Academic presentations & events

Conferences.

Research presented at international IS and AI conferences. Topics span IoT security, AI governance, and trust in AI systems.

Speaker Profile

Ali Safari

Presenter of 7 papers at AMCIS, ICIS, ICESI, DSI, and ASC.
2026
August
Salt Lake City Utah, USA
Presented
AMCIS 2026

Americas Conference on Information Systems

Presented paper

Open-Set Fake News Detection Framework: Addressing Algorithm Aversion through AI Geometric Bounding

A framework proposing AI Geometric Bounding to mitigate algorithm aversion by handling open-set threat data in automated fake news detection.

Presented paper

Managerial Discretion as Operational Insurance: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Professional Football

Exploiting a natural experiment in soccer substitutions to demonstrate that managerial decision rights serve as options that cushion organizations against extreme stressors.

2025
December
Qatar University Doha, Qatar
Presented
ICESI 2025

International Conference on Entrepreneurship for Sustainability & Impact

Presented paper

Autonomous Constitutional AI Governance: A Dual-Agent System for Real-Time Ethical Compliance

A dual-agent runtime supervisor that continually audits generative AI agent behaviors against pre-defined organizational rules and safety constraints.

2025
December
Bangkok Thailand
Presented
ICIS 2025

International Conference on Information Systems

Presented paper

Enhancing IoT Security and Information Systems Resilience: An Extreme Value Machine Approach

Applying Extreme Value Machines to recognize zero-day IoT attacks that fall outside the model's training data, enhancing network resilience.

Presented paper

Decomposing Attention in Creator Platforms: The Relative Effects of Content Quality, Social Capital, and Algorithmic Exposure

Decomposing user attention on digital platforms to isolate the driving forces of algorithmic feeds versus individual creator quality and social capital.

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2025
November
Denver Colorado, USA
Presented
DSI 2025

Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference

Presented paper

Social Vulnerability and Disability Prevalence: A Multivariate Analysis Across U.S. Counties

A county-level demographic analysis showing the statistical relationship between social vulnerability indicators and disability prevalence across the United States.

2025
May
Las Vegas Nevada, USA
Presented
ASC 2025

Annual Security Conference

Presented paper

Calibrating Human Trust in AI Cybersecurity Alerts: The Impact of Real-Time Confidence Feedback

Investigating trust calibration dynamics when security analysts are provided with real-time AI confidence scores during threat assessment.

2026
Target
ICIS / AMCIS Venue TBD
Upcoming
Pipeline

AI trust & agentic delegation

In progress

New work on trust calibration and accountability in agentic systems

Manuscripts and submissions aimed at top IS venues. Status moves from Target to Accepted as outcomes land.

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Presented. Upcoming. Target.

Presented means delivered. Upcoming means on the calendar. Target means the venue I am aiming at next.