Mahdi Najafabadi
Ph.D. in Information Science, University at Albany, Exp. 2019
MPA in IT Strategy & Management, University at Albany, 2014
MBA in Business Management, Sharif University, 2007
Bachelor of Software Engineering, University of Tehran, 2004
Academic Subfields
Managing Information and Information Technology (IT) in Sociotechnical Systems; Computer Modeling and Simulation for Sustainable Development and Learning; Applications of Information Technologies to Reduce Social Gaps; Social Media, and Social/Organizational Network Analysis; and Enterprise Process Improvement and IT Project Management.
Research Interests
Managing Information and Information Technology (IT) in Sociotechnical Systems
Computer Modeling and Simulation for Sustainable Development and Learning
Applications of Information Technologies to Reduce Social Gaps
Social Media, and Social/Organizational Network Analysis
Enterprise Process Improvement and IT Project Management
Select Publications
Luna-Reyes, L. F., & Najafabadi, M. M. (2019). The US open data initiative: The road ahead. Information Polity, 24(2), pp. 163–182.
Najafabadi, M. M., Domanski, R. J. (2018). Hacktivism and Distributed Hashtag Spoiling on Twitter: Tales of the #IranTalks. First Monday, 23(4).
Najafabadi, Mahdi M., & Luna-Reyes, L. F. (2017). Modeling Open Government Data Ecosystems: A Closed-Loop Perspective. In Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (pp. 2711–2720). Waikoloa Village, HI: IEEE Computer Society.
Najafabadi, Mahdi M. (2017). A Research Agenda for Distributed Hashtag Spoiling: Tales of a Survived Trending Hashtag. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 21–29). Staten Island, NY: ACM Press.
Sayogo, D. S., Najafabadi, Mahdi M., Tayi, G. K., & Pardo, T. A. (2016). Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security Challenges for Interoperable Data Platforms in Supply Chains. In H. Jarman & L. F. Luna-Reyes (Eds.), Private Data and Public Value (pp. 109–128). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Najafabadi, Mahdi M., Bahaddin, B., Deegan, M. A., Feyzi Behnagh, R., Luna-Reyes, L. F., Rich, E. H., & Andersen, D. F. (2015). Empowering Sustainable Decision Making: CoastalProtectSim in Action. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research (pp. 340–342). Phoenix, AZ.
Courses
ITM 215: Information Technologies for Business
ITM 330: Improving Business Performance with Information Technologies
ITM 331: Business Systems Analysis and Design
ITM 415: Data Analytics in Business
ITM 522: Managing Information Technology
INF 305: IT Project Management