Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching Award University of Hawaii at Manoa Dennis Ching Outstanding Teaching Excellence Award  Dennis Ching Memorial Foundation  CBA Teaching Excellence Award Shidler College of Business, UHM Kaizen (Service Excellence) Award Shidler College of Business, UHM Fulbright Senior Specialist in IT Award J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, CISE Global Information Infrastructure  in Healthcare Research Award International  GII Society	Kauai, Hawaii, Jan. 8, 2016	Ph.D. in Business Administration University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Major: Management Information Systems Minor: Electrical and Computer Engineering Master of Science in MIS University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona B.S. in Business Administration National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan Concentration: International Banking / Finance Certified by Taiwanese  National General Exam  and National Higher Examination in Finance
Recent Refereed Journal publications: Hong-Mei Chen, Roland Schütz, Rick Kazman, and Florian Matthes. .  “How Lufthansa Capitalizes on Big Data for Business Model Renovation,” MIS Quarterly Executive, (16:1), March 2017.  link. Hong-Mei Chen, Rick Kazman, and Serge Haziyev. “Agile Big Data Analytics for Web-based Systems:  An Architecture-centric Approach,” IEEE Transactions on Big Data,  April 2016. Hong-Mei Chen, Rick Kazman, and Serge Haziyev. “Strategic Prototyping for Developing Big Data Systems,” IEEE Software, March, 2016.   Article link.   Conference Leadership & Upcoming Events: Workshop co-chair, Organizing Committee. 12th ECSA (The European Conference on Software Architecture),  September 2018, Madrid, Spain. Minitrack co-founder & co-chair: "Blockchain Engineering", HICSS-52, 2019. click Call for Paper for more info.	Full Professor Department of Information Technology Management (ITM) Shidler College of Business University of Hawaii at Manoa 2404 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822 Office: E601B   hmchen@hawaii.edu Phone:  808-956-7286 Fax: 808-956-9889 ITM department phone:  808-956-7430 Past Positions Held (Selected) Interim Associate Dean  for Academic Programs Interim Executive Education Director Director, Neighbor Island MBA President, Faculty Senate Founder and Director, the Advanced Information Management Solutions (AIMS) Lab Associate Director,  Project "Advanced Communication Technology Satellite (ACTS) and Supercomputing in Remote and Cooperative Medical Service Triage Support and Radiation Treatment Planning," Project Director (Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Visualization), National Data Center (NDC) for Electrical Vehicle Design and Development	Over 100 research presentations including over 70 invited talks to major universities, industry consortia, IT professional Associations  and Fortune 50 companies in Europe Asian, and US. Near 80 Refereed Research Articles published in  peer-refereed journals,  book chapters  and  conference proceedings  in MIS, Software Engineering and Computer Science, including MISQ Executive IEEE Transactions on Big Data Journal of  Management Information Systems  Communications of ACM (CACM)  IEEE Transactions on Services Computing IEEE Software Journal of Software and Systems Electronic Commerce Research Journal  of Parallel and Distributed Systems  Information & Software Technology Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations Science of Computer Programming Journal of Database Marketing & Customer Strategy Management Pacific Asian Journal of the Association of Information Systems International Journal of Business Environment etc.

Grant Awards

• Current Research Grants/Awards and Collaboration

• " An Economics-Based Framework for Assessing Software Modularization Decisions."  Senior  consultant, NSF research grant, $1.1 million, PIs: Yuanfang Cai (Drexel University) and Rick Kazman (University of Hawaii), 2011-2015.

• Previous Research Grants/Awards
• DARPA (Department of Advanced Research Project Agent) grants:  
• High performance telemedicine and image database development: Associate Director for a US$5 million project in collaboration with NASA, State of Hawaii, Tripler Medical Center,  Ohio Supercomputing center and Georgetown Medical Center.   
•  Electrical Vehicle data visualization  project:  US$450K grant  in conjunction with Electrical Vehicle National Data Center under a US$34 million grant. 
• Led datawarehousing and data mining project for  Electrical Vehicle National Data Center.
• More than a dozen of  research awards from Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) and SCB  for research on e-business, multimedia database, SOA adoption, and electronic customer relationship management.
• Private corporation research grant on "An Investigation into the Management of Ultra-Large Scale Grid Computing." 
• Fulbright Grant on "Business-IT Alignment," hosted by University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 

• Teaching (Curriculum Development) Grants: Oracle, IBM and CIBER.

• Instructional Hardware/Software/Cash Grants:  Obtained from private companies and individuals donations for founding the Advanced Information Management Solutions (AIMS) Lab:  initial US$ 1.7 million software donation plus annual upgrades, over US$200K technical support + over US$128K hardware grants.   Sponsoring companies include:  Oracle,  Sun, Apple,  KPMG,  Rare & Dear,  Commercial Data Systems, etc..

