I am an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Information Systems and Business Analytics in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at the College of Business Administration , University of Illinois at Chicago . Given the diversity of my intellectual interests, I am also affiliated with the Department of Marketing and the Department of Computer Science. Previously, I was a Research Scientist at IBM Research AI. I currently serve as an Associate Editor at Electronic Commerce Research and Frontiers
My research has won a number of best paper awards and nominations at major conferences, including International Conference on Information Systems (2021), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2021), the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (2018, 2020), the Conference on information systems and technology (2017), INFORMS Annual Conference eBusiness Cluster (2017), the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (2013). My dissertation research on machine learning and social e
I have been fortunate to have spent time at various inspirational institutions at different points in my career. I received my Ph.D in 2014 from the Department of Computer Science at Arizona State University, Tempe. I also did a few fun and fruitful internships in the FUSE group at Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA and Avaya Labs Research, Basking Ridge, NJ.