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Lifetime Achievement Award for Professor Kwok-kee Wei

Professor Kwok-kee Wei, Chair Professor in the Department of Information Systems, and previously Dean of the College of Business, has been awarded the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems. The award, given under the auspices of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) Executive Committee, was presented at the ICIS Conference, 2015.

In their citation, AIS mentioned Professor Wei's success in his tenure as Dean of the College of Business, 2008-13. In particular, the near doubling of the Hong Kong Government's research grant awards during this time, and the near 25% increase in SSCI/SCI publications. This helped the College move up almost 30 places in the UTD business school research rankings.

The purpose of the LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in Information Systems, named after one of the world's first commercial applications of computing (The Lyons Electronic Office), is to recognise truly outstanding individuals in the information systems community, both academics and practitioners, who have made exceptional contributions to research in and/or the practice of information systems.

The LEO Award is a singular honour recognising seminal work by the award recipient.