Brief Self Introduction

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I earned my Ph.D. in Information Science and my M.L.S. from Rutgers University, New Jersey. Before coming to the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College (CUNY) as full time professor, I taught at the School of Communication, Information, and Library Studies of Rutgers University as adjunct lecturer for three years and then at the School of Information Studies of Florida State University (FSU) as assistant professor for one year.

When I was studying my Ph.D., I also worked as computer programmer at Alexandria Project Laboratory (APLab), writing codes for experimental information retrieval systems. Some of my publications were based on the experiments conducted in APLab.

I have been working on the theoretical foundation of effective data fusion in information retrieval for several years. I am the co-PI of the research award “Semantic Dimensionality and Effective Data Fusion in Information Retrieval” (PI: Prof. Paul Kantor, Rutgers University) granted by the Information and Data Management Program of National Science Foundation. When I was teaching at FSU, I conducted various information retrieval and data fusion experiments with the support of Supercomputer Computations Research Institute as Research Fellow. I got the First Year Professor Research Award of FSU for the research I have done there.

My areas of academic interests include theory and algorithm of information retrieval, human computer interaction, knowledge organization and representation in digital environment, information visualization, quantitative research method, metadata standard for searching and retrieval of information objects in internet, data fusion and data mining.