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About Me

I am currently the Senior Lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor in North America) in Cyber Security at the Information Systems group, School of Business, University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Prior to this, I held a Lecturer position in Information Technology at the School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong. Before that, I was a post-doctoral researcher at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). I hold a PhD degree in Information Systems at the Business School, University of New South Wales, Australia and received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. both in Software Engineering from Azad University Mashhad & Tehran, Iran with First Class Honors.

I undertake research in two main streams. My first research area helps IT-based organisations in the effective analysis, design, and adoption of new technologies which ultimately create value as well as improve the quality of citizens’ life. Much of my work in this area focuses on designing new development methods or strategies to help organisations in their digital evolution endeavours. For example, my past research has addressed a number of diverse topics that help organisations in the analysis of requirements, design, and implementation of systems relying on ABCD technologies (i.e., modern Internet-based computing technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain smart contracts, Cloud computing, and big Data). My second area of research focuses on investigating research techniques used by researchers, particularly in future design science research in Information Systems discipline. 

I have secured or extensively contributed to 16 x commercial external research funding of interdisciplinary projects including 2 x Australian Research Council (ARC) grants and visiting research fellowship grants in Finland and Sweden. As the lead author, my research outcomes have appeared in selective top-tier international A/A* and Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) ranked venues such as European Journal of Information System (EJIS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Information Sciences, Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC), Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Information and Software Technology (IST), Pacific Asia Conference Information Systems (PACIS), and European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), among others. 

I am an associate editor of the ACM Computing Journal (CSUR), an area editor of Australian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), and a reviewer for a large number of journals and competitive research grant programs including the ARC program.  

Throughout my teaching career, I have coordinated more than 11 semesters, overseeing both in-person and online classes with student enrollments ranging from 20 to 200. I've taught a total of 22 courses to approximately 1000 students across various universities, including University of Southern Queensland, University of Wollongong, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Western Sydney University, and University of New South Wales. I have taught a range of courses including cyber security courses, business information systems, programming courses, data structures and algorithms, business analytics, database management systems. I also take the lead in various programs aimed at mentoring the next generation of students in the field of information technology. These includes major course development, assistance in designing assessments, and contributing to curriculum and course development at an international level.

Having worked in the software industry prior to taking up an academic position, I have 8 years of first-hand experience in software industry, as an analyst programmer and consultant, in implementing core back-end of software systems for different industry sectors such as publishing, government, and insurance.

My current projects focus on adopting Generative AI (or Large Language Models) technologies in data-intensive business organisations, information system development endeavours, and future scientific discoveries. Some examples of my recent research outputs in this area are human-bot collaboration during system development using ChatGPT and AI ethics.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in collaborations with me or have any questions. Also, I am happy to recruit master and PhD program applicants.