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Ram’s research spans enterprise data management, business intelligence and predictive analytics. She is director of both the Advanced Database Research Group and INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics at the Eller College. The latter seeks to harness exploding amounts of data online – including through social media – for better decision making. Among her many honors include a 2012 IBM Faculty Award. Her research has been highlighted in several media outlets including NPR news. She has received more than $50 million in research funding from several different agencies including the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and NASA. Keywords: Big Data Analytics, Chronic health Conditions, Network Science, Machine Learning, Prediction ModelingShow Less
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Courses
- SOTStrategic Operations and Technology
- EDMEnterprise Data Management
- BDABig Data Analytics
- BIBusiness Intelligence
Grants
- RIDIR: Collaborative Research: A Data Science Platform and Mechanisms for Its Sustainability
Co-Investigator (COI)
2018
$1.5M
Active - RIDIR: Collaborative Research: cyberSW: A Data Synthesis and Knowledge Discovery System for Long-term Interdisciplinary Research on Southwest Social Change
Co-Investigator (COI)
2017
$1.1M
- Services Agreement between the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona and Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil; project entitled I3FOR - Smart Cities.
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$224.9K
- Social Media Monitoring
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$49.9K
- Indoor Environment and Stress Study - GSA 1800F Street
Co-Investigator (COI)
2014
$3.2M
- TWC TTP: Small: Mitigating Insider Attacks in Provenance Systems
Co-Investigator (COI)
2013
$496.1K
- (ATRAP IV) Asymmetric Threat Response and Analysis Program IV
Co-Investigator (COI)
2010
$1.7M
- Measuring Data Quality Using Provenance
Principal Investigator (PI)
2008
$474.2K
Books
- Advances in Conceptual Modeling
2020
News
- The key to healthier employees could be a quieter – or louder – office space
2023
- UArizona to Host DC Center for Outreach & Collaboration's Inaugural Event
2021
- Bennu, Burials and (Queen) Bees: UA's Top Stories of 2018
2018
- Researcher Looks at 'Digital Traces' to Help Students
2018
- Digital Archaeology Project to Use Big Data
2017
- UA Uses Big Data to Solve Bus Woes in Brazil
2016
- How Twitter Can Help Predict Emergency-Room Visits
2015
- Social Media – Are You Doing It Right?
2013
- UA Faculty Use Twitter to Get Students Focused In and Out of Class
2013
- UA Study Examines How News Spreads on Twitter
2012
- Open Access Week 2012: Raising Awareness at the UA
2012
- UA Eller Offering INSITE into Data Deluge of Social Media
2011
- Eller Project Boosts Casa de los Niños Online Presence
2011
- Who Does What on Wikipedia?
2010
- Software Giant SAP to Work with UA MIS Researchers
2006
- IBM Sends Technology to MIS Dept.
2004
Publications (170)
Recent
- A Human-in-the-Loop Segmented Mixed-Effects Modeling Method for Analyzing Wearables Data
2023
- Rewarded Advertising and Mobile User Engagement: A Large-Scale Field Experiment
2022
- Artificial Intelligence in Information Systems : State of the Art and Research Roadmap
2021
- Intention-based Deep Learning Approach for Detecting Online Fake News (BEst Paper of ICIS Award)
2021
- Health care Predictive Analytics for Short Term Multiple Disease Prediction in Critical Care (Overall Best Paper award)
2021
- Finding a Needle in the Haystack: Recommending Online Communities on Social Media Platforms Using Network and Design Science
2021
- Focusing on High Impact Programmatic Research in Information Systems, Not Theory, to Address Grand Challenges
2021
- Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me: Structural Balance Theory Based Deep Learning Model for Identifying False Information
2021
- Deep Learning of Spatiotemporal Patterns for Urban Mobility Prediction using Big Data
2021
- Data Completeness and Complex Semantics in Conceptual Modeling: the need for a Disaggregation Construct
2021
- ROLEX: A Novel Method for Interpretable Machine Learning using Robust Local Explanations,
2021
- Complex Semantics in Conceptual Modeling
2020
- Understanding impact of e-cigarette discussions on Social media: A natural language processing approach
2020
- Artifical Intelligence: Beyond the Hype
2020
- PERSONA: Personality based Deep Learning Method for Detecting Hate Speech
2020
- A Comprehensive Analysis of Risk Factors for Asthma: Based on Machine Learning and Large Heterogenous Data Sources
2020
- Prediction Models for Alumni Donation Using Deep Learning
