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Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed

University of North Texas

Communication Studies

Email: Iftekhar.Ahmed@unt.edu

Education

PhD, Texas A&M University, 2009.

Major: Communication

Degree Specialization: Group/Organization/Technology

Dissertation Title: A study of the relationship of communication technology configurations in virtual research environments and effectiveness of collaborative research

MA, West Texas A&M University, 2004.

Major: Coomunication

Professional Positions

Academic - Post-Secondary

Associate Professor, University of North Texas. (2018 – Present).

Research Scientist (0% time appoinment), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. (2013 – 2018).

Assistant Professor, University of North Texas. (2012 – 2018).

Awards and Honors

Pathways to the Doctorate Fellowship, Texas A&M University. (2004 – 2004).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

University of North Texas

COMM 3320, Communication and Conflict Management, 3 courses.

COMM 3720, Small Group Communication, 19 courses.

COMM 3820, Social Media Perspectives, 1 course.

COMM 3920, Organizational Communication, 26 courses.

COMM 4020, Communication Theory, 4 courses.

COMM 4320, Virtual Gaming, 9 courses.

COMM 4800, Communication Internship, 7 courses.

COMM 4829, Topics in Interpersonal/Organizational Studies, 2 courses.

COMM 4900, Special Problems, 1 course.

COMM 5120, Group Processes, 2 courses.

COMM 5185, Quantitative Research Methods in Communication, 1 course.

COMM 5225, Interpersonal Communication, 1 course.

COMM 5325, Communication Theory, 6 courses.

COMM 5820, Seminar in Communication Processes, 5 courses.

COMM 5910, Special Problems, 1 course.

COMM 5920, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, 2 courses.

COMM 5930, Research Problems in Lieu of a Thesis, 2 courses.

COMM 5950, Master's Thesis, 4 courses.

Directed Student Learning

Other, Communication Studies. (September 2021 – May 2022).

Major Professor, Communication Studies. (September 2020 – May 2022).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Communication Studies. (September 2020 – May 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Communication Studies. (September 2020 – May 2022).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Communication Studies. (2019 – 2020).

Supervised Research, Communication Studies. (June 2020 – July 2020).

Internship Advisor, Communication Studies. (2019 – 2019).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Communication Studies. (2018 – 2019).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Communication Studies. (2017 – 2018).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON FOOTBALL: MAKING SENSE OF PARENTS’ DECISION TO ALLOW THEIR CHILD TO PLAY TACKLE FOOTBALL," Communication Studies. (2017 – 2018).

Major Professor, Communication Studies. (2015 – 2016).

Master's Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Communication Studies. (2015 – 2016).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Tracing the Evolution of Collaborative Virtual Research Environments: A Critical Events-Based Perspective," Communication Studies. (2015 – 2016).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"THE POWER OF THE SERVANT TEACHER," Communication Studies. (2015 – 2016).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Abstracts and Proceedings

Ahmed, I., Poole, M. S., Trudeau, A. B. (2018). A Typology of Virtual Research Environments. 51, . IEEE. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/49974

Ahmed, I., Cai, Y., Pilny, A., Brown, C., Atouba, Y., Poole, M. (2013). SocialMapExplorer: visualizing social networks of massively multiplayer online games in temporal-geographic space. Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Gateway to Discovery. 18. ACM. http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2490000/2484805/a18-cai.pdf?ip=129.120.246.12&id=2484805&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=F82E6B88364EF649.3BFCD970B3FB0BEC.4D4702B0C3E38B35.4D4702B0C3E38B35&CFID=752387798&CFTOKEN=73125238&__acm__=1492531571_365925b9fc78fa8bb5ed4b8e62dec0d2

Ahmed, I., Brown, C., Poole, M., Pilny, A., Cai, D., Atouba, Y. (2012). Comparing the performance of group detection algorithm in serial and parallel processing environments. Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyond. 21. ACM. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2335817

Ahmed, I., Pilny, A., Brown, C., Cai, D., Ada, Y., Poole, M. (2011). Identification of groups in online environments: The twist and turns of grouping groups. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011). IEEE. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6113184/

Ahmed, I., Ahmad, M., Srivastava, J., Poole, M. (2011). Trust me, I am an expert: Trust, homophily and expertise in MMOs. Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom2011). IEEE. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6113234/

Weber, I., Ahmed, I. (2009). Toward a theory of online learning behavior: An environmental model for participation, interaction, and collaboration. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Teaching and Learning. INTI University College. http://ictl.intimal.edu.my/ictl2009/proceedings/index.html

Book Chapter

Ahmed, I., Pilny, A., Poole, M. S. (2018). Understanding aggressive and non-aggressive individual behaviors in MMOPG. Lakkaraju, K. & Sukthankar, G. (Eds.), Social Interaction in Virtual Worlds. 1(1), . New York, USA: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/social-interactions-in-virtual-worlds/CC24773513E05F24CAC9AD1A6F009D9C

Ahmed, I., Proulx, J., Pilny, A. (2017). Causal Inference Using Bayesian Networks. Group Processes. 1(1), 29-49. USA: Springer International Publishing. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-48941-4_3

