Professor Cheng is the John B. Higdon Eminent Scholar and Department Chair of Department of Information Systems and Operations Management at The University of Florida. His research interests focus on interdisciplinary information systems issues involving information technology, economics, management, marketing, and operations management with specific emphasis on big data and business analytics, economic and policy issues of information technology and the internet, electronic commerce, software pricing strategy, and supply chain management. He was ranked 20th (for the period of 2009-2011), 16th (for the period of 2010-2012), and 32nd (for the period of 2015-2020) among the world’s top-100 researchers in information systems based on publications on the top three information systems journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, and Journal of Management Information System.