The glass entrance of the Babbio Center, seen from the plaza

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Business+AI Lab

Stevens School of Business, Babbio Center, Hoboken

Training, workshops and events on AI and data governance for firms

Email Aleksi Aaltonen, Lab Director

What the lab’s faculty work on, in their own words

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Business+AI Lab55 phrases from 11 people

  • Optimization and fair decisions4 people, 11 phrasesTheme words: optimization, decision, algorithmic, fairness, learning
    • Computational optimization3 people, 5 phrasesTheme words: optimization, scaling, machine learning, computational, scheduling
    • Fairness in decision making3 people, 6 phrasesTheme words: decision, fairness, decision making, system, algorithmic
      • “modeling and inferring moral judgment”Violet Chen · Stevens profile, Research
      • “fairness and ethics in decision making”Violet Chen · lab page
      • “equity in allocation, outcome-centric algorithmic fairness”Violet Chen · Stevens profile, Research
      • “end-to-end fairness optimization via decision-focused learning”Violet Chen · vxychen.github.io
      • “algorithmic decision systems”Foad Mahdavi Pajouh · lab page
      • “LLM-based multi-agent systems for financial decision-making”Jordan Suchow · suchow.io

    “Machine Learning and Optimization”Alkiviadis Vazacopoulos · Stevens profile, Research

  • Platforms and organizations8 people, 17 phrasesTheme words: platform, digital, digital platform, organization, technology
    • Platforms, markets and regulation3 people, 7 phrasesTheme words: platform, regulatory, market, digital platform, supply chain
    • Digital transformation of organizations5 people, 10 phrasesTheme words: digital, technology, organization, digital transformation, organization design
      • “automation, self-service, and the establishment of a digital workplace”Cherif Amirat · archived profile
      • “operational excellence, digital transformation, and the future of work”Michael zur Muehlen · Stevens profile, General Information
      • “digital platforms are transforming teamwork, decision-making, and organizational performance”Bei Yan · lab page
      • “how AI-enabled technologies reshape decision-making, organizational capabilities, and end-to-end business processes”Michael zur Muehlen · lab page
      • “help organizations design more effective AI systems and navigate digital transformation”Bei Yan · lab page
      • “how organizations design and govern intelligent technologies”Aron Lindberg · lab page
      • “Enterprise Architecture Modeling, esp. Integration of Rules and Processes”Michael zur Muehlen · Stevens profile, Research
      • “alignment of the IT organization to business goals”Cherif Amirat · archived profile
      • “Information Technology Standardization”Michael zur Muehlen · Stevens profile, Research
      • “employee mobility”Jingyi Sun · lab page

    “digital platforms are transforming teamwork, decision-making, and organizational performance”Bei Yan · lab page

  • Data, analytics and networks7 people, 13 phrasesTheme words: data, analytics, network, organizing, complex
    • Analytics for decision making3 people, 3 phrasesTheme words: analytics, monitoring, decision making, supply chain, process
    • Data and complex networks4 people, 6 phrasesTheme words: network, data, organizing, complex, digital transformation
    • Empirical research and experimentation3 people, 4 phrasesTheme words: research, machine learning, empirical, experimentation, information technology
      • “innovation through experimentation”Cherif Amirat · archived profile
      • “how machine learning and information technology can reshape empirical research”Jordan Suchow · suchow.io
      • “data as the key resource in the age of AI”Aleksi Aaltonen · lab page
      • “data as an object of research”Aleksi Aaltonen · aleksi.info

    “data-based organizing and innovation”Aleksi Aaltonen · Stevens profile, Research

