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Curriculum Vitae

Bei-Tseng (Bill) Chu
Professor and Chairman
Department of Software and Information Systems

UNC Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223.
704-687-4568, billchu “in the domain of” uncc “.” edu, http://www.sis.uncc.edu/~billchu 

Areas of Specialization
Enterprise Integration, Information Privacy and Security,  e-Business Technologies, and Information Technology Education

Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park (1988)
M.S., Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park (1985)
B.S., Electrical Engineering, Magna Cum Laude, University of Maryland, College Park (1982)

Academic positions

Professor of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte, since 2001.

Professor of Computer Science, UNC Charlotte 1999-2001.

Associate professor Computer Science, UNC Charlotte 1993- 1999.

Assistant professor Computer Science, UNC Charlotte 1988-1993.

Administrative positions

Chairman of the Department of Software and Information Systems, UNC Charlotte, since 2001

Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science, UNC Charlotte, 2001.

Coordinator of the MS Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, since 2000

Associate Director of the School of Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, 1998-2000.

Director of the Ph.D. program in Information Technology, UNC Charlotte, 1998-2000.

Other professional activities/affiliations

Co-founder of the CIIMPLEX consortium, a $60M consortium with participation of IBM, Boeing, Integresoll-Rand, QAD, Berclain USA, Vitria Technologies, Scandura, INDX, Envsionit Soft, and the National Institutes of Standard and Technology, 1993-2001.

Faculty of LOGTECH, an executive education program offered by the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, since 2002.

Selected External fundings:

 

  1. Holt, T., Ahn, G., and Chu, B. “Examining the creation, distribution, and function of malware on-line.” , $280,073, National Institute of Justice 2007-2009.
  2. Kang, B.,  Chu, B., and Ahn, G. “Collaborative Project: Focused Faculty Development Workshop Cyber Game and Interactive Simulations”, $246,000, National Science Foundation 2007-2009
  3. Chu, B. Ahn, G. Zheng, Y., Tolone, W.J. Carolina Cyber-Defender Scholarship Program, $650,000, National Science Foundation 2005-2009.
  4. Chu, B. Ahn, G. Holt, T., Wang, Y. and B. Kang_ Honeynet Research, $150,000, e-Business Technology Institute 2005-2007
  5. Chu, B. Lee, S., Ahn, G. Raja, A. Zheng, Y. and Tolone, W. J. Bridging IA Education through Collaboration. $300,000, National Science Foundation 2004-2006.
  6. Lee, S., Ahn, G., Chu, B. Critical Infrastructure Protection Initiative: DISCAP Automation, $130,000, Space and Naval War Center (SPAWAR), 2004-2005
  7. Chu, B., Ahn, G., Zheng, Y., Tolone, W.J., Liu, Z., Wang, Y. and_ Dahlberg, T. Carolina Cyber-Defender Scholarship program, $3,600,000, National Science Foundation, 2002-2006.
  8. Ahn, G., Chu, B. Zheng, Y., Tolone, W.J., Liu, Z., Wang, Y. and Dahlberg, T. Carolina Cyber-Defender Scholarship program, $408,000, National Security Agency 2002-2005.
  9. William J. Tolone, Bei-tseng Chu, Wei-Ning Xiang, Mirsad Hadzikadic, David Wilson, Anita Raja, Teresa A. Dahlberg. Partnership with MCNC and IntePoint, LLC. Funding: $725,468. Defense Intelligence Agency / Missile and Space Intelligence Center 2003-2004.
  10. Chu, B., Ahn, G., Zheng, Y., and Tolone, W.J. Carolina Cyber-Defender Scholarship Program, $150,000, National Security Agency 2001-2002.
  11. Brown M. & Chu, B. Information authorization control. National Institute of Justice, $104,000, 2000-2001.
  12. Chu, B. & Tolone, W. J.Graduate Student Support, Selectron corporation. $49,760, 1999-2000.
  13.   Tolone, W.J., Chu, B., Long, J. and Wilhelm, R. EECOMS – The Extended-Enterprise Coalition for Integrated Collaborative Manufacturing Systems. $1,100,600 – part of a $29.5M project funded by NIST/ATP, IBM, Integresoll-Rand, QAD, Berclain USA, Haley Enterprises, Vitria Technologies, Scandura, INDX and Envsionit Soft. 1998-2001.
  14. _Chu, B. Long, J., Wilhelm, R., W. Tolone, & Zhang, Z. CIIMPLEX: Coalition for Intelligent Integrated Manufacturing Planning-Execution $1,170,600 , part of a $23M project funded by NIST/ATP, IBM, Ingersoll-Rand, QAD, Intercim, and Berclain USA. 1996-1999.
  15. _Chu, B. Long, J. & Tolone, W. J. An Adaptive Methodology for Enterprise Integration ,IBM Corp. $522,000, 1993-1998.
  16. Chu, B. Long, J. & Wilhelm, R. A Product-Family Based Approach to Computer Integrated Manufacturing $257,000 , part of a $3.2M NIST/ATP and IBM funded project. 1995-1996.
  17. Chu, B. Enhancing VLSI Circuit Yields through Identifying Design Sensitivities. $86,038 , National Science Foundation. 1991-1994.
  18. Chu, B. & Schell, J. Research and Development of the IBM CIM Architecture, IBM Corp. $535,000 , 1990-1993.

