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| University of Hawai`i | 3094 Kaloaluiki St. | Web: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~sunki/ |
| Honolulu, HI 96822 | Honolulu, HI 96822 | |
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| Fall 2005-Present | Associate Professor, University of Hawai`i, Department of Sociology.
Courses taught: Soc 100, Section 1: Introduction to Sociology (Unit Mastery), Soc 100, Section 3: Introduction to Sociology (Writing Intensive), Soc 300: Social Research Methods, Soc 316: Survey of Social Change, Soc 321: Survey of Sociological Theory Soc 358: Sociology of Korea Soc 495B: Tutoring and Testing Soc 715: Culture and Formal Models of Social Behavior Soc 751: Development in Asia (graduate level) |
| Fall 2001-Spring 2005 | Assistant Professor, University of Hawai`i, Department of Sociology. |
| Fall 1994-Spring 2001 | Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Department of Sociology.
Courses taught: Political Sociology, Social Research Methods, Rational Choice Theory (graduate level),Social Change and Development (graduate level) |
| Fall 1990-Spring 1993 | Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, Department of
Political Science.
Courses taught: Japan's Political Economy; Japanese Foreign Policy; The Politics of Foreign Aid; Race and Ethnicity in Africa. |
| Spring 1986, Summer 1987 | Instructor, University of Hawaii, Department of Electrical
Engineering.
Courses taught: Pascal Programming, Fortran Programming. |
| Winter 1983 | Teaching Assistant, Stanford University, Department of Computer Science. Course taught: The Mathematics of Computation. |
Ph.D. Political Science, Stanford University, 1994. Dissertation:Re-examining Development: The Cognitive Basis for Rational Action. Committee: Robert Packenham, Gabriel Almond, John Ferejohn.
M.S. Computer Science, Stanford University, 1984.
Major Areas: Theory of Computation, Artificial Intelligence. Master's Thesis:
"A User-Modeling Front End for Dynamic Expert Systems."
B.S. Mathematical Science, Stanford University, 1983.
Formal Modeling and Simulation
Social Theory: Culture and Rationality
Sociology of East Asia
Race and Ethnic Identity
Development and Social Change
University of Hawai`i at Manoa Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004-2005.
Online Social Behaviors and Prediction of their Implications for the Physical World. Office of Naval Research Broad Agency Announcement 09-001 (Human Social Culture Behavior Modeling Program). Contract N00014-09-1=0805. Principal Investigator, June 1, 2009-November 30, 2011. $1,024,784 awarded.
Developing Cultural Analysis and Sociological Network Theory for Understanding Virtual Communities. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Broad Agency Announcement 2008-3 (Discovery Challenge Thrusts). Contract FA9550-09-1-0261. Principal Investigator, April 1, 2009-December 31, 2013. $854,631 awarded.
Coherence-Based Modeling of Cultural Change and Political Violence. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Broad Agency Announcement 2005-1, Contract FA9550-07-1-0253. Principal Investigator, February 1, 2007-November 30, 2009. $1,611,416 awarded. [an overview presentation].
Integrated Lab for the Computer-Mediated Study Of Culture. Office of Naval Research, FY2005 DoD Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), Contract N00014-05-1-0347. Principal Investigator, May 1, 2005-August 7, 2006, $159,131 awarded.
Synthetic Training Environments. Office of Secretary of Defense, Small Business Technology Transfer Grant OSD07-T005, Asymmetric Synthetic Training Environments, Phase I, subcontract with Referentia Systems, Inc. University Subcontract Principal Investigator, September 1, 2007-January 25, 2008, $30,000 awarded.
Grid-Group Cm-alpha, Profiling Cultural Factors for Decision Aiding. Air Force Research Laboratory, SBIR Grant AF05-069, Contract FA8650-06-C-6633, Impact of Cultural Factors on Human Performance, Phase II, subcontract with 21st Century Systems, Inc. University Subcontract Principal Investigator, May 3, 2006-May 2, 2008, $137,684 awarded.
Multi-National Cultural Difference Modeling. Office of Naval Research, Small Business Innovation Research Grant N03-112, Contract N00014-05-C-0523, Modeling and Simulation of Cultural Differences in Human Decision-Making, Phase I and II, subcontract with 21st Century Systems, Inc. University Subcontract Principal Investigator, June 17, 2003-May 16, 2004 and April 28, 2006-July 28, 2007, $169,997 awarded.
