Reza is a faculty member at McIntire School of Commerce at The University of Virginia. He is an expert in artificial intelligence and business analytics. Reza's research topics are related to the societal impacts and economics of social media, artificial intelligence and business analytics, user-generated content and healthcare information systems. He deploys machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP) along with econometrics to identify quasi experimental settings and study the underlying relationships among the constructs of interest. Reza's work has appeared in Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Political Research Quarterly. His work has also been presented at international and national conferences such as CIST, WITS, WISE, ICIS, HICSS, and AMCIS.
Reza teaches advanced data science and business analytics, research methods, computer programming, and project management at the undergraduate, masters, and doctorate levels. He also has worked with leading consulting firms on a variety of data science projects. Reza was a lead data scientist at State Farm Insurance Co. before joining academia.
Education
Ph.D., Business Administration (Computer Information Systems), Arizona State University
MBA, Operations Management, University of Tehran
B.Sc., Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
Areas of Expertise
- Artificial intelligence & business analytics
- Natural language processing (NLP) & user-generated content
- Societal impacts of social media
- Economics of social media
- Healthcare information systems
Journal Publications
Mousavi, Reza, Gu, Bin (forthcoming) "The Effect of Resilience Communications on Community Compliance during Crises," Information Systems Research (ISR).
Atkinson, Mary Layton, Mousavi, Reza, Windett, Jason (2022) "Detecting Diverse Perspectives: Using Text Analytics to Reveal Sex Differences in Congressional Debate About Defense," Political Research Quarterly (PRQ),76(1), 75-89.
Mousavi, Reza, Zhao, Kexin (2022) "Examining the Impacts of Airbnb's Review Policy Change on Listing Reviews," Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), 23(1), 303-328.
Martin, Justin, Mousavi, Reza, Saydam, Cem (2021) "Predicting emergency medical service call demand: A modern spatiotemporal machine learning approach," Operations Research for Health Care (ORHC), 28, 100285.
Mousavi, Reza, T.S., Raghu, Frey, Keith (2020) "Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Quality of Answers in Online Question-answering Health Forums," Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), 37(4), 1073-1098.
Mousavi, Reza, Johar, Monica, Mookerjee, Vijay (2020) "The Voice of the Customer: Managing Customer Care in Twitter," Information Systems Research (ISR), (31:2), 340-360.
Mousavi, Reza, Gu, Bin (2019) "The Impact of Twitter Adoption on Lawmakers’ Voting Orientations," Information Systems Research (ISR), (30:1), 133-153.
Current Projects
TikTok Project: The Unintended Consequences of Stay-at-Home Policies on Work Outcomes: The Impacts of Lockdown Orders on Content Creation, with Drs. Kevin Hong & Xunyi Wang
COVID-19 Project 1: How U.S. Counties Reacted to "Opening up America Again!" Campaign, with Dr. Bin Gu
COVID-19 Project 2: Governors' Use of Twitter to Promote Resilience during COVID-19 Pandemic, with Dr. Bin Gu
Elections Project: Battle-grounds or Safe States? That is the Question, with Drs. Vijay Mookerjee & Monica Johar
Courses
- MSBA Program: GBAC MOD 3 and MOD 4- Data Analytics II and III
- Graduate Commerce: GCOM 7560- Python Programming for Data Science
- Undergraduate Commerce: CCOM 4559- Business Analytics with Python
Useful Resources
Finnhub Stock API: https://finnhub.io/ & https://mylinh19662.medium.com/a-comprehensive-guide-to-stock-market-apis-free-and-paid-a09df68a88eb
Socio-economic data of U.S. Counties: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/county-level-data-sets/download-…
County-level Innovation Data: http://www.statsamerica.org/ii2/overview.aspx