Dr. Yu-Che Chen

Biography

Yu-Che Chen, Ph.D., is Isaacson Professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Professor at the School of Public Administration. Dr. Chen is the Director of the Digital Governance and Analytics Lab. Dr. Chen received his Master of Public Affairs and Ph.D. in Public Policy from Indiana University-Bloomington. His current research interests are public governance of artificial intelligence, cyberinfrastructure governance, and collaborative digital governance. He has served as PI or Co-PI of NSF and other external grants with a total award of over $3.5 million. Dr. Chen’s most recent co-edited book is the Oxford Handbook of AI Governance. He has published Managing Digital Governance with Routledge and served as lead editor for two other books. In addition, he has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings papers in digital government and governance. He is Associate Editor of the Government Information Quarterly and the Digital Government: Research and Practice. He is a former chair and current executive committee member of the ASPA’s Section on Science and Technology in Government. He is a two-term former board member of the Digital Government Society. He is co-chair of the 2024 International Conference on Digital Government Research (dg.o 2024).

Teaching Interests

Digital Governance, Information and Technology Management, Research Methods, Public Policy and Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Systems Thinking, Dynamics, and Modeling

Research Interests

Public Governance of Artificial Intelligence, Cyberinfrastructure Governance, Digital Transformation of Government, and Collaborative Digital Governance

Service Summary

Director of Digital Governance and Analytics Lab at UNO, Associate Editor of the Government Information Quarterly and the Digital Government: Research and Practice, Executive Committee Member of the ASPA's Section on Science and Technology in Government, Board Member of the NASPAA’s Section on Emergency Management and Homeland Security Programs, Editorial Board Member of the Public Administration Review

Awards and Honors

Isaacson Professor (2019-2022), University of Nebraska at Omaha, Scholarship/Research - 2019

Honorable Member, Pi Alpha Alpha (National Honorary Society for Public Affairs and Administration), Scholarship/Research - 2019

Largest Award Amount, Scholarship/Research - 2017

Presidential Citation of Merit, Service, Professional - 2013

Professor of the Year Award, Teaching - 2009

Education

Ph D, Indiana University -- Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, Public Policy, 2000

MPA, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University -- Bloomington, Bloomington, Indiana, 1993

BS, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Chemical Engineering, 1990

Selected Publications

Bullock, Justin, Chen, Yu-Che, Himmelreich, Johannes, Hudson, Valerie, Korinek, Anton, Young, Matthew, Zhang, Baobao. Oxford Handbook on AI Governance.

Ahn, Michael, Chen, Yu-Che. 2022. Digital Transformation toward AI-augmented Public Administration: The Perception of Government Employees and the Willingness to use AI in Government, Government Information Quarterly, 39, 2.

Zuiderwijk, Anneke, Chen, Yu-Che, Salem, Fadi. 2021. Implications of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Public Governance: A Systematic Literature Review and a Research Agenda, Government Information Quarterly, 38, 3, 1-19.

Chen, Yu-Che, Huang, Chenyu. 2021. Smart Data-driven Policy on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS): Analysis of Drone Users in U.S. Cities, Smart Cities, 4, 1, 78-92.

Chen, Yu-Che. 2017. Managing Digital Governance: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions, Routledge.

Externally Funded Research

Nebraska Department of Roads Transit Project FY17-21, University of Nebraska at Kearney, State Agencies, 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2021

Department, College, and University

Director of the Digital Governance and Analytics Lab, Lab/Clinic Supervisor, This Lab has helped mentored doctoral students, pursued and implemented Urban research grants, hosted and participated in international conferences, applied for internal and external research grants, and served as a platform for faculty collaboration and student learning., 08/01/2019 - 08/31/2019

Academic Assessment Committee, Committee Member, 08/01/2019 - 08/31/2019

Professional

22nd International Conference on Digital Government Research (Digital Government Society), Other, Led the conference preparation in 2020 and hosted the conference in June 2021. , 07/01/2020 - 07/31/2020

Government Information Quarterly, Editor, Associate Editor, 01/01/2021 - 01/31/2021

Public Administration Review, Editorial Review Board Member, 01/01/2022 - present

National Science Foundation, Other, serve as the evaluator of an NSF project titled: Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Training in Policy Informatics , 11/01/2019 - 11/30/2019