  • Human-AI collaboration6 people, 14 phrasesTheme words: human, AI, collective intelligence, machine, collaboration
    • Human and machine intelligence5 people, 10 phrasesTheme words: AI, human, collective intelligence, machine, AI-enabled
      • “what happens when humans and machines build things together”Aron Lindberg · aronlindberg.com
      • “AI-enabled innovation, physical–digital systems, and collective intelligence”Aron Lindberg · lab page
      • “human, machine, and collective intelligence”Jordan Suchow · suchow.io
      • “Human-machine teaming, crowdsourcing, group dynamics, social influence”Bei Yan · Stevens profile, Research
      • “how collective action and collective intelligence emerge through computer-mediated communication”Bei Yan · personal site, Research
      • “small teams interacting with intelligent personal assistants”Bei Yan · personal site
      • “collaborate with AI to design, create, and innovate”Aron Lindberg · aronlindberg.com
      • “human-AI collaboration”Jingyi Sun · Stevens profile, Research
      • “Generative AI”Alkiviadis Vazacopoulos · Stevens profile, Research
      • “agentic AI that audits the computational reproducibility of published research”Jordan Suchow · suchow.io
    • Open and virtual communities3 people, 4 phrasesTheme words: community, virtual, open, OpenStreetMap, wiki
      • “Open knowledge collaboration (e.g., Wikipedia, StackOverflow, OpenStreetMap)”Aleksi Aaltonen · aleksi.info/bio
      • “mediated by crowds (e.g., open source, wikis, virtual worlds)”Aron Lindberg · Stevens profile
      • “virtual communities and teams”Jingyi Sun · lab page
      • “health communities”Jingyi Sun · lab page

    “human-AI collaboration”Jingyi Sun · Stevens profile, Research

Tree and theme words computed from the faculty’s own phrases: BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 embeddings, Ward clustering and class-based TF-IDF, Oct. 3, 2026; phrases in groups no more alike than random pairs were moved to their nearest group. Branch names are ours. Each quote is the phrase closest to its branch’s center.

Training and workshops

Business+AI Lab at Stevens is an effort by faculty members at the Stevens School of Business to make the latest knowledge of AI and data governance available to firms. We offer training and workshops, host events, and publish resources that help firms to upskill their senior executives, managers, and employees to meet the challenges of AI-driven business.

Events

  • Oct. 8, 2026Conference, sold outStevens AI Conference 2026: Leveraging AI for Business Value
  • Sept. 25, 2026HackathonBusiness + AI Hackathon 2026: Leveraging AI for Innovation in Business
  • September 2026ForumBusiness+AI Forum, September 2026
  • May 2026Faculty lectureDelivering Value with AI: Business Model Transformation
  • May 2026Faculty lectureData: The Next Frontier
  • April 2026Faculty lectureAI Entrepreneurship: Bootstrapping Autonomous Robotaxi Services
  • April 2026Faculty lectureAI in Finance: Rewiring Robo-Advising for the Autonomous Portfolio
  • April 2026Faculty lectureResponsible AI: Foundations of Ethics and Algorithmic Fairness
  • April 2026Faculty lectureManaging AI Technologies: AI-in-the-Loop, AI-on-the-Loop, Human-out-of-the-Loop?
  • March 2026Research talkMiaoze Han: “Generative AI and Firm-Candidate Dynamics in the Labor Market”
  • March 2026Research talkDominik Molitor: “Customer Responses and Economic Consequences of Data Breach Announcements
  • March 11, 2026ForumBusiness+AI Forum, March 2026
  • March 2026Research talkJinan Lin: “Delegating Returnless Refund Authority to Sellers: Evidence from an E-Commerce Platform”
  • February 2026Research talkSagit Bar-Gill: “LLMs and Consumer Bias: ‘Paying Not to Go to the Gym’ with an LLM Advisor?”

Resources

  • April 1, 2026Online launchResearch Handbook on Digital Data Online Launch Event

People

  • Aleksi Aaltonen

    Business+AI Lab Director. Associate Professor of Information Systems, Entrepreneur, and Editor-in-Chief

    • “data as the key resource in the age of AI”
    • “data-based organizing and innovation”
    • “Open knowledge collaboration (e.g., Wikipedia, StackOverflow, OpenStreetMap)”
    • “Digital platform competition, multihoming, and ecosystem evolution”
    • “data as an object of research”

    From: lab page, Stevens profile, Research, aleksi.info/bio, aleksi.info

  • Aron Lindberg

    Associate Professor of Information Systems, Chair of the Information Systems & Analytics

