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Ali Vedadi

Ali Vedadi

Assistant Professor

Location Room - 617, Haslam Business Building

Department:

Accounting & Information Management

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Biography

Ali Vedadi is an assistant professor of information management with the Haslam College of Business Department of Accounting and Information Management. Previously, he spent four years as an assistant professor of information systems and analytics at Middle Tennessee State University’s Jones College of Business. Vedadi’s main research and teaching interest is in the information security and assurance area. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed outlets, such as the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information and Management, Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, and Computers and Security. He has taught multiple security courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is a CompTIA Security+ certified professional.

Expertise:

Cybersecurity, Information Systems Management

Education:

2018 Mississippi State University College of Business, Doctorate, Business Information Systems

2011 Tarbiat Modares University, Master of Science, Information Technology Management

2007 Central Tehran Azad University, Bachelor of Science, Political Science

Awards/Honors
  • Admitted to MIS Quarterly Reviewer Development Workshop, 2020
  • Awarded the “Outstanding Reviewer” recognition from the journal of Information & Management, 2018
  • Nominated for Donald Zacharias Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year Award (University-wide award; Mississippi State University; 2018)
  • Recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award (College of Business; Mississippi State University; 2018)
  • Admitted to AMCIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium
  • Awarded the National Science Foundation scholarship for presenting a research paper at the 2016 Conference on Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice
  • Summer Scholarship Award from Graduate Student Association of Mississippi State University