizations of XML query languages, and heterogeneous data integration over the Web.
Peng Liu earned his Ph.D. from George Mason University in 1999. He also holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and 1996, respectively. Prior to joining IST, he was an assistant professor of information systems and director of the Laboratory for Information and System Security at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Liu's previous research has included developing intrusion tolerant database systems and developing attack resilient critical infrastructure systems. His main research interests are in cyber security, information assurance and survivability, distributed systems, databases, and mobile computing. Liu's teaching interests are in information security, data management, and networking. Dr. Liu is now leading the Penn State Cyber Security research group. His current research is sponsored by DARPA, NSF, DOE, NSA, and Penn State. He has served on the program committee of several international conferences such as the ACM International Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'01, CCS'02) and IFIP International Information Security Conference (SEC'03). He is a recipient of the DOE CAREER Award.
Carleen Maitland joins Penn State from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, where she was an assistant professor of technology, policy, and management. Maitland received her Ph.D. from Delft University in 2001. She earned an M.S. from Stanford University in 1995, and a B.S. from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1988.
Maitland's research focuses on the emerging generation of mobile telecommunication technologies in Europe. She is currently assessing the technical, economic, and regulatory factors shaping the introduction of this technology and will continue with an international assessment of the role of policy in the development of open/closed networks in mobile communications. Her teaching interests include wireless technologies and their organizational implications, international comparison of market structures for information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their implications for organizational use and adoption, and policy issues in the use of ICTs such as privacy, open/closed networks, and the right to information.
Sandeep Purao's research focuses on various aspects of information system design and development. His current work focuses on reuse-based design, flexible information system design, empirical investigation of individual design behaviors, and information system design for electronic commerce. He has worked on projects dealing with object distribution design strategies, measurement for object-oriented design, document management, and abstractions for system development knowledge. Purao continues to be interested in pedagogical issues for information systems developers. He has taught graduate courses in object-oriented systems design, document management with XML and database management systems, and undergraduate courses in systems analysis and object-oriented programming with Java.
Purao earned a Ph.D. in management information systems from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1995, and an M.B.A. from Northern Illinois University in 1988. He earned bachelor of law and bachelor of commerce degrees from the University of Bombay (India) in 1984 and 1983, respectively. He was a member of the Computer Information Systems faculty in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University prior to joining IST.
Brian Smith comes to IST from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory where he was an associate professor in media arts and sciences. Smith received his Ph.D. in 1998 in the Learning Sciences Program at Northwestern University. He also holds a B.S. degree in computer science and engineering from UCLA. Smith's teaching goal is to help develop a new breed of computational designer, students with strong abilities in engineering, cognition/learning, and visual/industrial design. With these students, he hopes to explore the technical, cognitive, and aesthetic bases of human-compute interaction, creating technologies to enhance human performance, learning, and quality of life in information-rich environments. Smith's research interests include design of performance support and learning environments, intelligent multimedia interfaces, and a rethinking of current paradigms of human-computer interaction and computations design.
