# Kourosh Dadgar, PhD, PMP

> Associate Professor of business analytics & information systems at USF, CA

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kourosh

Associate professor of business analytics and information systems.

Research Interests:
- health IS
- business analytics 
- data mining
- process automation
- design science research 
- value-sensitive design

## Work Experience
### Associate Professor @ University of San Francisco School of Management
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Program Director, MS in Information Systems
Program Lead, MIM in Business Technology

### Assistant Professor @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Department of Business Analytics & Information Systems

### Sabbatical leave @ Eindhoven University of Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
Conducted research on the role of trust in health technologies used by patients with chronic conditions to manage their care and improve health outcomes.

### Instructor, Teaching and Research Assistant @ Washington State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Pullman, WA

### Adjunct Faculty @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Freelance Design Strategist @ shiftalliance
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Providing design thinking for the business-oriented strategies of the company

### Product Designer (summer internship) @ Biodesign Institute
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | tempe, az
Designing products based on mobile health technologies

### Research Assistant @ Integrated Design Lab
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Spokane, Washington
Integrated Design Lab | Inland Northwest is dedicated to helping design professionals create sustainable, high performance buildings with more productive and comfortable work environments. The lab provides  project based education and tools for daylighting, electric lighting, HVAC, and integrated design practices. Some services are provided locally while others come from our lab partners and expert consultants across the four state region of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.

### Graduate Reearch Associate @ Center for Urban and Regional Analysis
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Research on social media and spatial analysis

### Graduate Reearch Associate @ Byrd Polar Research Center
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
The Ohio State University


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Management Information Systems
Washington State University

### PhD in Design
Washington State University

### Minor in Applied Software Engineering
The Ohio State University

### MA in Industrial and Product Design
The Ohio State University

### BA in Industrial Design
University of Tehran


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kourosh-dadgar
- Portfolio: https://www.usfca.edu/management/faculty/kourosh-dadgar

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Last updated: 2026-04-13