Bongsik Shin is a professor of Management Information Systems at San Diego State University. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and was an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha before joining San Diego State University. He has taught computer network & cybersecurity management, business intelligence (data warehousing & data mining, statistics), decision support systems, electronic commerce, and IT management & strategy. Especially, he has been teaching computer networking and cybersecurity continuously over 20 years.

His academic activities in pursuit of teaching and research excellence have been funded by more than 25 internal and external grants. His recent research efforts have been all about cybersecurity on subjects related to cyber threat intelligence, ransomware, authentication & access control and countermeasures of phishing. Recently, his team, he as the principal investigator, has been awarded a grant by the Department of Defense of the US to conduct research on "Actionable Intelligence-Oriented Cyber Threat Modeling."

He has published more than 30 articles in such high impact journals as MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Information & Management, and Decision Support Systems. In 2016, he served as a conference co-chair of Americas Conference on Information Systems, one of the three largest MIS conferences with attendees from 40+ countries.