Education

Ph.D. Southern Illinois University, Dept of Management -- Management Information Systems.

MA Michigan State University, Telecommunication. 

Experience

Associate Professor: University of Louisiana Lafayette, Informatics Program, School of Computing and Informatics, Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, 08/14 to current.

Informatics Program Coordinator: University of Louisiana Lafayette, Informatics Program, School of Computing and Informatics, Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, 08/14 to 12/2018.

Assistant Professor: University of Louisiana Lafayette, Informatics Program, School of Computing and Informatics, Ray P. Authement College of Sciences, 01/11 to current.

Assistant Professor: University of Louisiana Lafayette, Business Systems, Analysis and Technology (BSAT) Department, Moody III College of Business Administration, 08/2006 to 12/2010.

Honors & Rewards

2025 Co‐contactor (50%), Center of Excellence in Cybersecurity application (continued).

2024, VS Tida, S Hsu, X Hei, SV Chilukoti, Y Tu. Method For Performing Transpose Convolution Operations In A Neural Network, US Patent App. 18/744, 260.

2024-2025 Mid-Career Fellowship, College of Sciences, University of Louisiana Lafayette

2024 PI, Sustainable Development Research Awards ‐‐ Round 3, title: Responsible AI and Uers’ Persona, University of Louisiana Lafayette.

2024 PI, preliminary grant proposal to NSF Advance Program in Catalyst track (Approved at ULLafayette but the program was cancelled by Trump administration)

2024 Grant submission, PI, NGI Sargasso: Open-Source Chatbot for Alzheimer's Disease Support, €120,000 (Pending)

2024 Fulbright Specialist Program Reviewers for Cycle 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.

2023-2026 Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Professorship in Computing & Informatics VI

2022 Fulbright Library/Information Science Panelist. 

2022-2023 PI, STEP grant: ERP/SCM Sim Lab, University of Louisiana Lafayette, $ 72,000

2021-2023 Title: ITCL: Development of two VR‐assisted Low‐cost Online Courses Leading to Security Certificates Sponsor ID: 19A‐67; Amount: $116,101.00 PI: Xiali Hei, Co-Principal Investigator ID: Hsiu‐Yueh Hsu (40% effort).

2021 National Science Foundation Panelist. 

2019-2020 Fulbright Scholar – Romania. 

2019 National Science Foundation Panelist. 

  2019 Women in Cybersecurity conference program reviewer.

2019 (May to June) Fulbright Specialist to Malaysia.

2018-2023 Fulbright Specialist in Rotation.

2018 Grace Hopper Celebration faculty scholarship recipient. 

2017 to current Online Teacher Certification.

2017 to current Online Course Design Certification.

2016 Scrum Master Certification.

2015 - 2022 Women in Cybersecurity annual conference faculty scholarship recipient. 

2015-16 “SAP ERP Initiative Center,” STEP Grant, UL Lafayette, $78,000. 2015 SAP ERPsim Facilitator Certification.

2014 Summer Research Grant, RPA College of Sciences. 

2014 SAP TERP10 6.0 certification.

2014 Invited Guest Speaker at College of Business, XiAn Potrolium University, XiAn, China.

2014 Invited Guest Speaker at College of Business, Nanjing Technical University, Nanjing, China.

2013 to 2017 Academic Liaison, STARS Computing Corps, National Science Foundation Program.

2010 - 2013 Olga Richard Schilling/BORSF Professorship in Business Systems, Analysis, and Technology.

2010-11 Selected Guest Speaker from UL systems to the International Week of Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci (PULV).

2010 Advance Data Analysis and Research Methodology, a week-long Taiwan National Normal University workshop.

2008 Outstanding Advising Award

2008 Summer Research Grant, B.I. Moody III College of Business

2007 Invited speech, “Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management System,” at Taiwan National Normal University.

2005 Pontikes Center for the Management of Information Grant for The Relationship Between Intellectuals and Knowledge Processes: A Competitive Advantage?

