Hsiang-Jui Kung

— Biography from the 2022 Spring Commencement program —

Dr. Kung earned his MS in Computer Science from Northwestern University (1990) and his Ph.D. in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1997). He joined Georgia Southern University in 2001. In 2019, Dr. Kung received the Jean C. and David G. Spoolstra Faculty Award. He was also awarded Summer Research Grants from the Parker College of Business in 2002, 2011 and 2012. He earned SAP ERPsim Certifcation in 2011 and SAP TERP10 Business Associate Certifcation in 2009. Dr. Kung has published more than 50 peer reviewed articles covering basic, applied and pedagogical research and published in elite journals such as European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Information Technology, Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, and Journal of Information Systems Education. He is one of the founding faculty members for the BSIS undergraduate ERP concentration and has developed four SAP ERP courses covering undergraduate and graduate levels. He also developed an innovative database teaching method and a webbased tool to help students learn relational database normalization and design concepts, publishing four pedagogical research papers about the techniques and tool. Tese papers have been downloaded more than a thousand times from the Association for Information Systems Electronic Library. Since his tenure at Georgia Southern, Dr. Kung has served on several University-level committees including the Grievance Committee, Faculty Welfare Committee, Calendar Committee, Graduate Curriculum Committee, and Academic Assessment Steering Committee. At the college-level, he has served on the Education Outcome Assessment Committee, Student Retention, Graduation, and Instructional Resources Committee, Development, Promotion, and Tenure Committee, Governance Committee, Graduate Curriculum Program Committee, Student Instructional Resource Committee, and Technical and Instructional Resources Committee. He also has led the department Honors and Recognition Committee and Graduate Curriculum Committee as the Chair. On a broader professional level, Dr. Kung has held multiple leadership roles, such as Secretary, VP of Publication, President, and Director for the Association for Chinese Management Educators (ACME) to build a network of management (business) scholars and practitioners from the US and Asia Pacifc countries. He had served as program Chair, proceedings Chair, and track Chair for the International Conference of Pacifc Rim Management. He is an associate editor of International Journal of Management Teory and Practices and is on the editorial board of Journal of Information Systems Education and Journal of Information, Information Technology, and Organization. He has been involved with many professional associations, reviewing for journals and conferences, and chairing research sessions. For these contributions to the University, students and the profession, Dr. Hsiang-Jui Kung is deserving of the title Professor Emeritus of Enterprise Systems and Analytics.*