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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (PACIS 2025)
Ayushi Agarwal
Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
With over 11 years of experience, Ayushi Agarwal is a research scholar in Information Systems at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK), India. Her professional journey spans technology, operations, corporate training, and human resource management, where she has mentored individuals through targeted training. She began her career as a Software Engineer at Adobe and then joined Skiify. She has collaborated with AICTE and the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India, as an expert and tech mentor for startups, delivering seminars on women entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, education, and employability. She has also contributed to national institutional rankings, working on ARIIA 2021 and NIRF 2022 under the Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India. Her research interests include the dark side of AI, disruptive technologies, ethical technology impact, the metaverse, cybersecurity, and GenAI integration in the workplace for sustainability. She has presented her work at InCIS 2025, published in the proceedings of GIT, ICEGOV, and the peer-reviewed journal Transforming Government: People, Process, and Policy. Also, she has served as a reviewer for many conferences and journals. Passionate about technological innovation, she strives to drive meaningful change through her research.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (ECIS 2025)
Mahdi Bahadornia
University of Bern
Mahdi Bahadornia is a second-year doctoral researcher in the institute of Information Systems at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His research focuses on Conversational Agents, Responsible AI, Design Science, and Human-AI Collaboration. He is currently working on a research project sponsored by Swiss National Science Foundation in which users’ perceived fairness while interacting with AI-based voice assistants is investigated. Mahdi has published in ECIS, and in the peer-reviewed journal Philosophy of Management. He has reviewed for ECIS, ICIS, Business Process Management Journal, and Digital Business Journal.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (ICIS 2025)
Manon Berney
University of Neuchatel
Manon Berney is a third-year PhD candidate in Information Systems at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her research explores digital innovations to support social justice actions. She has published at premier conferences including CHI, ICIS, and AMCIS, with work on digital nudges, eco-feedback, cyber vigilantism, online activism, and digital ethics. She is active in the academic community as a member of the CUSO Doctoral Board, Faculty Counsel representative, and through her teaching of Information Technology and Systems courses. She regularly contributes to research seminars and doctoral consortiums as a member of IEEE, ACM and AIS.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (AMCIS 2025)
Devina Chaturvedi
Indian School of Business
Devina Chaturvedi is a first-year doctoral student in Information Systems at Deakin University. Guided by a research ethos that blends rigor with real-world relevance, her research is focused on strategic and business value implications of IT investments. Her work has been published in the proceedings of premier conferences like ICIS and ECIS, earning nominations for Best Student Paper (ICIS 2024) and Best Conference Paper (ICIS 2023). Beyond research, she is deeply committed to contributing to the IS community – actively reviewing for top conferences, volunteering at academic events, and engaging in initiatives that foster scholarly collaboration and growth.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (ECIS 2025)
Himasmita Das
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Himasmita Das is a PhD Candidate in the Information Systems area at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India and a DAAD Fellow at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. Her research focuses on the intersection of digital technologies and SMEs with special focuses on smartphone, digital platforms and digital public infrastructure. She has published her work in peer-reviewed journal and conferences and has served as a reviewer for conferences and journals. Her research interests include digital transformation, digital infrastructure, digital public goods, ICT4D. She served as a Regional Coordinator of the AIS Doctoral Student College in 2024, and Co-Chair of the Doctoral Student Corner at AMCIS 2024.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (ECIS 2025)
Nikolaj Krebs Pedersen
IT University of Copenhagen
Nikolaj Krebs Pedersen is a second year doctoral student at the Digital Business Innovation section at the IT University of Copenhagen. His research centers around machine learning used to support clinical decision-making. His research interests include Machine Learning, Decision Support Systems, Data Analytics, Healthcare Analytics, and Healthcare Informatics. He is currently volunteering for the ECIS 2025 Doctoral Student Corner Co-chair.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (PACIS 2025)