    • “what happens when humans and machines build things together”
    • “how organizations design and govern intelligent technologies”
    • “AI-enabled innovation, physical–digital systems, and collective intelligence”
    • “collaborate with AI to design, create, and innovate”
    • “mediated by crowds (e.g., open source, wikis, virtual worlds)”

    From: aronlindberg.com, lab page, Stevens profile

  • Foad Mahdavi Pajouh

    Associate Professor of Information Systems

    • “Theoretical, Computational and Algorithmic Optimization”
    • “Big Data Analytics of Complex Networks”
    • “Social Network Analysis, Financial Network Analysis and Cybersecurity”
    • “algorithmic decision systems”
    • “transforming complex data into strategic business value”

    From: Stevens profile, Research, lab page

  • Jordan Suchow

    Assistant Professor of Information Systems

    • “human, machine, and collective intelligence”
    • “LLM-based multi-agent systems for financial decision-making”
    • “agentic AI that audits the computational reproducibility of published research”
    • “how machine learning and information technology can reshape empirical research”
    • “scaling experiments along multiple dimensions”

    From: suchow.io

  • Michael zur Muehlen

    Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Information Systems

    • “how AI-enabled technologies reshape decision-making, organizational capabilities, and end-to-end business processes”
    • “Process Analytics, Monitoring and Controlling”
    • “Enterprise Architecture Modeling, esp. Integration of Rules and Processes”
    • “Information Technology Standardization”
    • “operational excellence, digital transformation, and the future of work”

    From: lab page, Stevens profile, Research

  • Cherif Amirat

    Senior Lecturer, ex-CIO

    • “Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Cloud Strategy and Data Management”
    • “business analytics to drive decision making”
    • “alignment of the IT organization to business goals”
    • “automation, self-service, and the establishment of a digital workplace”
    • “innovation through experimentation”

    From: Stevens profile, archived 2026-06-09

  • Bei Yan

    Assistant Professor of Information Systems

    • “Human-machine teaming, crowdsourcing, group dynamics, social influence”
    • “digital platforms are transforming teamwork, decision-making, and organizational performance”
    • “how collective action and collective intelligence emerge through computer-mediated communication”
    • “small teams interacting with intelligent personal assistants”
    • “help organizations design more effective AI systems and navigate digital transformation”

    From: Stevens profile, Research, lab page, personal site, Research, personal site

  • Alkiviadis Vazacopoulos

    Teaching Professor, former Vice President at FICO

    • “Parallel Mixed Integer Programming techniques for solving Large-Scale Optimization problems”
    • “Supply Chain Analytics”
    • “Machine Learning and Optimization”
    • “Generative AI”
    • “Jobshop Scheduling”

    From: Stevens profile, General Information, Google Scholar

  • Katia Meggiorin

    Assistant Professor of Information Systems

    • “impact of regulatory uncertainty on digital platform markets”
    • “sharing economy, including services such as Airbnb, Uber, and Kiva”
    • “societal trade-offs associated with these platforms”
    • “underlying drivers of user misconduct and competitive behavior on platforms”
    • “interplay between regulatory environments, platform governance, and market dynamics”

    From: Stevens profile, Research

  • Violet Chen

    Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Analytics

    • “fairness and ethics in decision making”
    • “equity in allocation, outcome-centric algorithmic fairness”
    • “modeling and inferring moral judgment”
    • “end-to-end fairness optimization via decision-focused learning”
    • “power gap and payment term in supply chain”

    From: lab page, Stevens profile, Research, vxychen.github.io

  • Jingyi Sun

    Assistant Professor of Information Systems

    • “dynamics of networks in organizing”
    • “virtual communities and teams”
    • “health communities”
    • “human-AI collaboration”
    • “employee mobility”

    From: lab page, Stevens profile, Research

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

Aleksi Aaltonen

Business+AI Lab Director

Email Aleksi Aaltonen

Aron Lindberg

IS&A Area Chair

Email Aron Lindberg

Address

Business+AI Lab
Babbio Center
525 River Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030