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Professor Keng-leng Siau receives AIS Fellow Award

Congratulations to Professor Keng-leng Siau, Head of the Department of Information Systems and Chair Professor of Information Systems, for being selected as an Association for Information Systems (AIS) Fellow Award recipient.

This award is in recognition of all of the valuable contributions Professor Siau has made to AIS and to the field of information systems during his distinguished career. Being named an AIS Fellow is one of the highest academic honours conferred on prominent practitioners in the IS field, and is in recognition of extraordinary contributions to the discipline in research, teaching, and service.

Professor Siau has more than 350 academic publications. According to Google Scholar, he has a citation count of more than 18,500. He is consistently ranked as one of the top information systems researchers globally based on his h-index and productivity rate. He is on Stanford University's list of the top 2% most-cited scientists in the world (he is ranked in the top 1%). Professor Siau took up a number of academic leadership roles in the US before joining CityU. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Database Management and a Senior Editor of the Industrial Management & Data Systems journal. He has been involved in projects totalling more than US$6 million, and his research has been funded by NSF, IBM, NSFC, and other business organizations.

His many contributions to IS discipline are much valued and the College of Business extends its warmest congratulations to Professor Siau for his exceptional achievements.