Outstanding Reviewer Award Winners at Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2020)

Posted on August 15, 2020 by Lazar Rusu

Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) is one of the leading conferences in Information Systems area (https://aisnet.org/page/AMCISPage) that in 2020 was held as a virtual conference (https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/).

In this year, I have served AMCIS 2020 as mini-track chair and as session chair of “IT Governance and Business-IT Alignment in the Era of Digital Transformation”, and the mini-track I was chairing has be the one that has received the most papers in the Strategic and Competitive Uses of IT track (https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/track-descriptions/#toggle-id-24).   

Furthermore, I am very happy and proud that at AMCIS 2020, I have been among the Outstanding Reviewer Award Winners at AMCIS 2020, and also nominated as the best reviewer at Strategic and Competitive Uses of IT track at AMCIS 2020 (2020 AMCIS SCUIT Track Session CHAIRS FINAL). 

A picture taken during the AMCIS 2020 Awards Ceremony (https://amcis2020.aisconferences.org/schedule-program/) with some of the Outstanding Reviewer Award Winners is included below.  

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Mila Grancharova, new employee

Posted on July 22, 2020 by mila

Hi! My name is Mila and I’ve just started as a research assistant at DSV. I will be working on de-identification of medical records under the supervision of Hercules Dalianis until February 2021.

My background is in computer science and I am about to receive my CS Master’s degree from KTH, with specialisation in natural language processing.

I’m looking forward to working with you at DSV and getting to know you all!

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Research Achievement

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Lazar Rusu

According to ResearchGate (achieved on April 1, 2020) (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lazar_Rusu/achievement/5eabcb74b49c1519340fadc0), Professor Lazar Rusu’s research items were the most cited research items from his department (Department of Computer and Systems Sciences at Stockholm University).

Lazar Rusu _ Achievement April 1, 2020

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Book Review in Journal of Global Information Technology Management and Papers Published in Proceedings of HICSS-53, UKAIS 2020, and Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP)

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Lazar Rusu

The book written by Georg Hodosi and Lazar Rusu and entitled “Risks, Relationships, and Success Factors in IT Outsourcing: A Study in Large Companies” published in 2019 by Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland has been reviewed in Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 23(2), pp. 169-170, 2020

A paper written by Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan, Lazar Rusu, and Erik Perjons and entitled “Business-IT Alignment in the Era of Digital Transformation: Quo Vadis?”, has been published in Proceedings of 53th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS-53), pp. 5563-5572, 2020

A paper written by Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan, Lazar Rusu, and Erik Perjons and entitled “Organisational structure’s influence on IT alignment in a public organisation: A confirmatory case study analysis”, has been published in Proceedings of the 25th UK Academy for Information Systems Conference (UKAIS), Paper 12, ISSN: 978-0-9560272-2-1, 2020

A paper written by Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan and entitled “Digital Transformation in the Public Sector: Identifying Critical Success Factors” has been published in M. Themistocleous, and M. Papadaki (Eds.) EMCIS 2019, LNBIP 381, pp. 223-235, Springer, 2020

A paper written by Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan, Lazar Rusu, and Erik Perjons and entitled “Organisational Structure’s Influence on IT Alignment: The Case of a Public Organisation” has been published in M. Themistocleous, and M. Papadaki (Eds.) EMCIS 2019, LNBIP 381, pp. 471-485, Springer, 2020

A paper written by Georg Hodosi, Alexander Stark, Eric van Beers, and Lazar Rusu  and entitled “Factors for Successful IT Outsourcing Relationships in Large Companies in Sweden: A Service Buyer’s Perspective” has been published in M. Themistocleous, and M. Papadaki (Eds.) EMCIS 2019, LNBIP 381, pp. 486-497, Springer, 2020

A paper written by Jobarteh, Ebrima, Neha Agrawal, and Lazar Rusu and entitled: “Barriers in Business-IT Alignment in the Banking Sector in a Developing Country: A Case Study of Commercial Banks in the Gambia” has been published in M. Themistocleous, and M. Papadaki (Eds.) EMCIS 2019, LNBIP 381, pp. 498-511, Springer, 2020

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Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan’s Licentiate Seminar

Posted on May 11, 2020 by Lazar Rusu

On May 11, 2020 our colleague Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan, PhD student in IT Management and Governance group at DSV/Stockholm University has defended successfully his licentiate thesis entitled: “Information Technology Alignment: The Role of Organizational Structure”. His licentiate thesis is available at the following link in DiVA:  http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1423531/FULLTEXT01.pdf  On behalf of research group in IT Management and Governance, I would like to congratulate Gideon Mekonnen Jonathan for this achievement.

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The Workshop NLP: mining clinical notes in EHR systems in Tromsø

Posted on March 13, 2020 by hanna

Hercules and I recently had the opportunity to attend and present at a workshop in clinical text mining on March 10 in Tromsø. The workshop NLP: mining clinical notes was arranged by The Norwegian Center for E-health Research.

During the workshop, Hercules gave a presentation on why NLP is needed. I gave a presentation on De-identification of text in electronic health records, and the Stockholm University master student Synnøve Bråten presented her current master thesis work on creating a synthetic Norwegian reference standard for de-identification. Sumithra Velupillai and Natalia Viani, from King’s College London, presented different NLP problems for clinical research and how to set up a clinical NLP research study.

 

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Rebecka Weegar’s defence of her PhD-thesis “Mining Clinical Text in Cancer Care”

Posted on January 28, 2020 by Hercules

Rebecka Weegar defended today January 27, 2020, successfully her PhD thesis , with the title Mining Clinical Text in Cancer Care. Opponent were Associate professor Lilja Øvrelid at Department of Informatics University of Oslo.

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Nailing of Rebecka Weegar’s thesis

Posted on January 3, 2020 by Hercules

Rebecka Weegar nailed today her PhD-thesis with the title Mining clinical text in cancer care.

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