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Education

	PhD in Business, School of Business, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 1991-1995, GPA: 4.0/4.0. Dean's List, 1991-1995; The Honor Society of Beta Gamma Sigma, 1995; The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, 1995; Elizabeth M. Hoyt Scholarship in Business, 1991; the Best Dissertation Award, 1995.
	MS in Systems Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 1988-1991 (directly admitted to Ph.D. program, transferred to the University of Kansas with a Master degree)
	BE in Civil Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 1984-1987 (was the first student identified to experiment with enrolling in two universities simultaneously in the nation)
	BS in Applied Mathematics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, 1983-1986 (Graduated one year in advance, received the Scholar of Exceptional Excellence awarded to the best student in the entire university)

Full Time Employment

	09/06-Date: Professor of Management Information Systems, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325
	09/01-08/06: Associate Professor of Management and Information Systems, College of Business Administration, University of Akron, OH 44325
	06/99-08/01: Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4627
	09/97-05/99: Assistant Professor in Information Systems, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 17870
	09/95-08/97: Assistant Professor in Management and Information Systems, Albany State University, Albany, Georgia 31705
	06/86-08/87: Instructor in Energy System Modeling, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
	11/81-08/83: Assistant Surveyor Engineer, Yangtze River Navigation Commission, Yichan, China.

Honours & Awards

	Listed in the 28th edition (2011) of Who's Who in the World
	Listed in the 64th and 65th edition (2010, 2011) of Who's Who in America
	Best Paper Nomination, "Usability and Efficacy Reactions to Object-Orientation: The Impact of Prior Knowledge," at the Second Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction Research in Management Information Systems, Seattle, Washington, December 12-13, 2003. (It was selected as one of seven best papers to be reviewed for a special section of Journal of Management Information Systems.)
	Best Paper Nomination, "How Performance and Self-Efficacy Influence the Ease of Use of Object-Orientation: The Moderating Effect of Prior Training," at 36th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Big Island, Hawaii, January 6 – 9, 2003
	Summer Teaching Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, 2001
	Tip of the Hat Award, Southern Illinois University, 2000-2001
	College of Business Teaching Honor Roll, Southern Illinois University, 2000-2001
	The Academic Cooperative Instructional Grant Award $47,235, 2000-2001
	Undergraduate Teaching Fellowship, Southern Illinois University, 1999-2000
	The Academic Cooperative Instructional Grant Award $48,000, 1998-1999
	The Academic Cooperative Instructional Grant Award $21,000, 1997-1998
	Gifts-in-Kind: IBM Scholars Program, over one million dollars of software lab licenses for IBM DB2, Web Sphere server and development tools, Lotus, Rational Rose, Visual Age development tools, and Unix operating systems, 2001-Date
	Oracle Academic Alliance, over 3 mission dollars of software licenses for Oracle Database, Oracle Designer, Oracle Developers, and Oracle Data warehouse and data mining tools, 1995-2001.
	Susquehanna University Faculty Research Fellowship Award $2,000, 1998-1999
	Doctoral Student Research Competition Award $3,000, 1994-1995
	The Max E. Fessler Best Dissertation Award, University of Kansas, 1995
	Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship $5000, University of Kansas, 1995
	Doctoral Student Research Competition Award $2,500, 1993-1994
	Doctoral Student Research Competition Award $2,500, 1992-1993
	The University of Kansas General Research Grant Award $4,500, 1992-1993
	Doctoral Student Research Competition Award $2,500, 1992-1993
	China’s National Outstanding Research Achievement Award, “The Long Term Planning for Anlu City Economic and Technical Development,” Hubei Province Science and Technology Commission, 1987.
	The Best Student Research Paper, “Generalized Metric Space Analysis,” Hubei Province Education Commission, 1985.