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Dr. Robert P. Schumaker is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Tyler, Founder and Director of the Data Analytics Lab and former Associate Editor of Decision Support Systems (DSS) journal from 2014-2022. He is known for 1. creating the AZFinText system (a news-aware HFT, high-frequency stock trading system), 2. the novel use of Wall Street trading techniques on Twitter tweet sentiment to predict sport outcomes better than sportsbook odds and 3. his work on pharmacovigilance systems where he holds a provisional patent.

Dr. Schumaker is an accomplished data science researcher with over 3,300 citations on over 60 publications and a g-index score of 58; measuring scientific productivity based on published articles and citations.

Dr. Schumaker is an internationally recognized scholar whose teaching and research has been featured in MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, Slashdot, Axios, The Chronicle of Higher Education and many other media outlets.

Dr. Schumaker has also provided keynote addresses to conferences such as International Conference on Data Science, E-learning and Information Systems (Data-2019 UAE), IEEE International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD-2018 South Africa), International Symposium on Computer Science in Sport (IACSS-2017 Germany), Discourse Approaches to Financial Communication (DAFC-2014 Switzerland) and numerous other engagements through ACM for the US Army Corp of Engineers and various universities worldwide.

Journal Editorships
Associate Editor - Decision Support Systems
Editorial Board - Communications of the IIMA
Guest Editor - IEEE Access - Special Issue

Journal Reviewer
ACM Trans. on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM Trans. on Information Systems
ACM Trans. on MIS
Advances in Artificial Neural Systems
Algorithmic Finance
Communications of the ACM
Computer Science and Information Systems
Decision Support Systems
European Sport Management Quarterly
IEEE Intelligent Systems
IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engr.
IEEE Trans. on Sys., Man & Cybernetics, Part A
Information Systems Frontiers
ISR
JASIST
Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society
Journal of Econ. and International Finance
Journal of Electronic Commerce Research
Journal of Phys. Ed. and Sport Management
MISQ

Conference Boards
Executive Committee Member
   IIMA, 2010-Present
President
   IIMA, 2017
Program Chair
   IIMA, 2015
Program Committee Member
   PACIS, 2018
   IEEE ISI, 2014
   Midwest DSI, 2011
   Workshop on Social Media, 2010
Track/Session Chair
   IEEE IcABCD, 2018
   PACIS, 2018
   IIMA, 2010-2011, 2013, 2016
   Midwest DSI, 2011

Conference Reviewer
#SM – Social Media Workshop
AAAI – Amer. Assoc. for Artificial Intelligence
AMCIS – Amer. Conf. on Information Systems
BPM – Business Process Management
CIKM – Conf. on Info. Knowledge and Mgt.
DAFC - Discourse Approaches to Fin. Comm.
DELOS –User Interfaces in Digital Libraries
DESRIST – Int. Conf. on Design Science
DGO – Int. Conf. on Digital Gov. Research
ECDL – Euro. Conf. for Digital Libraries
HICSS - Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences
ICADL – Int. Conf. of Asian Digital Libraries
ICCCS - Int. Conf. on Comp., Comm. and Sec.
ICEB – Int. Conf. on Electronic Business
ICIS – Int. Conf. on Information Systems
IIMA – Int. Information Management Assoc.
ISI – IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics
JCDL – Joint Conference on Digital Libraries
PACIS - Pacific Asia Conf. on Info. Sys.
PSB – Pacific Symposium on BioComputing
SISC – San Diego Int. Systems Conference
WeB – Workshop on e-Business
WISI – Workshop on Sec. and Intel. Informatics
WSA – Workshop on Sciences of the Artificial

Professional Membership
American Heart Association (AHA/ASA)
Association for Computer Machinery (ACM)
Association for Information Systems (AIS)
America’s SAP Users Group (ASUG)
Inst. of Elect. and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Int. Information Management Assoc. (IIMA)
Soc. of Sports Knowledge Engineering (SSKE)