BD Behrooz Davazdahemami
Portrait of Behrooz Davazdahemami

Associate Professor | University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Responsible analytics for complex decisions in health, education, and digital platforms.

I study machine learning, explainable AI, predictive analytics, health analytics, privacy in social media, and technology addiction.

Profile

Associate Professor of IT & Supply Chain Management

College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

28

published research entries

7

core research interests

3

academic profile links

Research

Published Research

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2026Decision Support Systems

Designing Transparent, Equitable, and Efficient Decision Support Systems for Drug Courts Using Machine Learning

Zolbanin, H., Davazdahemami, B., Delen, D.

DOI
2026HICSS-59

Explain, Embed, Retrieve, and Reason (E2R2): A SHAP-Informed LLM Framework for Decision Support

Davazdahemami, B., Zolbanin, H., Delen, D.

2025Information Systems Frontiers

Developing an Interpretable Decision Support Framework for Artifact Design in Organ Transplantation

Topuz, K., Abdulrashid, I., Davazdahemami, B., Delen, D.

DOI
2025Journal of Management Analytics

Generative AI-enhanced interventions: a novel framework for predicting and mitigating freshman student attrition

Davazdahemami, B., Delen, A., Delen, D.

DOI
2024Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Revitalizing Scholarly Compass: Harnessing GPT-Powered Automation for Dynamic Aims and Scope Evolution in Academic Journals

Davazdahemami, B., Zolbanin, H., Zadeh, A.

AIS eLibrary
2023Annals of Operations Research

A Bayesian Belief Network-based Analytics Methodology for Early-Stage Risk Detection of Novel Diseases

Topuz, K., Davazdahemami, B., Delen, D.

DOI
2023Information Systems Frontiers

Predicting and Mitigating Freshmen Student Attrition: A Local-Explainable Machine Learning Framework

Delen, D., Davazdahemami, B., Rasouli, E.

Springer
2023Journal of Business Research

A Developer-Oriented Recommender Model for the App Store: A Predictive Network Analytics Approach

Davazdahemami, B., Kalgotra, P., Zolbanin, H., Delen, D.

DOI
2022Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research

A Machine Learning Framework for Assessing the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism in Patients Undergoing Hip or Knee Replacement

Rasouli, E., Delen, D., Zhao, H., Davazdahemami, B.

2021Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium

Deep Learning with Minimal Coding Effort: A Tutorial on Theory and Implementation of Deep Artificial Neural Networks

Davazdahemami, B., Zolbanin, H., Delen, D.

AIS eLibrary
2022Decision Support Systems

An Explanatory Machine Learning Framework for Studying Pandemics: The Case of COVID-19 Emergency Department Readmissions

Davazdahemami, B., Zolbanin, H.M., Delen, D.

2022Healthcare Analytics

An explanatory analytics for early detection of chronic risk factors in pandemics

Davazdahemami, B., Zolbanin, H.M., Delen, D.

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2022Healthcare Analytics

A deep learning approach for predicting early bounce-backs to the emergency departments

Davazdahemami, B., Peng, P., Delen, D.

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2021International Journal of Medical Informatics

Miscommunication in the Age of Communication: A Crowdsourcing Framework for Symptom Surveillance at the Time of Pandemics

Zolbanin, H.M., Hassan Zadeh, A., Davazdahemami, B.

2021Pandemic Analytics

A Novel Diffusion-Based Approach to Estimating Cases, Hospitalizations, and Fatalities in Epidemics: The Case of COVID-19

Eryarsoy, E., Delen, D., Davazdahemami, B., Topuz, K.

2020medRxiv

Adjusting COVID-19 Reports for Age Disparities: A Framework for Transferring Knowledge between Affected Countries and Comparing their Reporting Performances

Eryarsoy, E., Davazdahemami, B., Delen, D.

medRxiv
2020Communications of the Association for Information Systems

From General to Situational Privacy Concerns: A New Mechanism to Explain Information Disclosure in Social Networks

Davazdahemami, B., Hammer, B., Kalgotra, P., Luse, A.

DOI
2020JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

No Place like Home: Cross-National Data Analysis of the Efficacy of Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Delen, D., Eryarsoy, E., Davazdahemami, B.

DOI
2020Information & Management

Data analytics for the sustainable use of resources in hospitals: Predicting the length of stay for patients with chronic diseases

Zolbanin, H.M., Davazdahemami, B., Delen, D., Zadeh, A.H.

2020Health Informatics Journal

Using Predictive Analytics to Identify Drug-Resistant Epilepsy Patients

Delen, D., Davazdahemami, B., Eryarsoy, E., Tomak, L., Valluru, A.

2019International Journal of Medical Informatics

Examining the Effect of Prescriptions Sequence on Developing Adverse Drug Reactions: The Case of Renal Failure in Diabetic Patients

Davazdahemami, B., Delen, D.

2019Expert Systems with Applications

The confounding role of common diabetes medications in developing acute renal failure: A data mining approach with emphasis on drug-drug interactions

Davazdahemami, B., Delen, D.

2018ICIS

The Role of Parallelism in Resolving the Privacy Paradox of Information Disclosure in Social Networks

Davazdahemami, B., Hammer, B., Luse, A., Kalgotra, P.

AIS eLibrary
2018JAMIA

A Chronological Pharmacovigilance Network Analytics Approach for Predicting Adverse Drug Events

Davazdahemami, B., Delen, D.

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2018AIS Transactions on Replication Research

Training, Self-Efficacy, and Performance: A Replication Study

Davazdahemami, B., Luse, A., Scheibe, K., Townsend, A.

2016HICSS

Addiction to mobile phone or addiction through mobile phone?

Davazdahemami, B., Hammer, B., Soror, A.

2012EURO

An Integrated Artificial Neural Network Approach for Predicting Internet Penetration Rate

Azadeh, A., Davazdahemami, B.

2010International Industrial Engineering Conference

A Mathematical Model and Two Genetic Algorithms for Balancing Mixed-Model Two-Sided Assembly Lines with Multifunctional Workers Assignment

Rabbani, M., Davazdahemami, B., Manavizadeh, N.

Teaching

Analytics, AI, programming, and information systems courses

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Introduction to MIS, Data Mining, Programming for Business Applications, Supply Chain Analytics, Visual Analytics, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence, Programming for Analytics, and DBA research methods.

Oklahoma State University

Operations Management, Prescriptive Analytics, and Management Decision Theories.

Teaching interests

Business analytics, artificial intelligence, programming, operations management, data visualization, database management, and introductory IS courses.

Experience

Academic leadership, editorial service, and industry experience

2019 - Now

Associate Professor

Department of IT & Supply Chain Management, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

2019 - Now

Associate Editor

Journal of Business Analytics and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, AI in Business section.

2024 - Now

Associate Editor

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.

2014 - 2019

Graduate Teaching Associate

MSIS Department, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University.

2006 - 2014

Industry Roles

Commercial management, executive management, production planning, project planning, and project management roles.

Awards

Honors and grants

UW-Whitewater CoBE Summer Research Grant 2025

UW-Whitewater Teaching and Learning Grant 2024

UW-Whitewater Teaching and Learning Grant 2023

UW-Whitewater College of Business and Economics Research Award 2022

Phillips Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Award 2019 and 2018

Full Ph.D. tuition waiver and Conoco Phillips Ph.D. fee waiver, OSU, 2014-2019

OSU Graduate College Top Tier Fellowship

Ranked 31st nationally in Iran's Central Graduate Studies Entrance Examination, Industrial Engineering, 2009

Contact

Let us connect

3410 Hyland Hall, Department of IT and Supply Chain Management, College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.

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