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RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Group
Decision Making, Group Decision Support Systems, Emergency Management
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
candidate, Information Systems, New Jersey Institute of Technology
, 2002-present
M.S.,
Management Information Systems, Nanjing University
, China, 2001
B.E.,
Computer Engineering, Soochow University, China, 1997
PUBLICATIONS
Mendonça, D., Y. Hu and Q. Gu (2007). "Cognitive-level
Support for Improvisation in Emergency Response."
Fourth International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response
and Management (ISCRAM), Delft, The Netherlands, 13-16 May.
Gu,
Q. and D. Mendonça (2006). "Group Information Foraging in Emergency
Response: An Illustration Incorporating Discrete-Event Simulation."
Winter Simulation Conference, Monterey, CA, USA, 3-6 December.
Gu, Q. (2006) "Group Information Seeking in
a Computer-simulated Environment: An Application to Emergency Response."
Accepted by the 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
Doctoral Consortium, Acapulco, Mexico, 3 August.
Gu,
Q. and D. Mendonça (2005). "Patterns of Group
Information-seeking in a Simulated Emergency Response Environment."
Second International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response
and Management (ISCRAM), Brussels, Belgium, 18-20 April.
Gu,
Q. and D. Mendonça. (2004) "Group Information-seeking Behavior in
Emergency Response: An Exploratory Study."
the
Fourth Annual SIG IS Cognitive Research Workshop, Washington, DC, 12
December.
Gu,
Q., D. Mendonça and D. Wu (2003). "An Exploration of
Information-seeking Behavior in Emergency Management." IEEE
International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Washington, DC,
5-8 October.
PAPER UNDER REVIEW
Gu, Q. and D. Mendonça. "Group Information
Foraging during
Emergency Response: A Process View." Submitted to Small Group Research.
PAPER IN PREPARATION
Chang, P., Q. Gu., Y. Hu, and D.
Mendonça. "EMPROV Virtual Workspace: Simulation, Shared Spaces and
Information Management to Support Online Learning." Prepared for IEEE
Transactions on Education.
OTHER
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
¨CGu, Q. and D.
Mendonça. "Group Information Seeking Behavior in Emergency
Response." Presentation at the Institute for Operations Research
and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting,
Pittsburgh, PA, 5-8 November, 2006.
Gu, Q. and D. Mendonça. "Group
Information Seeking: An Application to Emergency Response Decision
Making." Presentation at Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual
Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 18-21 November, 2006.
Gu,
Q. "Muddling Through: Information Search During
Emergencies." Poster presentation on Provost's Student Research Day,
New Jersey Institute of Technology,
13 April, 2005.
Gu,
Q. "Group Information-seeking in Risky, Time-constrained Situations:
An Application to Emergency Response." Research proposal accepted for
Ph.D. Student
Research Workshop at the IS CoRE Workshop,
Washington, DC, 12 December, 2004.
TEACHING
ACTIVITIES
Instructor,
New Jersey Institute of Technology, September 2002-December 2004, January
2007-May 2007
IS431 Database
Design, Management and Applications, Spring 2007
CIS280 Programming
Language Concepts, Fall 2002, Spring 2003
CIS465 Advanced
Information Systems, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004
Lab
Tutor, Nanjing University, China, September 1999-June 2001
Lab instructor for
undergraduate courses on Office Automation, Database and C/C++
programming
WORKING
EXPERIENCE
Research
Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology, January 2005-December 2006
National
Science Foundation CAREER Grant:
Improvisation in Response to Extreme Events
(Principal
Investigator:
David Mendonça)
Intern,
Nanjing University, June-September 1999
Programmed
in the Student Management System of Nanjing University
Software
Developer, Economic Information Center of Jiangsu Province, China, August
1997-September 1998
Worked
in a team for three Client/Server Systems Design and Development (VB,
VFP, Delphi/SQL Server)
TECHNICAL
SKILLS
Data
analysis: SAS, SPSS, MS Excel.
DBMS:
MS SQL Server, MySQL, MS Access, and FoxPro.
Programming
Languages: C, C++, BASIC, PASCAL, FORTRAN, VB, JAVA, Lingo, LISP and SQL.
Web
application: CGI, ASP, PHP, HTML/DHTML, JavaScript,
VBScript, Java Applet.
Modeling: ACT-R, Arena.
MEMBERSHIPS
Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences (INFORMS); Decision Sciences Institute (DSI);
Association for Information Systems (AIS).
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