Curriculum Development Highlights

·      Co-Led (with G. Ahn and W.J. Tolone) the effort to develop the innovative Information Technology undergraduate program resulting in five fold increase in enrollment from 2001 through 2006, during a period where national enrollment in all computing fields have declined

·      Co-Led_ (with W.J. Tolone) the effort to develop the Master’s of Information Technology, and the graduate certificate program in Information Technology Management. Enrollment more than doubled since 2001.

·      Founding director of the Information Technology Ph.D. program.

·      Co-led (with G. Ahn) the effort to establish the Carolina Cyber Defender program with over $5 M funding from federal government, one of the largest such programs in the U.S.

·      Co-led (with G. Ahn) the effort of_ developing hands-on cyber-game educational programs, culminating in winning the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in 2006

·      Led the effort organizing the South Eastern Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition in 2007.

 Selected refereed journal publications, books and book chapters:

  1. Yuan, X. Qadha, Y., Xu, J., Yu, H., Archer, R., and Chu, B. “An Animated Learning Tool for Kerberos Authentication Architecture”, The Journal of Computer Sciences in Colleges, April 2007.
  2. Zhang,_ L. Ahn, G. and Chu, B. “A Rule-Based Framework for Role-Based Delegation and Revocation,” ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, Vol.6, No.3, August 2003.
  3. Peng, Y., Finin, T., Labrou, Y. Cost, S., Chu, B, Tolone, W, Long, J., and Boughanamm A. “An Agent-Base Approach to Manufacturing Integration: The CIIMPLEX Experience”, Applied Artificial Intelligence, An International Journal, Vol. 13(1-2), pp. 39-64, 1999.
  4. Sun, R., Wilhelm, R., Chandrashekar, R., Hegadus, M., Chu, B., Tolone, W.J., & Long, J. “Integrated Manufacturing Schedule Repair Using Temporal Constraint Propagation” , International Journal of Agile Manufacturing, Vol 2. No. 1 pp. 13-26, 1999.
  5. Peng, Y., Finin, T., Labrou, Y., Chu, B. , Long, J. Tolone, W.J. & Boughannam, A. “A Multi-Agent System for Enterprise Integration”, International Journal of Agile Manufacturing, Vol. 1 No. 2 pp. 201-212, 1998.
  6. Tolone, W.J., Chu, B. Long, J., Wilhelm, R., Finin, T., Peng, Y. & Boughannam, A. “Supporting Human Interactions within Integrated Manufacturing Systems”, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems Vol. 1 No. 2 pp. 221-234, 1998.
  7. Chu, B., Long, J., Matthews, M., Barnes, J., Sims, J., Hamilton, M., & Lambert, R. “FAIME: An Object-Oriented Methodology for Application Plug-and-Play”, Journal of Object-Oriented Programming”, Vol 11. No 5. Pp. 20-26, September 1998.
  8. Chu, B., Long, J., Tolone, W. J.,Wilhelm, R., Peng, Y., Finin, T., & Matthews, M. “Towards Intelligent Integrated Planning-Execution”, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems 1(1) pp.77-83 1997.
  9. Chu, B. “Fault Diagnosis with Continuous System Models” in IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, SMC 23(1) pp. 55-64, 1993
  10. Chu, B. “Diagnosis with Continuous and Discrete Causal Relationships: Knowledge Representation” in International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Volume 6 No 4, pp. 731-751, 1992
  11. Chu, B. “Equipment/Instrument Diagnosis with Continuos and Discrete Causal Relationships” in Intelligent Modeling, Diagnosis, and Control of Manufacturing Processes Chu, B. and Chen, S. (Eds), pp. 183-210, World Scientific Publishers, 1992
  12. Chu, B. & Chen, S. (Eds) “Intelligent Modeling Diagnosis, and Control of Manufacturing Processes,” World Scientific Publishers, 1992
  13. Chu, B. & Reggia, J. “Modeling Diagnosis at Multiple Levels of Abstraction I. Representing Causal Relations at Multiple Levels of Abstraction”, in International Journal of Intelligent Systems V.6, pp.617-644, 1991
  14. Chu, B. & Reggia, J. “Modeling Diagnosis at Multiple Levels of Abstraction II. Diagnostic Reasoning at Multiple Levels of Abstraction”, in International Journal of Intelligent Systems V.6, pp.645-671, 1991

