Business+AI Lab

People and research

Research interests, in each person’s own published words.

• 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

  Sources: lab page · Stevens profile · 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)

  Sources: 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

  Sources: Stevens profile · 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

  Sources: 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

  Sources: lab page · Stevens profile

• 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

  Sources: Stevens profile, archived copy of June 9, 2026

• 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

  Sources: Stevens profile · lab page · personal site, research page · 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

  Sources: Stevens profile · 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

  Sources: Stevens profile

• 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

  Sources: lab page · Stevens profile · 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

  Sources: lab page · Stevens profile