Biosketch/Vita

Minder Chen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Decision Sciences & MIS

MS-5F4, School of Management

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA 22030-4444

(O) 703-993-1788   (F) 703-993-1809

E-mail: MCHEN@GMU.EDU

WWW: http://mason.gmu.edu/~mchen/

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Minder Chen received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1977, an M.B.A. from National Chiao Tung University in 1983, and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona in 1988. 

            He is currently Associate Professor of Management Information Systems and Decision Science in the School of Management at George Mason University and was the Director of Technology Program (an Executive Master Program in Information Technology Management). His primary research interests are electronic commerce, knowledge management, computer-aided instruction, information engineering, business reengineering and change management, computer-aided software engineering, client/server computing, collaboration technologies (groupware), and object-oriented systems development methodology.  He has published papers in  International Journal of E-Business, Journal of Management Information Systems, Database, Journal of Organizational Computing, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Journal of Human Computer Studies, Journal of Computer Information Systems,  Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,  Journal of Small Group Research, and IEEE Software.  

            He has been involved in studying methods and tools for business process reengineering and software reuse for DOD's Corporate Information Management Office.   He has also worked with governments and private-sector businesses, such as Fairfax County Government, US Court, Industrial Technology Research Institute, DOD Center for Information Management, American Management Systems, and Wizdom Systems Inc. in their information engineering, client/server migration, and business reengineering efforts by providing them with training and consulting services.  He has given presentations and one- to three-day seminars in U.S., Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong.  Dr. Chen is also a well-known expert in electronic commerce, systems development methodology, integrated CASE tools, and groupware.  He has provided training courses such as CASE tools, Information Strategy Planning, Information Engineering methodology, electronic commerce, web technologies for many IT firms, such as AT&T, TRW Inc., BDM, Lockheed Martin, International Monetary Funds, Computer Sciences Corporation, PSINet, Cornell Technology, SETA, and Marriot Hotel. 

            He is the co-guest-editor of a special issue on Web Services and Electronic Commerce at Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 2003; the March 1992 IEEE Software special issue on Integrated CASE; a CASE minitrack coordinator of Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences for a few years; a program committee member of Methods and Tools for Business Engineering  1995 Conference, an international program committee member of 1995 Pan Pacific Conference on Information Systems, and an program committee member of Workshop on E-Business, 2002.      He is the invited speaker on "XML Web Services and E-Business" at a pre-conference session of ICIS 2002 in Spain, sponsored by Microsoft.