Choosing an Identity: A General Model of Preference and Belief Formation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001).
Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), edited by Sun-Ki Chai and John Salerno. (New York: Springer, 2010).
Culture and Social Theory, edited by Sun-Ki Chai and Brendon Swedlow, collected writings by Aaron Wildavsky. (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1998).
"Confucian Capitalism and the Paradox of Structural Holes in Asia" (Sun-Ki Chai and Mooweon Rhee), Management and Organization Review, forthcoming early 2010.
"Cross-Culture Comparison: the Grid-Group Approach" (Sun-Ki Chai, Ming Liu, and Min Sun Kim), Beliefs and Values., forthcoming 2009 or early 2010.
"Predicting Ethnic Boundaries", European Sociological Review 21:4 (September 2005), 375-391.
"Endogenous Ideology Formation and Economic Policy in Former
Colonies", Economic Development and Cultural Change 46:2 (January
1998), 263-90.
"Entrenching the Yoshida Defense Doctrine: Three Techniques for Institutionalization", International Organization 51:3 (Summer 1997), 389-412.
"A Theory of Ethnic Group Boundaries", Nations and NationalismRefereed Journal Articles
"An Organizational Economics Theory of Anti-Government Violence", Comparative Politics 26:1 (October 1993), 99-110.
"Theories of Culture and Action" in Ian Jarvie and Jesús Zamora-Bonilla (ed.), The Sage Handbook Of The Philosophy Of Social Science (London, Sage Publications, forthcoming 2010).
"The Coherence Model of Preference and Belief Change" in Huan Liu (ed.), Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction II (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2009), 67-75.
"Rational Choice Theory: A Forum for Exchange of Ideas between the Hard and Social Sciences in Predictive Behavioral Modeling" in Huan Liu, John J. Salerno, Michael J. Young (ed.), Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2008), 1-9.
"Seperatism and Regionalist Movements during the Post-Colonial Period", in David H. Kaplan and Guntram H. Herb (ed.), Nations and Nationalism in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transitions Vol. 4 (Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2008), 1450-1462.
"A Theory of the State and Social Order" (Sun-Ki Chai and Michael Hechter), in Patrick Doreian and Thomas J. Fararo (ed.), The Problem of Solidarity: Theories and Models (New York: Gordon and Breach, 1998). Republished in the journal Homo Oeconomicus 15:1 (1998), 1-26.
"Rational Choice and Culture: Clashing Perspectives or Complementary Modes of Analysis?" in Richard Ellis and Michael Thompson (eds.), Culture Matters (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997), 45-56.
"Cultural Change, Party Ideology and Electoral Outcomes" (Sun-Ki Chai and Aaron Wildavsky). In Chai and Swedlow (eds.), Culture and Social Theory, 299-316.
"Culture, Rationality and Violence" (Sun-Ki Chai and Aaron Wildavsky). In Dennis J. Coyle and Richard J. Ellis (eds.), Politics, Culture and Policy: Applications of Cultural Theory (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994). Reprinted in Chai and Swedlow (ed.), Culture and Social Theory, 281-98.
Erin K. Jenne, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox Of Minority Empowerment, Ethnic and Racial Studies 31:2 (February 2008), 435-436.
Susan Olzak, The Global Dynamics of Racial and Ethnic Mobilization, Contemporary Sociology 36:5 (September 2007), 489-491.
"Paradigms of Nationalism", a review of Anthony D. Smith, The Nation in History: Historiographical Debates about Ethnicity and Nationalism and The Antiquity of Nations, Review of Politics 69:2 (2007), 309-312.
Lucy M. Long (ed.), Culinary Tourism, Gastronomica 5:4 (November 2005), 121-122.
Ray Taras, Liberal and Illiberal Nationalisms and Andreas Wimmer, Nationalist Exclusion and Ethnic Conflict, Perspectives on Politics 2:1 (March 2004), 186-187.
Raymond Boudon, The Origin of Values, Contemporary Sociology 32:1 (January 2003), 116- 7.
