EDUCATION
PhD, Electrical Engineering, Florida International University
MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Miami
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Miami
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- knowledge management
- knowledge management systems
- disaster management
- entrepreneurship
- enterprise systems
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Dr. Irma Becerra-Fernandez is the Knight Ridder Research Professor of Management Information Systems at Florida International University College of Business Administration, Decision Sciences and Information Systems department. Also she’s the 2007 Kauffman Entrepreneurship Professor. Her research focuses on knowledge management (KM), KM systems, enterprise systems, disaster management, and entrepreneurship. She has studied and advised organizations, in particular NASA, about KM practices. She founded the FIU Knowledge Management Lab eight years ago, and has obtained funding as principal investigator for over $1.8 M from the National Science Foundation, NASA (Kennedy, Ames, and Goddard Space Flight Center), and the Air Force Research Lab to develop innovative KM systems. She has published extensively in leading journals including the Journal of MIS, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Knowledge Based Systems, International Journal of Expert Systems Research & Applications, and others.
Dr. Becerra-Fernandez is an author of the book Knowledge Management: Challenges, Solutions, and Technologies (Prentice Hall, 2004) and co-editor of the monograph Knowledge Management: An Evolutionary View of the Field (M.E. Sharpe, forthcoming in 2007). She has delivered many invited presentations at many NASA Centers, the NAVY Research Lab, universities around the world, and many international conferences with both an academic and a practitioner focus. Dr. Becerra-Fernandez was the recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Faculty Torch Award, presented by the FIU Alumni Association, the 2006 FIU Faculty Teaching Award and the 2001 FIU Faculty Research Award. She is also the faculty director for the Masters in MIS, the coordinator of the MIS Ph.D. Program, and serves in the editorial board of the International Journal of Knowledge and Learning and the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
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Becerra-Fernandez, Irma, A. Gudi, "An Experiential Approach to Teaching Knowledge Management," Int. J. Teaching and Case Studies, 1.3 (Spring 2008): 171-188.
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Hoffman, Robert, D. Ziebell, S. Fiore, I. Becerra-Fernandez, "Knowledge Management Revisited," IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23.3 (May/June 2008): 84-88.
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Becerra-Fernandez, Irma, K. Cousins, R. Weber, "Nomadic Context-Aware Knowledge Management Systems: Applications, Challenges, and Research Problems," International Journal of Banking and Finance, 1.2 (April 2007): 103-121.
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Kumar, Kuldeep, I. Becerra-Fernandez, "Interaction Technology: Speech-act Based Information Technology Support for Building Collaborative Relationships and Trust," Decision Support Systems, 43.2 (March 2007): 584-606.
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Becerra-Fernandez, Irma, "Searching for Experts on the Web: A Review of Contemporary Expertise Locator Systems," ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 6.4 (November 2006): 333-355.
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Becerra-Fernandez, Irma, M. Del Alto, H. Stewart, "A Case Study of Web-based Collaborative Decision Support at NASA," International Journal of e-Collaboration, 2.3 (July-September 2006): 49-63.
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Becerra-Fernandez, Irma, K. Murphy, J. Elam, "Successfully Implementing ERP: The IBM Personal Systems Group Experience," International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, 3.1 (winter 2005): 78-97.
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Sabherwal, Rajiv, I. Becerra-Fernandez, "Integrating Specific Knowledge: Insights from the Kennedy Space Center," IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 52.3 (August 2005): 301-315.
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Zanakis, Stelios H., I. Becerra-Fernandez, "Competitiveness of Nations: A Knowledge Discovery Examination," European Journal of Operational Research, 166.1 (October 2005): 185-211.
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