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Niam Yaraghi

PhD Student
Management Science and Systems

Education

PhD, Management, University at Buffalo, expected June 2014
MS, Project Management and Operational Development, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009
BS, Industrial Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran, 2007

Research

• Healthcare Information Exchange Systems

Journal Publications

• Yaraghi, N., and Langhe, R. G. 2011. “Critical success factors for risk management systems,” Journal of Risk Research (14:5), pp. 551–581.
• Yaraghi,N., Du, A.Y., Sharman,R.,Gopal,R.,Ramesh,R. “Network Effects in Health Information Exchange Growth”, under second review in ACM Transactions on MIS.
• Yaraghi,N., Du, A.Y., Sharman,R.,Gopal,R.,Ramesh,R. “Professional and Geographical Network Effects on Healthcare Information Exchange Growth: Does Proximity Really Matter?”, under review in Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA).
• Chen, R., Kishore, R., Smith, S., Yaraghi, N., “Contract Duration and Newness as Early Signals of Adaptation Risks in IT Offshore Outsourcing: An Event Study”, Under review in MIS Quarterly.
• Yaraghi, N., Tabesh, P., Zhuang, J., “Comparison and Evaluation of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Monte-Carlo AHP under Different Levels of Uncertainty”, under review in Decision Support Systems.

Working Papers

• “Effects of Practice efficiency and Network Structure on Health Information Exchange Adoption”. With Du, A.Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R., Targeted for submission to Information Systems Research (ISR) in Dec 2012
• “Patient Consent in Health Information Exchange”. With Du, A.Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R., Ramesh, R.,Targeted for submission to Management Science 
• “Twitter and Egyptian Uprising”. With Venkatesan, S., Oh, O., Rao, H. R.,” Targeted for submission to Information Systems Research (ISR) in Dec 2012

Refereed Proceedings

• Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Modeling Practice Efficiencies in Healthcare Information Exchanges and Implications for HIE Network Growth.” Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Orlando, Florida, December 2012. 
• Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., Singh, R., Singh, G. 2012. "Professional and Geographical Network Effects on HIE growth". Workshop on Health Information and Economics (WHITE), Washington, DC, October 2012 
• Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R., Gopal, R. D. and Ramesh, R., “Interlinked Network Effects in Healthcare Information Exchange Growth”, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Shanghai, China, December 2011 (Nominated for the Best paper Award)
• Venkatesan, S., Yaraghi,N., Oh, O., Rao, H. R.,” Investigating the Role of Twitter Services in the Egyptian Social Movement”, Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), New York, September 2012
• Yaraghi, N., Du, A. Y., Sharman, R. Gopal, R. D., Ramesh, R., Singh, R. and Singh, G., “Clustering Physicians Based on Professional Proximity Using SAS”, Proceedings of the SAS Global Forum, Orlando, FL, April, 2012
• Yaraghi, N., Kishore, R., and Chen, R. (2012) Mining and merging DATAMONITOR and WRDS databases with SAS, SAS Global Forum 2012, Orlando, FL, April 22-25, 2012
• Yaraghi, N., Sharman, R., Singh, R., Singh,G., ”Application of Monte Carlo Analytical Hierarchy Process in Prioritizing Electronic Medical Records Success Factors”, Symposium on Healthcare Advancements in Research and Practice (SHARP), Moorhead, MN, April 2011
• M. Hajbagheri, Yaraghi,N., "A Model For Integrating Quantitative Risk Analysis of Vendor’s Environmental Performance Into Supplier Selection Process", Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Maryland, USA, December 2009
• Yaraghi,N., Hajbagheri, M. "A New Approach to Model Cost and Duration of Projects in Stochastic Environment", Society for Risk Analysis Annual Meeting, Maryland, USA, December 2009

Awards, Grants and Honors

• Best student paper award from Economics and Benefits Analysis Specialty Group (EBASG) of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) for the research about: "A Model For Integrating Quantitative Risk Analysis of Vendor’s Environmental Performance Into Supplier Selection Process", USA; Aug 2009
• Nominated for best student paper award, WITS 2011
• Winner of PhD Showcase and Celebration at UB School of management, March 2012

Professional Affiliations

• Society for Risk Analysis