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Daniel McDonald

Faculty Member

Dr. Dan McDonald

Biography

I graduated from BYU in Accounting and worked 3 years in industry doing managerial accounting, manufacturing scheduling, and materials management. During this time I reported on labor and material variances and scheduled manufacturing for double hung, slider and vinyl windows. I also wrote an order-entry scheduling system. During the same time, I also worked installing Novel networks. I returned to school and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arizona in Management Information Systems. I also worked in system architecture and web development. I was an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) for four years at the University of Utah in the School of Business. In 2011, I joined Utah Valley University as an Assistant Professor.

Education

PhD, University of Arizona, 2006

Major: Management Information Systems

MS, University of Arizona, 2001

Major: Management Information Systems

BS, Brigham Young University, 1995

Major: Accounting

Teaching

INFO 3330

Client-Side Web Development, Spring 2025

INFO 4300

Enterprise Web Development, Spring 2025

INFO 3300

Web Systems Development, Spring 2025

Presentations

McDonald, Dan , Chen, Hsinchun , Sheng, Olivia , Southwest Decision Sciences Institute Conference, "Using Hybrid Lexical Profiles to Find and Name Entities", SWDSI, Dallas, TX. (March 15, 2014)
McDonald, Dan , Religious Faith and Social and Applied Sciences Conference, "A Text Mining Analysis of Religious Texts", UVU, Orem. (October, 2013)
McDonald, Dan , Chen, Hsinchun , Sheng, Olivia , Utah Winter Business Intelligence Conference, "Using Hybrid Lexical Profiles to Find and Name Entities", Southwest Decision Sciences Institute Conference, Salt Lake City, UT. (December, 2006)
McDonald, Dan , Chen, Hsinchun , Schumaker, Robert , AAAI Spring Symposium on Homeland Security, "Transforming open-source documents to terror networks_ the Arizona TerrorNet", AAAI, Palo Alto, CA. (March, 2005)
McDonald, Dan , Su, Hua , Chen, Hsinchun , Tseng, C-L , Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, "Extracting and Visualizing Gene Pathway Networks from Biomedical Texts", Kona, HI. ()
McDonald, Dan , Su, Hua , Marshall, Byron , Chen, Hsinchun , Tseng, C-L , BISTI Symposium_ Digital Biology_ The Emerging Paradigm, "Combining Extracted Gene Relations With Ontologies To Create Meaningful Pathway Maps", National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. (November, 2003)

Scholarly/Creative Works

McDonald, Dan , (2014) "A text mining analysis of religious texts" . Orem, UT: Journal of Business Inquiry .
McDonald, Dan , Boyle, Randall , Anderson, John , (2014) "Using an SOM to Visualize Deceptive Chat Content" . Las Vegas: International Association for Computer Information Systems.
McDonald, Dan , Chen, Hsinchun , Sheng, Olivia , (2014) "Using hybrid lexical profiles to find and name entities" . Dallas, TX: Southwest Decision Sciences Institute.
Hansen, James V, Lowry, Paul B, Meservy, Rayman D, McDonald, Dan , (2007) "Genetic programming for prevention of cyberterrorism through dynamic and evolving intrusion detection" (Issue: 4, vol. 43). Decision Support Systems.
Marshall, Byron , Su, Hua , McDonald, Dan , Eggers, Shawna , Chen, Hsinchun , (2006) "Aggregating automatically extracted regulatory pathway relations" (Issue: 1, vol. 10). US: IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine.
McDonald, Dan , Chen, Hsinchun , (2006) "Summary in context_ searching versus browsing" (Issue: 1, vol. 24). ACM Transactions on Information Systems.

Awards

Spot Service Award

Academic Programs, Assessment, and Accreditation - April 2, 2025

Your thoughtful contributions, collaborative spirit, and commitment to excellence have played an essential role in advancing the important work of the committee, especially the work connected with the university's new General Education program that begins in Fall 2025. In doing so, you have helped strengthen our academic community

Best Paper Award

SW Decision Sciences Institute Conference 2014 - March, 2014

An award given by the SW Decision Sciences arm of the Federated Business Disciplines.

Travel Award

Senate Faculty Development Committee at UVU - October, 2013

A travel grant issued by the University to cover the expenses incurred to present my research.

“A Most Influential Teacher” Award

OIS Department at University of Utah - May, 2011

Marvin J. Ashton Teaching Excellence Award

University of Utah - May, 2010

An award given by the School of Business with the primary input being the vote of the student body.