Governance
Member Driven, Global Board
IAASSE members play a direct role at every level to shape the future of the association.IAASSE has a dual technical structure and its highest governing body is, the IAASSE Executive board. The Executive board includes President, Vice President and 15 executive members. The executive board takes care of internal activities and collectively manage all aspects of staff operations. The President, Vice President, and executive members are elected with a office term of four years.
The IAASSE executive board is accountable to the members and has supervision, control and direction of the affairs of the association. It actively pursues the association’s mission, determines its policy within the limits of the law, Bylaws, and Articles of Incorporation. It upholds the IAASSE Code of Ethics and supervises disbursement of the association’s funds. The Executive Board develops the strategic plan and direction for the association under the guidance of the association bylaws approved by the IAASSE members.The board recommends and implements policies and programs with specific intention to benefit its members, and the public in general.
EXECUTIVE BOARD (2019-2022)
Members on the board of take IAASSE forward with varied expertise, strategic leadership skills and a deep understanding of the communication profession. The executive team oversees full-time, part-time, and temporary employees dedicated to support IAASSE initiatives.
Frank Lin
Professor & Dean, California State University,
San Bernardino, CA, USA
President
Professor Lin teaches in the Information and Decision Sciences Department. He received his PhD in Management Information Systems with minors in computer science and educational psychology and an MBA in Management Information Systems from State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo). As an Associate Dean for international programs at CBPA, he also leads several short-term study abroad programs to Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, India, France, Germany, UAE, and Costa Rica.
Michael Pazzani
Vice Chancellor, Research and Economic Development,
University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Vice President
Dr. Michael J. Pazzani is Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development at University of California, Riverside. His responsibilities at UCR include oversight of research, external funding for research, corporate partnerships and technology commercialization. Dr. Pazzani is also a Professor of Computer Science. He has published over 150 papers on machine learning, knowledge discovery from databases, personalization, internet search, and recommendation systems. He serves on the Editorial Board of Machine Learning. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
Executive Team
- Andy Borchers Professor, Lipscomb University, Nashvill, TN, USA
- Jun Dai Professor, California State University, Sacramento, USA
- Zoubir Mammeri Professor, Toulouse University, France
- Angel Pasqual del Pobil Professor, Universitat Jaume-I, Spain
- Nariman Sepehri Professor, University of Manitoba, Canada
Boards & Committees (2019-2022)
IAASSE members have opportunities to volunteer at all levels of the organization. These Volunteers may have a direct and critical impact on governance through numerous boards, committees and task forces. These Boards and Committee decide on the priorities and manages the general course of its operations and work with executive team to provide strategic directions and development of goals and product development for the Initiative.
Ghazi Alkhatib, Professor, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan (retired)
Kewen Zhao, Professor, University of Qiongzhou, Sanya, China
LO, Man-fung, Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Lalit Garg, Professor, University of Malta, Malta
Solomiia Fedushko, Professor, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
Orlean G. Dela Cruz, Professor, Polytechnic University of the Phillipines, Phillipines
M. Banu DURUKAN SALI, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
Rowell Agliones Diaz, Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology, Phillippines
Nishtha Kesswani, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer, India
Mohammed Abdulaziz A. AlAqil, University of Manchester, UK
Zulkifli Ahmad, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Geographical Chapters/Councils
Further IAASSE is organized into distributed Chapterss based on geography and technical focus in South Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Europe, South Asia (India) and East Asia (China). These geographical Chapterss comprises of local members with similar technical interests and work as membership and business liaison to increase awareness of associations activities, organizing high‐quality conferences, to help increase the number of student and professional members.
IAASSE geographical Chapterss are supported by local members, focus on members' needs and provide unique opportunities like attending conferences, publishing research papers, creating connections, accessing critical research, allowing them to share technical, professional interests and establishing a personal networking system in the specific country.
Regardless of location and size, IAASSE geographical Chapters members comprises from academia, research, business, and industry. They have the right to sponsor state‐of‐the‐art conferences, conduct workshops, and publish their own newsletters.