An immigrant from Ghana, Dr. King received his PhD and MS from the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley and New York University. He enjoys charitable work, at homeless shelters and with the International Rescue Committee dedicated to refugees. His primary research, leverages econometric models, machine learning algorithms as well as lab and field experiments and consists of three, often overlapping streams. The first stream is at the intersection of behavioral economics and information decision-making in virtual communities. The second stream focuses on health informatics. The third stream focuses on information diffusion and big data use. Kelvin has an extensive field/industry experience in the area of big data. His research has received several awards including the first place award in the 2018 UTRGV Graduate Research Symposium, Ph.D. Student Excellence Award in Information Systems 2018, a National Science Foundation travel grant in 2019, the Best Poster Award at the 14th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology in 2019, the Robert C. Vackar Endowed Scholarship Award in 2020, the Robert Vackar College of Business & Entrepreneurship Research Award 2020 and quite recently the 2021 PhD Project – Baruch College Doctoral Research Fellowship award .