Kofi Arhin, Ph.D.
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Kofi Arhin

Assistant Professor in Business Information Systems
Researching AI Design and Implementation

About Me

I am enthusiastic about research at the intersection of technology and business, practical implications for people, organizations, and societies all over the world. In the past, I have conducted research or been involved in projects related to artificial intelligence in hiring, healthcare, and information security.

Research Interests

Information Systems research focusing on Ethical Issues in AI Design, Online Misinformation, Information Security, and Web Technologies

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Research

Publications

Zhang, N., Wang, M., Xu, H., Koenig, N., Hickman, L., Kuruzovich, J., Ng, V., Arhin, K., Wilson, D., Song, Q.C. and Tang, C., 2023. Reducing subgroup differences in personnel selection through the application of machine learning. Personnel Psychology, 76(4), pp.1125-1159.
Arhin, K., & Wiredu, G. O. (2018). An organizational communication approach to information security. The African Journal of Information Systems, 10(4), 1.

Conferences and Worskhops

Arhin, K., & Treku, D. (2024). Contextualizing the Accuracy-Fairness Tradeoff in Algorithmic Prediction Outcomes. HICSS 57 Proceedings
Arhin, K., Hickman, L., Kuruzovich, J. (February, 2022) You Don’t Sound Black: Codeswitching, AI, and the Use of HR Platforms in Candidate Selection. MIS Quarterly (Special Issue on Digital Technologes and Social Justice) Author Development Workshop, 2022
Arhin, K., Baldini, I., Wei, D., Ramamurthy, K. N., and Singh, M. (December 2021). Ground-Truth, Whose Truth? Examining the Challenges with Annotating Toxic Text Datasets. NEURIPS Data-Centric AI Workshop, 2021
Arhin, K., Nevo, D. (2020). Never Trust a Phish: Phishing Detection from a Trust-Distrust Perspective. INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2020
Arhin, K., Kuruzovich, J. N. (2020). Integrating Artificial and Human Intelligence: Predictive Collaborative Systems. Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research, 2021
Shou, X., Mavroudeas, G., New, A., Arhin, K., Kuruzovich, J. N., Magdon-Ismail, M., & Bennett, K. P. (2019, November). Supervised mixture models for population health. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp. 1057-1064). IEEE.

Awards

2023-2024 Lehigh Business Graduate Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award
Best Paper Award Winner: 2023 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Phoenix, Arizona
Del & Edith Karger Dissertation Prize in Management, Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2023

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Education

PhD Management (Information Systems)

2018 to 2023 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MPhil. Management Information Systems

2014 - 2015 GIMPA

MSc. Management Information Systems

2012-2014 GIMPA

BSc Development Planning

2005 - 2009 KNUST

Experience

Assistant Professor in Information Systems

August 2023 - Lehigh University, PA

RPI Research Extern

June 2022 to August 2022 IBM Research, NY

RPI Research Extern

June 2021 - August 2021 IBM Research, NY

Teaching and Research Assistant

2018 - Current Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY

Research Experience

Natural Language Processing

Machine Learning

Econometrics

Statistics

Experiments

Data AnalysisTools

Python

R

Stata

SAS

Tableau

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