Publications
  1. VS Tida, S Hsu, X Hei (2024). A Unified Training Process for Fake News Detection Based on Finetuned Bidirectional Encoder Representation from Transformers Model, Big Data 12 (4), 331‐342.
  2. Vijay Tida, Sharon Hei, Sonya Hsu (2023). Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Model for Covid-19 Disease Detection. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 56, 2023.
  3. Vijay Tida, Sharon Hei, Sonya Hsu (2023). Kernel-Segregated Transpose Convolution Operation. Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 56, 2023.
  4. Rodrigue Rizk, Dominik Rizk, Fredric Rizk and Sonya Hsu (2023). 280 Characters to the White House: Predicting 2020 US Presidential Elections from Twitter Data, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 29 (4), 542-569.
  5. Vijay Tida, Sonya Hsu (2022). Universal Spam Detection using Transfer Learning of BERT Model, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences‐55, 2022.
  6. Udaysree Buchupalli, Ayokomi Lasisi, Sonya Hsu (2019). Exploration of CMS Open Payment Data -- Learning Techniques for Anomaly Detection of Relationships. Poster Presentation at the 6th Women in Cybersecurity; Pittsburg.
  7. Sonya HY Hsu, Songpol Kulviwat (2006). An Integrative Framework of Technology Acceptance Model and Personalization in Mobile Commerce. International Journal of Technology Marketing, 1 (4): 393 – 410.
  8. Sonya Hsu, Steven J. Dick, and Walter McDowell. (2008) "Closing the Knowledge Gap in Financial Media Management." Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) National Conference, Chicago, IL.
  9. Sonya Hsu, Siva K. Balasubramanian (2003). Telecommunication Infrastructure Investments and Firm Performance. Proceedings of the 36 Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.
  10. Clement Okolo, Sonya Hsu (2025). Customer Segregation and Loyalty: A Hybrid Approach Using LRMF and ANN Methods. 35th Annual Production and Operational Management Society, Atlanta, GA.
  11. Sonya Hsu, Ayokomi Lasisi, Marym Beisafar (2020). Supply Chain Finance with Blockchain Technology, International Forum on Knowledge Assets Dynamics, Matera, Italy.
  12. Ayokomi Lasisi, Sonya Hsu (2019). Consensus Mechanism in Enterprise Blockchain in Proceeding of the of IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics. Shenzhen, China.
  13. Sonya H.Y. Hsu, Steven Dick (2017). Information Sharing & Cyber Threats. Proceeding of IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics. Beijing, China.
  14. Karen Burstein, Graig J Forsyth, Raymond Biggar, Sonya Hsu, Steven Dick, Paula Zeanah (2016). A Theoretical Model for preparing incarcerated youth for careers in an increasingly technological world: Computational logic as a vehicle for improving human decision-making skills. Journal of Criminal Justice Education: 411-427.
  15. Stephen Shih, Sonya Hsu, Zhiwei Zhu, and Siva K. Balasubramanian (2012). Beyond information sharing- knowledge is the key to the downstream supply chain: a case study. Information and Management, 49(2): 70-80.
  16. Dominick Rizk, Rodrigue Rizk, and Sonya Hsu (2019).  Applied Layered-Security Model to IoMT in Proceeding of the IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics. Shenzhen, China.
  17. Sonya H.Y. Hsu, Steven Dick (2018). A Workaround of EHR – A Logistics/Reporting System Development. Proceedings of the 51 Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE Publisher.
  18. Sonya H.Y. Hsu, Raju Gottumukkala, Ryan G. Benton (2015). Real-Time Flu Monitoring System and Decision Informatics. Proceedings of the 48 Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE Publisher.
  19. Sonya H.Y. Hsu (2013). A Web Portal for Bariatric Patients – Effective Relationships Management. Proceedings of the 46 Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. IEEE Publisher.
  20. Sonya H.Y. Hsu (2013). A Root-Cause of Healthcare Reform – Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.  Proceedings of the International Conference on Medical Innovation and Computing Service (MICS).
  21. Santiago Ontanon, Sonya Hsu, Yi-Ching Lee (2013) Behavior Model Extraction and Visualization from Health Care Data.  NSF Center of Visualization and Decision Informatics IAB meeting presentation, Lafayette, Louisiana, November 4-6.
  22. Ramendra Thakur, Sonya H.Y. Hsu, Gwen Fontenot (2012). Innovation in healthcare: Issues and future trends. Journal of Business Research, 65(4): 562-569.
Teaching
  1. Information Systems 

        Project Management (Capstone projects in both Informatics/BSAT programs)

        Business Process Management (undergraduate and graduate in both Informatics/BSAT programs)

        System Analysis and Design (undergraduate and graduate in both Informatics/BSAT programs)

        Introduction of Database Design (undergraduate in Informatics program)

        Human-Computer Interaction (course development, undergraduate in Informatics program)       

  1. Quantitative Analysis

    Quantitative Analysis I & II (undergraduate in Business)

    Advanced Business Data Analysis (Mater of Business Administration)

  2. Production Operation and Management

    Introduction of Production Operation and Management (undergraduate in Business)

    Service Operations (course development, undergraduate in Business)