UMass Boston

Behavioral and organizational information security and privacy , Computer-mediated communication and Analytics, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Decision Science 

PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University
MS, Virginia Commonwealth University

• Romilla Syed, Leiser Silva (2022) "Social Movement Sustenance on Social Media: An Analysis of Women’s March Movement on Twitter." (forthcoming) Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS).
• Romilla Syed, Gurpreet Dhillon, and Jason Merrick (2018). “The Identity Management Value Model: A Design Science Approach to Assess Value Gaps on Social Media.” Decision Sciences, In Press, Accepted on July 31, 2018.
• Pratyush Bharati, Carol Lee, and Romilla Syed (2018). "Trolls and Social Movement Participation: An Empirical Investigation," Proceeding of the Americas Conference of Information Systems, New Orleans, LA, August 16-18. Equal Contribution
• Romilla Syed, and Haonan Zhong (2018). "Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management: An Ontology-Based Conceptual Model," Proceeding of the Americas Conference of Information Systems, New Orleans, LA, August 16-18.
• Gurpreet Dhillon, Tiago Oliveira, and Romilla Syed (2018). "Value-based Information Privacy Objectives for Internet Commerce." Computers in Human Behavior, 87, pp. 292-307.
• Romilla Syed, Maryam Rahafrooz, and Jeffrey M. Keisler (2018). "What it takes to get retweeted: An analysis of software vulnerability messages." Computers in Human Behavior, 80, pp. 207-215.
• Romilla Syed (2017). "Analyzing Software Vendors’ Patch Release Behavior in the Age of Social Media," Proceeding of International Conference of Information Systems, Seoul, South Korea, December 10-13.
• Romilla Syed (2017). "Modeling Values of Internet of Things (IoT) Consumers’ for Privacy Decision- Making," Proceeding of Americas Conference of Information Systems, Boston, MA, August 10-12.
• Gurpreet Dhillon, Romilla Syed, and Filipe de Sá-Soares (2017). "Information security concerns in IT outsourcing: Identifying (in) congruence between clients and vendors." Information & Management, 54 (4), pp. 452-464
• Gurpreet Dhillon, Romilla Syed, and Cristiane Pedron (2016). "Interpreting information security culture: An organizational transformation case study." Computers & Security, 56, pp. 63-69.
• Romilla Syed, and Gurpreet Dhillon (2015). "Dynamics of data breaches in online social Networks: Understanding threats to organizational information security reputation." Proceeding of International Conference of Information Systems, Fort Worth Texas, December 13-16. Nominated for the Best Paper Award.

Courses Taught

Systems Analysis and Design; Information Storage Management; Information Technology Problem Solving

Background

Dr. Romilla Syed studies the negative implications of emergent digital technology on individuals, businesses, and society at large. Her recent scholarship focuses on the security and privacy issues as well as the broader societal challenges due to digital transformation. She also studies how information technology design influences end-users’ perceptions about the technology to meet their idiosyncratic interests. Prior to pursuing doctoral studies, she worked as an IT consultant at Sapient Corporation and Mahindra British Telecom.