Mike Hills
(Advisory) Co-Chair
Poster Chair

College of Information Sciences and Technology
Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mkh179

A second year Ph.D. student, Mike’s research interests concern the role of technology in attrition and persistence in on-line distance learning environments. Mike has a B.S. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in Industrial Technology and an M.S. from Central Michigan University in Administration.

“I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.” – Confucius

Shaoke Zhang
Program Committee-Paper Presentation Chair

College of Information Sciences and Technology

Kang Zhao
Program Committee-Discussion Panel Chair

College of Information Sciences and Technology
Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/kxz134

Kang is now a second year Ph.D. student at IST. His research interests include intelligent agents and computational organizational science, especially multi-agent coalition formation through networks and agent-based models.

Mike Montalto-Rook
College of Education Rep.
Poster Co-Chair

College of Education
Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/mdm392

A second year Ph.D. student in Instructional Systems, Mike's research interests are in the areas of Learning Communities, Web 2.0, Technology Integration and Innovation, Interaction Design, Information Visualization, and E-Portfolios. Mike has a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.A. in Teaching, both from The College of New Jersey.

"As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." – Marianne Williamson

Honglu Du
Program Committee-Proceedings Chair

College of Information Sciences and Technology

Bo Yu
Web Master

College of Information Sciences and Technology

Kayla Hales
Faculty and Corporate Liaison

College of Information Sciences and Technology

Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch
College of Comminications Rep.

College of Communications
Website: www.personal.psu.edu/auo115

Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the College of Communications in the area of Media Effects. Her area of research is in how people communicate and affect each other's behaviors via mediated social networking and user-generated media and the social and psychological effects of these media. Recent work with colleagues has explored how Facebook's features can be used (or misused) for social support and how other website users affect e-commerce decisions.

Anna Wu
Program Committee - Demonstration Chair

College of Information Sciences and Technology
Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/auw133

Haibin Liu
Program Committee

College of Information Sciences and Technology
Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/hul150

Xiaoyan (Wendy) Xie
Program Committee

College of Information Sciences and Technology