Management Science & Information Systems

Dr. Chenzhang Bao is an associate professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He holds William S. Spears Professorship in Business Administration. His research focuses on the implications of health IT and analytics in the value-based care environment. Specifically, he has examined the role of IT innovations in facilitating patient engagement in care delivery and shaping the coordination behavior among caregivers. In addition, he is also interested in quantifying the value of care delivered to various stakeholders and evaluating value-based care initiatives from a policy perspective. Dr. Bao has published his work in leading academic journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. He received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the University of Texas at Dallas.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University.

My research focuses on understanding how anthropomorphic technologies transform work, managerial practice, and human–technology relationships. I examine how differences across human-like form and function reconfigure traditional human-technology relationships, as well as the design and experience of work. Across contexts, my work explores and tests how organizations and individuals adapt to, make sense of, and work alongside increasingly human-like technologies.

Dr. Dursun Delen is the holder of the William S. Spears Endowed Chair in Business Administration, Patterson Family Endowed Chair in Business Analytics, Director of Research for the Center for Health Systems Innovation, and Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. Prior to his academic tenure at OSU, he worked for a privately owned research and consultancy company as a research scientist for five years, during which he led a number of advanced analytics research projects funded by federal agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), NASA, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), among others. Dr. Delen has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed articles and 12 books and textbooks in the fields of Data Mining, Business Intelligence, Business Analytics, AI/Machine Learning, and Data Science. He is often invited to companies for consultancy engagements and national and international conferences for keynote addresses. He regularly chairs tracks and minitracks at various business analytics and information systems conferences. Currently, he is the editor-in-chief for the Journal of Business Analytics and the Journal of AI in Business (in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence), senior editor for the Journal of Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, and Journal of Business Research, associate editor for Decision Analytics and International Journal of RF Technologies, and is on the editorial boards of several other academic journals. He has been the recipient of several research and teaching awards, including the prestigious Fulbright Scholar, regents' Distinguished Teacher and Researcher, president's Outstanding Researcher, and Big Data Mentor awards.

Research Interests:

Data Mining; Business Intelligence; AI/Machine Learning; Business Analytics; Data Science; Decision Support Systems; Knowledge Management; Business Process Modeling and Evaluation; Database Design and Implementation

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Science and Information Systems at the Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University. 

My research explores the challenges and issues in content moderation and platform governance, with a focus on the phenomenon of misinformation (e.g., fake news, fraudulent reviews, AI-generated content (AIGC)). The overarching goal of my work is to understand how digital platforms influence the dissemination of misinformation, and in turn, how misinformation affects public trust. I aim to develop effective mitigation strategies while fostering healthier online communities.  

To advance this research agenda, I draw on a range of methodologies, including experiments, econometrics, natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and deep learning.

Ramesh Sharda is the ConocoPhillips Chair and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. He recently returned to faculty after serving as the Vice Dean for Graduate Programs and Research in Spears Business for more than 10 years. He has coauthored two textbooks ( Analytics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support, 11th edition, Pearson and Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective , 5th Edition, Pearson). His research has been published in major journals in management science and information systems including Management Science, Operations Research, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Interfaces, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and many others. He is a member of the editorial boards of journals such as the Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, ACM Database, and Information Systems Frontiers. He served as the Executive Director of Teradata University Network through 2020 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2016. Ramesh is a Fellow of INFORMS and AIS.

He was the winner of 2020 OSU Eminent Faculty Award. Ramesh also won the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award at Aalto University in Finland for 2022-2023.

Research Interests:

Analytics/AI/Data Science applications in various domains including health, business, natural resource management, etc.

Dr. Wilson has been at OSU since 1990, serving as the MSIS Department Chair in the Spears School of Business since the department's inception in 2002.  His past research in neural network applications and sports analytics is well known and highly cited. He has taught prescriptive analytics at the graduate level for most of his career, helping endow OSU graduates with the ability to implement practcial optimization projects wihtin their organizations.