Tabitha James, professor of enterprise info know-how within the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, was named the R.B. Pamplin Professor of Business Information Technology by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

Established in 1994, the R.B. Pamplin Professorship in Business Information Technology is one among a number of named professorships established with a part of the $10 million present offered to the school by the Robert B. Pamplin household. The professorship helps excellence in administration science and data know-how schooling.

A member of the Virginia Tech school since 2002, James is an internationally acknowledged scholar whose present analysis focuses on the societal and enterprise impacts of know-how use. Specifically, her analysis investigates how the usage of applied sciences resembling health applied sciences and social media affect individuals’s well-being, privateness behaviors, and unfavourable psychological outcomes resembling habit or envy. Her analysis additionally examines how analytics can be utilized to assist enterprise choices, together with design metaheuristic algorithms to supply higher options for complicated enterprise issues.

She has revealed over 40 peer-reviewed journal articles and over 15 convention papers. Her paper “Using Organismic Integration Theory to Explore the Associations between Users’ Exercise Motivations and Fitness Technology Feature Set Use,” revealed in Management Information Systems Quarterly, is a part of a analysis program that examines how individuals’s motivational traits are related to how they use health applied sciences resembling Fitbit and Strava and the affect of individuals’s use of those applied sciences on their well-being. This analysis has had an affect on the well being info know-how subject by serving to to pioneer a vibrant stream of knowledge methods analysis on wearables and wellness apps.

James additionally has made important contributions to the social media literature by analyzing, for instance, how individuals’s have to belong drives habit to social media platforms resembling Facebook, how various kinds of use may also help construct group dynamics on on-line well being communities that enhance customers’ perceptions of the social assist that they obtain from them, and what drives privateness choices resembling the choice to reveal info or the usage of privateness controls on social media platforms.

In the classroom, James has taught 14 totally different undergraduate and graduate programs and has labored to develop, lengthen, and improve undergraduate and graduate schooling in information visualization, info safety, and synthetic intelligence.

She additionally has taught information visualization and synthetic intelligence at IÉSEG School of Management in Paris and Lille, France, in addition to cybersecurity for Virginia Tech’s partnership with NMIMS in India. She is energetic in doctoral schooling, having taught a doctoral seminar on social community evaluation, and lately developed and taught a multidisciplinary doctoral seminar on synthetic intelligence, machine studying, and deep studying in enterprise.

James has co-chaired or served on the dissertation or thesis committees of a number of Ph.D. and grasp’s college students within the Department of Business Information Technology and Management and as an exterior member for college students at IÉSEG School of Management and Georgia State University.

She is at present an affiliate editor for the European Journal of Information Systems and Decision Sciences Journal, and she or he serves on the editorial evaluation board of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. James was the co-chair of the junior school consortium on the 2016 Americas Conference on Information Systems and was a mentor for it on the 2022 convention.

She acquired her bachelor’s diploma and Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi.
 

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