Leon's Short Bio:
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Dr. J. Leon Zhao is Eller Professor in MIS and Director of EPIC Lab, University of Arizona and taught previously
at HKUST and College of William and Mary, respectively. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the Haas
School of Business, UC Berkeley, M.S. degree from UC Davis, and B.S. degree from Beijing Institute of
Agricultural Mechanization.
His research is on information technology and management, with a particular
focus on workflow technology and applications in knowledge distribution, e-learning, supply chain management,
organizational performance management, and services computing.
Leon's research has been supported by NSF, SAP, and other sponsores.
He received an IBM Faculty Award in 2005 for his work in business process management and services computing.
Leon has been an associate editor of Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Electronic
Commerce Research and Applications, International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management,
International Journal of Web and Grid Services, and International Journal of Web Services Research and
is on the editorial board of Journal of Database Management.
He has co-edited nine special issues in various IS journals.
Leon has been a chair or program chair for several conferences including the First
China Summer Workshop on Information Management (2007), the IEEE Conference on Services Computing (2006),
the 15th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (2005),  and the Workshop on E-Business (2003)
among others.
He has also served on numerous program committees in international conferences.
Leon has published about 40 articles in various journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research,
INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of MIS, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems,
Information Systems Frontier, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and IEEE Transactions
on Engineering Management.
His work has also appeared in over 70 refereed conference papers.