Professor, Management Information Systems | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, BIO5 Institute | Regents Professor
Dr. Hsinchun Chen graduated with a BS degree from the National Chiao-Tong University Taiwan) MBA from SUNY Buffalo, and an MS and Ph.D. from New York University. He is the University of Arizona Regents' Professor and Thomas R. Brown Chair professor in Management and Technology. He is also a Fellow of ACM, IEEE and AAAS. Dr. Chen served as the lead program director of the Smart and Connected SCH) Program at the NSF for 2014-2015, a multi-year multi-agency health IT research program of in the U.S. He is author/editor of 20 books, 300 SCI journal articles, and 200 refereed conference articles covering digital library, data/text/web mining, business analytics, security informatics and health informatics. His overall h-index is 97 35,000 citations for 900 papers according to Google Scholar) among the highest in MIS and to50 in computer science. Dr. Chen founded the Artificial Intelligence Lab at The University of Arizona in 1989, which has received 50M+ research funding from NSF, NIH, NLM, DOD, DOJ, CIA, DHS and other agencies 100+ grants, 50+ from NSF) He has served as Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor or AE of major ACM/IEEE ACM TMIS, ACM TOIS, IEEE IS, IEEE SMC) MIS MISQ, DSS) and Springer JASIST) journals and conferencerogram chair of major ACM/IEEE/MIS conferences in digital library ACM/IEEE JCDL, ICADL) information systems ICIS) security informatics IEEE ISI) and health informatics ICSH) He is also a successful IT entrepreneur. His COPLINK/i2 system for security analytics was commercialized in 2000 and acquired by IBM as its leading government analytics product in 2011. Dr. Chen has served as an advisor to major federal research programs and was a Scientific Counselor of the National Library of Medicine USA) National Library of China and Academia Sinica Taiwan) He is a visiting chair professor at several major universities in China Tsinghua University) and Taiwan National Taiwan University) He is internationally renowned for leading research and development in the health analytics data and text mining; health big data; DiabeticLink and SilverLink) and security informatics counter terrorism and cyber security analytics; security big data; COPLINK, Dark Web, Hacker Web, and AZSecure) communities. His recent research includes SilverLink for mobile health and AZSecure for advanced cyber threat intelligence. Dr. Chen is director of the UA AZSecure Cybersecurity Program, with 10M+ funding from NSF SFS, SaTC and CICI programs and CAE-CD/CAE-R cybersecurity designations from NSA/DHS.