JIAN JAMES MA, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA (719) 255-3496, jma@uccs.edu http://www.uccs.edu/~jma EDUCATION Ph.D. in Management Information Systems December 2011 University of Arizona (GPA 3.88/4.00), Tucson, AZ Minor: Systems and Industrial Engineering Dissertation Title: People, Processes, and Products: Case Studies in Open-Source Software Using Complex Networks Master of Science in Computer Science May 2002 University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX Bachelor of Science in Chemistry July 1996 Peking University, Beijing, China EXPERIENCES August 2014 Present, Assistant Professor University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO August 2012 August 2014, Assistant Professor Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO July 2010 Present, Co-Founder and President Pacific Leap LLC, Gilroy, CA Ivy Overseas Education, Henan, China Performed independent research consulting in Data Mining, Text Mining, Social Networking, etc. Conducted education consulting work for Chinese institutions Recruited hundreds of Chinese students for dozens of American institutions July 2008 July 2010, Instructor and Director of China Program Menlo College, Atherton, CA Conducted research in Complex Network Analysis, Social Networking, Random Graph Theory, and Spatial-Temporal Data Mining Taught IT related courses in the MIS major Recruited students in the Great China Area July 2008 July 2009, Senior Scientist Cataphora, Inc., Redwood City, CA Conducted research in Data Mining, Text Mining and Social Networking Led research project identifying social groups out of electronic communications Served as the project lead in actor communication graph generation and analysis 1
May 2006 August 2006, Software Engineer (Intern) Flandrau Science Center, Tucson, AZ Designed and implemented a Web-based system to evaluate the Web site comprehensibility by using Java, JSP, and SQL Server May 2003 June 2008, Research Associate University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Participated in a number of research projects including Complex System Analysis, Random Graph Theory, Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis, and Web Site Evaluation May 2001 May 2002, System Engineer/Project Manager (Co-op) Santera Systems Inc., Plano, TX Implemented the Web-based Hardware Board Information Database (HBID) System using ASP on IIS, and SQL Server. This system was used by three internal departments Performed project management and milestone tracking for product development. Developed and maintained the infrastructure for the project progress tracking TEACHING EXPERIENCES August 2014 Present, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO Big Data and Business Analytics (Undergraduate: INFS 4950, Graduate: INFS 6900) Database Management Systems (INFS 3400) Java Programming (INFS 3070) Web Programming (INFS 3080) Management Information Systems (INFS 3000) August 2012 August 2014, Colorado State University, Pueblo, CO Database Management Systems Advanced Database Management Systems Linux Operating Systems Management Information Systems July 2008 July 2010, Menlo College, Atherton, CA Database Management Systems Telecommunications and Networks Structured Programming (Java) Web Design Management Information Systems May 2003 June 2008, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Software Design and Integration (Graduate Level) Information Systems Analysis and Design with UML Data Structures and Algorithms August 1998 May 2000, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX Principle of Chemistry (I) (II) (Lab) 2
PUBLICATIONS Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (published or under review) 1. Understanding Open Source Software Developer Collaboration in Bug Fixing Process, James Ma, Xiaolin Li, Julie Liu, and Daniel Zeng, submitted to Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce (under review) 2. How IT Awareness Impact IT Control Weaknesses and Firms Financial Performance, Peiqin Zhang and James Ma, submitted to Information Technology and Management (under review) 3. Identification of New Electronic Cigarette Users: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach, Yongcheng Zhan and James Ma, submitted to International Journal of Medical Informatics (under review) 4. Prevalence and Risk Factors of Comorbidities among Hypertensive Patients in China, Jiaojiao Wang, James Ma, Jiaqi Liu, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Cynthia Song, and Zhidong Cao, International Journal of Medical Sciences (Impact Factor: 2.23), 2017, 14(3), pp 201-212 5. Income Mobility and Dynamic Changes of China Households Long-term Income Inequality: Based on the Data from CHNS, Zhiguo Liu and James Ma, Journal of Finance and Economics (China), 2017, (2), pp 60-69, http://cjyj.shufe.edu.cn/wkd/webpublication/paperdigest.aspx?paperid=975b53d4- e40c-444d-a862-5e2acb9d365f 6. Who Entered into the In-system Sectors: the Role of Education and Family Background, Zhiguo Liu and James Ma, Statistics & Information Forum (China), 2016, 31(7), pp 76-82, http://oversea.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=cjfd&filename=tjlt201607012 7. Labor Market Sector Segmentation and the Advantage of Employment in-system, Zhiguo Liu and James Ma, Chinese Journal of Population Science (China), 2016, 4, pp 85-95, http://www.zgrkkx.com/magazine/show/34305 8. Whose Upward Space Has Been Squeezed: An Analysis of Income Mobility in China, Zhiguo Liu and James Ma, Economic Perspectives (China), 2016, 8, pp 53-60, http://www.jjxdt.org/magazine?issue=8&year=2016 9. Comorbidity Analysis According to Sex and Age in Hypertension Patients in China, Jiaqi Liu, James Ma, Jiaojiao Wang, Daniel Dajun Zeng, Hongbin Song, Ligui Wang, and Zhidong Cao (co-first author), International Journal of Medical Sciences (Impact Factor: 2.23) 2016, 13(2), pp 99-107 10. Complex Network Analysis: A Comparison of Two Clustering Coefficient Definitions, James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Richard Huff, Journal of International Technology and Information Management, 2013, 22(4), pp 99-112 11. A Cross-Correlation Measure for Mining Spatial-Temporal Patterns, James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Huimin Zhao, Journal of Database Management, 2013, 24(2), pp 13-34 12. Modeling the Growth of Complex Software Function Dependency Networks, James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Huimin Zhao, Information Systems Frontiers, 2012, 14(2), pp 301-315 13. System for Infectious Disease Information Sharing and Analysis: Design and Evaluation, Paul Jen-Hwa Hu, et al. James Ma, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine(Impact Factor: 2.49), July 2007, 11(4), pp 483-492 Peer Reviewed Book Chapters 1. Time and Economic Burden of Comorbidities among COPD Inpatients, Jiaqi Liu, James Ma, Jiaojiao Wang, Daniel Zeng, Hongbin Song, Ligui Wang, and Zhidong Cao, Smart Health, Springer, 2015, pp 187-195 2. Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis and Its Applications in Infectious Disease Informatics, Daniel Zeng, James Ma, Hsinchun Chen, and Wei Chang, Business Computing, Emerald Group Publishing, 2009, pp. 207 3
