Prof. Dr. Hyunchul Ahn is currently a professor of the Graduate School of Business IT at Kookmin University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. He received his Ph.D. from KAIST. He has been published in the Annals of OR, Applied Intelligence, Applied Soft Computing, Computers & OR, Expert Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Information & Management, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and several peer-reviewed journals. His research interests are in the areas of data mining in finance and marketing and artificial intelligence techniques such as artificial neural networks, support vector machines, case-based reasoning, and genetic algorithms. He is also interested in IS/IT adoption behaviors and the roles of trust.