IX. FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

Apiwan Dejnaronk: Assistant Professor of MIS joined the MIS department in spring 1999. She is teaching introductory courses in MIS at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She received a bachelor's degree in Statistic with a second honor from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. MSBA in MIS and MBA fro Mississippi State University. She is currently working on her Ph.D. degree in MIS at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC). Her dissertation title, "Exploratory Study of Information Systems Infrastructure and it Link to Performance", received a doctoral dissertation award from SIUC in August 1998. Her primary research interests are the human factor in information technology, strategic impacts of information systems on organizations, web-based application developments, and web-based teaching and learning.

Rassule Hadidi: Professor of MIS and Department Chair. His primary teaching responsibility is in electronic commerce and telecommunications. His research interests are in electronic commerce, MIS Curriculum Development and Quality Assessment. He earned a Ph.D. (1981) in operations research from the University of Missouri-Columbia and has completed (1988) the AACSB sponsored post-doctoral studies in MIS at Indiana University. He holds a B.S. in mathematics and statistics from the University of Shiraz, and a B.S. and M.S. in industrial engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Prior to joining UIS, he worked on several health care delivery information systems projects at the Health Services Research Center/Health Care Technology Center of the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is professionally active in the field of MIS.

Ojoung Kwon: Associate Professor of MIS, received a B.S. and an MSEE (electronics engineering) from Yeungnam University, Korea, an M.B.A from New Hampshire College with a concentration in MIS, and a Ph.D. From The University of Alabama. Before joining UIS, he worked for The University of Alabama's Artificial Intelligence Lab and The Alabama Productivity Center for five years. He has also assisted in developing various projects for a number of organizations including AT&T, GM, Alabama Power Co., Amdahl Communications, and Ballistic Missile Commander. He has been professionally active and has published papers in various refereed journals and proceedings. His primary teaching responsibility is in decision support systems and expert systems.

David O'Gorman: Professor of Business Administration. He was formerly in the marketing research department of Bristol-Myers and the marketing development division of Marathon Oil Company. While at Marathon he initiated and was the director of a large project (three years, seven analyst/programmers), which developed a decision support system for marketing management. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in business and an interdisciplinary doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. He teaches MIS 531 Strategic Decision Support Systems and MIS 561 Competitive Information Systems. In the business administration program his primary area of teaching is business strategy.

Yong-Tae Park: Assistant Professor of MIS, received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Yeungnam University, Korea, an MS in MIS from Ball State University, and a Ph.D. degree in Management Information Systems from Claremont Graduate University. Before joining the MIS department, he taught at California State University, San Marcos as an adjunct faculty and worked in the semi-conductor industry. His research has been published in the Journal of Data Warehousing, and proceedings of HICSS and AIS. His primary research interests are data warehousing, decision support systems/GDSS, strategic uses of information systems, and organizational impacts of information systems.

George Rompot: Visiting Assistant Professor of MIS, recently joined the MIS department in January 2000. He is teaching technology related courses in MIS at the graduate level. He received a bachelor's degree in Linguistics and MS in Computer Science, from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. Before joining the MIS department as a fulltime employee, he taught courses in both the MSY and MIS programs since 1988 as an adjunct faculty. He has over 33 years of experience in the design and implementation of Information Systems. Previous experience includes being the CIO of a large agency, being a technology advisor for a state executive branch and consulting. His research interests include information technology management, diffusion of technology, markup languages/electronic data interchange, object-oriented analysis and design, and data quality assessment.