Robbie Nakatsu, Ph.D.
Office: Hilton 221
Phone: 310.338.3746
Email: nakatsu@lmu.edu
Areas of Expertise - Intelligent User Interfaces
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Applications in AI
- IT Management
Biography Robbie T. Nakatsu is a CIS professor with expertise in intelligent user interfaces, human-computer interaction, applications in AI, and management of IT.
Prior to joining the faculty, Nakatsu served as a consultant in the MIS Department for Pepsi Co., a Senior Research Analyst for CBS Records (Columbia House Division), and as an Analyst in the Information Systems Department at Morgan Stanley. He developed LogNet, a software that provides advice on how to design business logistics networks, and Expert-Strategy, a software that provides a graphical user interface to an expert system’s knowledge base. Nakatsu is currently working on a book titled
Diagrammatic Reasoning in AI, which is to be published by Wiley/IEEE in 2009. Nakatsu is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Association for Information Systems.
Education
- PhD: University of British Columbia (2001)
- BA: Yale University (1986)
Recent Publications
- Nakatsu, R. and Iacovou, C. (forthcoming). "A Comparative Study of Important Risk Factors Involved in Offshore and Domestic Outsourcing of Software Development Projects: A Two-Panel Delphi Study,” Information & Management.
- Iacovou, C. and Nakatsu, R. (2008). "A Risk Profile of Offshore-Outsourced Development Projects,” Communications of the ACM 51(6), 89-94.