Hans Joas, The Genesis of Values, Social Forces, 81:2 (December 2002), 683-4.
Jack Knight and Itai Sened, Understanding Social Institutions, Contemporary Sociology 29:2 (March 2000), 370-1.
Gerald Marwell and Pamela Oliver, The Critical Mass in Collective Action, Social Forces 75:1 (September 1996), 343-4.
Russell Hardin, One for All, and Mark Lichbach, The Rebel's Dilemma, Contemporary Sociology 25:3 (May 1996), 345-7.
"Artificial Intelligence and Social Theory: A One-Way Street?", Perspectives 27:4 (October/November 2004), 11-12.
"Social Computing: An Opportunity for Mathematical Sociologists". Mathematical Sociologist 12:2 (June 2009).
"Software Agent for Locating and Analyzing Virtual Communities on the World Wide Web", University of Hawai`i Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development, Awarded United States Patent #7499965, March 3, 2009.
"Unsupervised Construction of Decision Networks for Pattern Classification" (R.G. Casey, S.K. Chai, and K.Y. Wong), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Montreal, Canada, July 1984.
"Improved Decision Network Adaptation Method Using Botton Treegraph Extension" (R.G. Casey and S.K. Chai), IBM Technical Disclosure 26:7A (December 1983), 3372.
Cultural Difference Modeling Software. Set of modules expressing in algorithmic form the ideas contained within the Coherence Model proposed in the book Choosing an Identity, as well as the representative formaliations discussed in the book Culture and Social Theory.
Web Analysis. Agent-based application, writing in scripting language, that is listed as "developed technology" by the University of Hawai`i Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development. Utilizes social network theories and choice-theoretic framework to locate boundaries of virtual communities and to characterize the entities with in.
"Exploring the Network Structure of Virtual Communities: A Web Structure Analysis of a Korean-American Community" (Sun-Ki Chai and Mooweon Rhee). Under review at Social Networks.
"Grid-Group Cultural Theory and Behavior in Computer-Mediated Experiments" (Sun-Ki Chai Dolgorsuren Dorj, Kyle Hampton, and Ming Liu). To be submitted to Quarterly Journal of Economics.
"On the Analytics of Resistance Tactics to Korea-US FTA" (Shi Young Lee, Sun-Ki Chai, and Sung Hee Jun). Under review at Journal of East Asian Studies.
"Culture, Rationality and Economic Institutions in East Asia: The Chinese Family Firm" (Sun-Ki Chai and Ming Liu).
"Endogenous Shifts Over Time in Patterns of Contributions in Public Goods Games" (Sun-Ki Chai, Dolgorsuren Dorj and Ming Liu).
"Role-assignment Algorithm and Behavior in Computer-Mediated Experiments" (Sun-Ki Chai, Dolgorsuren Dorj, Kyle Hampton, and Ming Liu).
"Explaining Social Order and Norms of Cooperation: Nested Hierarchies".
"Is The Structural-Hole Thesis Culturally Parochial? A Formal Approach" (Sun-Ki Chai and Mooweon Rhee).
"Rational Choice: Positive, Normative, and Interpretive".
"The Varieties of Rational Choice Theory and the Future of Sociology".
"Social Norms: Their Creation, Deliberation, and Internalization".
Theories of Social Change and Development: An interdisciplinary Approach.Prospectus, extensive outline and notes (approx. 180 pages) for a new interdisciplinary upper-division social change and development textbook.
"Diversifying Hawai`i's Economy". Describes how the current disillusionment over prospects for economic diversification can be overcome by a shift in paradigm from short-term solutions to a long-term vision of Hawaii's dynamic comparative advantages, with a special focus on human capital, preemptive leveraging of social change, and awareness of forward and backward linkages in the economy.
"The Social Science Approach to web Mining", with David Chin, Aaron Herres, and Kar-Hai Chu (tutorial), IEEE Social Computing Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, August 29-31, 2009.
"Web Analyst: Software for Solving Real-World Problems by Understanding Virtual Communities", Army Research Office Workshop on Trustworthy Social Computing, Davis, California, July 20-21, 2009.
"A Coherence Model of Preference and Belief Change" (invited address), ACM International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction, Phoenix, Arizona, March 31-April 1, 2009.