2020
- Wellbuilt for wellbeing: Controlling relative humidity in the workplace matters for our health
2020
- Advances in Conceptual Modeling: Introduction to Workshops at ER Confernce
2020
- Uncertainty-aware, additive explanations for prediction of post-admission conditions in ICUs
2020
- Digital Health Analytics for Exploring Wellbeing in the Workplace
2020
- PERSONA: Personality Based Deept Learning for Detecting Hate Speech
2020
- Modeling and Prediction of Bike Sharing System Performance Using Heterogeneous Datasets”,
2020
- Drug Interaction Mining Using Natural Language Processing and Convolutional Neural Networks
2020
- A Novel Fracture Prediction Model Using Machine Learning in Community‐Based Cohort
2020
- Using Large Scale Brand networks for predicting brand adoption on social media: The role of indirect social influence
2020
- Big Data Analysis with Incomplete Datasets: A Simplified Reduced Modeling Approach
2020
- Analysis of Backbone Networks in News Propagation on Twitter
2020
- Beyond Bot Detection: Automated User Classification on Social Media using Machine Learning
2020
- Using Large Scale Network Science and Deep Learning for innovation and Technology forecasting using Patent datasets
2020
- Leveraging Intelligence from Smart Card Transactions for Freshman Retention Prediction
2020
- NEPA Performance: Conceptualizing Multi-dimensional Policy Objectives
2020
- What Makes an Online Suggestion A Good One for Online Health Communities
2020
- Neural Collaborative Filtering with Content for Personalizing Mobile Healthcare Applications
2019
- Uncovering the Effects of Digital Movie Format Availability on Physical Movie Sales.
2019
- Robust Local Explanations for Healthcare Predictive Analytics: An Application to Fragility Fracture Risk Modeling
2019
- Modeling and Prediction of Bike Sharing Systems Using Heterogeneous Data Sources
2019
- Polarizing Virtual Water Cooler Chat? An Analysis of Bot Influence on Sentiment During US Elections
2019
- Quality Assessment of Peer-Produced Content in Knowledge Repositories using Development and Coordination Activities
2019
- Evaluating Distributed Computing Infrastructures: An Empirical Study Comparing Hadoop Deployments on Cloud and Local Systems
2019
- Uncovering the effects of digital movie format availability on physical movie sales
2019
- Suggestion Mining for Online Health Forums
2019
- Effects of office workstation type on physical activity and stress
2018
- Introduction to the inaugural issue of journal of business analytics
2018
- Drug-Drug Interaction Mining and Interaction Terms Extraction using Deep Learning: A Word-level Attention Bi-Directional LSTM
2018
- Predicting interpurchase time in a retail environment using customer-product networks: An empirical study and evaluation
2018
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems - Bridging the Internet of People, Data, and Things, ICIS 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 13-16, 2018
2018
- Research challenges and opportunities in business analytics
2018
- Predicting High-Cost Patients at Point of Admission Using Network Science
2018
- Using big data and network analysis to understand Wikipedia article quality
2018
- Understanding Semantic Completeness in Rule Frameworks for Modeling Cardinality Constraints
2018
- Future Impact Prediction of Technology based on Patent Ranking in Heterogeneous Network
2018
- Data Sovereignty and Data Space Ecosystems
2018
- Sensor-Based Sleep Quality Index (SB-SQI): A New Metric to Examine the Association of Office Workstation Type on Stress and Sleep
2018
- Identifying target audience for marketing on social media
2017
- Using Digital Health Wearable Devices to Understand the Relationship Between Sound levels and Wellbeing: A Segmented Mixed-effects Regression Approach
2017
- Improving the Domain Independence of Data Provenance Ontologies: A Demonstration Using Conceptual Graphs and the W7 Model
2017
- A Regularization Approach for Identifying Cumulative Lagged Effects in Smart Health Applications
2017
- A Machine Learning Approach for Understanding Population-Level Health Effects of E-Cigarettes
2017
- Are E-Cigarettes Safer Substitutes for Cigarettes Among Asthmatic Patients: A Social Media Based Analysis
2017
- Developing data ontology of provenance based on the W7 model: A conceptual graph-based approach
2017
- Domain Adaptation for Signal Extraction from Large Social Media Datasets
2017
- Reconsidering Measurement of Tie Strength in Online Social Networks
2017
- Predicting High Cost Patients at Point of Admission using Network Science
2017
- SMARTBUS: A Web Application for Smart Urban Mobility and Transportation
2016
