Zan Huang
was a doctoral candidate in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona. His research interests included: (1) data analysis and modeling research in recommender systems, bioinformatics, knowledge mapping, and financial applications and (2) human-computer interaction issues. He published his work on these research areas in seven journal papers in ACM Transactions on Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing, and Journal of Nanoparticale Research. He worked in in the Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab, where he was involved in several NSF/NIH funded research projects. He also taught MIS undergraduate courses: Business Data Communications and Introduction to Basic Operations Management. He received a B.Eng. in Management Information Systems from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2000.