Prior to joining NEOMA Business School (former Rouen Business School) in France as Full Professor in 2018, Roya has worked as tenured Associate Professor at University of Illinois System in United States (2015-2018 and 2019-Present) and Aston University in United Kingdom (2005-2015). She has published extensively in prestigious journals (such as Information & Management, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Annals of Operations Research, Production Planning & Control, Technovation, Expert Systems with Applications), and presented at leading international conferences in areas of IT Value, Information Systems and Sustainability (Green IS), IT for Sustainable Development (UN SDGs), and IT Adoption.

Roya has served as Guest Editor of Special Issue Information Systems Solutions for Environmental Sustainability, Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and Track Co-Chair and Associate Editor at several leading international conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS). She has taught courses that are closely related to her scholarship such as Information Systems and Sustainability, Green Information and Operations Management and Research Methods.  

Education

Postgraduate Professional Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 

Aston University

Ph.D. Management Information Systems

National University of Singapore

B.Sc. Applied Mathematics in Computer Science

Khajeh Nasir Toosi University of Technology

Academic Experience

Association for Information Systems (AIS) Special Interest Group on Green Information Systems (SIG Green)
President, July 2025- June 2027

University of Illinois Springfield, Department of MIS, College of Business and Management

Associate Professor (Tenured), 2019 - Present

NEOMA Business School, IT, Supply Chain & Decisions Department

Full Professor, 2018 - 2019

University of Illinois Springfield, Department of MIS, College of Business and Management

Associate Professor (Tenured), 2015 - 2018

Carnegie Mellon University, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences

Visiting Associate Professor in Information Systems, Spring 2015

Operations and Information Management Group, Aston Business School

Senior Lecturer (Tenured Associate Professor), 2011- 2015

Course Director for the “Business Research and Consultancy” Program

Operations and Information Management Group, Aston Business School

Lecturer (Tenure-Track Assistant Professor), 2006-2011

Operations and Information Management Group, Aston Business School

Research Fellow (ABD), 2005- 2006

National University of Singapore

Research Scholar, 2001- 2005

Professional Membership

Association for Information Systems (AIS) Distinguished Member - Cum Laude