The AIS Doctoral Student College is pleased to announce a webinar panel to discuss the topic “Research Ethics in the Digital Age”. This event will be on Thursday, May 30, 2024 from 1:00pm EDT to 2:30pm EDT (UTC-4). We will have three expert panelists to discuss how new developments in generative AI will affect the future of research ethics.

This topic’s relevance has continued to increase, as demonstrated by the first JAIS special issue in 2024, titled, “The Future Impact of AI on Academic Journals and the Editorial Process”. Various academic disciplines outside of IS and management have also been exploring how AI is impacting the future of their own research. This panel will aim to help the next generation of IS researchers understand what ethical issues will need to be considered when conducting research, reviewing research, and using AI tools.

This event is organized by the AIS Region 1 (Americas) coordinator team for the Doctoral Student College. All students worldwide are of course welcome to attend.

Please save the date and time in your calendar.

Please follow this link to RSVP. Once RSVP'd, participants will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link.

Panelists:

Dr. Dorothy E. Leidner, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia
Dr. Jason Bennett Thatcher, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
Dr. Reza Mousavi, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia

Panelist Biographies:

Dr. Dorothy E. Leidner, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia

Dorothy E. Leidner is the Leslie H. Goldberg Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished Professor of Business & AI Ethics at the University of Virginia. She holds a BA, MBA, and PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. In 2019, she was named a Distinguished Alumna of Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas.  Dorothy holds an honorary doctorate from Lund University.  She is a Fellow and LEO of the Association for Information Systems and a professor emeritus with Baylor University.  Prior to her current appointment, Dorothy served on the faculty at Baylor University (Waco, TX), INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) and TCU (Ft Worth, TX).  She has held visiting appointments at the University of Mannheim (Germany), ETH-Zurich (Switzerland), SMU (Dallas, TX), ITSEM (Mexico), Lund University (Sweden), the University of Caen (France) and the University of Augsburg (Germany).   She is currently a Professional Research Fellow at Deakin University (Australia) and a visiting professor with the University of Göteberg, Sweden.  In 2008, Dorothy founded a PhD program in Information Systems at Baylor University, the first PhD program offered by the Hankamer School of Business.  

In the past 30 years, Dorothy’s research has focused on the impact of new information technologies on individuals, teams, organizations, and society.  Her work has been recognized with 11 best paper awards and over 50,000 citations (scholar google).  Her research covers an array of methods, with roughly equal attention to theory papers, empirical papers, and practitioner-oriented papers. Dorothy is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.  She has held numerous other important editorial roles: Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly Executive (5 years), co-Editor-in-Chief of The Data Base for Advances in IS (5 years), senior editor for MIS Quarterly (6 years), senior editor for Information Systems Research (4 years), senior editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (5 years), and senior editor for the Journal of Strategic Information Systems (3 years), as well as associate editor for MIS Quarterly (3 years) and Decision Sciences Journal (3 years). Dorothy is track co-chair for the Organizational Systems and Technology track of HICSS.  She has held other notable conference roles, including co-chair for ICIS 2015 in Ft Worth, program co-chair for ECIS 2018, and program co-chair for AMCIS 2010.

Dr. Jason Bennett Thatcher, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder

Jason Bennett Thatcher holds the Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Professorship in the Division of Organizational Leadership, Information, and Analytics of the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received degrees from the University of Utah and Florida State University. His work appears in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of the AIS, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Journal of Applied Psychology. He serves as a Senior Editor at Information Systems Research and Journal of the Association for Information Systems. His projects include visualizing climbing boulders, not mountains, and encouraging his PhD students to have rampant subversive thoughts that re-envision the field of Information Systems.

Dr. Reza Mousavi, McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia

Reza Mousavi is an assistant professor at The University of Virginia. He is an expert in AI and analytics. His research topics are related to the societal impacts and economics of AI, data science and business analytics, user-generated content, and healthcare information systems. He uses machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and econometrics to identify quasi-experimental settings and study the underlying relationships among the constructs of interest. His work has appeared in ISR, JMIS, JAIS, and PRQ. Reza has worked with leading consulting firms on various AI projects. Before joining academia, he was a lead data scientist at State Farm Insurance Co.

Organizers and Moderators from your Region 1 team:

• Maria Diaz, Florida International University
•  Robert Park, Ivey Business School at Western University
• Yan Shi, University of Massachusetts Amherst
•  Raghav Singh, University at Buffalo

Please follow this link to RSVP. Once RSVP'd, participants will receive a confirmation email with the Zoom link.