Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Operations Management. Lebanese American University
Abbas A. Tarhini is a Member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and an Honorable member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society. He is the president of the Middle East and North Africa Association for Information Systems (MENA-AIS), the AIS MENA chapter and the VP for research at the Lebanese Association for Information Systems-AIS Lebanon chapter and at the association of Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations and Society (ICTO), France. He is a Faculty member at the Information Technology and Operations Management Department at the Lebanese American University (LAU). He received his BS and MS in Computer Science from the Lebanese American University, Lebanon and his PhD in Information Systems from University of Reims, France. His research interests include applications of predictive systems, data mining and Artificial Intelligence, ICT adoption and implementation, Dynamic Content Deployment, Web-enabling software and security, distributed systems synchronization, and stochastic search algorithms relevant for finding solutions to business problems like vehicle routing and task scheduling. His research has been published in recognized journals including IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Systems, Journal of Business Research and more. He is on the steering committees of a number of international conferences.