J. Leon Zhao

Biographical Note

J. Leon Zhao holds a Ph. D. from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley (1992), a MS from University of California, Davis (1985), and a BS in Engineering from Beijing Institute of Agricultural Mechanization (1982). He taught three years at the School of Business, The College of William and Mary before joining HKUST. He has also worked as a Computer Scientist with the Information and Computing Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California and as a Research Engineer in the Corporate Systems Development Division, Honeywell Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published in Management Science, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems as well as in numerous refereed conference proceedings such as Very Large Data Bases, Data Engineering, Information and Knowledge Management, Scientific and Statistical Database Management, and Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.

His main research interests include Intelligent Information Systems, Heterogeneous Database Systems, Workflow Management, and Electronic Commerce. Dr. Zhao is a member of Association of Information Systems, ACM, IEEE Computer Sciety, and INFORMS.


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