Ali Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems
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Professor Ahmed is an assistant professor in the Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems of the E. J. Ourso College of Business at 海角社区. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Management Information Systems from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His research focuses on organizational issues at the intersection of information technology (IT) and business risk management. Particularly, he studies information security economics, crowdsourced vulnerability discovery, platform economy, public health policy, and online reputation systems. He has published in Decision Support Systems, Frontiers in Public Health, and the proceedings of the various premier information systems conferences, including ICIS, CIST, DRW, AMCIS, HICSS, and DSI.
Research Interests: Ethical hacking, bug bounty programs, data mining, machine learning, econometrics
Ahmed, A., Lee, B., Deokar, A., Summerfield, N., (2023) 鈥淭he Role of Commitment in Online Reputation Systems: An Empirical Study of Express Delivery Promise in an E-Commerce Platform.鈥� Decision Support Systems.
Ahmed, A., Deokar, A., and Lee, B. (2021) 鈥淰ulnerability disclosure mechanisms: A synthesis and framework for market-based and non-market-based disclosures.鈥� Decision Support Systems.
Ahmed, A., Ali, A. and Hasan, S. (2020), 鈥淐omparison of Epidemiological Variations in COVID-19 Patients Inside and Outside of China鈥擜 Meta-Analysis鈥� Frontiers in Public Health 8:193.
Ahmed, A., 鈥淒oes Public Disclosure of Vulnerabilities Affect Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs? Invited talk at Black Hat USA 2023.
Ahmed, A., Akar, E., 鈥淎n Empirical Examination of Technology and Security Services in Sharing Economy鈥� AMCIS 2022 Proceedings.
Muhammad Shah, A., Muhammad, W., Ahmed, A., Ahmed, S., Designing an IT-Based System for Optimizing Lung Cancer Management鈥� AMCIS 2022 Proceedings. (Top 25% Papers AMCIS 2022)
Ahmed, A., Lee, B. Deokar, A., 鈥淭he Role of Vulnerability Disclosure on Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs鈥� Proceedings of 2021 International Conferences on Information Systems (ICIS). (Best Short Paper Award Nominee)
Ahmed, A. and Lee, B., 鈥淥rganizational Learning on Bug Bounty Platforms,鈥� Americas Conference on Information Systems 2020 Proceedings.
Ahmed, A., Nasralah, T., Wahbeh, A, Noteboom, C, 鈥淧atients鈥� Characteristics Affecting the Use of a MyChart Patient Portal鈥� Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2019, pp. 3974-3979.
Al-Ramahi, M, Ahmed, A., 鈥淚dentifying Users鈥� Concerns in Lodging Sharing Economy Using Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach鈥� Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Data Intelligence and Security (ICDIS), South Padre Island, TX, USA, 2019, pp. 160-166.
Nasralah, T, Ahmed, A., Ali, A, 鈥淣egative Effects of Online Health Communities on User鈥檚 Health: The Case of Online Health Forums鈥� Proceedings of the Thirteenth Midwest Association for Information Systems Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri May 17-18, 2018
Ahmed, A., Nasralah, T, Wang, Y, 鈥淚mpact of E-Visits on Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centers鈥� Proceedings of the 23rd Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston, MA, 2017.
Ahmed, A. and Podhradsky, A, 鈥淩eview of Mobile Applications Used for Covert Communication鈥� MWAIS 2017 Proceedings. 50.
Nasralah, T, Ahmed, A., Noteboom, C, 鈥淧atients鈥� Characteristics and Utilization of MyChart鈥� Proceedings of the 23rd Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston, MA, 2017.
Ahmed, A. and Podhradsky, A, 鈥淪ecurity Vulnerabilities in High-Tech Children Toys鈥�
Proceedings of 22nd Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Diego, 2016.
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2023 Speaker at Black Hat Conference USA
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2023 Participation (by selection) MISQ Author Development Workshop
2022 Best Paper Nominee at AMCIS
2021 Best Paper Nominee at ICIS
2021 Teaching Excellence Award Manning School of Business
2021 Participation (by selection) MISQ Reviewer Development Workshop
2021 Participation (by selection) Junior Faculty Consortium at ICIS
2020 Finalist in the INFORMS Poster Session Competition
2020 Recipient of AMCIS Doctoral Consortium for Advanced Students
2020 Best Paper Award UML Student Research & Community Engagement Symposium
2019 Best Paper Award UML Student Research & Community Engagement Symposium
2019 Founder of an online food-sharing platform and application: Curaee 鈥� Food Sharing,
Inc. Lowell Sun
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