"Grid/Group Cultural Theory and Behavior in Computer-Mediated Experiments", Fourth Joint Japan-North America Mathematical Sociology Conference, Redondo Beach, California, May 29-June 1, 2008.
"Rational Choice Theory: A Forum for Exchange of Ideas between the Hard and Social Sciences in Predictive Behavioral Modeling" (keynote address), ACM International Workshop on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction, Phoenix, May 1-2, 2008.
"A Formal Cultural Model of the Structural-Hole Thesis", with Mooweon Rhee, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August 11-14, 2007.
"Nested Hierarchies and Norms of Cooperation in Organizations", Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Trier, Germany, June 30-July 2, 2006.
"Rational Choice: Positive, Normative, and Interpretive", Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Trier, Germany, June 30-July 2, 2006.
"Formal Modeling and Simulation of Cultural Differences", International Communication Association Annual Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 19-23, 2006.
"Rational Choice: Positive, Normative, and Interpretive", American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 13-16, 2005.
"Culture, Rationality. and the Generation of Economic Cooperation in East Asia", with Ming Liu, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, August 13-16, 2005.
"Mathematical Models of Culture and Rational Action: An Integrated Software System", Third Joint Japan-North America Mathematical Sociology Conference, Sapporo, Japan, June 24-26, 2005.
"Web Analysis: Algorithms for Locating and Analyzing Virtual Social Networks on the World Wide Web", Third Joint Japan-North America Mathematical Sociology Conference, Sapporo, Japan, June 24-26, 2005.
"A New Network Analysis of the Web", Mathematical Sociology / Rationality and Society American Sociological Association Section Joint Conference, San Francisco, August 18, 2004.
"A General Theory of Social Norms: Their Creation, Deliberation, and Internalization", American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 14-17, 2004.
"A Grid-Group Model of Intercultural Health Communication", International Communication Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, May 27-31, 2004.
"Culturally Sensitive Modeling" (with Alexander Stoyen), United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Workshop on Culture and Personality in Models of Adversarial Decision-Making, McLean, Virginia, November 13-14, 2003.
"The Many Flavors Of Rational Choice And The Fate Of Sociology", ASA Section on Rationality and Society Conference on The Social Aspect of Rationality, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003.
"Measuring a Virtual Community: Applying a New Empirical Technology to the World Wide Web", American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003.
"A Positive Theory of Ethnic Boundaries", American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August 16-19, 2003.
"The Many Flavors Of Rational Choice And The Fate Of Sociology", Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26-28, 2003.
"Culture, Rationality and Economic Institutions in East Asia", Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Annual Meeting, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 26-28, 2003.
"Network Ties in a Virtual Community: A Study of Korean Culture Web Sites", Asian Studies Association - Pacific Coast Annual Meeting, Honolulu, June 19-22, 2003.
"Applying a General Model of Preference and Belief Formation," Conference on Preferences, Choice and Uncertainty, UC Davis, Davis, California, May 18-19, 2001.
"Explaining Norms of Cooperation," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 12-16, 2000.
"Rationality, Culture, and the Formation of Economic Institutions in East Asia: The Case of the Chinese Family Firm," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, August 6-10, 1999.
"Predicting Ethnic Group Boundaries," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, August 21-25, 1998.
"Culture, Rationality and the Formation of Economic Institutions," World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Seoul, Aug. 17-21, 1997.
"Cultural Theory, Rational Choice and Political Analysis," American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1996.
"Nested Hierarchy, Dependence and Institutions of Cooperation" (Sun-Ki Chai and Michael Hechter), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 1995.
"A Theory of Social Order" (Sun-Ki Chai and Michael Hechter), American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 19-23, 1995.
"A Regret-Dissonance Model of Preference and Belief Formation," American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 19-23, 1995.
"The Origins of Relationally-Based Cooperative Capitalism in the China Circle." Conference on the China Circle: Regional Consequences of Evolving Relations among the PRC, Taiwan and the Hong Kong-Macao, held in Hong Kong, December 8-10, 1994.
"Institutionalizing the Yoshida Defense Doctrine: The Role of Structure, Focal Points and Ideology," Workshop on Conflict, Cooperation and Multilateralism in Asia and the Pacific Rim, held at Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, March 18-20, 1994.
