This page features short news items and basic contact information for our IS Doctoral Program Graduates. For further information regarding Information Systems organizations/people around the world (including many of our IS alumni) see AIS.
If you are one of our alums and have a news item or update to share, please email the IS Secretary or see the IS Area home page for postal mailing address. Include your current professional position and affiliation plus your email and complete web page addresses (alumni news is updated quarterly).
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Information Systems Doctoral Program Alumni
Following are our Doctoral Program Alumni since 1970:
News from Our Alumni
Please submit your news items/upates to: marco.alvarado@anderson.ucla.edu
||||| Elazar Harel
After serving the University of California for more than 33 years, I have decided to retire effective April 2013. UC has been my home for most of my life, starting with grad school at UCLA where I earned my doctoral degree, continuing with 16 years as IT director at UCLA, 14 years as CIO at UCSD and, last but not least, 3 exciting years as Vice Chancellor and CIO at UCSF.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my work at UCSF and hope that you have positively experienced how well-coordinated effective IT services can enhance your own work life. The best part of my tenure at UCSF has been the privilege of meeting and working with many of you, with a focus on fostering partnerships and encouraging collaborative teamwork. I believe that IT@UCSF is now in excellent shape and is well positioned to further improve services, open doors to new initiatives, and enhance productivity. We have accomplished a lot in the past three years. None of these accomplishments would have been possible without the outstanding IT leaders across all of UCSF and the trust that you have bestowed on us to deliver on our promises. I am honored to have served this wonderful institution with you.
The campus leadership will soon discuss the next steps and I will do my best to assure a smooth transition as I move to the next phase of my life. What will this next phase be, you may ask... Well, I still don't know what I will do when I grow up and the blessing of being able to think about and explore new areas of interest is very exciting to me.
I wish you and yours all the best.
[Submitted 1/10/13]
||||| Ping Wang
Last summer, I completed my first sabbatical and became the director of PhD program at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies. I presented my new research at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Boston and ICIS in Orlando. More details are on my personal website: http://terpconnect.umd.edu/~pwang/
It was very nice seeing many of you in Shanghai, Boston, and Orlando. Please stay well and keep in touch!
[Submitted 1/11/13]
