Stevens School of Business
Business+AI Lab
Training, workshops and events on AI and data governance for firms, from faculty of the Stevens School of Business.
Email Aleksi Aaltonen, Lab DirectorBabbio Center, 525 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030
The lab as a line diagram: your route from your firm crosses the river, stops at the email to Aleksi Aaltonen and enters Babbio Center, where four lines start.
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Training and Workshops
Business+AI Lab faculty experts provide training and workshops that help you to understand the opportunities of AI-driven business and to upskill your personnel for seizing them.
Corporate Data Assets and AI Workshop Series
Empower your senior managers and executives to understand and plan data governance, work, and innovation in AI-driven business.
Email Aleksi Aaltonen about this workshopHuman-centered Design of AI Workshop/Course
Train your managers and employees to harness design thinking to develop AI-based solutions to problems that they encounter in everyday business and work.
Email Aleksi Aaltonen about this workshopApplied AI for Finance Workshop
Provide a hands-on, no-code introduction to applying generative AI in everyday finance workflows for your employees.
Email Aleksi Aaltonen about this workshop- Email Aleksi Aaltonen about training
aaaltone@stevens.edu
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Events
Business+AI Lab events provide a platform for engaging our faculty experts and industry leaders on cutting-edge AI topics.
- Faculty lecture
- Research talk
- Forum
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LLMs and Consumer Bias: 'Paying Not to Go to the Gym' with an LLM Advisor?
Sagit Bar-Gill

Delegating Returnless Refund Authority to Sellers: Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform
Jinan Lin

Business+AI Forum, March 2026
The first Business+AI Forum on how AI is transforming business strategy, operations, and decision-making took place on March 11, 2026.

Customer Responses and Economic Consequences of Data Breach Announcements
Dominik Molitor

Generative AI and Firm-Candidate Dynamics in the Labor Market
Miaoze Han
Managing AI Technologies: AI-in-the-Loop, AI-on-the-Loop, Human-out-of-the-Loop?
Michael zur Muehlen
Michael zur Muehlen introduces a framework for understanding three AI deployment postures: AI-in-the-loop, AI-on-the-loop, and human-out-of-the-loop, raising hard questions about the point at which augmentation becomes automation.

Responsible AI: Foundations of Ethics and Algorithmic Fairness
Violet Chen
Violet Chen introduces the AI ethics landscape and examines how principles of fairness, transparency, privacy, and accountability apply in real-world business decisions.

AI in Finance: Rewiring Robo-Advising for the Autonomous Portfolio
Zachary Feinstein
Zachary Feinstein explores the transition toward truly autonomous wealth management by bridging artificial intelligence with decentralized market structures.

AI Entrepreneurship: Bootstrapping Autonomous Robotaxi Services
Jordan Suchow
Jordan Suchow looks at a key strategic decision that companies in the autonomous navigation space have all wrestled with: how to bootstrap a product when the data needed to train the system requires deploying it.

Data: The Next Frontier
Aleksi Aaltonen
Aleksi Aaltonen explores what data are (or is), why their importance is going to grow, and what are the emerging trends and issues that organizations will need to tackle in the AI-driven economy.

Delivering Value with AI: Business Model Transformation
Katia Meggiorin
Katia Meggiorin explores how AI is rewriting the rules of competition by analyzing two rival companies in the same industry—one traditional, and one heavily AI-driven.

Business+AI Forum, September 2026
Gene (Gennadiy) Barskiy, Connie Mui-Reilly and Vikram Nair

Business + AI Hackathon 2026: Leveraging AI for Innovation in Business
Tech Flex, University Center Complex
Go to the Hackathon 2026 site
Stevens AI Conference 2026: Leveraging AI for Business Value
University Center Complex (UCC) Gallery Sold out
Go to the AI Conference 2026 site
- Email Aleksi Aaltonen about events
aaaltone@stevens.edu
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People
Business+AI Lab faculty experts provide teaching, advising, and consulting in which they combine the latest research with practical relevance.

Aleksi Aaltonen
Lab Director
Associate Professor of Information Systems, Entrepreneur, and Editor-in-Chief

Aron Lindberg
IS&A Area Chair
Associate Professor of Information Systems, Chair of the Information Systems & Analytics

Foad Mahdavi Pajouh
Associate Professor of Information Systems

Jordan Suchow
Assistant Professor of Information Systems

Michael zur Muehlen
Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Information Systems

Cherif Amirat
Senior Lecturer, ex-CIO

Bei Yan
Assistant Professor of Information Systems

Alkiviadis Vazacopoulos
Teaching Professor, former Vice President at FICO

Katia Meggiorin
Assistant Professor of Information Systems

Violet Chen
Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Analytics

Jingyi Sun
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
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Resources
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Research Handbook on Digital Data Online Launch Event
Research Handbook on Digital Data: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Edward Elgar Publishing). The book is co-edited by Aleksi Aaltonen with Marta Stelmaszak and Kalle Lyytinen.
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Contact
For more information, send an email to Business+AI Lab Director Aleksi Aaltonen, aaaltone@stevens.edu, or Aron Lindberg, IS&A Area Chair, alindber@stevens.edu
Babbio Center
525 River Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030