Selected refereed Conference Papers: 

14.  Chu, B., Ahn, G., Blanchard, S., Deese, J., Kelly, R., Yu, H., Young, A. “Collegiate Cyber Game Design Criteria and Participation” in the 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICIS 2007), July 2007.
  1. Yu, H., Yuan, X., Xu, J., Providence, S., Chu, B. and Gu, D., “Bridge Information Assurance Education Gap between the Majority and Minority Universities through Collaboration”, The Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science, July 2007.
  2. N. Paxton, G-J. Ahn, R. Kelly, K. Pearson and B. Chu “Collecting and Analyzing Bots in a Systematic Honeynet-based Testbed Environment” in Proc. Of the 11th Colloquium for information Systems Security Education, Boston, MA June 4-7 2007.
  3. B. Chu, H. Yu, A. Dance “USIS A Unified Framework for Secured Information Systems Lifecycle” in The 9th International Joint Conference on Computer Science and Informatics Oct. 8-11 2006 Kaohusiung City Taiwan.
  4. D. Liboon, J. Xu, H. Yu, J. Zhang, X., Yuang, and B. Chu “An Educational Visualization Tool for Ddos Attack” in The First Annual Conference on Education in Information Security. Sept. 17-19 2006, Ames, Iowa.
  5. William J. Tolone, Bei-tseng Chu, Gail-Joon Ahn, Robert G. Wilhelm, John E. Sims “Challenges to Multi-Enterprise Integration: the EECOMS Experience” in Enterprise Inter- and Intra- Organizational Integration, _Kosanke, K., Jochem, R., Nell, J., and Bas, A. (Eds), pp. 205-216, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
  6. Longhua Zhang, Gail-Joon Ahn, Bei-Tseng Chu. “A Rule-Based Framework for  Role-Based Delegation” in 6th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and  Technologies (SACMAT), Chantilly, VA, May 3-4, 2001
  7. Chu, B. and Tan, K. “Distributed trust management for business-to-business e-commerce security” In Proceedings of the ACME 2000 International Conference, pp. 146-152, Aug. 2000. 
  8. R.G. Wilhelm, R. Chandrashekar, R. Sun, M. Hegedus, B. Chu, W. J. Tolone, and J. Long, “Finite Schedule Monitoring and Filtering in a Computer Integrated Manufacturing Environment”, accepted for publication in the Annals of CIRP, 49/1, 2000.
  9. Sun, R., Chu, B., Wilhelm, R., & Yao, J. “A CSP-based Model for Integrated Supply Chains” in Artificial Intelligence for Electronic Commerce AAAI Press, pp. 92-100, 1999
  10. B. Chu, R. Sun, R. Wilhelm, J. Yao, and W.J. Tolone. “Modeling Integrated Supply Chains” Conference of Pacific Rim Management, pp. 250-254,  Aug. 1999.
  11. B. Chu, R. Sun, R. Wilhelm, J. Yao, and W.J. Tolone. “Modeling Integrated Supply Chains” Conference of Pacific Rim Management, pp. 250-254, Aug. 1999.
  12. “A negotiation-based Multi-agent System for Supply Chain Management”, Chen, Y., Peng, Y., Finin, T., Labrou, Y., Cost, R.S., Chu, B.,.,Sun, R., Wilhelm, Yao, J, to be presented at the Workshop on Agent based Decision-Support for Managing the Internet-Enable Supply-Chain, The InternationalConference on Autonomous Agents (Agents ‘99), Seattle, May, 1999.
  13. “A Multi-Agent System for Application Initialization in an Integrated Manufacturing Environment”, Peng Y., Finin, T., Chen, L., Wang, L., Cost, S., Labrou, Y., Chu,B., Tolone, W.J., Cross, V., Russell, M., and Boughannam, A: SCI/ISAS’99: The 3rd. World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, and The 5th. Int’l Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis, Orlando, July, 1999