Research

• Current Research Interests:  
• Blockchain Engineering
  
• Cybersecurity <==> Proactive Cybersecurity system;  Target Vulnerability Detection, Architectural Vulnerability Detection, Big Data for Cybersecurity
  
• Big Data <==>  Big Data System Design Methodology,  Agile Big Data Analytics,  Big Data Engineering,  Big Data Architectures,  Big Data Technologies,   NoSQL Data Modeling,  Big Data As a Service (BDaaS),  Neo-Metropolis Model,   Big Data enabled Innovation and New business models, Big Data Clouds,  Architectural Analysis and Rapid Prototyping for Big Data Systems, Microservices,  DevOps, Mining big data for software architecture design,  Mining big data for Cybersecurity
  
• Service Engineering + Business-IT Alignment <==> Software Economics, Software Architecture,  Metropolis Model,   Edge-dominant Systems, Crowdsourced Systems, Open Source Systems,  Strategic Management,  Service System development, Service Dominant Logic (SDL), Service-oriented Architecture (SOA), Web 2.0,  IT Governance, Enterprise Architecture, Software Architecture, Business Performance Management, Business Process Management,  Business Architecture, Business Modeling, Grid Computing, Collaborative Commerce
  
•  Social CRM (Customer Relationship Management)  <==> Social Networks,  CRM, ECRM,  E-Commerce,  E-Business, Business Intelligence, Technology Adoption,   e-Healthcare, e-Tourism, Telemedicine,  Human Computer Iteraction (HCI)
  
• Green Information Systems <==>  Sustainability service design and development, Smart Grid,  Architecture Landscape,  System Dynamics, Ultra large Scale Green Information Systems,  Triple Bottom lines (TBL) or 3P (plant, people, profit)  metrics, analysis and optimization
  

•  Research Publications:  (click on the underlined research domain for the list of publications)  

• Big Data
• Business model renovation
  
• Big Data Value Discovery and Engineering
  
• Risk-based Architecture-centric Strategic Prototying  (RASP) model for Big Data
  
• Architecture-Centric Big Data System Design Method: BDD method
  
• Agile Big Data Analytics: AABA methodology
  
• Big Data Adoption  (Big²)Model
  
• Empirical Collaborative Practice Research
• New Business Models enabled by Big Data
• BDaaS and Neo-Metropolis Model
• Microservices and DevOps for big data service platform
• Mining big data for software architecture design
• Design Science Research
  
• Social  CRM
• Social CRM design and Service dominant logic
  
• Green Information Systems
• Ultra Large Scale Green Information Systems (ULS Green IS)
  
• ULS Green IS Design Framework: ULTRA-GREEN
  
• ECO-ARCH method:  An architecture analysis method for ULS Green IS
  
• Smart Grid Demand Response Systems
• Service Engineering
• Service System development
• Empirical Study of Enterprise SOA implementation in Financial Services Industry
• Metropolis Model for Crowdsourced Systems
• BITAM-SOA framework: Integrating Enterprise Architecture, SOA, and Business-IT alignment Methods
• Service Engineering Schematic
• Service Dominant Logic , SOA and ECRM
• Business-IT Alignment  + Software Engineering + Software Architecture
  
• Open Source System
  
• BITAM: an architecture-centric  method for Business-IT Alignment
• Enterprise Architecture Interface 
• Requirement Engineering and BITAM
  
• Electronic Customer Relationship Management (ECRM)  +  Electronic  Commerce
• Service Dominant Logic  &  ECRM
• Web-based eCRM technology adoption and interface effectiveness
•  ECRM technology adoption & information system success 
•  High Performance Telemedicine
• ACTS GEO satellite communications
• Supercomputing and medical triage services
• Hospital data and resource sharing and integration
  
•  Distributed Multimedia Databases
•  Multimedia heterogeneous DB integration
•  CASE tool design and development for distributed DB design
•  Distributed image database systems
•  Semantic data modeling: distributed transaction/process modeling;  integrated logical and fragmentation design 
•  Artificial Intelligence (AI) and DB
• 3D volume visualization for radiation treatment
• Content-based image retrieval
  
• AI for resource planning and allocation
• Expert system for image retrieval

• Undergraduate Business Core Courses : 
  
• BUS311 (Information Systems for the Global Business Environment)
• Undergraduate MIS Major Courses: 
• ITM 352  (Business Programming) 
  
• ITM 354 WI (Database Systems)
  
• ITM 366 (MIS Capstone, Writing Intensive)
• ITM360 (Advanced Database Systems and E-business)
  
• ITM387G (Advanced Database Systems)
  
• ITM399 Independent Study 
• Honor program student project
  
• Graduate MBA Courses:
  
• ITM685 (Electronic Commerce, MBA Elective)
  
• BUS615C (IT/IS in organizations, MBA core)
• BUS660 (Database Systems and E-business) 
  
• BUS687G (Database Systems), ITM660 (Electronic Customer Relationship Management: Technologies and Strategies)
• ITM699 Independent Study
  
• Ph.D. Courses:
  
• International Management Ph.D. Research Seminar  (ITM704):  Electronic Customer Relationship Management (ECRM) Research
• CIS Ph.D. Seminar ( ITM 704):  Database Systems and E-business Research modules
• ITM699 Independent Study
• Graduate Computer Science (CS) Courses outside UH: 
  
• Technical University of Munich,  CS graduate course,  "Architectures for Big Data Management in Enterprises,"   2014 Fall
• University of Jyvaskyla, Finland,  CS Ph.D. Course, "Aligning IT with Business,"  2007 Summer
  
• Executive Training Courses, Corporate Training Short Courses, and Invited Talks by Fortune 50 companies on Big Data, Service Engineering, Business-IT alignment,  SOA, Enterprise Architecture,  electronic CRM,  database design, strategic IS, datawarehousing, object-oriented data modeling, process reengineering, data mining, IT management, data security