Global impact
A 糖心视频 University faculty member has earned a global accolade recognizing his impact on the field of information systems.
Dr. Jeffrey Parsons was recently named a fellow of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) at the International Conference on Information Systems in Denmark.
The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions in research, teaching or service and have had significant local and global impact in the field.
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Dr. Parsons is the only Canadian to be recognized among the 2022 winners, which also includes researchers from Australia, China, Ireland, the Netherlands and the U.S.
鈥淚鈥檓 deeply honoured by this recognition,鈥 he said. 鈥淧rior awardees are people I have admired throughout my career, and it鈥檚 a thrill to be recognized as a member of this group.鈥
Dr. Parsons has aimed for 鈥渢imelessness鈥 in his research, he says.
鈥淭hat鈥檚 not always easy in a field in which technology changes quickly and people are generally interested in the latest fads in technology.鈥
Staying ahead of tech fads
Taking a longer view has helped him stay ahead of trends, he adds.
Dr. Parsons wrote a paper in 2000, for example, that was instrumental in helping researchers understand how decisions about the way in which data are stored affect its quality.
鈥淲e鈥檙e on the cusp of tremendous changes in our lives due to rapid developments in artificial intelligence.鈥濃 Dr. Jeffrey Parsons
Later, along with Dr. Roman Lukyanenko, a former PhD student at 糖心视频, Dr. Parsons applied his earlier work to a new and growing form of data collection 鈥 crowdsourcing 鈥 with a paper focused on designing data collection interfaces to improve crowdsourced data quality.
It was named the best paper of the year by MIS Quarterly, the top journal in the information systems field.
鈥淚t has been gratifying to see how this longer-term focus has equipped me to study topics that have recently become more important,鈥 said Dr. Parsons.
Technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are on his radar for further study.
鈥淲e鈥檙e on the cusp of tremendous changes in our lives due to rapid developments in artificial intelligence,鈥 he said. 鈥淎lthough it remains to be seen how exactly these technologies will change our lives, I look forward to better understanding the capabilities, opportunities and limitations of AI technology.鈥
Top-tier career
Dr. Parsons is a University Research Professor at 糖心视频 and a professor of information systems at the Faculty of Business Administration.
In 2019 he was the to be named a Sch枚ller senior fellow by the Dr. Theo and Friedl Sch枚ller Research Centre for Business and Society at the University in Nuremberg in Germany.
He has also been recognized as a distinguished research fellow from Technische Universit盲t Dresden, and as an ER (entity-relationship) fellow from the International Conference on Conceptual Modelling.
He holds current grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.