MAHDI MOQRI
Academic
I am an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Ivy College of Business, at Iowa State University
I received my PhD in Information Systems from Warrington College of Business, at University of Florida
Summer 2017: volunteer research assistant with Data-Smart City Solutions , Harvard Kennedy School working on 311 data
Summer 2016: Data Science Fellow at Data Science for Social Good Fellowship at Georgia Tech working on Public Transit and Job Accessibility
Summer 2015: Data Science Fellow at "The Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good" at University of Chicago
I received my MBA with a concentration in Information Systems from the College of Management at UMass Boston developing a prediction model for hospitals
Research
Under the 3rd round of revision at Journal of Management Information Systems
Presented at ICIS 2015 and INFORMS 2015 (invited talk), Selected as a finalist at Teradata Partners 2015
Being prepared for re-submission to Management Information Systems Quarterly
Presented at WITS 2014 and AMCIS 2015, Awarded the Most Promising Research Advancing Science at Teradata Partners 2014 and the “Third Place Winner” in Interactive Sessions at INFORMS 2014
A Master’s Thesis - published at International Journal of Production Economics 2016
International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations 2011
Presented at ICIS 2014 and Collective Intelligence 2014 (MIT)
Presented at WeB 2016, Collective Intelligence 2016 (NYU), AMCIS 2016, and accepted at PACIS 2016
Presented at OAI10 - CERN - UNIGE 2017, Switzerland
- “Hospital Operations Management in Disaster Situations Theories, Methods, Gaps, And Future Research”
Presented at POMS 2012, Chicago
Teaching
Iowa State University
Introduction to the field of business analytics (BA). Students will examine BA processes and techniques used in transforming data to knowledge and creating value for organizations. Business cases, presentations by business professionals, class lectures and discussions on data analysis, design and modeling, and extensive hands-on analytical exercises.
University of Florida
- Business Systems 2 (ISM 3255- Object Oriented Programming in C #)
- Business Systems 1 (ISM 3254 Object Oriented Programming in JAVA)
Projects
Open Science Database is an experimental project being developed at ISOM Data Analytics Research Lab - Warrington College of Business - University of Florida
BRDB is an experimental database for research in Business
ISOM Data Analytics Research Lab is an academic research lab focused on novel and innovative applications of data analytics and big data for businesses
Work in Progress: Real Estate Analytics
News
12/2017 Invited talk at Sawyer School of Business, Suffolk
11/2017 Invited talk at Pamplin College of Business - Virginia Tech
11/2017 Invited talk at Ivy College of Business
11/2017 Invited talk at FSU College of Business
10/2017 Invited talk at Spears School of Business
09/2017 Invited talk at Jon Huntsman School of Business
09/2017 Invited talk at Solvay Business School, Brusells
09/2016 Outstanding international student award, University of Florida
09/2017 University of Florida “ISOM Department Teaching Award - Spring 2017”
04/2016 Presenting at UF ISOM Forum
10/2015 Big Data meets a social network
10/2015 Data Ambassador at DataKind - Taproot Foundation Project
06/2015 DSSG Team Finishes 2nd at Civic Hacking Event
03/2015 Data science mentor at Cornell's Data Science Hackathon
11/2014 Third place Winner in Interactive Sessions at INFORMS 2014
10/2014 Winner of the "Most Promising Research Advancing Science" at Teradata 2014
02/2014 Second place winner - Hoggetowne Hack 2014
01/2014 Winner of Innocentive Ideation Challenge: “Technology to Enable the Assessment of Student Speaking Performances"
09/2013 Beta Gamma Sigma, the premier honor society recognizing business excellence
08/2013 Honors Master's Thesis: "Predicting Hospital Patients’ Admission to Reduce Emergency Department Boarding"
Email: moqri@iastate
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