Allen S. Lee - biography
Allen S. Lee has been a full professor at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1998 and, in 2012, was named a Dean’s Scholar Professor. He has served as associate dean at both VCU and McGill University, as editor-in-chief of MIS Quarterly, and as a founding senior editor of MIS Quarterly Executive. His publications have typically taken a philosophy-of-science perspective in examining research methodology and designing research methods for the study of information systems.
In 2005, he was named a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. A member of the Circle of Compadres of the Information Systems Doctoral Students Association of the KPMG PhD Project, he was also a founder of the organization Chinese American Professors of Information Systems.
He earned his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, his master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and his doctoral degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Born and raised in New York City, he is a graduate of Brooklyn Technical High School.
