Faculty

CTI Director

Dijo Alexander is a seasoned technology executive and practitioner scholar who specializes in technology management, digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI). As a Teaching Professor, he teaches courses that explore leveraging data, analytics and AI to capture business value. Dijo’s research interests are in the application of data and decision sciences in reshaping business operating models. He is currently investigating how emerging AI capabilities can help overcome traditional business constraints on scale, speed and scope for incumbent firms to realize exponential growth.

Prior to his academic career at the Lubar College of Business, Dijo held various engineering and management leadership positions at a wide range of firms from his eLearning startup with a team of 20 to the largest ERP software company with more than 100,000 employees. He has architected multiple SaaS products in CRM, Field Service and Learning Management with globally distributed teams in his product management and engineering leadership roles at SAP, CallidusCloud, BridgeFront. IFS and Dematic. Dijo is currently participating in multiple tech startup initiatives that attempt to integrate innovations in predictive and generative AI for enterprise business reengineering.

Faculty Affiliates

Faculty at the Lubar College of Business offer a breadth and diversity of expertise across the information technology field and are recognized among top IT researchers nationwide. With advanced training and doctorates from many of the country’s leading universities, CTI-affiliated faculty can assist businesses and other organizations with the unique IT challenges they face. Lubar faculty in information technology management, supply chain, and accounting also provide expertise in enterprise resource planning, with a specific focus on SAP.

• Cheng Chen
  Dr. Cheng Chen is collaborating on a project that investigates social TV activity by exploiting a large-scale television program, Super Bowl. In this project, he and his co-researchers examine the impact of television-program-induced emotional shocks and find a significant effect on the arousal and valence of viewers’ online word-of-mouth toward commercial ads. Their work provides clear and practical implications on media buying strategies for advertisers, as it suggests that advertisers and television networks should be cognizant of the emotional states of advertisements and programming content when placing ads, and aligning ad emotion with TV content emotion could render some synergies.
• Yang Wang
  Dr. Wang collaborates with online retailers and service providers and helps them develop artifacts that address various business problems. One project he has been involved in is the design of a product review platform for an outdoor gear and clothing retailer. By adding new review functions that allow buyers to evaluate the fit of apparel goods, the company obtained a significant drop in product return rates. The long-term goal is to build a fit profile for individual customers and make personalized product attribute-based recommendations.
• Huimin Zhao
  Dr. Zhao’s current research interests include data mining and healthcare informatics. His recent work focuses on patient hospital readmission risk and cost prediction, financial risk prediction for individuals and companies, crowdfunding success prediction, online review attractiveness prediction, and potential reviewer prediction, leveraging multimodal data from diverse sources.

CTI Faculty & Staff Affiliates

Nazareth, Derek

• Associate Professor, Information Technology Management

• derek@uwm.edu
• 414-229-6822
• Lubar Hall N357

Sinha, Atish P.

• Rockwell Automation Endowed Professor in Connected Systems
• Professor, Information Technology Management
• Academic Director, Connected Systems Institute

• sinha@uwm.edu
• 414-229-3301
• Lubar Hall N363

Srite, Mark

• Professor, Information Technology Management
• Special Assistant to the Provost for Space Planning, Academic Affairs

• msrite@uwm.edu
• 414-229-5502
• Lubar Hall N365

Wang, Yang

• Assistant Professor, Information Technology Management

• wang400@uwm.edu
• 414-229-5736
• Lubar Hall N345

Zhao, Huimin

• Professor, Information Technology Management
• Church Mutual Insurance Faculty Scholar in ITM
• Roger L. Fitzsimonds Distinguished Scholar

• hzhao@uwm.edu
• 414-229-6524
• Lubar Hall N343

Zweifel, Andrea

• Administrative Specialist, Center for Technology Innovation & SAP University Competence Center

• zandrea@uwm.edu
• 414-229-3992
• Lubar Hall N334B