Graduate Program Director

Mahdi Mirhoseini, PhD

Areas of expertise: Human-Computer Interaction, The Dark Side of Information Technologies, User Experience, and NeuroIS

Mahdi’s research focuses on understanding how technology features can be designed and used to enhance user performance while mitigating the negative effects of technology.

More broadly, his work explores user experience and the interactions between individuals and IT artifacts. He earned his PhD from HEC Montréal in 2018, during which he worked at Tech3Lab and designed experiments using behavioral and neurophysiological data to study user experience and improve the design of IT artifacts.

He later joined the McMaster Digital Transformation Research Centre at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, as a postdoctoral fellow, where he studied the effects of IT interruptions on users and investigated the phenomenon of fake news. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Business Technology Management at the John Molson School of Business, Concordia University.

Mohsen Farhadloo, PhD

Areas of expertise: Business analytics, Customer satisfaction, Public health, Public policy

Mohsen received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Merced, USA, in 2015 working on analyzing customer reviews to understand what drives customer satisfaction using data mining/machine learning techniques.

After his PhD, he served as a postdoctoral research associate at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Annenberg public policy center of the University of Pennsylvania. Also, he did a postdoc in University of California, Los Angeles working on applications of data mining in public health domains.

Before joining the John Molson School of Business, he was an assistant professor in Business School of University of California, Riverside.

In Concordia, he develops and applies techniques from business analytics in applications in health, business and public policy domains.

Rustam Vahidov, PhD

Areas of expertise: Decision Sciences, Computer Information Systems

With Concordia University since 2000, Dr. Vahidov received his MBA (1996) and PhD (2000) from Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA, USA. He teaches various courses in Business Technology Management.

His research focuses on Software Agent Negotiations, Decision Support Systems, Multi-Agent Systems, Electronic Negotiations, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms, Neural Networks, and others.

Salim Lahmiri, PhD

Salim Lahmiri is Assistant Professor in the Supply Chain and Business Technology Management (SCBTM) department at John Molson School of Business, Concordia University. He received a Master of Engineering degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering at École de Technologie Supérieure in Montreal and a Ph.D from the Department of Computer Science at Université de Quebec à Montreal. He was a post-doctoral fellow in McGill University's The Neuro.

His research interests include design of intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, data science and pattern recognition applied to various domains such as finance, marketing, biomedical engineering and industrial engineering. He serves as an associate editor in several academic journals; namely, Expert Systems with Applications, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning with Applications, Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Entropy, and Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction.

Arman Sadreddin, PhD

Research interests: Digital Entrepreneurship, Digital Innovation, Digital Strategy, Technology Enabled Organizational Capabilities, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems 

Arman is Assistant Professor, Business Technology Management at the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University. His research interests focus on digital entrepreneurship, digital innovation, technology-enabled organizational capabilities, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Arman holds a Ph.D. and an MSc in Management (Management Information Systems) from Smith School of Business at Queen’s University in Canada, an MASc in Quality Systems Engineering from Concordia University, and a BSc in Industrial Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran.