Online Learning & Education Research Team (Currently Active)
Dr. Anna Ni is the Associate Dean of the JHB College of Business and Public Administration, the director of accreditation, and the OLRT co-leader. She is a full professor of Public Administration and her areas are policy analysis, public administration, and methodology. She is a well-regarded scholar who has been publishing on topics related to online education for a decade (e.g., Ni, 2013).
Dr. Monty Van Wart is a professor of Public Administration, former chair of both Public Administration and the Educational Leadership and Technology departments, and Interim Dean of the College. He has over 150 publications and 9,000 Google scholar citations. Dr. Van Wart is a long-time champion of high-quality online teaching supported by state-of-the-art online research. As a gay man, he has been an active supporter and leader in diversifying faculty recruitment through setting a robust agenda.
Dr. Pamela Medina is an associate professor of public administration in the Jack Brown College of Business and Public Administration. Her areas of interest include social equity, public participation, technology, and nonprofit management. Her work has been published in areas including the Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, the International Journal of Policy Studies, and Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
Dr. Jing Zhang is an Associate Professor of Management who has been highly involved in online learning research for several years. Graduating from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. in industrial and organizational psychology, Dr. Zhang has published in top-tier management and psychology journals including the Journal of Vocational Behaviors and Human Resources Management Review.
Dr. Yu Liu is an Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance who has been highly involved in online learning research for several years as an original member of the Online Learning Research Team. He earned his Ph.D. in Business/Real Estate from Georgia State University. Dr. Liu's research focuses on financial data analysis and methodology, and commercial real estate. His research papers have been widely published in the top-tier real estate and finance journals, such as the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, and the International Review of Financial Analysis.
Dr. Jesus Canelon is an assistant professor of Information and Decision Sciences. He holds a doctoral degree in Information Systems and Technology from Claremont Graduate University. Dr. Canelon has grant-funded more than $80.000 for Cyberlab (A cyber range that supports hundreds of students 24/7 with virtual workspace for hands-on activities such as networking, forensics, ethical hacking, and cloud-based training). Dr. Canelon was certified as a “Quality in Learning Technologies “(QLT) instructor. He also holds Security+ and ethical hacker certifications.
Dr. Miranda McIntyre is an Associate professor in psychology at CSUSB, and acts as the Vice Chair of her department. Dr. McIntyre is an active researcher with published work on the scholarship of teaching and learning, STEM education, and student well-being. Her specialty in psychology is individual differences. Some of her published work focuses on selective attention, self-monitoring, and the role of interest in memory for STEM topics.
Dr. Yunfei Hou is an Associate professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at CSUSB and associate director at Leonard Transportation Center. His current research interests include applications in transportation cyber-physical systems, data and information analysis, and STEM education—in particular online education and labs. Recent projects span areas such as vehicular sensing in smart cities, traffic management with connected vehicle technologies, transportation cybersecurity and data science education.
Dr. Gölge Seferoğlu is a professor and the coordinator of the MA in TESOL program at CSUSB. She holds MA, EdM, and EdD degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University in TESOL and Applied Linguistics. Before joining CSUSB, Dr. Seferoğlu worked as a professor at Middle East Technical University in Turkey for 23 years and trained thousands of teachers while supervising 44 MA and Ph.D. theses. In the meantime, she has been published in respected journals and has been cited extensively. Dr. Seferoğlu has received many outstanding academic performance awards and most recently the "2022-23 Outstanding Faculty Award" for Outstanding Research, Scholarly, and Creative Contribution.
Dr. Lewis Njualem is an Assistant Professor in the department of Information and Decision Sciences at California State University, San Bernardino. He earned his Ph.D. in Systems and Engineering Management from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Prior to joining California State University San Bernardino, Dr. Njualem served as Assistant Professor of Production and Operations Management at University of Minnesota Duluth. He also brings over 16 years of industry experience. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Njualem worked as an enterprise resource planning systems consultant in areas of materials management, production planning and plant maintenance. Dr. Njualem is an APICS ASCM Certified Supply Chain Professional and an SAP Certified Application Associate in Planning and Manufacturing with SAP ERP 6.0.
Dr. Yingzhuo (Joyce) Fu, is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Statistics, at University of California, Riverside (UCR). She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics at UCR. Previously worked as a data scientist in MarketShare, LA then taught Data Science in NYU Shanghai. Her core teaching philosophy is that intrinsic motivation brings out the best learning experience. She was involved in two online courses development before the pandemic, gained extensive online teaching training with UCR RCC fund and is now continuing to teach online courses to large audiences while dedicating to online teaching research to keep improving students' learning outcome. Her research interests are in the areas of data mining, change-point detection for discrete data with various applications in network surveillance, digital marketing, consumer behavior analysis with big data.
Dr. Youngsu Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at California State University San Bernardino. Before joining CSUSB, he served as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Arkansas and the University of California, Riverside. In addition to his interest in mathematics, Dr. Kim enjoys learning about machine learning with students.
Dr. Hani Aldirawi is an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at CSUSB, Dr. Aldirawi earned his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. His current research interests include modeling microbiome data, variable selection, regression analysis, technology adoption, and STEM education.
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