General Information
Biography
Yu-Che Chen, Ph.D., is Kathleen D. Seline Professor of Public Administration and Professor at the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Chen serves as the Interim Director of the School of Public Administration and 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 has published four books in the digital government and governance, including the most recent co-edited volume: The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance. In addition, he has published over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, proceeding papers in digital government and governance. He serves as the President Elect of the Digital Government Society. He is Associate Editor of the Government Information Quarterly and the Digital Government: Research and Practice. He also serves the conference co-chair of the International Digital Government Research Conference in 2024 and 2025.
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
Kathleen D. Seline Professor of Public Administration, Scholarship/Research - 2025
Isaacson Professor (2022-2024), University of Nebraska at Omaha, Scholarship/Research - 2022
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
Scholarship/Research/Creative Activity
Selected Publications
Bullock, Justin, Chen, Yu-Che, Himmelreich, Johannes, Hudson, Valerie, Korinek, Anton, Young, Matthew, Zhang, Baobao. 2024. Oxford Handbook on AI Governance, Oxford University Press, 1077.
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
DASS: A Multi-level Collaborative Design framework for Cross-sovereignty Software Accountability, National Science Foundation, Federal, 10/01/2023 - 09/30/2026
Data-enabled Pathways to Equity in Cyberinfrastructure Utilization for Scientific Discovery, NSF, Federal, 03/15/2024 - 02/28/2026
CIVIC-PG Track A: A multi-dimensional approach to transform tribal community resilience against extreme wind hazards, NSF, Federal, 10/01/2024 - 03/31/2025
Nebraska Department of Roads Transit Project FY17-21, University of Nebraska at Kearney, State Agencies, 01/01/2017 - 12/31/2021
Service
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