Vladimir Nurbaev
National Cheng Kung University
Vladimir Nurbaev is a second-year master’s degree student at National Cheng Kung University. He has published his work in conferences such as ICIS 2022, 2023, PACIS 2024, and ACIS 2023, and has served as a reviewer for ICIS, PACIS, ACIS, ECIS, and AMCIS. In 2024, he chaired the Doctoral Student Corner at PACIS and served as a regional coordinator. Passionate about FinTech, its ecosystems, digital social innovation, and cryptocurrencies, he seeks to meaningfully advance the Information Systems community.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (AMCIS 2025)
Temidayo Osatuyi
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Temidayo Osatuyi is a fifth-year doctoral student in Information Systems at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the intersection of AI and Ethics. Guided by a commitment to advancing knowledge in the IS domain, her work seeks to provide actionable recommendations for incorporating ethical considerations into the design and implementation of AI systems. She has served as a reviewer for academic journals and has published her research in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. She enjoys engaging with the academic community through collaborative initiatives and values opportunities to support emerging scholars.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (ICIS 2025)
Kimberley Pawlowski
Georg-August University Göttingen
Kimberley Pawlowski is a first-year doctoral researcher and research associate at the Chair of Interorganizational Information Systems at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Her research focuses on the perception of generative AI and its impact on social dynamics. Before joining the University of Göttingen, she completed an M.Sc. in International Business Administration at Europa-Universität Viadrina and was a Visiting Research Scholar in Trustworthy AI & Data Security at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (PACIS 2025)
Jie Ren
Nanyang Technological University Singapore
Jie Ren is a first-year doctoral student in the Information Technology and Operations Management (ITOM) program at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research interests encompass the future of work, digital transformation, the gig economy, and the impact of technology on organizational behavior. Jie has actively participated in various academic workshops and conferences, including ICIS 2024 and AOM 2025, where she contributed to discussions on emerging trends in IT and operations. She is passionate about leveraging technology to improve business processes and enhance decision-making.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (ICIS 2025)
Shariga Sivanathan
University of Münster
Shariga Sivanathan is a doctoral student in Information Systems at the University of Münster and a research associate at the Chair of Digital Innovation and the Public Sector. Her research focuses on digital platforms in healthcare, particularly in the care sector. She has published in the proceedings of ICIS and has reviewed for ECIS, AMCIS, and AOM. Additionally, she attended the ICIS 2023 Doctoral Consortium. She currently serves as a Regional Coordinator of the AIS Doctoral Student College and as the Lead Co-Chair of the Doctoral Student Corner for ICIS 2025.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (ICIS 2025)
Biju B Varghese
Rochester Institute of Technology
Biju Varghese is a second year doctoral student at the Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), NY. He has several years of experience in the industry prior to joining the PhD program at RIT. His current research projects are in the area of cybersecurity disclosure analysis, application of generative AI in cybersecurity and innovative approaches to cybersecurity training. He has presented his work at various conferences, including BizAI, and has published in the proceedings of AMCIS. Biju has reviewed for conferences and journals, including AOM CTO division, ICIS, AMCIS, PACIS, and Systèmes d'Information et Management (French Journal of Management Information Systems). He has served as the Co-Chair of the Doctoral Student Corner at AMCIS 2024.
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Doctoral Student Corner Co-Chair (AMCIS 2025)
Beril Yapici
Copenhagen Business School
Beril is a PhD researcher at Copenhagen Business School, Department of Digitalization exploring Hybrid Work practices in terms of experience design from Human-Robot Interaction and organizational psychology perspectives. Beril’s research currently revolves around how technology can be used to motivate employees to engage and contribute during remote work.
She is an industrial designer who holds MSc in Technology, Design, and Innovation Management. Her thesis suggests a method that will enable the user to get maximum efficiency in using robots by establishing an accurate and effective interaction with the user of domestic service robots. Besides, as an interdisciplinary person, she has a pallet of interests from different disciplines, such as psychology, technology, organizational management, art, graphic design, illustration and market dynamics.
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