Ahmed, I., Poole, M. S. (2017). A Process Approach to Study the Development of Virtual Research Environments: A Theoretical Framework. An International Compendium of Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-17727-4_118-1

Ahmed, I., Mahapatra, A., Poole, M., Srivastava, J., Brown, C. (2014). Identifying a Typology of Players Based on Longitudinal Game Data. Predicting Real World Behaviors from Virtual World Data. 103-115. New York, NY: Springer International Publishing. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-07142-8_7/fulltext.html

Encyclopedia Article

Poole, M. S., Ahmed, I. (2015). Decision Making Processes in Organizations. The Concise Encyclopedia of Communication. 138-139. Malden, MA: Wiley. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118789353

Poole, M. S., Ahmed, I., (2009). Group decision support systems. W. Eadie (Ed.): 21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook. 2, 550-557. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. http://sk.sagepub.com/reference/communication/n61.xml

Poole, M. S., Ahmed, I. (2008). Organizational decision making. W. Donsbach (Ed.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Communication. 3, 1181-1188. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Journal Article

Ahmed, I., Poole, M. S., Pilny, A. N. (2019). Stability of Membership and Persistence in Teams: Impacts on Performance. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice. 23(3-4), 156-169. Washington DC: American Psychological Association. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/gdn0000109

Ahmed, I., Cooper, K., McGrath, R., Griego, G., Poole, M., Hanisch, R. (2014). A process study of the development of virtual research environments. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series. Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXIII. 485, 325-328. Chicago, IL: Astronomical Society of the Pacific. http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/article_details/?paper_id=36243

White Paper

Ahmed, I., Poole, M. S., Simpson, E. Comparative analysis of different models of IVRO to identify similarities and differences among structural components.. http://gecat.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/publications-and-presentations/

Ahmed, I., Poole, M. S., Simpson, E. Identification of Factors that Facilitate IVRO Structuring to Promote Idea Generation, Collaboration, and Network Development.. http://gecat.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/publications-and-presentations/

Ahmed, I., Poole, M. S., Simpson, E. Identification of Tools and Technologies for IVROs.. . http://gecat.ncsa.illinois.edu/research/publications-and-presentations/

Presentations Given

Design Work

Trudeau, A. (Author), Ahmed, I. (Author), 102nd National Communication Association Annual Conference, Mining communication and coordination data from electronic information repositories for group communication research, National Communication Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. (2016).

Online Conference Presentation

Ahmed, I. (Author & Presenter), Poole, M. S. (Author), Simpson, E. (Author), Norman, E. (Author), 12th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference, Structuring effective collaboration, International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS), Virtual, United States of America. (2021 – 2021).

Online conference presentation

Ahmed, I. (Author & Presenter), Poole, M. S. (Author), Norman, E. (Author), Simpson, E. (Author), 12th Annual International Science of Team Science (SciTS) Conference, Multiple team membership and its relationship with team performance, International Network for the Science of Team Science (INSciTS), Virtual, United States of America. (2021 – 2021).

Paper

Norman, E. (Author & Presenter), Ahmed, I. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), 2022 Science of Team Science Conference, Advancing Science of Team Science by Examining Collaboration in a Multinational Virtual Research Laboratory., International Network for the Science of Team Science, Virtual, United States of America. (2022 – 2022).

Tran, J. (Author & Presenter), Ahmed, I. (Author), 2022 Science of Team Science Conference, Developing a Theory of Deception for Team Science., International Network for the Science of Team Science, Virtual, United States of America. (2022 – 2022).

Tran, J. (Author & Presenter), Norman, E. (Author), Ahmed, I. (Author), McGlynn, J. (Author), 12th Annual International Science of Team Science Conference, Screens and vaccines: Examining the influence of Twitter features on credibility judgments of COVID-19 misinformation., International Network for the Science of Team Science, Virginia Tech (Virtual), USA, United States of America. (2021).

Norman, E. (Author & Presenter), Tran, J. (Author), Ahmed, I. (Author), 12th Annual International Science of Team Science Conference, ) Developing a Networked Misinformation Risk Model, International Network for Science of Team Science, Virginia Tech (Virtual), United States of America. (2021 – 2021).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Trudeau, A. (Author), Simpson, E. (Author), Lambert, N. (Author), Poole, M. (Author), Science of Team Science Conference, A Dynamic Ecology of Teams in an International Virtual Research Organization: What Makes Teams Productive?, Science of Team Science, Clearwater, FL, United States of America. (2017).

Pilny, A. (Author), Ahmed, I. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), Yannick, A. (Author), The 67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Constructing Communication Theory From Machine Learning Algorithms, International Communication Association, San Diego, CA, United States of America. (2017).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), Simpson, E. (Author), Lambert, N. (Author), Science of Team Science Conference, Toward an understanding of low-overhead, action oriented team science, Science of Team Science, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America. (2016).

