Jie Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
HH323
Department of Computer Information Systems
Indiana University Northwest
Office Phone: 219-9806623
wangjie(at)iun(dot)edu
A Short Bio
Jie Wang is currently an Assistant Professor at the department of Computer Information Systems at Indiana University Northwest (IU Northwest). She received her master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China and holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky. Prior to joining IU Northwest, she worked as a research assistant in the laboratory for high performance scientific computing and computer simulation at the University of Kentucky from 2004 to 2008, and she was an Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science at Minnesota State University Mankato from 2008 to 2009. Her research interests include matrix decompositions with their applications, information privacy, and data and web mining and predictive analytics. She has received a number of awards including the Thaddeus B. Curtz Memorial Scholarship Award, the Kentucky Opportunity Fellowship, the Richard E. Rosenthal Young Researcher from INFORMS, the Summer Faculty Fellowship for Research and campus research grants. She has authored/coauthored over 30 refereed articles in a variety of journals and conference proceedings such as Knowledge and Information Systems, Applied Mathematics and Computation, International Review of Administrative Sciences and IEEE Conference on Data Mining. She regularly serves as a technical committee member for several international conferences.
♥ Primary Teaching Interests:
Computer Information Systems and Computer Science Courses
♥ Primary Research Interests:
Computational Methods and Their Applications
Information Privacy and Data Protection
Data/Web/Social-Media mining and Predictive Analytics
Information Management and Social Media in Government