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Aya Rizk

Associate Professor

I am interested in studying data, including the challenges and opportunities they bring to businesses and societies. This includes both developing new data-driven innovations and understanding data-driven decision-making.

Digitalization and datafiction of organizations

My research interests span two main areas within the discipline of information systems: digital innovation and artificial intelligence (AI).

I am particularly interested in interdisciplinary research where one or both areas are leveraged to help organizations. For example, AI offers knowledge about methods and techniques to generate insights from machine-readable data, while digital innovation researchers and practitioners are increasingly looking at new ways of finding and assimilating new knowledge sources to inform their ideas and develop new services.

With the increasing availability of such data, data-driven innovation is one of my key research interests. I am also curious about understanding data-driven decision making (and automated decisions) and their impact on individuals, organizations and society.

In addition to studying data as an element of phenomena I study, I use it as an indispensable tool in informing my research results and turn to data science techniques in my analyses. Techniques such as clustering, association rules and topic modeling are examples of those in my toolbox towards theory development and validation.

Publications

2024

Aya Rizk, Ida Lindgren (2024) Automated Decision-Making in the Public Sector: A Multidisciplinary Literature Review Electronic Government: 23rd IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2024, Ghent-Leuven, Belgium, September 3–5, 2024, Proceedings, p. 237-253 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI
Johan Wenngren, Aya Rizk (2024) Prototyping for Digital Innovation: Investigating the Impact of Digital Technology on Prototyping Elements Administrative Sciences, Vol. 14, p. 142-163 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI
Ida Lindgren, Daniel Toll, Björn Johansson, Maria Booth, Aya Rizk, Ulf Melin (2024) Organizational conditions required to implement RPA in local government Insights from a Swedish case study PROCEEDINGS OF THE 25TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DIGITAL GOVERNMENT RESEARCH, DGO 2024, p. 434-442 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI

2023

Aya Rizk, Daniel Toll, Leif Sundberg, Marcus Heidlund (2023) The Evolution of Government Strategies from IT to Digitalization: A Comparative Study of Two Time Periods in Swedish Local Governments Electronic Government, p. 431-445 (Conference paper) Continue to DOI

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CV

Positions

  • 2022-present Associate professor, Linköping University
  • 2021-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher, Luleå University of Technology
  • 2015-2020 PhD Student, Luleå University of Technology
  • 2013-2015 Senior Business Analyst, Zoser AG
  • 2010-2013 Advanced Analytics Consultant, Teradata
  • 2009-2010 Teaching Assistant, German University in Cairo

Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Systems (2020)
Title: Data-driven Innovation: An Exploration of Outcomes and Processes within Federated Networks
Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering
Luleå University of Technology

Master of Sciences (M.Sc.), Business Informatics – (2012)
Title: Trajectory data analysis in support of understanding movement patterns: A data mining approach
Faculty of Management Technology
German University in Cairo

Other positions

2018-Present Board member and innovation advisor, Riteband AB

Teaching

I am actively teaching in the bachelor program in Information Systems Analysis and the master program in IT & Management. I teach students structured methods to analyze and model organizational processes, as well as their use of digital technologies. I also teach Business Intelligence (BI) and data-driven business models, where students learn to utilize data to support decision-making as well as develop new products and services.

Currently, I am also the program director of the bachelor program in Information Systems Analysis.

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