Jackie (Rees) Ulmer

CERIAS Fellow

Title Associate Professor 
Department
Office RAWL 4037 
Office Phone (765) 494-0320 
Email jrees@purdue.edu 
URL http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/faculty/rees/ 
Vita http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/faculty/rees/ 
Education Ph.D. in Decision and Information Sciences from the University of Florida 
Prior Appointments NULL 
Research Areas Information Security and Privacy (specifically the implications of both for managers in the eBusiness environment), Adaptive Models for Complex Systems, Group Decision Support Systems, Genetic Algorithms, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Risk Assessment. 
Key Areas Risk Management, Policies, Laws  
Notable Experience Served as a reviewer for several journals, including Management Science, Information Systems Research and Decision Support Systems.  
Notable Awards Krannert Distinguished Teacher in the MBA program, Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant and the Jay N. Ross Young Faculty Scholar Award. 
Notable Affiliations Member of INFORMS, DSI and AIS. 
Publications PFIRES: A Policy Framework for Information Security (with S.Bandyopadhyay and E. H. Spafford). A Life Cycle Approach to Information Security Policy for Electronic Commerce (with S.Bandyopadhyay), Americas Conference on Information Systems (2000). Published articles in journals such as the INFORMS Journal of Computing, Decision Support Systems, Information Technology and Management, and the European Journal of Operational Research. 
Biography Dr. Rees earned her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Florida in Decision and Information Sciences, with a concentration in Management Information Systems. Her dissertation work was in evolutionary models of adaptive behavior in human decision processes. After completing her Ph.D., she joined the faculty at the Krannert Graduate School of Management in the Management Information Systems area. At Purdue, Dr. Rees has published articles in such journals as the INFORMS Journal of Computing, Decision Support Systems, Information Technology and Management and the European Journal of Operational Research. She has received several awards and honors, including Krannert Distinguished Teacher in the MBA program, Purdue Research Foundation Summer Faculty Grant and the Jay N. Ross Young Faculty Scholar Award. She has served as a reviewer for several journals, including Management Science, Information Systems Research and Decision Support Systems and is a member of INFORMS, DSI and AIS.