- A Big Data Approach for Smart Transportation Management on Bus Network ( Received Overall Conference Best Paper Award)
2016
- Consensus statement on Electronic Health Predictive Analytics: A Guiding Framework to Address Challenges
2016
- Extracting Signals from Social Media for Chronic Disease Surveillance
2016
- Feature importance and predictive modeling for multi-source healthcare data with missing values (Best Paper Award)
2016
- Indoor Environmental Effects and Well Being
2016
- Capturing Telic-Atelic Temporal Data Semantics: Generalizing Conventional Conceptual Models
2016
- Understanding the Competitive Landscape of News Providers on Social Media
2016
- LARGE SCALE NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR ONLINE SOCIAL BRAND ADVERTISING
2016
- Deep Learning for Bus Passenger Demand Prediction Using Big Data (Best Paper Runner Up Award)
2016
- Deep Learning for Bus Passenger Demand Prediction Using Big Data
2016
- Prediction of Location Based Sequential Purchasing Events Using Spatial, Temporal and Social Patterns
2015
- RT @News: An Analysis of News Agency Ego Networks in a Micro-blogging Environment
2015
- Class Imbalance Learning and Novel Feature Extraction Methods for Predicting Freshman Retention
2015
- Asthma Surveillance using Social Media Signals
2015
- A Comprehensive Methodology for Extracting Signal from Social Media Text Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
2015
- Using Big Data for Predicting Freshman Retention
2015
- Predicting Asthma Related Emergency Department Visits Using Big Data
2015
- Using a knowledge learning framework to predict errors in database design
2014
- Capturing Telic/Atelic Temporal Data Semantics: Generalizing Conventional Conceptual Models
2014
- Empirical analysis of implicit brand networks on social media.
2014
- The relational model is dead, SQL is dead, and i don't feel so good myself
2013
- Examining lists on twitter to uncover relationships between following, membership and subscription
2013
- Modeling spatial and temporal set-based constraints during conceptual database design
2012
- Using a network analysis approach for organizing social bookmarking tags and enabling web content discovery
2012
- Sharing news articles using 140 characters: A diffusion analysis on twitter
2012
- Common citation analysis and technology overlap factor: An empirical investigation of litigated patents using network analysis
2012
- Who does what: Collaboration patterns in the wikipedia and their impact on article quality
2011
- Examining the evolution of networks based on lists in Twitter
2011
- Panel: New directions for conceptual modeling
2011
- How social is social bookmarking?
2010
- FASTS: FAcets Structured Tag Space - A novel approach to organize and reuse social bookmarking tags
2010
- When entities are types: Effectively modeling type-instantiation relationships
2010
- Provenance management in BioSciences
2010
- A new perspective on semantics of data provenance
2009
- Entity matching across heterogeneous data sources: An approach based on constrained cascade generalization
2008
- Conceptually modeling windows and bounds for space and time in database constraints
2008
- An empirical study of the effects of principal component analysis on symbolic classifiers
2008
- Understanding the semantics of data provenance to support active conceptual modeling
2008
- Linking biological databases semantically for knowledge discovery
2008
- Combining schema and instance information for integrating heterogeneous data sources
2007
- Database design and querying within the fuzzy semantic model
2007
- Special issue theme: Defining, eliciting and using data semantics for emerging domains
2007
- Special issue on Semantic Web: Opportunities and challenges
2007
- Cognitive fit between conceptual schemas and internal problem representations: The case of geospatio-temporal conceptual schema comprehension
2006
- Fuzzy measure theoretical approach to screening product innovations
2006
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): Preface
2006
- Elitist and ensemble strategies for cascade generalization
2006
- Semantics based operators for integrating heterogeneous biological data sources
2005
- A comprehensive framework for modeling set-based business rules during conceptual database design
2005
- Toward semantic interoperability of heterogeneous biological data sources
2005
- Entity identification for heterogeneous database integration - A multiple classifier system approach and empirical evaluation
2005
- Constrained cascade generalization of decision trees
2004
- Design science in information systems research
2004
- Modeling the semantics of 3d protein structures
2004
- Information systems interoperability: What lies beneath?
