Amir Asrzad
Ph.D. Candidate in Management Information Systems
Robert J. Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell
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I am an ABD Ph.D. candidate in Business Administration (Management Information Systems) at the Robert J. Manning School of Business, University of Massachusetts Lowell, advised by Professor Xiao-Bai Li. My research focuses on Explainable AI (XAI), Interpretable Machine Learning, and Human–AI Decision Making. I study how to make AI-driven predictions more transparent, credible, and trustworthy, and how uncertainty in AI systems shapes human trust and reliance, drawing on machine learning, text mining, econometrics, and behavioral experiments.
Before starting my Ph.D., I spent ten years in industry as a business analyst and project management officer in the financial sector, which continues to inform both my research questions and my teaching in data mining, databases, and business information systems.
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Fall 2026ICISPaper accepted at the 47th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2026).
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Summer 2026ConsortiumAccepted to the AMCIS 2026 Doctoral Consortium.
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Summer 2026AMCISPaper accepted at the 32nd Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2026).
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Spring 2026AwardReceived the Department Teaching Excellence Award for Ph.D. Students, University of Massachusetts Lowell.
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Fall 2025ConsortiumAccepted to the INFORMS Information Systems Society Doctoral Consortium.
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Fall 2025WITSPresented at the 35th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2025), Nashville, TN.
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Fall 2025CISTPresented at CIST 2025, Atlanta, GA.
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Fall 2024ICISPresented at ICIS 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
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Fall 2024WITSPresented at the 34th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2024), Bangkok, Thailand.
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Fall 2024AwardReceived a Student Scholarship from the INFORMS Workshop on Data Science.
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Fall 2024CISTPresented at CIST 2024, Seattle, WA.
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Fall 2024TeachingBegan teaching “Data Mining for Business Intelligence” at UMass Lowell.
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Fall 2023ICISPresented at ICIS 2023, Hyderabad, India.