2017 A-CAPP CENTER
SPEAKER
BIOS
RESEARCH LAB SPEAKERS (CONT.)
of three major academic journals in the United States and Europe. His professional
experience also includes chair for the American Academy of Advertising 2017
Pre-conference on computational advertising in Boston and 2014 Pre-conference on
big data for advertising research and education in Atlanta, guest editor of a special
issue on big data for the Journal of Advertising, visiting professor at City University of
Hong Hong, executive director for Panmedia Institute in Beijing, senior visiting scholar
at Tsinghua University, chair of the American Academy of Advertising 2009 Asia-Pacific
Conference in Beijing, speaker for a FTC mobile commerce town hall meeting, chair of
the AAA 2004 Publications Committee, and Fulbright Scholar at Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore.
Jay Kennedy is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product
Protection (A-CAPP) and School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He
received his PhD in Criminal Justice at the University of Cincinnati, where he was Graduate
School Dean’s Distinguished Fellow, as well as a Yates Scholar. While at the University of
Cincinnati Jay was awarded a Graduate Minority Fellowship from the American Society of
Criminology, and received several research grants and awards. A graduate of the MBA
program at the Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati,his research
focuses upon deviance within corporations. Specifically, his research and published works
explore issues of employee theft within small businesses, the multi-level antecedents of
corporate crime, and the role business ethics plays in decision-making. Prior to attending
graduate school, Jay spent just over 8 years working for a number of corporations in the metro
Detroit area, including a major non-profit organization, a family-owned automotive supplier,
and a Fortune 100 corporation.
Jeremy Wilson is the Director of the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection and
a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (MSU). Prior to joining
MSU, Jeremy was a Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation where he directed many local,
national, and international public safety projects and served as founding Associate Director of
the Center on Quality Policing and founding Director of the Police Recruitment and Retention
Clearinghouse. He is a visiting scholar in the Australian Resource Safety at Northwestern
University and was an adjunct professor of public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Jeremy
has collaborated with police agencies, communities, task forces, governments, and professional
organizations throughout the U.S. and the world on many of the most salient public safety
problems. Jeremy’s research on anti-counterfeiting integrates and draws from his broader
interests in the areas of law enforcement, violence prevention, and internal security.
Jiliang Tang is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at
Michigan State University since Fall@2016. Before that, he was a research scientist in Yahoo
Research and got his PhD from Arizona State University in 2015. He has broad interests in social
computing, data mining and machine learning and is directing the Data Science and Engineering
Lab . He was the recipients of the Best Paper Award in KDD2016, the runner up of the Best KDD
Dissertation Award in 2015, Dean's Dissertation Award and the best paper shortlist of
WSDM2013. He has published his research in highly ranked journals and top conference
proceedings, which received thousands of citations (Google Scholar) and extensive media
coverage.
John Norder is an enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Dakota Tribe and descendant of the
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. He received his PhD from the University of
Michigan in Anthropology, with a focus on ethnohistory, archaeology, and community-based
research. His current and ongoing research has focused on the ways in which traditional
Indigenous knowledge is used as a tool of mediation between issues of historical and
contemporary identity, landscape, cultural and natural resource heritages, and economic
development in the context of community and state level policy issues. His recent work as the
Director of the Native American Institute has focused on issues of community forestry,
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