Kerk F. Kee is the Hutcheson Endowed Professor in the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University, USA. He is a communication researcher and an interdisciplinary social scientist of innovation diffusion. His research examines the adoption of big data technologies in science organizations, dissemination of health information in cultural communities, and the spread of pro-environmental attitude in modern societies. His research has been funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine/ Gulf Research Program, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, totaling over US$13 million to date. He received a prestigious NSF CAREER grant (2015), awarded by the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure under NSF’s Computer & Information Science & Engineering Directorate. He has published about 70 peer-reviewed publications, including journal articles, proceeding papers, book chapters, and a book. His research has been cited over 7,500 times according to Google Scholar in January 2024.