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Ali Vedadi

Ali Vedadi

Assistant Professor

Phone 865-974-1751

Email avedadi@utk.edu

Location Room - 617, Haslam Business Building

Department:

Accounting & Information Management

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Biography

Ali Vedadi is an assistant professor of information systems in the Department of Accounting and Information Management at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Haslam College of Business. His primary research interest is in information security and assurance, and his research has been published in leading academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information & Management and Computers & Security.

Vedadi regularly reviews for academic journals and conferences and serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Intellectual Capital. He has developed and taught various technical and managerial cybersecurity courses at graduate and undergraduate levels and is CompTIA Security+ certified.

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
  • Pugh Accounting and Information Management Faculty Award,University of Knoxville, Tennessee
  • Outstanding Reviewer, Information & Management
  • Admitted to MIS Quarterly Reviewer Development Workshop, 2020
  • “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)
  • Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award (College of Business; Mississippi State University; 2018)
  • AMCIS 2017 Doctoral Consortium
  • 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