SADEH, Norman MS, University of Southern California; PhD, Carnegie Mellon University    Director, Mobile Commerce Lab, Carnegie Mellon University    Director, e-Supply Chain Management Lab, Carnegie Mellon University    Co-Director, COS PhD Program, Carnegie Mellon University    Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, HKU    Email: sadeh@cs.cmu.edu Norman M. Sadeh is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is director of CMU's Mobile Commerce Laboratory and its e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory, and co-Director of the School's PhD Program in Computation, Organizations and Society. He also directs the MBA track in Technology Leadership launched jointly by the Tepper School of Business and the School of Computer Science. Over the past dozen years, Norman's primary research focus has been in the area of mobile and pervasive computing, cybersecurity, online privacy, user-oriented machine learning, and semantic web technologies with a particular focus on mobile and social networking.

Norman is also well known for his seminal work in AI planning and scheduling, agent-based supply chain management, workflow management, automated negotiation. Products based on his research have been deployed and commercialized by organizations such as IBM, Raytheon, Mitsubishi, Boeing, Numetrix (eventually acquired by JD Edwards/PeopleSoft/Oracle), ILOG (eventually acquired by IBM), and the US Army. Norman is also co-founder, chairman and chief scientist of Wombat Security Technologies, a company commercializing advanced training and filtering products to combat phishing attacks.

Dr. Sadeh has been on the faculty at CMU since 1991. In the late nineties, he was program manager with the European Commission’s ESPRIT research program, prior to serving for two years as Chief Scientist of its US$700M (EUR 550M) initiative in "New Methods of Work and eCommerce" within the Information Society Technologies (IST) program. As such, he was responsible for shaping European research priorities in collaboration with industry and universities across Europe. These activities eventually resulted in the launch of over 200 R&D projects involving over 1,000 European organizations from industry and research. While at the Commission, Norman was also involved in key eCommerce and Internet policy initiatives.

Norman received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at CMU with a major in Artificial Intelligence and a minor in Operations Research. He holds a MS degree in computer science from the University of Southern California and a BS/MS degree in electrical engineering and applied physics from the Free University of Brussels (Belgium) as "Ingénieur Civil Physicien".

Dr. Sadeh has authored around 180 scientific publications. He served as general chair of the 2003 International Conference on Electronic Commerce and as editor-in-chief of "Electronic Commerce Research Applications" (ECRA). Norman is currently on the editorial board of several other journals, including "I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society", and the "International Journal of Web Services Research". He is a Certified Fellow of APICS (CFPIM). He is also the author of "m-Commerce: Technologies, Services and Business Models", a book published by Wiley in April 2002. In 2005, Norman was co-recipient of IBM's Best Privacy Faculty Award. Other accomplishments include the design and launch in 2002 of the international Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (TAC-SCM), which eventually attracted over 75 teams from 25 different countries.