PhD in Business Administration with a Specialization in Information Systems

• Aakash Saxena
  PhD: 2020
  Placement: Sykes Enterprises, Inc.
  Dissertation: A Method to Extract Context-Sensitive Semantics of a Concept Using Word-Embedding Space and Its Application
   
• Jaebong Son 
  PhD: 2017
  Placement - California State University
  Dissertation: What Have We Missed When Examining Twitter as a Communication Medium during Disasters
   
• Jeffrey Sweeney 
  PhD: 2016
  Placement: Erasmus University
  Dissertation: On Value Creation from Knowledge Management Systems
   
• Jose Ramirez 
  PhD: 2015
  Placement: United States Military Academy at West Point
  Dissertation: Essays on Military and Civilian Manpower Planning
   
• Mark Zais 
  PhD: 2014
  Placement: Office of the Secretary of Defense
  Dissertation: Simulation-Optimization, Markov Chain and Graph Coloring Approaches to Military Manpower Modeling and Deployment Sourcing
   
• Subhamoy Ganguly
  PhD: 2013
  Placement: Indian Institute of Management – Udaipur
  Dissertation: Essays in Scheduling: Applications in Health Care and Manufacturing
   
• Jingjing Li 
  PhD: 2013
  Placement: University of Virginia
  Dissertation: Addressing Information Proliferation: Applications of Information Extraction and Text Mining
   
• Michele Samorani 
  PhD: 2012
  Placement: University of Alberta, Canada
  Dissertation: Data Mining For Enhanced Operations Management Decision Making: Applications in Health Care
   
• Tomasz Miaskiewicz 
  PhD: 2010
  Initial Placement: The New University of Lisbon
  Current Placement: NOVA School of Business and Economics
  Dissertation: Bridging the Gap Between Consumers and Designers: The Role of Accurate and Effective Personas
   
• Harald Reinertsen 
  PhD: 2010
  Placement: Smith Stål Øst AS, Norway
  Dissertation: Optimization of the Industrial Cutting Stock Problems – Production Scheduling in a Dynamic Stochastic Environment
   
• Zainab AlQenaei 
  PhD: 2009
  Placement: Kuwait University
  Dissertation: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Consumer Mental Health Recovery Measures and Clinicians’ Reports Using Multivariate Analysis of the Singular Value Decomposition of a Textual Corpus
   
• Marco Better 
  PhD: 2007
  Placement: OptTek Systems, Inc.
  Dissertation: Data Mining Techniques for Prediction in Discrete Data Applications
   
• Fang Liang 
  PhD: 2007
  Placement: PROS Pricing Solutions
  Dissertation: The Hyperplan-Based Classification Techniques
   
• Dirk Hovorka
  PhD: 2006
  Placement: Bond University, Australia
  Dissertation: Information Systems Foundations: Four Research Essays
   
• Rahul Patil 
  PhD: 2006
  Placement: Indian Institute of Management
  Dissertation: Improved Techniques for Due Date Quotation in Realistic Production Environments
   
• Emilio Collar 
  PhD: 2005
  Placement: Western Connecticut State University
  Dissertation: An Investigation of Programming Code Textbase Readability Based on a Cognitive Readability Model
   
• Younghwa Lee 
  PhD: 2005
  Placement: University of Kansas
  Dissertation: Developing Theoretical Models of Website Usability
   
• Mark W.S. Chun 
  PhD: 2003
  Placement: Pepperdine University
  Dissertation: Embedded Knowledge, Embedded Information Systems: A Resource-Based Perspective on the System Integration Process During a Corporate Merger

Management Information Systems Quarterly (WITS 2016 Best Prototype Award)
Unlocking Knowledge Inheritance of Behavioral Research: A Design Framework and an Instantiation (Conditional acceptance)
Jingjing Li—University of Virginia (PhD 2013)
Kai Larsen –University of Colorado Boulder
Ahmed Abbasi –University of Virginia

Information Systems Research
Don’t Mention It? Analyzing User-generated Content Signals for Early Adverse Event Warnings (2019)
Ahmed Abbasi –University of Virginia
Jingjing Li—University of Virginia (PhD 2013)
Donald Adjeroh –West Virginia University
Marie Abate—West Virginia University
Wanhong Zheng –West Virginia University

MIS Quarterly    
Information technology use as a learning mechanism: The impact ofit use on knowledge transfer effectiveness, absorptive capacity, and franchisee performance (2015)
Kishen Iyengar - University of Colorado at Boulder
Jeffrey R Sweeney - Maastricht University (PhD 2016)
Ramiro Montealegre - University of Colorado at Boulder

MIS Quarterly    
Can online wait be managed? The effect of filler interfaces and presentation modes on perceived waiting time online (2012)
Younghwa Lee - University of Northern Iowa (PhD 2005)
Andrew N.K. Chen - University of Kansas
Virgina Ilie - California Luthern University