  14. Peng, Y., Finin, T., Labrou, Y., Chu, B., Long, J., Tolone, W.J. Boughannam, A: ``A Multi-Agent System for Enterprise Integraion’’, in Proceedings of Practical Applications of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents Conference, London, UK, March, 1998, 155-169.
  15. Chu, B., Long, J., Tolone, W. J., Wilhelm, R., Peng, Y., Finin, T., & Matthews, M. “Towards Intelligent Integrated Planning-Execution”, The 1997 International Conference on Agile Manufacturing, 1997.
  16. Chu, B., Tolone, W. J., Wilhelm, R., Hegedus, M., Fesko, J., Finin, T., Peng, Y., Jones, C. Long, J., Matthews, M. Mayfied, J., Shimp, J., & Su, S. “Integrating Manufacturing Softwares for Intelligent Planning-Execution: A CIIMPLEX Perspective” in Plug and Play Software for Agile Manufacturing Boston, MA Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 2913. pp. 96-108, 1996.
  17. Drake, D. C., Chu, B., Sims, J. Anderson, R. Hamilton, M. Lambert, R. Connard, M., Long, J., Sartin, A., Wayne, E. and Chen, J. “Framework for application interoperability in manufacturing enterprises” Plug and Play Software for Agile Manufacturing Boston, MA Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 2913. pp. 267-279. 1996.
  18. Sims, J., Chu, B., Long, J., Barnes, J.G., Matthews, Hamilton, M., Drake, D. Anderson, R., Lambert, R., Jones, C. & Connard, M. “Framework for Adaptive Interoperability of Manufacturing Enterprises FAIME – A case study” in Plug and Play Software for Agile Manufacturing Boston, MA Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 2913. pp. 289-303. Nov. 1996.
  19. Chu, B. Barnes, J.G., Sims, J. Matthews, M., Long, J., Hamilton, M., & Lmbert, R. “Towards Plug-and-Play of Manufacturing Information Systems: The FAIME Perspective” Proceedings of International CALs 96 LA, CA. Proceeding available on CDROM. Oct. 1996
  20. Long, J., Chu, B., Barnes, J.G., Sims, J., Matthews, M., Chen, J. & Wayne, E. “Opening Up Legacy Systems for Interoperation: The FAIME Approach” Proceedings of International CALs 96 LA, CA. Proceeding available on CDROM. Oct. 1996
  21. Chu, B. “Supporting Units of Work in a Virtual Organization”, in Workshop on Software Architecture for Cooperative Systems , Chapel Hill, NC 1994, ACM SIGOIS Volume 15, Nov. 3 pp. 7-9 1995.
  22. Chu, B., Long, J., Shanmugasunda, P., Govinda, V, & Jaeger, R. “Concurrent Engineering of Process and Information Systems”, in First International Conference on Concurrent Engineering pp. 89-96, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994.
  23. Chu, B. & Du, H. “CENTER: A System Architecture for Matching Design and Manufacturing” in Methodologies for Intelligent Systems , Komorowsi, J. and Ras, Z. (Eds.) Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 591-600, 1993
  24. Chu, B. “On the Representation of Continuous Causal Relationships” in Methodologies of Intelligent Systems Ras, Z (Ed), Springer-Verlag, 1991
  25. Chu, B. “Intelligent Process Modeling” in Methodologies of Intelligent Systems 5, Z. Ras, M. Zemankova, & M. Emrich (Eds.) North-Holland, pp. 25-32, 1990
  26. Chu, B. & Reggia, J. “Modeling Diagnostic Problem-Solving at Multiple Levels of Abstractions”, in IEEE 6th Conference on AP Applications pp.56-61, 1990
  27. Chu, B. “Representing Binary Relations at Multiple Levels of Abstractions” in Methodologies of Intelligent Systems Ras, Z. (Ed), North Holland, 1989

Selected Professional Service

 

Diversity in Computing

 

 

Invited Speakers

 

Adjunct Professorship

 

 

Professional Membership