Prof. L. Roger Yin, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA
Dr. L. Roger Yin is a Professor of Information Technology and Co-Director of Cyber Security Center for Business in the College of Business and Economics at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA. Dr. Yin serves as a Co-PI of a US$2M Dept. of Labor grant for establashing public-private collaboration on creating a Cybersecurity apprenticeship program. Roger was the recipient of Hermsen Teaching Award of 2015-16 of the Business School at UW-Whitewater. Roger grew up in Taipei City and earned a B.E. in Environmental Engineering from National Chung-Hsin University in Taiwan. He holds both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. He has earned industry certifications including CPHIMS, CISA, CISM, CGEIT, GSNA, and ITIL-F. Dr. Yin possesses multidisciplinary educational and professional experiences in Engineering, Education, Cognitive Science, Business, Healthcare, and Information Technology. Roger presently serves as Director of Academic Affairs on the Board of Directors of Wisconsin Chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). He has been actively involved in the IT space for more than 25 years including work as Application Developer, Manager, Corporate Trainer, Consultant, Researcher, and Educator. Dr. Yin has published more than 40 refereed journal articles and presented more than 50 papers in national and international conference on and related to Information Technology. From 2006 to 2009, Dr. Yin was elected the President of Organizational Systems Research Association, also a SIG affiliated with Association for Information Systems (AIS). Roger’s teaching and research interests are interdisciplinary that include cybersecurity management, IT governance & risk management, healthcare IT, e-learning systems for professional training and development, and Blockchain Technologies.
Prof. Paitoon Kraipornsak, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Dr Paitoon Kraipornsak is a Professor of
Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok,
Thailand. He received a Bachelor’s degree in
Economics with minor in Statistics in 1980 from
Thammasat University, Bachelor of Laws from
Sukhothai Thammathirat University in 1987. He
also received a Master of Economics of
Development in 1991 and PhD in Economics from
Australian National University in 1995 by
holding the full sponsor scholarship of the
Australian Agency for International Development,
Australian Government, under the Colombo plan,
1988-1993.
He worked as a policy and planned analyst with
the Office of the National Economic and Social
Development Board (NESDB) from 1981 to 1995. His
responsibility was in the area of education
policy and planning as a part of the National
Economic and Social Development Plan. Before he
left the Planning Office, he worked for the
specific economic development zone and Greater
Mekong Subregional Economic Cooperation Plan.
Professor Paitoon is currently working with the
Faculty of Economics at Chulalongkorn University
from 1995 until now. His work and interests are
in the areas of Macroeconomics, Economic Policy
and Plan, Economics of Development, and Applied
Econometrics. He was a visiting researcher at
Faculty of Business and Economics, Keio
University, Tokyo. The research supported by
Joint Research Program between Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science (JSPS) and National
Research Council of Thailand (NCRT) entitled
"The Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment
on Productivity and Growth" on 12 October to 4
November 2001. In 2008, he was a guest lecturer
for Maastricht MBA Program Intake 11A, the joint
Master of Business Administration Program
conducting in Vietnam between the Ho Chi Minh
City University of Technology (HUT, Vietnam) and
the Maastricht School of Management (MSM, The
Netherlands) Managerial Economics from 6
December to 11 December 2008. Occasionally, he
has served as a reviewer of Journals, referee of
academic positions in universities, a committee
in some government offices including the present
chair of the subcommittee for the research of
Office of the National Anti-Corruption
Commission.