Professor Yu-Che Chen

Yu-Che Chen, Ph.D., is Kathleen D. Seline Professor of Public Administration and Director and Professor of the School of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dr. Chen also serves as 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 on NSF and other external grants totaling over $3.5 million. Dr. Chen has published four books on digital government and governance, including the most recent co-edited volume: The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance. In addition, he has published 58 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and proceedings papers in digital government and governance. He chaired the Section on Science and Technology in Government (SSTIG) for the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA). He serves as the President-Elect of the Digital Government Society (DGS) and as the co-founder of the DGS Chapter in AI and Government. He is Associate Editor of the Government Information Quarterly and the Digital Government: Research and Practice. He is the lead chair of the International Digital Government Research (dg.o) Conference in 2026 at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.