EDUCATION
Ph.D., May 2002, Management Information Systems, University of Arizona

Master of Science, 1997, Atmospheric Science, University of Arizona.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• July 2002 - present, Assistant Professor, IS Department, Boston University

• Intramural Service
  • Undergraduate Student Advisor, Information Systems Department, Boston University, 2002-present
  • Faculty Adviser, Boston University Chinese Student Club, 2002-2006

PUBLICATIONS

1. B. Zhu and H. Chen (2007), “CommunicationGarden System: Visualizing a Computer Mediated Communication System to Facilitate Knowledge Management,” accepted by Decision Support Systems
2. B. Zhu and H. Chen (2005), “Using 3D Interfaces to Facilitate the Spatial Knowledge Retrieval: A Geo-referenced Knowledge Repository System,” Decision Support Systems, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 167-182.
3. T.-H. Ong, H. Chen, WK Sung, and B. Zhu (2005), "NewsMap: A Knowledge Map for Online News," Decision Support Systems, Vol. 39, No. 4, pp. 583-597.
4. B. Zhu and H. Chen (2005), “Information Visualization,” Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST), Vol. 39.
5. H. Chen, A.M. Lally, B. Zhu, and M. Chau (2003), “HelfpulMed: Intelligent Searching for Medical Information over the Internet, " Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 54, No. 7, 2003, pp. 683-694
6. B. Zhu, M. Ramsey, and H. Chen (2000), "Creating a Large-Scale Content-Based Air Photo Image Digital Library," IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Special Issue on Digital Library, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 163-167
7. B. Zhu and H. Chen (2000), "Validating a Geographical Image Retrieval System," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 51, No. 7, pp. 625-634.
8. B. Zhu, M. Ramsey, H. Chen, T. D. Ng, and B. Schatz (1999), "Creating a Large Scale Digital Library for Geo-Referenced Information,” D-Lib Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 7/8, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july99/07contents.html
9. M. Ramsey, H. Chen, and B. Zhu (1999), “A Collection of Visual Thesauri for Browsing Large Collections of Geographic Images," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 826-835

1. B. Zhu, Shankaranarayanan, G., Cai, Y. Integrating Data Quality Data into Decision-Making Process: an Information Visualization Approach. Proceedings of HCI International 2007.
2. B. Zhu and H. Chen, “NetVizer System: Supporting the Comprehension of Topological Features of a Social Network,” presented at 2nd Winter Information Systems (IS) Conference, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, March, 2005.
3. B. Zhu and B. Iyer (2003), “The Design for an Effective Knowledge Repository System,” Presented at Minnesota Symposium on Knowledge Management, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 2003.
4. B. Zhu and H. Chen (2001), “Social Visualization for Computer-Mediated Communication: A Knowledge Management Perspective,” Proceedings of Eleventh Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'01).
5. B. Zhu, M. Ramsey, H. Chen, R.V. Hauck, T. D. Ng, and B. Schatz (1999), "Creating a Large Scale Digital Library for Geo-Referenced Information,” Proceedings of Digital Library‘99, the 4th ACM Conference on Digital Libraries, Aug. pp. 11-14, 1999, pp. 260-261.
6. B. Zhu, M. Ramsey, H. Chen, R.V. Hauck, T. D. Ng, and B. Schatz (1999), "Support Concept-Based Multimedia Information Retrieval: A Knowledge Management Approach," Proceedings of ICIS’99, 20th Annual International Conference on Information Systems.

Book Chapter

B. Zhu and H. Chen, “Information Visualization for Decision Making,” in Handbook on Decision Support Systems, Edited by Frada Burstein and Clyde W. Holsapple, published by Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008.

Professional Presentation

B. Zhu, “Visualization for Effective Network Analysis,” presented at the conference for the Thirty Year Anniversary of the Department of Management Information Systems in University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, November, 2004.

Papers Under Review

1. B. Zhu and S. Watts, “Visualization of Network Information: The Impact of Task and Working Memory Capacity Differences,” Information Systems Research, second revision, revised and re-submitted in August 2007
2. B. Zhu, S. Watts, and H. Chen “NetVizer system: A concept visualization approach,” submitted to Decision Support System.
   

Working Papers

1. “Integrating Data Quality Data in Structured Decision Making: The Impact of task Complexity and Working Experience,” with Y.. Cai and G. Shankaranarayanan, to be submitted to Information Systems Research
2. “Visualizing Data Quality Metadata for Decision Support,” with Y.. Cai and G. Shankaranarayanan, to be submitted to Decision Support Systems
3. “Visualizing the Virtual Leadership: A Case Study,” with M. Gaynor
4. “Visualizing the Decision Making Process in Enron,” with Jennifer Xu
   

RESEARCH GRANT

• PI, B. Zhu, “Model Design for S&T Information Analysis System,” Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 01/2005-04/2005, $48k.

SPECIAL AWARDS and HONORS

• IBM Faculty Research Award, Amount: $40k, 2003
• Junior Faculty Research Fund, School of Management, Boston University, 2003-2004 , 2005-2006, and 2006-2007.
• Doctoral Consortium, Annual ACM CHI (Computer Human Interaction) Conference: Human Factors in Computing Systems, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2002.
• Graduate College Fellowship of University of Arizona, 1999-2000.
• Graduate Registration Scholarship, Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, 1999-2002.

PREFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Association for Information Systems (AIS)

EXTRAMURAL SERVICE