Ahmed Abbasi

Ahmed Abbasi is the Joe and Jane Giovanini Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations. He serves as Director of the Analytics Ph.D. program and Co-Director of the Human-centered Analytics Lab (HAL). Ahmed completed his Ph.D. work in Information Systems at the University of Arizona’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab. He attained an M.S. in Operations Research from Columbia University and M.B.A./B.S. degrees from Virginia Tech. His research interests relate to text and predictive analytics. Ahmed has published over one hundred articles in journals and conferences, including several in top-tier outlets such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research (ISR), Journal of MIS, ACM TOIS, IEEE TKDE, IEEE Intelligent Systems, ACL, EMNLP, and NAACL. He won best paper awards at AIS, INFORMS, MISQ, ISR, and WITS, and was a finalist for the AMA’s Hunt/Maynard Award. His work has been funded by over a dozen grants from the National Science Foundation and industry partners such as AWS, Microsoft, eBay, Deloitte, and Oracle. He has also received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award, INFORMS Design Science Award, IBM Faculty Award, and Kemper Professor Award for his work on human-centered AI. Ahmed’s work has been featured in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Associated Press, WIRED, CBS, and Fox. Ahmed serves as Senior Editor for ISR and Associate Editor for ACM TMIS and IEEE Intelligent Systems, and Department Editor for Trustworthy and Responsible AI at IEEE Intelligent Systems. He was a past elected Chair of the INFORMS College on AI and currently serves as elected President for WITS.