Ahmed Abbasi is the Giovanini Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of IT, Analytics, and Operations in the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He serves as Co-Director of the Human-centered Analytics Lab (HAL) and directs the PhD program in Analytics. Prior to joining Notre Dame, he was an Endowed Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Center for Business Analytics at the University of Virginia. Ahmed received his Ph.D. from the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab at the University of Arizona. He has over twenty years of experience pertaining to machine learning and predictive analytics, with applications in health, online communities, and digital user experience. Ahmed’s research has been funded by over a dozen grants from the National Science Foundation and industry partners such as AWS, Microsoft, eBay, and Oracle. He has also received the IEEE Technical Achievement Award, INFORMS Design Science Award, IBM Faculty Award, and Kemper Professor Award for his work on human-centered AI. Ahmed has published over 100 articles in top journals and conferences, won best paper awards at AIS, MISQ, ISR, and WITS, and was a finalist for the AMA’s Hunt/Maynard Award. His work has been featured in various media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, the Associated Press, WIRED, CBS, and Fox. Ahmed serves as a senior or associate editor for various INFORMS, IEEE, and ACM journals, and was a past Chair of the INFORMS College on AI. He has also served as co-founder or advisory board member for multiple predictive analytics companies.