Research Impact

Senay Solak – Department Chair & Professor

• Department Chair and internationally recognized operations research scholar in analytics for public policy, equity, and resilience
  Data-driven optimization models for societal resource allocation and risk; externally engaged research with real policy and infrastructure impact.

Arzum Akkas – Associate Professor

• Highly cited supply chain scholar with publications in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and other top operations journals
  Global authority on sustainable supply chains, food waste, and shelf-life–constrained inventory; research adopted in retail and food system practice.

Agha Iqbal Ali – Karen & Chuck Peters Family Endowed Professor

• Endowed Professor and internationally published leader in large-scale optimization and humanitarian logistics
  Decades of influential operations research across disaster response, analytics, and complex decision systems.

Indika Dissanayake – Associate Professor

• Premier IS journal author (JMIS, JAIS, JSIS) in digital platforms, crowdsourcing, and cybersecurity
  Research on incentive design and online community participation shaping both academic thought and industry practice.

Ahmed Ghoniem – Professor

• Globally published management science scholar and doctoral program leader in optimization and analytics
  Mathematical modeling for retail, logistics, routing, scheduling, and airport operations; developing the next generation of analytics researchers.

Zhanfei Lei – Assistant Professor

• Author in Information Systems Research and Associate Editor contributing to the field’s top journals
  Behavioral analytics of online reviews, user-generated content, and digital decision processes.

Ying Liu – Assistant Professor

• Information economics and digital markets researcher publishing in leading IS journals
  Platform strategy, social media networks, and data-driven value creation in modern digital ecosystems.

Maya Mudambi – Assistant Professor

• High-impact scholar on misinformation and digital trust in top Information Systems research communities
  Platform design and belief formation with implications for health, technology governance, and society.

Anna Nagurney – Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies

• World-renowned pioneer of supernetworks with thousands of citations, INFORMS leadership, and national media visibility including The New York Times
  Foundational research in supply chains, transportation, and network resilience; Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and global keynote speaker.

Zihao Qu – Assistant Professor

• Next-generation scholar in revenue management, pricing analytics, and technology-enabled market design
  Data-driven operational strategy for digital and platform-based environments.

Zachary Sheffler – Assistant Professor

• Multiple Isenberg teaching award winner and behavioral Information Systems researcher
  Experimental work on gamification, incentives, participation, and ethical decision making in digital environments.

Marta Stelmaszak Rosa – Assistant Professor

• Interdisciplinary data science scholar advancing DEI, social justice, and responsible analytics
  Research on data governance and the societal impact of algorithmic decision making.

Bachazile L. Sikhondze – Assistant Professor of Information Systems

• Rising scholar in AI, technostress, and the future of work publishing in leading Information Systems outlets
  Research on human–AI collaboration, remote work, and digital well-being; advancing organizational design for healthy, high-performance technology environments.

Monideepa Tarafdar – Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor

• Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, globally cited thought leader on technostress, and former AIS Research Fellow–level contributor community
  Transformative research on the human side of digital transformation published in the field’s most influential journals and featured in major computing outlets such as Communications of the ACM.