Department(s):
Management Information Systems
Title(s):
Associate Prof.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Data Science: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Business Analytics, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Decision Support Systems.
Data Privacy: Data anonymization, Privacy-preserving Generative AI, Economics of Privacy.
Application Areas: Social Media Analytics, Medical and Health Informatics, and Supply Chain Management.
EDUCATION
PhD Management Information Systems, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, MA, USA (2017)
MSc Management Engineering, Istanbul Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey (2012)
BSc Industrial Engineering, Yildiz Technical University - Istanbul, Turkey (2009)
SHORT BIO
Dr. Hasan B. Kartal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Illinois Springfield. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Massachusetts Lowell (2017). His primary research interests include data science, business analytics, data privacy, information economics, big data, and social media analytics. He is currently focused on data anonymization and privacy-preserving generative AI applications. His work has been published in high-quality peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, International Journal of Information Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Computers & Industrial Engineering, and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems. He has presented at national and international conferences such as ICIS, INFORMS, and AMCIS. He is a certified Associate Application Consultant for SAP Predictive Analytics.
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Teacher of the Year Award (2025) - College of Business and Management (CBM) at UIS
- Scholar of the Year Award (2022) - College of Business and Management (CBM) at UIS
- National Outstanding Adviser (2020) - Society for the Advancement of Management (SAM)
- Hanson Scholar Award (2019) - Hanson Professional Services, Illinois
- The Best Paper Award (2015) - 25th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2015, Dallas)
- The Best Presentation Award (2013) - International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2013, Hong Kong)
SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
- Liu, X., Kartal, H., & Li, X. B. (2025). Customer acquisition via profile construction. Information Technology and Management. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10799-025-00474-1 (ABDC: B; ABS: Level 2).
- Agarwal, A., Singh, N., & Kartal, H. B. (2023). Does your company engage efficiently on social media? Improving performance using DEA model and visualization. e-Service Journal, 14(3), 36-68. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2979/esj.2023.a905238 (ABDC: B).
- Kartal, H. B., & Li, X. B. (2020). Protecting privacy when sharing and releasing data with multiple records per person. Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), 21(6), Article 8. https://doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00643 Available at: https://aisel.aisnet.org/jais/vol21/iss6/8 (ABDC: A*; AIS Basket of Eight).
- Motiwalla, L. F., Albashrawi, M., & Kartal, H. B. (2019). Uncovering unobserved heterogeneity bias: Measuring mobile banking system success. International Journal of Information Management, 49, 439-451. Available at: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1Zb5Iz1m7LO3r (ABDC: A*).
- Kartal, H. B., Liu, X., & Li, X. B. (2019). Differential privacy for the vast majority. ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), 10(2), Article 8. Available at: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3329717 (JRS-approved).
- Albashrawi, M., Kartal, H., Oztekin, A., & Motiwalla, L. (2019). Self-reported and computer-recorded experience in mobile banking: A multi-phase path analytic approach. Information Systems Frontiers, 21(4), 773-790. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10796-018-9892-1 (ABDC: A).
For a complete list of the publications, please refer to my research page.