Assistant Professor of Information Systems
Stephenson Department of Entrepreneurship & Information Systems
E. J. Ourso College of Business · Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Vulnerability Discovery & Disclosure · Bug Bounty Programs · Ethical Hacking · Crowdsourcing · Economics of Information Security
Econometrics · Causal Inference · Data Analytics · Machine Learning · Meta-Analysis · Text Mining
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 SystemsAhmed, A., Deokar, A., and Lee, B. (2021). "Vulnerability disclosure mechanisms: A synthesis and framework for market-based and non-market-based disclosures."
Decision Support SystemsAhmed, 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 8:193Working 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 2025Patched Vulnerability Disclosure and Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs
CIST 2024Experience and Efficiency in Vulnerability Resolution on Bug Bounty Platforms
WISP Pre-ICIS 2024Patched Vulnerability Disclosure and Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs
INFORMS Annual Conference 2024Does Public Disclosure of Vulnerabilities Affect Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs? (Invited Talk)
Black Hat USA 2023An Empirical Examination of Technology and Security Services in Sharing Economy (with E. Akar)
AMCIS 2022Designing an IT-Based System for Optimizing Lung Cancer Management (Top 25% Papers)
AMCIS 2022The Role of Vulnerability Disclosure on Hacker Participation in Bug Bounty Programs (Best Short Paper Award Nominee)
ICIS 2021Organizational Learning on Bug Bounty Platforms (with B. Lee)
AMCIS 2020Patients' Characteristics Affecting the Use of a MyChart Patient Portal (with T. Nasralah, A. Wahbeh, C. Noteboom)
HICSS 2019Identifying Users' Concerns in Lodging Sharing Economy Using Unsupervised Machine Learning (with M. Al-Ramahi)
ICDIS 2019Negative Effects of Online Health Communities on User's Health (with A. Ali)
MWAIS 2018Impact of E-Visits on Emergency Departments and Urgent Care Centers (with T. Nasralah, Y. Wang)
AMCIS 2017Review of Mobile Applications Used for Covert Communication (with A. Podhradsky)
MWAIS 2017Security Vulnerabilities in High-Tech Children Toys (with A. Podhradsky)
AMCIS 2016