| Research Strategy
Information Technology is becoming increasingly critical to the core operations of businesses while at the same time innovative business applications are constantly leading to spectacular technological advancements in IT. This provides the backdrop for the SIS research mission, which is to address deep technology challenges and management issues in information systems that have the potential to transform the way business operates.
We are pursuing state-of-the-art work in the following five carefully selected areas:
• Data management and business intelligence
• Information security and trust
• Software systems, architecture and integration
• Intelligent decision support systems
• IS management
SIS provides an exceptionally supportive research and educational environment for pursuing interdisciplinary work across these five areas.
Real-world industry sectors provide SIS with a test-bed and laboratory for experimentation, as well as a fertile breeding ground for new ideas. We encourage and motivate our faculty and students to apply their research results to solving real problems in the context of industry settings, and to creating innovative information technology applications, systems, and management methods.
SIS has superb and close working relationships with industry, including end-user organisations as well as technology & service providers. Through these relationships, SIS researchers conveniently gain access to industry people, data and operations to facilitate research work and collaboration. Examples of industry sectors that SIS faculty frequently interact with are:
• Financial services
• Supply chain and distribution
• Infocomms & media
• Hospitality, tourism & entertainment
• Healthcare services
• Public sector and e-government
The SIS Board of Advisors further facilitates our access to industries, companies, and international researchers and thought leaders.
SIS is also exceptionally well linked to the international community of high quality academic research.
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Our long term and strategic partnership with Carnegie Mellon University provides our faculty and graduate students with special opportunities for collaborations and mentoring relationships with the one of the world's most respected universities for IT research and education. Read more on our Carnegie Mellon partnership.
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Our expanding network of relationships with top tier universities in China, India, Japan and Korea provide us with access to top notch student talent, and further facilitate opportunities for collaboration across Asia. More details on our other university partnerships.
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SIS faculty actively publish their work in top quality outlets. Find out more on our faculty publications.
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SIS actively encourages our faculty members to invite their research colleagues from other universities and R&D institutes to visit us in order to facilitate our own learning and collaboration opportunities. See the summary of research visitors to SIS.
SIS has adopted Carnegie Mellon's philosophy that research should link theory and practical impact. Our research efforts strategically aim to identify and develop innovative solutions that bridge the gap between lower level technology fundamentals and building blocks, and industrial and management needs, as depicted in Figure 1 below.
Figure 1
SIS research provides a bridge between academic disciplinary fundamentals and
industry and management needs.
We selectively seek out top notch research faculty who are deeply grounded in the fundamentals of their respective areas, and who are driven to explore how their research results can be applied to innovative systems and solutions that have the potential to transform the way business operates. In our view, there should not be a conflict between doing first rate and innovative academic research and doing applied work that can be of use to industry.
The SIS environment provides excellent career advantages that attract and retain top-notch researchers. We are particularly supportive of developing the research potential of faculty members in the early stages of their carrier, through generous support for participating in high-quality conferences and workshops as well as through actively fostering collaboration with internationally renowned universities and research labs..
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