Hongwei (Harry) Zhu Assistant Professor of Information Technology College of Business and Public Administration Old Dominion Univeristy Norfolk, VA 23529, USA +1 (757)683-5175 | fax: (757)683-5639 hzhu _at_ odu.edu | MrZhu _at_ mit.edu

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Bio

Dr. Hongwei Zhu is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology in the College of Business and Public Administration at Old Dominion University. Prior to joining ODU, he was a Research Scientist at MIT Information Quality Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Technology, Management and Policy from MIT.

Research

Research interests include all aspects of enabling effective management/use of information, e.g., Information Integration, IT strategy, Information Policy Economics, Information Quality, Data Mining, etc.

• Data quality and Web 2.0
• Quality of Data Standards (e.g., XBRL)
• Data and Services Integration

Selected Publications

[Sloan CISL Working Paper | DBLP | SSRN]

1. Zhu, H., Madnick, S.E. (2009) "Finding New Uses for Information", MIT Sloan Management Review, 2009-Summer, 50(4), 18-21.
   Excerpts from above appeared as: Hongwei Zhu and Stuart Madnick, "Turning data into opportunity: How can you make the most of all the data on the Web?" National Post, July 3, 2009 [ http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1757431]
2. Zhu, H., Madnick, S.E. (2009) "One Size does not Fit All: Legal Protection for Non-copyrightable Data", Communications of the ACM, 52(9), 123-128
3. Zhu, H., Madnick, S.E. (2009) "Reconciliation of Temporal Semantic Heterogeneity in Evolving Information Systems", Ingenierie des Systemes d'Information (Engineering Information Systems) (accepted)
4. Madnick, S.E., Wang, R., Lee, Y., Zhu, H. (2009) "Overview and Framework for Data and Information Quality Research", ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, 1(1).
5. Zhu, H., Madnick, S.E., Siegel, M. (2008) "An Economic Analysis of Policies for the Protection and Reuse of Non-Copyrightable Database Contents", Journal of Management Information Systems, 25(1), 199-232.
6. Zhu, H., Madnick, S.E., Siegel, M.D. (2008) "Enabling Global Price Comparison through Semantic Integration of Web Data", International Journal of Electronic Business, 6(4), 319-341.
7. Lee, Y., Pierce, E., Talburt, J., Wang, R., Zhu, H. (2007) "A Curriculum for Master's of Science in Information Quality", Journal of Information Systems Education, 18(2), 233-242.
8. Madnick, S.E., Zhu, H. (2006) "Improving Data Quality with Effective Use of Data Semantics", Data and Knowledge Engineering, 59(2), 460-475.
9. Maugis, V., Choucri, N., Madnick, S., Siegel, M., Gillett, S., Haghseta, F., Zhu, H., Best, M. (2005) "Global e-Readiness ¨C For What? Readiness for e-Banking", Information Technology for Development, 11(4), 313-342.

1. Zhu, H., Wu, H. (2009) "Sloppy Tags and Metacrap? Quality of User Contributed Tags in Collaborative Social Tagging Systems", 15th Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 6-9, San Francisco, California, USA.
2. 2. Zhu, H., Fu, L. (2009) "Towards Quality of Data Standards: Empirical Findings from XBRL," 30th International Conference on Information System (ICIS'09), December 15-18, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
3. Li, X., Madnick, S.E., Zhu, H., Fan, Y. (2009) "Reconciling Semantic Heterogeneity in Web Services Composition", 30th International Conference on Information System (ICIS'09), December 15-18, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
4. Li, X., Madnick, S.E., Zhu, H., Fan, Y. (2009) "Improving Data Quality for Web Services Composition", 7th International Workshop on Quality in Databases (QDB'09), August 24, Lyon, France.
5. Li, X., Madnick, S.E., Zhu, H., Fan, Y. (2009) "An Innovative Approach to Composing Web Services with Context Heterogeneity", IEEE 7th International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), July 6-10, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
6. Gannon, T. Madnick, S., Moulton, A., Siegel, M., Sabbouh, M., Zhu, H. (2009) "Framework for the Analysis of the Adaptability, Extensibility, and Scalability of Semantic Information Integration and the Context Mediation Approach", 42th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 5-8, Big Island, Hawaii, USA.
7. Zhu, H., Zhu, H. (2008) "An Iterative Multi-Strategy Approach to Classification", 9th International Symposium on Knowledge and Systems Sciences (KSS'08), December 11-12, Guangzhou, China.
8. Bhansali, S., Zhu, H. (2008) "Decreasing Returns to IT Investment? New Firm-Level Evidence from Post-Dot Com Boom 2003-2005 Period", In 16th European Conference on Information Systems (Golden W, Acton T, Conboy K, van der Heijden H, Tuunainen VK eds.), 539-550, Galway, Ireland, June 9-11. (ISBN 978-0-9553159-2-3).
9. Zhu, H., Madnick, S. (2007) "Semantic Integration Approach to Efficient Business Data Supply Chain", The 6th Workshop on eBusiness (WEB'07), December 9, Montreal, Canada.
10. Zhu, H., Zhu, H. (2007) "Clustering Analysis using Data Range Aware Seeding and Agglomerative Expectation Maximization", The 3rd International Conference on Signal-Image Technology and Internet-based Systems (SITIS'07), December 16-19, Shanghai, China.
11. Zhu, H., Madnick, S. (2007) "Scalable Interoperability Through the Use of COIN Lightweight Ontology", Ontologies-Based Databases and Information Systems (M. Collard Ed.), LNCS 4627, 37-50.

Teaching

• IT 430: Object Oriented Programming with Java (Software Engieering Elective)
• IT 461: Implementing Internet Applications
• IT 610: Information Technology Management (MBA core)
• IT 890: Seminar in Business Process and Enterprise Systems (Ph.D. core)

Service

• Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (2009)
• International Conference on Information Quality (2006, 2007, 2008)
• DASFAA Workshop on Managing Data Quality in Collaborative Information Systems (2007)
• Industry Symposium on Information Quality (2007)
• MIT Sloan School Workshop on Global e-Business (2003)

• Data Quality mini-track, Americas Conference on Information Systems (2009)
• Cambridge University Open Innovation Workshop (2008)
• International Conference on Information Quality (2005, 2007)
• Industry Symposium on Information Quality (2007)

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