Qing Gu

Information Systems Department

College of Computing Sciences

New Jersey Institute of Technology

University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102

Phone: (973)596-5655

Email: qg3@njit.edu

Web: http://web.njit.edu/~qg3

My Curriculum Vitae 
 
CERTIFICATE

SAS Certified Advanced Programmer

TEACHING

IS431

CIS465

CIS280

LINKS

EMPROV Virtual Community

ACT-R

Cognitive Science Society

INFORMS

DSI

AIS

ISCRAM

ISWorld

UCLA Stat Computing

SAS Support Center

Xin Chen's Website

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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