Lina Zhou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Beijing University, China, in 1998. From 1999 to 2002, she was a research scientist at the Center for the Management of Information, University of Arizona. Her research interests center around text mining, deception detection, machine translation, and ontology learning. Her work has been accepted and/or published in journals such as Communications of the ACM, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Group Decision and Negotiation, Knowledge and Information Systems, Journal of Computer Processing of Oriental Languages, Journal of Advanced Software Research, and Computers in Human Behavior. She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Database Management, and is a referee for the Journal of Management Information Systems, the Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, and among others.

Education

Ph.D. 1998 Beijing University, China, Computer Science
M.S. 2001 The University of Arizona, Management Information Systems
M.S. 1994 Shanxi University, Computer Science
B.S. 1987 Shanxi University, Computer Science

Experience in Higher Education

2002 - present University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Assistant Professor, Information Systems
1999 - 2002 The University of Arizona, Research Scientist, Management of Information
1997 - 1998 Beijing University, China, Research Associate, Computer Science
1996 - 1997 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Research Assistant, Computing
1994 - 1996 Beijing University, China, Research Associate, Computer Science
1991 - 1994 Shanxi University, China, Research Assistant, Computer Science
1993 - 1994 Shanxi University, China, Instructor, Computer Science

Honors Received

HICSS 2003 (Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences) Best Paper Award.
Student Leadership Award, Shanxi University, China, 1993.
Third Prize, National Science & Technology Invention Competition of University Students, Shanghai, 1992
Honor of Outstanding Student, Shanxi University, China, 1987-1992
Undergraduate Scholarship Recipient, Shanxi University, China, 1987-1991

Research Support and/or Fellowships

2001 - 2002 $3,000,000, AFOSR (Air Force Office of Scientific Research), DoD, Senior Researcher.
2000 - 2002 $250,000, Ford Foundation, Senior Researcher.
1999 - 2001 $350,000, U.S. Army, Senior Researcher.
1999 - 2000 $200,000, DESCIM (Defense Environmental Security Corporate Information Management), DoD, Senior System Programmer.