Research Interests

Data Science: Business Analytics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence.

Data Privacy: Privacy-preserving Data Publishing,  Valuation of Personal Data, and  Economics of Privacy.

Application Areas: Social Media Analytics, Medical and Health Informatics, and Supply Chain Management.

Education

PhD  Management Information Systems, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, MA, USA (2017)

MSc  Management Engineering , Istanbul Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey (2012)

BSc  Industrial Engineering , Yildiz Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey (2009)

Short Bio 

Dr. Hasan B. Kartal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Illinois Springfield. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Massachusetts Lowell in 2017. His primary research areas include data science, business analytics, data privacy, information economics, health informatics, and social media analytics. He is currently focused on information privacy, specifically privacy-preserving data sharing and generative AI applications. His work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems. He frequently presents at international conferences like ICIS, INFORMS, AMCIS, and HICSS. He is a certified associate application consultant of SAP Predictive Analytics. 

Selected Awards and Honors

Scholar of the Year Award (2022) - College of Business and Management (CBM) at UIS 

Outstanding Adviser (2020) - National Award - Society for the Advancement of Management (SAM)

Hanson Scholar Award  (2019-2020) - Hanson Professional Services, Illinois

The Best Paper Award (2015) - The 25th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2015, Dallas) 

The Best Presentation Award (2013) - The International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2013, Hong Kong) 

Selected Journal Publications

Agarwal, A., Singh, N., & Kartal, H.B. (2023). Does Your Company Engage Efficiently on Social Media? Improving Performance Using DEA Model and Visualization. e-Service Journal 14(3), 36-68. https://doi.org/10.2979/esj.2023.a905238

Kartal, H. B. and Li, X. B. (2020) “Protecting Privacy When Sharing and Releasing Data with Multiple Records per Person”. Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS). Vol. 21: Issue 6, Article 8. DOI: 10.17705/1jais.00643 (ABDC: A* ranked, a top journal in the basket of eight of Information Systems). Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol21/iss6/8

Motiwalla, L. F., Albashrawi, M., & Kartal, H. B. (2019). Uncovering unobserved heterogeneity bias: Measuring mobile banking system success. International Journal of Information Management, 49, 439-451. (ABDC: A* ranked). Available: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1Zb5Iz1m7LO3r

Kartal, H. B., Liu, X., & Li, X. B. (2019). Differential Privacy for the Vast Majority. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 10(2), 8. (A high-quality emergent journal under ACM umbrella. Indexing is in progress. See the editorial board: https://tmis.acm.org/editorial.cfm). Available at: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3329717)

Albashrawi, M., Kartal, H., Oztekin, A., & Motiwalla, L. (2019). “Self-reported and computer-recorded experience in mobile banking: A multi-phase path analytic approach”. Information Systems Frontiers, 21(4), 773-790. (ABDC: A ranked). Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-018-9892-1

For a complete list of the publications, refer to the research section.

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