Professor Hepu Deng's research interests are in the areas of decision analysis, intelligent systems, digital business, knowledge management, electronic government, e-learning, and their applications in business. The multi-disciplinary nature of his research and the emphasis on both theoretical and applied research are exemplified by numerous refereed publications in top refereed international journals listed in the Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, Engineering Compendex Index, and at major refereed international conferences, including Journal of Operational Research Society, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Government Information Quarterly, Expert Systems with Applications, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Fuzzy Information and Engineering, International Journal of E-Government Research, Journal of Systems and Information Technology, and Management Research Review.
Hepu is active in the international academic community. He acted as the Program Chair of several IEEE international conferences in Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge Discovery, Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence in 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, respectively. He was the Publicity Chair for five IEEE international conferences in China and Singapore (including the 9th IEEE International Conference on Neural Information Processing (2002), the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (2002), and the 2002 International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery) and has been an organisation committee member for numerous other international conferences. He was and is currently a referee for many prestigious international journals, including Fuzzy Sets and Systems, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, European Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, International Journal of Computers and Industrial Engineering, Information Sciences, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Computational Intelligence in Finance, Journal of Operations Management, and International Journal of Knowledge and Information Systems.
Hepu is experienced in working and teaching at tertiary education in a cross-culture environment. After graduation and working as a mathematics teacher in a high school he became an assistant lecturer and then lecturer in the Department of Business, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China. He started at the School of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University in July 1998 as a lecturer and was appointed to the School of Business IT at RMIT in 2000.
Supervisor projects
Intelligent Utilization of Digital Resources in Higher Education: Academics and Learners Perspective
24 Oct 2023
Digital Identity Management for Utilities Organizations: An Integrated Trust Model
31 Mar 2021
Evaluating the digital product management framework for enhancing the customer value proposition in organisations: A strategic perspective
8 Aug 2019
An Analytical Study on Farmland Allocation in The Conversion From Conventional to Organic Farming
24 Sep 2018
Investigating the Impact of Digital Technologies on the Performance of Teaching and Learning in Higher
Education
21 Mar 2018
Investigating the Relationship Between Product–service Systems Supply Chain Capabilities and the Sustainability Performance: A Case of the Indonesian Motorcycle Industry
1 Mar 2018
Critical Determinants for Mobile Commerce Adoption in Vietnamese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
18 Jul 2017
Adoption of Social Sustainability Practices in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Vietnamese Handicraft Organisations
17 Mar 2017
An Empirical Examination of E-Government Adoption in Indonesia
1 Mar 2017
Investigating the Critical Factors for the Adoption of E-Government in Saudi Arabia
27 Mar 2015
Investigating the Critical Success Factors of Digital Transformation for Improving the Customer Experience in Australian Organisations
- Decision analysis: Multi-criteria decision-making, fuzzy decision analysis, fuzzy optimization
- Intelligent systems: Artificial intelligence, expert systems, intelligent agents, and their applications in business
- Digital business: E-market adoption and evaluation, green information technology, technology adoption
- Knowledge management: Knowledge sharing, learning organisations, roles of ICT in knowledge management
- Electronic government: E-government benchmarking, public value of e-government
- E-learning: Learning ecosystems, open learner’s models, adoption of technologies in e-learning
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.