"The Origins of Ethnic Group Identification," American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC, September 2-5, 1993.
"The Origin of Economic Policy in Ex-Colonies: A Cognitive-Rational Theory" American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 3-6, 1992.
"An Organizational Theory of Underground Revolutionary Violence," American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, September 3-6, 1992.
Student Guidance. Cumulative from Fall 2001-present: Member of six M.A. committees (one outside of sociology department). Member of nine Ph.D. guidance committees (chair of three and acting chair for one) and eight Ph.D. dissertation committees (chair of two); three students advised in both capacities for total of 14 Ph.D. students advised. Temporary advisor for five incoming students. Supervised 14 graduate directed readings (counting multiple times for single individuals).
Sociology Department Graduate Studies Chair, Fall 2005-Spring 2008. Developed new graduate studies curriculum document, M.A. program in applied sociology.
Sociology Department Undergraduate Studies Committee, Fall 2004-Spring 2005.
Supervisor, Undergraduate Individual Tutoring Project, Fall 2004. Hired and supervising two undergraduate tutors for use in assisting students in introductory sociology course. Interface with instructors of introductory sociology courses to identify at-risk students and to direct them to tutoring resources.
Online Course Development, Sociology Department, Fall 2003-Spring 2005. Moved large Sociology 100 unit mastery course to online format; supervised transition of course to web-based examination system. Supervised further efforts to move course completely online, hired part-time graders for post.
Advisor, Undergraduate Sociology Club and Alpha Kappa Delta honor society, Fall 2003-Spring 2005. Organized student workshop on Careers in Sociology, November 21, 2003. Organizing student leadership group for Fall 2004.
Webmaster, Sociology Department, Fall 2003-Spring 2008. Programming, design, and organization of content for department website.
Sociology Department Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2002-Summer 2004.
Organized Sociology Department colloquium on Recently Published Books, September 10, 2001.
Member, Excellence in Research Award Screening Committee, College of Social Sciences, Spring 2008.
Member, Excellence in Teaching Award Screening Committee, College of Social Sciences, Spring 2006, Spring 2007.
Member, College of Social Science Research Council, Social Science Research Institute, Fall 2005-present.
Member, Manoa Academic Assessment Council, Office of Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Fall 2005-Fall 2006.
Associate Member, Center for Korean Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies, Fall 2004-present. Member of Outreach Committee, Fall 2006-present.
President, Korean Faculty Association, Fall 2007-Spring 2008. Co-Secretary/Treasurer, Fall 2004-Spring 2007.
Coordinator, Website Development Commitee, Public Policy Center, April 2003-May 2005. Engaged in planning and implementation; devised ideas and provided content for "Sustainable Hawaii" general-purpose resource site on Hawai`i public policy issues. Founded and maintain State of Hawai`i's only online forum devoted to the discussion of public policy issues.
Co-coordinator (with Judith Inazu), Professional Development Committee, Public Policy Center, College of Social Sciences, Fall 2003-present. Organized interdisciplinary workshops for Social Science faculty on special interest areas. Presented a PPC workshop on finding academic information on the internet, Feburary 26, 2003.
Interview Committee for Program Coordinator, Office of Multicultural Student Services, January 2005.
Interview Committee for Grant Specialist, Social Science Research Institute, March 2004.
Public Policy Center, First Annual Conference. Sustainable Policies: Developing Policy Issues and Program Actions for a Sustainable Hawai`i, April 24-25, 2003. Helped to organize and wrote issue paper for session on Hawai`i's Economy.
Global Studies Program, Sustainable Communities: Policies and Practices to Ensure Sustainability in a Globalizing World, November 21, 2003. Participated in panel discussion that filmed for broadcast via the internet.
Presider, Panel on Refugee And People Mobility at 4th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference, February 17-19, 2005.
Moderator, Panel on Social Movements in Asia at Hawaii Sociological Association Conference, Honolulu, February 12, 2005.
Moderator, Panel on Democratization and Electoral Competition in Taiwan, North American Taiwan Studies Association 10th Annual Conference, East-West Center, Honolulu, June 17-20, 2004.
