alisafari@my.unt.edu | alisafari.space | linkedin.com/in/ali-safari | Denton, TX
University of North Texas
Ph.D. in Business Computer Information Systems
Research focus: Agentic AI and human-AI delegation, trust calibration in intelligent systems, cybersecurity and open-set threat detection, and AI governance.
Isfahan University of Technology
M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering — System Management and Productivity
University of Isfahan
B.Sc. in Industrial Management
Agentic AI and bidirectional task authority delegation between humans and intelligent systems. Trust calibration in high-stakes domains, particularly cybersecurity. AI governance, accountability, and organizational policy. Open-set threat detection and extreme value methods for novel attack recognition. Privacy behavior and the privacy calculus. Technology adoption and sociotechnical theory.
Graduate Research Assistant
University of North Texas — G. Brint Ryan College of Business
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of North Texas — Administration and Policy in Information Security
Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of North Texas — Object-Oriented Programming for Business
Assisted in teaching Java programming and object-oriented design principles to business students.
Guest Lecturer
University of Isfahan — MBA Program in Digital Marketing
Delivered practical sessions on digital marketing strategy and SEO to MBA students, bridging academic theory with industry application.
International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Copenhagen, Denmark. Presented “Enhancing IoT Security and Information Systems Resilience: An Extreme Value Machine Approach.”
Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
Forthcoming. Presenting two papers: “Managerial Discretion as Operational Insurance: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Professional Football” and “Open-Set Fake News Detection Framework: Addressing Algorithm Aversion through AI Geometric Bounding.”
BIG12 Plus Symposium
Cincinnati, OH. Presented “Bidirectional Delegation of Task Authority in Human–AI Collaboration: A Mechanism-Asymmetric Framework” (with A. Sidorova and D.J. Kim).
Annual Security Conference
Presented “Calibrating Human Trust in AI Cybersecurity Alerts: The Impact of Real-Time Confidence Feedback.”
International Conference on Entrepreneurship for Sustainability & Impact (ESI)
Presented “Autonomous Constitutional AI Governance: A Dual-Agent System for Real-Time Ethical Compliance.”
Decision Sciences Institute (DSI)
Presented “Social Vulnerability and Disability Prevalence: A Multivariate Analysis Across U.S. Counties.”
Journals: Technological Forecasting & Social Change; Operations Research Forum.
Conferences: International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2026 (Cybersecurity track); Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), 2025, 2026 (Security track); Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), 2026; Annual Conference on Information Systems, 2026; ACM SIGMIS CPR, 2026.
Research methods: Experimental design, survey research, structural equation modeling (PLS and CB-SEM), mediation and moderation analysis, ANOVA, bootstrap, text and sentiment analysis.
Programming & tools: Python, R, SAS, SPSS, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, LaTeX.
Languages: English (Full professional), Persian (Native), Arabic (Limited working).
Founder & CEO
Rasa Digital Marketing
Founded and led a digital marketing platform with 20+ team members and 100+ delivered projects across the Middle East. Experience informs research on technology adoption and organizational change.