Cheng Hsu (Ph.D.)

Dr. Cheng Hsu is a Professor of Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems and Professor of Information Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY12180-3590. He earned a Ph.D. degree from the Ohio State University in Management Sciences (with a minor in Computer Science), and MS and BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Ohio State University and Tunghai University, respectively. He served on Rensselaer's Faculty Council, Faculty Senate, and various committees in research and curricula development (e.g., the Institute-wide BS-IT and MS-IT). He has been a keynote speaker to a number of international meetings in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Italy, and Canada, as well as in the US.

Dr. Hsu is currently engaging in research on service science, with a focus on design.. He developed a thoery of service scaling and transformation in a new book, in which he investigates the notion of population oriented cocreation being a transforming mode of production for Knowledge Economy. A model of Digital Connections Scaling is developed to characterize the newness of service and help analyze new busness designs. The design is concerned with cocreation IS that scales to the populations of customers, providers, and resources, and hence new approaches are needed: He is working on cyber-enabled design and embedding IS elements into societal cyber-infrastructure. Some new results, such as Modelbase and instrumentation of the environments (using, e.g., RFID systems, wireless sensor networks) help implement these approaches. His other ongoing research includes Cyber-Infrastructure-Assisted Enterprises, hyper-networks for new value propositions, global logistics, and information exchange among collaborating enterprises. He is a pioneer on person-centered e-commerce/e-business models.

Dr. Hsu is the originator of the Metadatabase and Two-Stage Entity-Relationship Models; which have contributed to the research reported in this Web site, Enterprise Integration and Modeling. He has been a principal investigator of Rensselaer's Computer-Integrated Manufacturing and Adaptive Integrated Manufacturing programs, and a number of other government- and industry-sponsored projects. The sponsors include companies such as Alcoa, Digital, GE, GM, IBM, and Samsung Electronics, and government sources such as the U.S. National Science Foundation, Army Research, New York State, and NATO.

Dr. Hsu teaches Databases, e-Business engineering, Information Systems, and manufacturing systems. His publications include five books and over a hundred scholarly papers in a number of archivaljournals and proceedings. He is a member of AIS, IEEE and ASEE. He has served and continue to serve on the editorial board for several journals and organizations, including, e.g., IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.

• Departmental Contact Information: DSES
• Email Address: hsuc at rpi dot edu