Trudeau, A. (Author), Ahmed, I. (Author), Science of Team Science Conference, Tracing the Evolution of Collaborative Virtual Research Environments: A Critical Event Based Perspective, Science of Team Science, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America. (2016).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Scott, P. M. (Author), International Communication Association Annual Conference, A Proposed Technology Implementation Scheme for Virtual Research Environments, International Communication Association, Puerto Rico, United States of America. (2015).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), International Communication Association Regional Conference, A Typology of Virtual Research Environments: Communication, Collaboration, and Research Technologies, International Communication Association, Lodz, Poland, Poland. (2015).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Pilny, A. N. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), International Communication Association Regional Conference, Aggression and Individual Behavior in Virtual Worlds, International Communication Association, Lodz, Poland, Poland. (2015).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), McGrath, R. (Author), 99th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, A Process Method Approach to Study the Development of Virtual Research Environments: A Theoretical Framework, National Communication Association, Washington DC, United States of America. (2013).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), 99th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Scientific Cyberinfrastructures Connecting Dispersed Scientists: A Comparison between Social Science and other Domains' Virtual Research Environments, National Communication Association, Washington DC, United States of America. (2013).

Atouba, Y. (Author), Ahmed, I. (Author), Brown, C. (Other), Poole, M. S. (Author), Pilny, A. N. (Author), Dora, C. (Other), 99th Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Using group communication theories to identify groups in virtual worlds: Challenges, opportunities, and case study, National Communication Association, Washington DC, United States of America. (2013).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Cooper, K. (Author), McGrath, R. (Author), Greigo, G. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), Hanisch, R. (Author), 23rd Annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) Conference, A process study of the development of virtual research environments, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Waikoloa, Hawaii, United States of America. (2013).

Ahmed, I. (Author), Mahapatra, A. (Author), Poole, M. S. (Author), Srivastava, J. (Author), Brown, C. (Other), ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, Identifying a typology of players based on llongitudinal game data, IEEE, Washington DC, United States of America. (2013).

Poster

Ahmed, I. (Author), First Annual International Science of Team Science Conference, A study of communication technology configurations in virtual research environments, Science of Team Science, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. (2010).

Workshop Facilitation

McGlynn III, J. (Author & Presenter), Ahmed, I. (Author & Presenter), Group Communication and Conflict Resolution, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States of America. (2019 – 2019).

Ahmed, I. (Other), McGlynn, J. (Other), Team Communication Workshop, Team Communication Workshop, UNT Health Science Center, United States of America. (2018 – 2018).

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research

Ahmed, I. (Principal), "GECAT: Global Initiative to Enhance @ Scale and Distributed Computing and Analysis Technologies to Address Grand Challenge Problems Around the World," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $142751 Funded. (2014 – August 31, 2020).

Ahmed, I. (Principal), "VOSS: Research on the process of development of virtual research environments," Sponsored by National Science Foundation, Federal, $248551 Funded. (2012 – August 2017).

Uncategorized

Ahmed, I. (Principal), "Further investigation of technological configurations of virtual research environments to develop a data depository for future research," Sponsored by UNT (RIG), $7500. (2013 – 2013).

Ahmed, I. (Principal), "Investigating the Relationship between Real World Attitudes and Virtual World Personae Using Multi-dimensional Scaling," Sponsored by UNT (JF-SRF), $5000. (2013 – 2013).

Service

University Service

Director, Director of Graduate Studies. (August 17, 2021 – Present).

Program Coordinator, Digital Media Certificate. (2019 – Present).

Member, IGST Gaming Narrative and Design Degree Ad-hoc Committee. (2019 – Present).

Member, Integrative Studies Faculty Committee. (2019 – Present).

Faculty Mentor, New faculty mentoring program. (2018 – Present).

Committee Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee. (2021 – 2025).

Committee Member, Executive Committee. (September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2024).

Committee Chair, Graduate Standards Committee. (September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2024).

Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. (September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022).

Committee Member, Reappoinment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee. (September 1, 2021 – August 31, 2022).

Committee Member, CLASS Strategic Planning Steering Committee. (2020 – 2021).

Chairperson, Personnel Affairs Committee. (September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2021).

Chairperson, Reappoinment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee. (September 1, 2020 – August 31, 2021).

Member, Curriculum Committee. (2019 – 2020).

Member, Personnel Affairs Committee. (2018 – August 31, 2020).

Member, Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure (RPTC) Committee. (2018 – August 31, 2020).

Member, Curriculum Committee. (2018 – 2019).

Member, CLASS Faculty Council. (January 2019 – May 2019).

Committee Member, Faculty Research Committee. (2012 – 2018).

Committee Member, Executive Committee. (2015 – August 2018).

Member, Curriculum Committee. (2016 – 2017).

Member, Online Exploration Committee. (2016 – 2017).

Other, Faculty Search Committee. (2015 – 2016).

Committee Member, Research Committee. (2014 – 2016).

Member, Digital Studies Certificate Development. (2012 – 2016).

Committee Chair, Curriculum Committee. (2014 – 2015).

Committee Chair, Research Committee. (2013 – 2014).

Program Organizer, New Voices New Perspective Conference Organizing Committee. (2013 – 2013).

Committee Member, Curriculum Committee. (2012 – 2013).

Committee Member, Research Committee. (2012 – 2013).