K.D. Joshi, Editor-in-Chief, is a Professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. Earlier, she was the Philip L. Kays Distinguished Professor of Information Systems and Department Chair at Washington State University. Her research focuses on underserved and underrepresented communities in IT Workforce, Broadening Participation in STEM, Knowledge Management, Crowdsourcing, Value Sensitive Designs, and Health IT. She has received grants totaling over $5M from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Her research has appeared in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and Decision Support Systems. Her published research has been cited over 7,600 times (h-index 33). She is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Data Base for Advances in Information Systems and Foundations and Trends in Information Systems. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Information Systems Journal and the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. Her research has been featured in media outlets such as PBS NewsHour, Salon.com, Vancouver Business Journal, London School of Economic Business Review, Puget Sound Business Journal, and Military.com. |
Xuefei (Nancy) Deng, Co-Editor-in-Chief, is Professor of Information Systems in the College of Business Administration and Public Policy at California State University, Dominguez Hills, a minority-serving four-year public university. She received her Ph.D. degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and MBA degree from American University in Washington, DC. Her research interests include crowdsourcing, digital and social media, IS workforce, first-generation college students, and digital inclusion. Her research work has been published in journals such as in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information Technology & People, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems, among others. She has been serving as Associate Editor (AE) for the journals -Information and Organization and Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce since 2014 and AE for ACM Transactions on Social Computing since 2020. Her editorial experiences also include serving as guest editor for the HICSS special issue of ACM Transactions on Social Computing for three consecutive years (2018-2020). |
Mina Jafarijoo, Operations Editor, is an Assistant Professor of Computer Information Systems (CIS) in the School of Business at Stockton University, Galloway, NJ. She earned her Ph.D. in Management Information Systems (MIS) from Washington State University. She completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Electrical Engineering and obtained the Executive M.B.A. degree as well. Her research interests include the role of IT governance in business value, particularly in disruptive and emergent IT-related phenomena such as cloud computing. Her work has been accepted for publication in the proceedings of several highly prestigious information systems conferences. She is currently the Operations Editor of the Data Base for Advances in Information Systems. She has professional experience working for fifteen years in the industry as a Senior Network Engineer at Informatics Services Corporation (ISC), a community cloud computing provider and the most prominent electronic banking organization in the Middle East Region. |
Jessica Assink, Managing Editor, is a professor of English at Houston Community College. She received her M.A. in English from Baylor University, where she taught writing, literature, and communications courses for more than ten years. Her areas of expertise include technical writing, business communications, and nineteenth-century British literature. |