J. Alberto Espinosa, Ph.D.

Bio

Prof. Espinosa is a Full Professor of Information Technology and Analytics (IT&A) at Kogod School of Business, American University. He holds Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees in Information Systems from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, a Masters degree in Business Administration from Texas Tech University; and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Peru. He is the architect of Kogod's MS Analytics degree, both campus and online, and of the undergraduate specialization in Business Analytics. He is also the curriculum architect for the IT&A programs and specializations. He has co-authored two books, one on work coordination across time zones and a 2-volume book on big data and analytics for service delivery. His research focusses on coordination and performance in technical projects across global boundaries, particularly distance and time separation (e.g. time zones). More recently, he has been developing methods to represent team knowledge quantitatively and visually using social network analytics. Prof. Espinosa employs a multiple method approach in his research, but his primary focus is on field studies with technical organizations. His work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including: Management Science; Organization Science; Information Systems Research; the Journal of Management Information Systems; IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; Communications of the ACM; Human Factors, Information, Technology and People; and Software Process: Improvement and Practice. His work has also been featured in leading academic conference proceedings. He teaches predictive analytics, social and organizational network analytics, R programming for analytics, information technology foundations and business process analysis, and programming for business applications. He also has several years of working experience, first as a design engineer and later as a senior manager and VP and CFO with international organizations directly supporting, supervising and formulating policy for finance and global IT and data management and analysis functions, where he designed and developed a number of software applications to support geographically distributed work.