Scholarship and Biography

Arnold Kamis does research with data analytics on information technology, decision support, online consumer behavior, and healthcare information. He has many publications in premiere journals, including MIS Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Communications of the ACM. He blends social science and data science to make research contributions that are rigorous, business-relevant, and aiming to make an impact. For example, Arnold and coauthors have developed a stable three-year model of CDC data (n = 1.5M) to model why American adults do not obtain influenza vaccinations. He has designed and taught multiple courses in business/data analytics and data visualization. Arnold has served on many journal editorial boards, including Decision Analytics and Health Systems. He holds a Ph.D. from New York University. His h-index is 16.

Honors

Nominated for the best paper award for Isakowitz, T., Kamis, A., Koufaris, M., "Reconciling Top-Down and Bottom-Up Design Approaches in RMM"
Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), 1997
Winner of the best paper award, Process Automation and Management track, AMCIS: Kamis, A., Koufaris, M., Stern, T., "Online Mass Customization and the Customer Experience"
Association for Information Systems, 2004
Selected as a best paper of the workshop, SIG IS-CORE: Davern, Michael J, Kamis, Arnold A. "Knowledge Matters: Performance with Decision Support"
Association for Computing Machinery (United States, New York) - ACM, 2004
Nominated for the best paper award, Personalization Management Systems track, HICSS: Kamis, A., Davern, M., "Personalizing to Product Category Knowledge: Exploring the Mediating Effect of Shopping Tools on Decision Confidence"
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2004
Nominated for the best paper award in the Collaboration Systems and Technologies track, HICSS: Kamis, A., Frank, J., "An Explanatory Model of Collaborative Online Travel Planning by Millennials"
Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2010
Winner of the Top Paper Award, Division of Communication and Aging, NCA: Ohs, J. E., Kamis, A., LeRouge, C. L., Van Slyke, C. "Health information technology for consumer health empowerment across the adult lifespan."
National Communication Association (United States, Washington D.C.) - NCA, 2015

Organizational Affiliations

Professor of the Practice of Data Analytics in the Brandeis International Business School, Brandeis International Business School, Brandeis University

Chair/Director, Department/Program, Rabb School of Continuing Studies, Division of Graduate Professional Studies, Brandeis University

Education

New York University
Ph.D.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S.
Carnegie Mellon University
B.S.