Sumali Conlon

Dr. Sumali Conlon is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the University of Mississippi's School of Business Administration, within the Department of Marketing, Analytics and Professional Sales. She holds a B.A. in Statistics from Thammasat University (1980), an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Nebraska at Kearney (1985), and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology (1990). Her research focuses on Business Analytics, Machine Learning, Sentiment Analysis, and Natural Language Processing applications in knowledge management and decision support systems. She serves as an associate editor for Expert Systems with Applications and Intelligent Systems with Applications, and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Computer Information Systems.

Dr. Conlon teaches courses such as MIS 309 (Management Information Systems) and MIS 408 (Database Management for Business Analytics). Her work bridges technical domains like NLP with business applications, including green supply chain analysis, health recommender systems, and employee satisfaction modeling. Her research has been published in journals like Decision Support Systems, Omega, and JASIST.

Her academic contributions include developing frameworks for text mining, automated financial information extraction, and multilingual business intelligence systems. She has explored innovation trends in technology companies and the impact of cognitive responses in online communities. Despite no listed awards or grants, her extensive editorial roles and prolific publication record reflect her influence in information systems research.

Dr. Conlon's research emphasizes practical applications of analytics, such as predicting stock performance via customer sentiment analysis and optimizing supply chain sustainability. Her work often addresses challenges in unstructured data processing and cross-lingual knowledge management.