2004
- Semantic Conflict Resolution Ontology (SCROL): An Ontology for Detecting and Resolving Data and Schema-Level Semantic Conflicts
2004
- Clustering schema elements for semantic integration of heterogeneous data sources
2004
- Data management for e-business
2003
- Panel: Information and knowledge sharing - Successes and failures
2003
- IAIS: A methodology to enable inter-agency information sharing in eGovernment
2003
- SEAM: A state-entity-activity-model for a well-defined workflow development methodology
2002
- Semantic modeling and decision support in hydrology
2000
- Research Commentary: An Agenda for Information Technology Research in Heterogeneous and Distributed Environments
2000
- Digital Libraries for the Next Millennium: Challenges and Research Directions
1999
- The Latin American ICBG: The first five years
1999
- Semantic-model support for geographic information systems
1999
- Information sharing among multiple heterogeneous data sources distributed across the Internet
1998
- Collaborative conceptual schema design: A process model and prototype system
1998
- Transaction management mechanisms for active and real-time databases: A comprehensive protocol and a performance study
1998
- Database fragmentation and allocation: An integrated methodology and case study
1998
- Resource discovery and intelligent image retrieval in a distributed environment
1997
- Updating timestamp interval for dynamic adjustment of serialization order in Optimistic Concurrency Control-Time Interval (OCCTI) protocol
1997
- Integrity constraint integration in heterogeneous databases: An enhanced methodology for schema integration
1997
- Screening products for international markets: An expert systems application
1996
- Practical aspects of teaching an applied database course
1996
- Validation of expert systems for innovation management: Issues, methodology, and empirical assessment
1996
- Design and validation of a knowledge-based system for screening product innovations
1996
- Intelligent database design using the unifying semantic model
1995
- Group data base design: Addressing the view modeling problem
1995
- Blackboard-based cooperative system for schema integration
1995
- Understanding database design expertise
1995
- Information technologies and systems
1995
- Database allocation in a distributed environment: incorporating a concurrency control mechanism and queuing costs
1994
- Integrating information systems technologies to support consultation in an information center
1992
- A model for database allocation incorporating a concurrency control mechanism
1991
- The synthesis approach for relational database design: an expanded perspective
1990
- Distributed knowledge based systems for computer integrated manufacturing
1990
- Modeling organizations as a social network of distributed knowledge-based systems
1990
- Multi-user view integration system (MUVIS): An expert system for view integration
1990
- HyperIntelligence. The next frontier
1990
- Screening innovations in the telecommunications industry: An expert systems approach
1990
- Architecture of distributed data base systems
1989
- Expert systems: An emerging technology for selecting new product winners
1989
- A model for designing distributed database systems
1989
- Object-oriented design for distributed knowledge-based systems
1989
- An automated tool for relational database design
1989
- INNOVATOR: An expert system for new product launch decisions
1988
- SYNTHESIS APPROACH FOR RELATIONAL DATABASE DESIGN: AN EXPANDED PERSPECTIVE.
1988
- Expert system for implementing communication protocols.
1988
- FILE ALLOCATION PROBLEM: AN EXPANDED PERSPECTIVE.
1987
- DESIGN OF DISTRIBUTED DATABASES FOR AN AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING FACILITY.
1987
- REPORT GENERATION FACILITY - A HIGH - LEVEL INTERFACE FOR COHERENT ACCESS TO HETEROGENEOUS DATABASE SYSTEMS.
1986
- MODEL FOR THE DESIGN OF DISTRIBUTED DATABASES.
1985