Amir Karami

Dr. Amir Karami is an Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods/Business Analytics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) in the Collat School of Business. He also holds roles as a Scientist at UAB's School of Medicine and previously served as Associate Dean for Research at the University of South Carolina's College of Information and Communications. His expertise spans computational social science, health informatics, and social media analytics.

Dr. Karami holds a PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His research focuses on leveraging text mining, AI, and machine learning to analyze social media data for insights in healthcare, political discourse, and workplace dynamics. He has been recognized with the Healthcare 2021 Young Investigator Award and an honorable mention from the ASIS&T SIG Social Media Annual Workshop.

• Key Roles: Associate Professor (UAB Collat School of Business), Scientist (UAB School of Medicine), Former Associate Dean (UofSC).
• Research Themes: Misinformation detection, health informatics, computational methods for qualitative data, and workplace sexual harassment analysis.
• Labs/Teams: Karami Lab (GitHub repository hub for datasets and tools).

His work bridges academia and practical impact, collaborating with institutions like the South Carolina SmartState Center for Healthcare Quality and the Big Data Health Science Center. He actively publishes in journals like Healthcare and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.