3. Spatial-Temporal Cross-Correlation Analysis: A New Measure and A Case Study in Infectious Disease Informatics, James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Hsinchun Chen, Intelligence and Security Informatics, Springer Publishing, 2006, pp. 542-547 Work in Process 1. Dorm Transmission of 2009 Pandemic Influenza A (H1N1) among Students Isolated in A Six-Story Dormitory, Zhidong Cao, Yong Wang, Hongbing Song, Ligui Wang, James Ma, Jiaqi Liu, Jiaojiao Wang, and Daniel Zeng (co-second author), target Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 2. Creating Customer In-Store Movement Profiles for Real-Time Customer Segmentation, Ping Yan, Daniel Zeng, and James Ma, target Journal of Management Information Systems 3. Multiple Queue-based Web Caching Replacement Strategies, James Ma and Daniel Zeng, target Information Technology and Management 4. Income Upward Mobility Analysis: a Case Study using 9 Years Income Data from China, James Ma and Zhiguo Liu, target Journal of Finance and Economics Peer Reviewed Conference Articles 1. Geographical and Socioeconomic Disparity Analysis An Empirical Study of Hypertension and Its Comorbidities in China, James Ma, Jiaojiao Wang, Jiaqi Liu, and Zhidong Cao, Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2016), Kauai, HI, USA, January 5-8, 2016 2. Automatically Determining Web Site Comprehensibility, James Ma, Zhu Zhang, and Ray Garcia, Proceedings of the 16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2006), Milwaukee, WI, USA, December 9-10, 2006 3. Analyzing Software Function Call Graphs Using A Two-Phase Network Growth Model, James Ma, Daniel Zeng, and Michael Conover, Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on E- business (WeB 2006), Milwaukee, WI, USA, December 9, 2006 Invited Talks 1. June 2017: China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), Zhengzhou, Henan, China 2. April 2017: Front Range IS Research Seminar, University of Denver, Denver, CO 3. June 2016: College of Information Technology, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China 4. June 2016: College of Management, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, China 5. July 2015: Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, China 6. October 2014: Yuan Ze University, Taoyuan, Taiwan 7. October 2014: National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan 8. May July 2014: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Automation, Beijing, China 9. July 2014: Nankai Hospital, Tianjin, China 10. June 2014: Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, Henan, China 11. June 2014: Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, Henan, China 12. May 2014: Zhongyuan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, Henan, China 13. March 2010: Fujian University of Technology, Fuzhou, Fujian, China 4
GRANTS AND AWARDS Outstanding Teacher Award, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (2016) $5,000 SEED Research Grant from Colorado State University, Pueblo (2013-2014) $3,000 Faculty Development Research Grant from Colorado State University, Pueblo (2012-2014) $70,000 Research Funding from Huawei Technologies Inc. (2011) Dean s Teaching Award, University of Arizona (2008) Scholarship of Texas Public Education, University of Texas at Dallas (2000 2002) Scholarship of Excellent Activities, Peking University (1992 1995) SERVICE EXPERIENCES Information Director, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) Responsible for creating, maintaining and updating all information on the journal home page, including making any editorial board member changes in a timely manner Performed other tasks assigned by the Editor-in-Chief related to the journal s communications portfolio, such as posting Tables-of-Contents and calls for papers to mailing lists, and social media. International Student Recruiting Engaged in international student recruiting initiative for the Global Engagement Office (GEO) at UCCS Founder and owner of two Education Consulting Firms in USA and China Currently employed more than 40 full time employees and more than 80 part-time consultants Helped dozens of American institutions to recruit hundreds of Chinese students Conference Review Coordinator and Webmaster China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM), Kunming, China, June 29-30, 2008 Workshop on E-Business (WeB), Milwaukee, WI, USA, December 9, 2006 International Workshop on Digital Government Research and Practice (IntDG), Beijing, China, October 11-13, 2006 System Developer and Administrator Designed and implemented the Web-based Expertise Portal System for the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Implemented and maintained the Web site for Intelligent Systems and Decisions lab Reviewer Information Systems Research Information and Management INFORMS Journal on Computing IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE Intelligent Systems ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems 5
TECHNICAL SKILLS Languages: Java, C/C++, C#, ASP.NET, JSP, PHP, Python, Perl, HTML, SQL Servers: Solr, Lucene, Apache http, Apache Tomcat, IIS Architectural Design: UML, DFD Database Systems: MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MS-Access Data Analysis: SAS, Stata, SPSS, R Operating Systems: MS Windows, LINUX, MS-DOS Applications: Eclipse, Perforce, MS Visual Studio, Rational Rose, MatLab, Arena, MS Project, DreamWeaver, Flash, Photoshop ACCTIVITIES Department Head of Sports and Recreations, Chinese Academy of Sciences (1996 1998) Department Head of Student Recreations, Peking University (1992 1995) Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemistry Department, Peking University (1992 1995) 6