Hsinchun Chen is the Regents' Professor and Thomas R. Brown Chair of Management and Technology at the University of Arizona and the Director and founder of the Artificial Intelligence Lab (AI Lab). He also served as lead program director of the Smart and Connected Health program at the National Science Foundation from 2014 to 2015. He received a B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, an MBA from SUNY Buffalo and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Information Systems from New York University. Research Chen's research primarily focuses on data/web/text mining and knowledge management techniques. He has applied his work in the fields of web computing, search engines, digital libraries, health informatics, security informatics, biomedical informatics and business intelligence. His most notable contributions are in management information systems, digital libraries, health informatics, and security informatics. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (ACM TMIS), 2009–2014, and is also founding editor-in-chief of the Springer journal Security Informatics. He serves or has served on ten editorial boards including: IEEE Intelligent Systems ACM Transactions on Information Systems IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Decision Support Systems International Journal on Digital Library Chen has also served as a Scientific Counselor/Advisor to the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), Academia Sinica in Taiwan, and the National Library of China. Productivity In 2005, Chen was ranked #8 in publication productivity in Information Systems (CAIS 2005), #1 in Digital Library research (IP&M 2005), and #9 in a list of the "Top 32" most productive information systems researchers (EJIS 2007) in three bibliometric studies. In 2008, Chen was recognized as one of the top-ranked authors in the Management Information Systems field. His "H-index" score from Google Scholar is 90 (as of December 2017). Chen has authored or edited more than 40 books and conference proceedings, 30 book chapters, 280 SCI journal articles, and 180 refereed conference articles. His books include: Dark Web (2012; ), Infectious Disease Informatics (2010; ), Sports Data Mining (2010; ), Mapping Nanotechnology Innovations and Knowledge (2009; ), Terrorism Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security (2008, ), Digital Government: E-Government Research, Case Studies, and Implementation (2008; ); Intelligence and Security Informatics for International Security: Information Sharing and Data Mining (2006; ); and Medical Informatics: Knowledge Management and Data Mining in Biomedicine (2005;