Last updated: March 2026
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Academic Appointments
- 2025–Present Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, Karsh Institute of Democracy, University of Virginia
Education
- 2020–2025 PhD, Business Administration (Management Information Systems)
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Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC Canada
Thesis: From Sensing to Self-organization: Collaboration Technologies for Emergent Groups Engaged in Physical Work
Supervisory Committee: Profs. Nilesh Saraf, Terri Griffith
Featured interview: YouTube Link - 2017–2020 M.Sc., Information Technology Management
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School of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
- 2012–2017 B.Sc., Electrical Engineering (Digital Systems)
- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Academic Publications
Peer-reviewed journal papers
Ehsan Nouri, Nilesh Saraf, JM Goh, Srabana Dasgupta, Dianne Cyr. (2025).
“Online Propagation of Emotions: A Study of Resharing Dynamics on Social Media Following Celebrity Suicides”.
PLOS ONE 20(12): e0336134. Link .
Manuscripts under review / revision
Ehsan Nouri, Nilesh Saraf, Terri Griffith,
Title redacted for anonymity,
Second Round Review at MIS Quarterly.
Working Papers
Ehsan Nouri, Terri Griffith, Nilesh Saraf,
“Civic Grid: An Experimental Group Study on Physical Entity Associations and Shared Situational Awareness”,
Preparing for submission.
Ehsan Nouri,
“Decentralized Physical Coordination under Uncertainty: A Simulation of Communication and Shared Awareness”,
Preparing for submission.
Ehsan Nouri, Jason Ho, Charles Weinberg,
“Effects of Negative Word-of-Mouth and Joint Consumption on the Box Office Performance of Motion Pictures: An Agent-Based Model (ABM) Approach”,
Data analysis in progress.
• Best PhD Paper Award, October 2024, SFU Beedie School of Business.
Grants, Awards and Honors
SSHRC Insight Grant ($89K) “Digital Collaboration Platforms for Emergent Groups doing Physical Work”
(PI: Nilesh Saraf)
2025
Best PhD Paper Award, Beedie School of Business, SFU
2024
Dean Fellowship, Beedie School of Business, SFU
2021 – 2023
Graduate Dean’s Entrance Scholarship, SFU
2020 – 2024
Outstanding Volunteer Member of IEEE (5-year recognition)
2018
Presentations and Conference Proceedings
Nouri, E., Kasra, M., (January 23, 2026).
From Screens to Streets: How Digital Media is Shaping Iran’s Uprising. Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, VA.
Nouri, E. (December 2024).
Collaboration Technologies for Emergent Groups Engaged in Physical Work. Doctoral Consortium. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
Nouri, E., Saraf, N., Griffith, T. (August 9–13, 2024).
Collaboration Technologies for Emergent Groups Engaged in Physical Work. 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management,
Chicago, IL.
Nouri, E., Saraf, N., Goh, J. M., Dasgupta, S., Cyr, D.
(August 10–12, 2023). How negative emotions spread on social media: the case
of celebrity suicides. Americas Conference on Information
Systems (AMCIS) 2023, Panama City.
Nouri, E., Saraf, N., Goh, J. M., Dasgupta, S., Cyr, D.
(December 10, 2022). The Contagion Process of Online Negative Discourse: Case
of Celebrities’ Suicide. 2022 Pre-ICIS SIGDSA Symposium,
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Saraf, N., Nouri, E., Goh, J. M., Dasgupta, S., Cyr, D.
(October 24–27, 2021). Retweeting sadness? Predictors of retweeting in the
context of celebrity suicides. INFORMS Annual Meeting
2021, Anaheim, CA.
Nouri, E., Saraf, N., Kaligotla, C. (October 24–27, 2021).
Social Media Contagion of Copycat Suicides [Paper presentation]. INFORMS
Annual Meeting 2021, Anaheim, CA.
Service and Volunteering
Editorial and Scholarly Service
Associate Editor, Academy of Management (CTO Division)
Associate Editor, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
Ad Hoc Reviewer, MIS Quarterly
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Information Systems Research
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Simulation
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Affective Science Journal
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting
Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Ad Hoc Reviewer, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
Associate Editor, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
Ad Hoc Reviewer, MIS Quarterly
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Information Systems Research
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Simulation
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Affective Science Journal
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Academy of Management (AOM) Annual Meeting
Ad Hoc Reviewer, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
Ad Hoc Reviewer, European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS)
Ad Hoc Reviewer, Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)
Professional and Institutional Service
Brown Bag Committee Member, Theoretical Organizational Models (TOM) Society, 2025 – Present
Student Representative, IEEE Iran Section Executive Committee, 2019 – 2020
Chairman, IEEE University of Tehran Student Branch, 2015 – 2016
Student Representative, IEEE Iran Section Executive Committee, 2019 – 2020
Chairman, IEEE University of Tehran Student Branch, 2015 – 2016