PhD in Information Systems

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with a doctorate from the Leeds School of Business.

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The Information Systems (IS) doctoral program is a research-based program where students work with world-renowned scholars to build skills that will prepare them for impactful careers as professors in information systems at business schools.

Overall, the doctoral program places a heavy emphasis on training students through active engagement in the research process. Students develop a strong foundation in research methods and statistics, while closely collaborating with multiple faculty members on research projects.

General details about the curriculum, requirements, and structure of the program can be found here. Please be aware this document is not an exhaustive list of the requirements for the program.

Program Faculty

Our renowned, award-winning IS faculty are published experts on topics like:

 

  • Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning

  • Cybersecurity, Text Analytics and Face Recognition

  • Emerging Digital Technologies

  • Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • Machine Learning and Semantic/Lexical Analytics

  • Natural Language Processing

  • Tools and Methods for Making Sense of Large Data

Jason Bennett Thatcher

Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Endowed Chair

David Dobolyi

Assistant Professor

Abram Handler

Assistant Professor

Kai Larsen

Associate Professor

Ramiro Montealegre

Professor

Zhiyi Wang

Assistant Professor • Information Analytics PhD Program Director

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Program Graduates

The PhD program prepares students to be researchers and teachers at major universities. See where our graduates started their careers and published research.

 

Placements
  • Aakash Saxena
    PhD: 2020
    Placement: Sykes Enterprises, Inc.
    Dissertation: A Method to Extract Context-Sensitive Semantics of a Concept Using Word-Embedding Space and Its Application
     
  • Jaebong Son 
    PhD: 2017
    Placement - California State University
    Dissertation: What Have We Missed When Examining Twitter as a Communication Medium during Disasters
     
  • Jeffrey Sweeney 
    PhD: 2016
    Placement: Erasmus University
    Dissertation: On Value Creation from Knowledge Management Systems
     
  • Jose Ramirez 
    PhD: 2015
    Placement: United States Military Academy at West Point
    Dissertation: Essays on Military and Civilian Manpower Planning
     
  • Mark Zais 
    PhD: 2014
    Placement: Office of the Secretary of Defense
    Dissertation: Simulation-Optimization, Markov Chain and Graph Coloring Approaches to Military Manpower Modeling and Deployment Sourcing
     
  • Subhamoy Ganguly
    PhD: 2013
    Placement: Indian Institute of Management – Udaipur
    Dissertation: Essays in Scheduling: Applications in Health Care and Manufacturing
     
  • Jingjing Li 
    PhD: 2013
    Placement: University of Virginia
    Dissertation: Addressing Information Proliferation: Applications of Information Extraction and Text Mining
     
  • Michele Samorani 
    PhD: 2012
    Placement: University of Alberta, Canada
    Dissertation: Data Mining For Enhanced Operations Management Decision Making: Applications in Health Care
     
  • Tomasz Miaskiewicz 
    PhD: 2010
    Initial Placement: The New University of Lisbon
    Current Placement: NOVA School of Business and Economics
    Dissertation: Bridging the Gap Between Consumers and Designers: The Role of Accurate and Effective Personas
     
  • Harald Reinertsen 
    PhD: 2010
    Placement: Smith Stål Øst AS, Norway
    Dissertation: Optimization of the Industrial Cutting Stock Problems – Production Scheduling in a Dynamic Stochastic Environment
     
  • Zainab AlQenaei 
    PhD: 2009
    Placement: Kuwait University
    Dissertation: An Investigation of the Relationship Between Consumer Mental Health Recovery Measures and Clinicians’ Reports Using Multivariate Analysis of the Singular Value Decomposition of a Textual Corpus
     
  • Marco Better 
    PhD: 2007
    Placement: OptTek Systems, Inc.
    Dissertation: Data Mining Techniques for Prediction in Discrete Data Applications
     
  • Fang Liang 
    PhD: 2007
    Placement: PROS Pricing Solutions
    Dissertation: The Hyperplan-Based Classification Techniques
     
  • Dirk Hovorka
    PhD: 2006
    Placement: Bond University, Australia
    Dissertation: Information Systems Foundations: Four Research Essays
     
  • Rahul Patil 
    PhD: 2006
    Placement: Indian Institute of Management
    Dissertation: Improved Techniques for Due Date Quotation in Realistic Production Environments
     
  • Emilio Collar 
    PhD: 2005
    Placement: Western Connecticut State University
    Dissertation: An Investigation of Programming Code Textbase Readability Based on a Cognitive Readability Model
     
  • Younghwa Lee 
    PhD: 2005
    Placement: University of Kansas
    Dissertation: Developing Theoretical Models of Website Usability
     
  • Mark W.S. Chun 
    PhD: 2003
    Placement: Pepperdine University
    Dissertation: Embedded Knowledge, Embedded Information Systems: A Resource-Based Perspective on the System Integration Process During a Corporate Merger

Management Information Systems Quarterly (WITS 2016 Best Prototype Award)
Unlocking Knowledge Inheritance of Behavioral Research: A Design Framework and an Instantiation (Conditional acceptance)
Jingjing Li—University of Virginia (PhD 2013)
Kai Larsen –University of Colorado Boulder
Ahmed Abbasi –University of Virginia

Information Systems Research
 (2019)
Ahmed Abbasi –University of Virginia
Jingjing Li—University of Virginia (PhD 2013)
Donald Adjeroh –West Virginia University
Marie Abate—West Virginia University
Wanhong Zheng –West Virginia University

MIS Quarterly    

Kishen Iyengar - University of Colorado at Boulder
Jeffrey R Sweeney - Maastricht University (PhD 2016)
Ramiro Montealegre - University of Colorado at Boulder

MIS Quarterly    

Younghwa Lee - University of Northern Iowa (PhD 2005)
Andrew N.K. Chen - University of Kansas
Virgina Ilie - California Luthern University