The Department of Information Systems comprises faculty who are active in a variety of research areas, including collaborative technology, human–computer interfaces, virtual teamwork, e-business, knowledge management, and technology-supported learning, as well as emerging technology areas such as wireless collaboration. The IS faculty currently includes 13 faculty members, with two holding distinguished professorships. Faculty have served, or currently serve, on the editorial boards of journals such as Management Information Systems Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and the Academy of Management Journal. Faculty have also served in leadership positions for our major academic conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), the Academy of Management, and as members of the profession's international information systems curriculum and accreditation boards. The IS department at WSU was the host university for ICIS 2003, the premier research conference for the information systems field, an honor given only to elite universities in the discipline. A recent benchmarking analysis has ranked the MIS program at WSU as one of the top 20 programs in the nation for research published in the premier MIS journals.
Full Professors
Mark Fuller
Mark A. Fuller is the Chair of the Department of Information Systems at Washington State University, and holds the Philip L. Kays Distinguished Professorship in Information Systems. His research focuses on virtual teamwork, technology supported learning, and trust and efficacy in technology-mediated environments, and has appeared in outlets such as Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Sciences, and Decision Support Systems.
Joe Valacich
Joseph S. Valacich is the Hubman Distinguished Professor of MIS at Washington State University. His primary research interests include technology-mediated collaboration, human-computer interaction, mobile and emerging technologies, e-business, and distance education. He is a prolific researcher, with more than 70 journal publications in numerous prestigious journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Management Science, Academy of Management Journal, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences, Journal of MIS, Journal of Applied Psychology, and many others.
Associate Professors
Nancy W. Ashley
Nancy W. Ashley is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at the Tri-Cities campus of Washington State University. Her research focuses on database design, interfaces for diagramming techniques, and software to support commercialization of technology, and has appeared in outlets such as Journal of International Technology and Information Management, and International Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Change Management.
Traci Hess
Traci J. Hess is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at Washington State University. Her research interests include human-computer interaction, decision support technologies, and user acceptance of information systems and she has published her research in journals such as Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, and the Database for Advances in Information Systems. She serves as an associate editor for the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and on the editorial board for the AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction.
K. D. Joshi
K. D. Joshi is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Washington State University. Dr. Joshi’s research interests focus on knowledge management and IT workforce issues. Her research has appeared in journals such as Decision Support Systems, DATABASE, IEEE Transactions, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Strategic Information Systems. She has received multiple research grants from the National Science Foundation to conduct her research. Dr. Joshi currently serves on the editorial review board of the International Journal of Knowledge Management and as an Associate Editor of the Communications of the AIS and JOCEC.
Gregory Rose
Gregory Rose is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at Washington State University Vancouver. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from Georgia State University, an M.B.A. from Binghamton University, and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Vermont. His research has appeared in more than 25 academic outlets such as MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Accounting, Management and Information Technologies, the European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Global Information Management, and Communications of the AIS.
Saonee Sarker
Saonee Sarker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at Washington State University. Her research focuses on globally-distributed software development teams and other types of computer-mediated groups, technology adoption by groups, technology-mediated learning, and information technology capability of global organizations, and has appeared in outlets such as Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
Suprateek Sarker
Suprateek Sarker is an Associate Professor of Information Systems & Parachini Faculty Fellow at Washington State University. His research focuses on utilizing qualitative methodologies to study IT-enabled organizational change, global IS management, and virtual and mobile collaboration, and has appeared in outlets such as the Journal of AIS, Journal of MIS, IEEE Transactions, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, DATABASE, and Communications of the ACM. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals including the MIS Quarterly.
John Wells
John D. Wells is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems at Washington State University. His research focuses on Business-to-Consumer (B2C) interface design, eCommerce customer relationship management (eCRM), and eCommerce strategy, and has appeared in outlets such as Journal of Management Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, and Communications of the ACM.
Assistant Professors
Paul Clay
Paul F. Clay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at Washington State University. His research interests include knowledge management, structuration, and issues of fit among business processes, technology and individual workers. His research has appeared in Information Systems Research, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and the proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.
Mauricio Featherman
Mauricio S. Featherman is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems at Washington State University. His research focuses on the effective usage of information technology in e-Commerce contexts, how consumers form assessments of the risks and benefits of e-commerce transactions, and human-computer interface design. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and the Information Systems Journal, as well as in several international conferences.
Wilfred Wu
Wilfred W. Wu is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Washington State University Vancouver. Professor Wu received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Oklahoma. His research focuses on project management practices, systems development innovations, and strategic and implementation issues concerning IT deployment within organizations, and has appeared in outlets such as the International Journal of Management Theory and Practices, Information Systems and Change Management, and Computers in Human Behavior.
