Dr. Ali Ahmed

Assistant Professor of Information Systems

Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems
E. J. Ourso College of Business  ·  Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

Research

Research Areas

Vulnerability Discovery & Disclosure  ·  Bug Bounty Programs  ·  Ethical Hacking  ·  Crowdsourcing  ·  Economics of Information Security

Methodologies

Econometrics  ·  Causal Inference  ·  Data Analytics  ·  Machine Learning  ·  Meta-Analysis  ·  Text Mining

Education

Aug 2017 – Aug 2021
Ph.D. Business Administration – Management Information Systems
University of Massachusetts Lowell  ·  Manning School of Business  ·  MA, USA
Aug 2015 – Aug 2017
M.S. Information Systems (Specialization – Data Management)
Dakota State University  ·  SD, USA
Jan 2012 – Aug 2015
M.S. Training & Human Resource Development
University of Wisconsin – Stout  ·  WI, USA
Jan 2005 – Dec 2009
B.S. Actuarial Sciences and Risk Management
University of Karachi  ·  Pakistan

Academic Experience

July 2024 – Present
Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems
Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems  ·  Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Aug 2021 – June 2024
Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems
Department of Information Systems, College of Business  ·  University of Wisconsin Eau Claire
Aug 2017 – July 2021
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant
Department of Operations and Information Systems  ·  University of Massachusetts Lowell
Sep 2014 – May 2015
Associate Lecturer of ICT
Department of Communication Technologies  ·  University of Wisconsin-Stout

Industry & Entrepreneurship

2019 – Present
Co-founder & Advisor – Curaee Inc.
Online Food Sharing Platform  ·  USA  ·  Press coverage
2009 – 2012
Research Associate & Technical Trainer
3i Logic Training and Development (Pvt.) Ltd.  ·  Pakistan

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Ahmed, A., Lee, B., Deokar, A., Summerfield, N. (2023). "The Role of Commitment in Online Reputation Systems: An Empirical Study of Express Delivery Promise in an E-Commerce Platform."

Decision Support Systems

Ahmed, A., Ali, A., and Hasan, S. (2020). "Comparison of Epidemiological Variations in COVID-19 Patients Inside and Outside of China — A Meta-Analysis."

Frontiers in Public Health 8:193

Working Papers

Patched Vulnerability Disclosure and Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs (with Amit Deokar and Brian Lee)

Under second round of review — MIS Quarterly

Vote Delegation and Conformity in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAO)

Under review — Communications of the Association of Information Systems (CAIS)

Organizations' Efficiency in Vulnerability Patching on Bug Bounty Platforms: Firm Experience and Firm Survival (with Amit Deokar and Brian Lee)

Presented at WISP Pre-ICIS 2024 · MISQ Author Development Workshop 2023 · Dewald Roode Workshop 2020 · INFORMS 2020 (Finalist) · CIST 2020  ·  In preparation for JMIS

An Empirical Examination of Technology and Security Services in the Sharing Economy (with Ezgi Akar)

Presented at AMCIS 2022  ·  In preparation for Decision Support Systems

Impact of Vulnerability Disclosure Programs on Malicious Attacks (with Brian Lee)

Data cleaning and analysis stage  ·  Uses unique FOIA data from the U.S. Federal Government

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings & Invited Talks

Generative AI for Methodological Contributions in Information Systems Research

AMCIS 2025

Patched Vulnerability Disclosure and Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs

CIST 2024

Experience and Efficiency in Vulnerability Resolution on Bug Bounty Platforms

WISP Pre-ICIS 2024

Patched Vulnerability Disclosure and Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs

INFORMS Annual Conference 2024

Does Public Disclosure of Vulnerabilities Affect Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs? (Invited Talk)

Black Hat USA 2023

An Empirical Examination of Technology and Security Services in Sharing Economy (with E. Akar)

AMCIS 2022

Designing an IT-Based System for Optimizing Lung Cancer Management (Top 25% Papers)

AMCIS 2022

The Role of Vulnerability Disclosure on Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs (Best Short Paper Award Nominee)

ICIS 2021

Organizational Learning on Bug Bounty Platforms (with B. Lee)

AMCIS 2020

Patients' Characteristics Affecting the Use of a MyChart Patient Portal (with T. Nasralah, A. Wahbeh, C. Noteboom)

HICSS 2019

Identifying Users' Concerns in Lodging Sharing Economy Using Unsupervised Machine Learning (with M. Al-Ramahi)

ICDIS 2019

Negative Effects of Online Health Communities on User's Health (with A. Ali)

MWAIS 2018

Impact of E-Visits on Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centers (with T. Nasralah, Y. Wang)

AMCIS 2017

Review of Mobile Applications Used for Covert Communication (with A. Podhradsky)

MWAIS 2017

Security Vulnerabilities in High-Tech Children Toys (with A. Podhradsky)

AMCIS 2016

Awards & Recognition

2023
Speaker – Black Hat Conference USA
Talk Summary  ·  Media Coverage
2023
Selected Participant – MISQ Author Development Workshop
2022
Best Paper Nominee – AMCIS
2021
Best Paper Nominee – ICIS
2021
Teaching Excellence Award – Manning School of Business, UMass Lowell
2021
Selected Participant – MISQ Reviewer Development Workshop
2021
Selected Participant – Junior Faculty Consortium at ICIS
2020
Finalist – INFORMS Poster Session Competition
2020
Recipient – AMCIS Doctoral Consortium for Advanced Students
2020
Best Paper Award – UML Student Research & Community Engagement Symposium
2019
Best Paper Award – UML Student Research & Community Engagement Symposium
2019
Founder – Curaee – Food Sharing, Inc. (Online food-sharing platform & app)

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Location
Baton Rouge, LA  ·  LSU
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