Information Systems
General Information
The David Eccles School of Business (DESB) at the University of Utah offers a program of study leading to the PhD in Business Administration with a major field in Information Systems. The PhD program is a full-time program that normally requires a minimum of four years of study. The program curriculum prepares doctoral students to perform independent research in system design, data driven strategy and optimization as well as behavioral and economic impacts of IT.
Highlights of the IS specialization include:
- Working closely with highly reputable and active research faculty members
- Building marketable research records by writing and publishing research papers early in the study
- Active collaboration with local and global companies
- Excellent access to research resources including data, software, and infrastructure
- Networking with renowned academic and industry researchers and executives at our own Winter Conference.
PhD Committee Representative
Dr. Olivia Sheng
Email: olivia.sheng@business.utah.edu
Phone: 801-581-7683
IS Faculty Listing
Rohit Aggarwal (Assistant Professor)- Ph.D., 2008, University of Connecticut
Research Focus: Economics of IS, Econometric modeling, Electronic Word-of-Mouth, Blogs, Web mining, Online Auction Agent Design, Online Review Mechanisms
Recent Publications: WITS, INFORMS
Xiao Fang (Assistant Professor)- Ph.D., 2003, University of Arizona
Research Focus: Web Mining, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management
Recent Publications: ACM Trans on Information Systems, ACM Trans on Information Technology, Journal of Management Information Systems
Paul Hu (Professor)- Ph.D., 1998, University of Arizona
Research/Teaching Focus: Applications and Management of Information Technology in Health Care, Organizational Technology Management, Digital Government, Electronic Commerce, Knowledge Management, and Human-Computer Interaction.
Recent Publications: Journal of Management Information Systems, Digital Government: Advanced Research And Case Studies, E-Health, IEEE Transactions On Information Technology In Biomedicine, IEEE Transactions on Man, Machine and Cybernetics
Gautam Pant (Assistant Professor)- Ph.D., 2004, University of Iowa
Research/Teaching Focus: Web Mining, Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management
Recent Publications: ACM Trans on Information Systems, ACM Trans on Information Technology, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Vandana Ramachandran (Assistant Professor)- Ph.D., 2008, University of Maryland
Research/Teaching Focus: Economics of IS, econometrics, clickstream modeling, online search & advertising, sponsored search, online interest-based networks; Data structures, systems analysis and design
Olivia Sheng (Coordinator of Information Systems, Emma Eccles Jones Presidential Chair, Professor)- Ph.D., 1986, University of Rochester
Research/Teaching Focus: Data driven optimization and strategies, web optimization and mining, data mining, business intelligence, and data warehousing
Recent Publications: Management Science, Information Systems Research, ACM Trans on Information Systems, ACM Trans on Information Technology, Communications of ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems
