Ahmed Elragal

Ahmed Elragal (PhD, MBA, BSc) is a Professor of Information Systems & the acting Head of subject at Luleå University of Technology (LTU). He also works as an Adjunct Professor of Information Systems at Kristiania University College (KUC), Oslo. Prof. Elragal used to work at the Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management, German University in Cairo (GUC). Prof. Elragal has over eighty research papers and articles published at international conferences and journals. He is a member of the editorial board of the Information & Management, Systems, and Discover Analytics journals. Prof. Elragal is the Associate Editor of the Frontiers in Big Data, the data science section. He is the coauthor of Pearson’s AWE of the MIS textbook (Laudon, Laudon, and Elragal). He won the 2010’s international case study competition on “Business Intelligence”, a prestigious international award. He has over 15 years of consulting experience, mainly in enterprise systems and business intelligence. He has helped regional and multinational organizations such as Region Norrbotten, Volkswagen Group Sverige, Teradata, Polarbrod, Hyperone & Egypt Census Bureau in big data, information systems, business analytics, data mining, and data architecture for AI. He is currently the director of the data science magister program at LTU.