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Phone: 470-578-5168

Email: xtian2@kennesaw.edu

Office Location: J 378B

Office Hours:
2025 Spring Tuesday 1-3 pm (in-person, Teams) Thursday 1-2 pm (Teams) Or by appointment MSIT student advising: Please go to https://msit.kennesaw.edu to make an appointment.

Shirley Tian

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Welcome! I am Xin (Shirley) Tian, and I am an Associate Professor of Information Technology at Kennesaw State University. And I was the BSIT/BASIT program coordinator from May, 2022 to December 2022. And I currently serve as a MSIT program coordinator since January 2023. Persepctive and current graduate students can find useful information here: https://msit.kennesaw.edu/

**If you are a current MSIT student and want to make an appointment with me, please use the booking link on MSIT page above.

I have been working in the IT field for the past 15 years in industry as a programmer, analyst and in academia as a professor. My research interests are social media analytics and cybersecurity education. I am an AWS Academy Accredited Educator. And I also serve as an ABET PEV for ABET CAC - Information Technology from 2024.

Currently, I am teaching IT4323, IT4333, IT5433, IT7503 and IT7733 courses at KSU.

IT4323 Data Communications & Networking

IT4333 Network Configuration & Administration

IT5433 Database Design and Applications

IT7503 Foundations of Health Information Technology

IT7733 Foundamentals of Enterprise Cloud