Santa Clara University

Wingyan Chung, Ph.D. 

Assistant Professor, Operations & Management Information Systems

Dr. Wingyan Chung is an assistant professor in the department of Operations and Management Information Systems (OMIS) in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from The University of Arizona and a MS and BBA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

His research interests include knowledge management, Web analysis and mining, data and text mining, information visualization, and human-computer interaction.

He has more than 30 refereed publications in Journal of Management Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Computer, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, among others. His paper titled "Web searching in a multilingual world" was chosen to be the cover story in the May 2008 issue of Communications of the ACM, a top-ranked IS journal and the most-frequently-cited journal in computing theory, software, and hardware.

Dr. Chung received the Outstanding Performance Award from UTEP Vice President for Research in 2007, obtained the Best Research Paper Award in CIS from the dean of UTEP College of Business Administration in 2006, was classified as an Outstanding Professor / Researcher by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2005, received the Young Investigators Initiative Award from DARPA's Information Processing Technology Office in 2003, and was nominated by the UTEP provost for the Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship Award in 2004.

A co-principal investigator for the NSF-funded project titled "Living in the KnowlEdge Society (LIKES)," Dr. Chung was the host of the first NSF LIKES workshop held in SCU. He was also an assistant professor in The University of Texas at El Paso between 2004 and 2007 and a research associate in the Artificial Intelligence Lab at The University of Arizona between 2000 and 2004, where he led several research projects and wrote research proposals leading to federal funding.

A certified teacher since 1998, Dr. Chung has more than 10 years' teaching and curriculum development experiences in the U.S. and Hong Kong. Students provided many positive comments on his teaching.