Rui Chen is an associate professor of information systems. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in computer science and a PhD degree in management science and systems from State University of New York at Buffalo. He received the advanced certificate in information assurance from State University of New York at Buffalo and the National Security Agency. He is a Microsoft certified database administrator and Microsoft certified systems engineer.
His research primarily focuses on information assurance, extreme event management, emerging media, and IT capability. He has published over 50 high quality research articles in leading academic journals, conferences, and books. Many of his research articles have appeared in the top 10 ranked Information Systems journals such as MIS Quarterly (no. 1), Decision Support Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information and Management, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and Communications of the ACM. His research articles have been presented in 7 different countries. He has actively contributed to the professional community by serving journals, conferences, and books in capacities such as editor, editorial advisory board member, editorial review board member, program committee member, session chair, and discussant.
He was nominated for both the Outstanding Research Award and the Outstanding Teaching Award at Miller College of Business in 2010, 2011, and 2012. He is a recipient of the New Faculty Start-Up Award and the Junior Faculty Research Grant at Ball State University. He is also a SPO Summer Fellow at Ball State University. He received the Best Paper Award of the Seventh Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference, the Best Prototype Award of the 20th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, and the Best Paper Nomination of the 10th Annual Global Information Technology Management World Conference.
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