Guest Lecturer on Building Research Agendas, HON 495, Introduction to Research, October 21, 2003.
Presider, Panel on The Colonial Encounter at joint 2nd East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference and 14th Annual SHAPS Graduate Student Conference, February 20-22, 2003.
Discussant, East West-Center Conference on Institutional Change in Japan: Why it Happens, Why it Doesn't, East-West Center, Honolulu, January 5-6, 2003.
Journal Refereeing. Cumulative to present: American Sociological Review (nine times), American Political Science Review (two times), American Journal of Sociology (two times), Journal of Mathematical Sociology (once), Comparative Studies in Society and History (once), Korean Studies (once), Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory (once).
Member, Organizating Committee and Panel Chair, IEEE Social Computing Conference (SocialCom) 2009.
Member, Steering Committee, ACM Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction Conference (SBP) 2008-present. Co-Chair, Program Committee, 2010. Member, Program Committee, 2008-9.
Member of the Awards Commitee of the Pacific Sociological Association, 2005-2008.
Session Organizer for regular session on Nations and Nationalism at the American Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, August 14-17, 2004.
Member of program committee for the Pacific Sociological Association Meeting, San Francisco, April 16-18, 1998. Organizer, Chair and Discussant of Panel on Sociology in Development Theory and Practice.
Participant in Panel Discussion on Comparative Politics and Rational Choice Theory, Western Political Science Assocation Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March 19-21, 1998.
Organized Panel on Political and Economic Reform in East Asia for meeting of the Northern California Political Scientists Association, Santa Clara, California, May 14-15, 1994.
Participant in panel on "The Digital Divide" in Hawaii at Telecom 2005, the annual conference of the Hawaii Telecommunications Association, October 27, 2005, Sheraton Waikiki Hotel, Oahu. Described sociocultural aspects of digital divide that go beyond access to technology.
Participant in panel on "Social Networking Hawaiian Style" in 2nd Annual Online Conference on Social Networks, February 14-23, 2005. Convened by Group Jazz and Rheingold Associates, the two most prominent private companies devoted to research on the social implications of internet.
Participation, The Manoa Forum, October 1-3, 2004, Turtle Bay Resort, Oahu. Three-day retreat designed to bring together University Scholars with leading members of the local community to discuss important issues of interest to Hawai`i's society.
Presentation, UoP High Technology Speaker Series: Using Computers to Model Culture - Is It Possible? Wednesday, September 29, 2004, 12-1 PM, University of Phoenix Honolulu Campus. Part of a highly popular speaker series designed to bring together community members and representatives of the high technology world in business and government.
Guest Interview, Roughtake radio program, KORL Radio. September 21, 2004, 6-7pm. Free-form discussion of society, culture, and food in Hawai`i.
"Finding New Perspectives for a Sustainable Hawai`i Economy", University of Hawai`i Public Policy Center and Global Studies Program Joint Panel on Sustatinable Community: Politics and Practice to Ensure Sustainability in a Globablizing World, November 7, 2003. Reconvened for videotaping November 17, 2003.
Coordinator, eGullet.com Hawai`i Forum. Local branch of the world's largest food-related website and online community. November 2003-June 2005. Featured in March 2, 2004 issue of Honolulu Advertiser ("Bytemarks" column). Named "perhaps Hawai`i's best food blog" by Honolulu Weekly.
| Summer 1989 | Analyst, Strategic Research Branch, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, California. Research on semiconductor policy in East Asian newly industrializing countries. |
| Summer 1988 | Researcher, Communications Research Laboratory, Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea. Wrote algorithms for speech recognition system. |
| June 1986-Feb. 1987 | Newspaper Reporter, West Hawaii Today, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Covered politics and business, occasional editorials. |
| July 1985-June 1986 | Educational Media Specialist, Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii. Helped to develop computer-based curriculum for courses. Half-time position. |
| Dec. 1984-June 1985 | Systems Programmer, Straub Clinic, Honolulu, Hawaii. Helped to maintain medical records database. |
| June 1982-June 1984 | Researcher, IBM Research Center, San Jose, California. Wrote algorithms for optical character recognition system, including primary algorithm for two publications listed in previous section. Part-time during school year and full-time during summer. |