- ITM Instructor
- PhD Candidate
Room
Academic Background
- PhD in Business Administration (IT Management), University of Hawaii, Anticipated Graduation: 2025
- Master of Business Administration, University of Florida, 2020
- Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, San Diego State University, 2006
Courses Taught
Research Interests
- Responsible AI Design
- Crisis Communication
- Qualitative Research Methodologies and Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Selected Publications
Published Papers
Rivera, A., Abhari, K., Xiao, B. (2025). Responsible AI design: The authenticity-control-transparency theory. Accepted at Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
Rivera, A. & Bui, T. (2024). Design considerations for a crisis communication support system: Some supporting evidence from the Navy’s Red Hill Fuel Leak at Pearl Harbor. Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation and International Conference on Decision Support System Technology.
Rivera, A. & Bui, T. (2023). A design thinking approach to responsible crisis communication. ICIS 2023 TREO. 82. https://aisel.aisnet.org/treos_icis2023/82
Papers Under Review
Abhari, K., Rivera, A., Xiao, B. (2025). Responsible artificial intelligence design: A Sartrean blueprint for navigating the ethical complexity of future AI research. Under review at ICIS 2025.
Rivera, A., Abhari, K., Xiao, B. (2025). Responsible AI infrastructure design: Introducing agentic self-governance. Under review at AMCIS 2025.
Awards & Honors
Shidler College of Business BBA Professor of the Semester for a Business Core Course (Fall 2024)
Shidler College of Business BBA Professor of the Semester for a Business Core Course (Spring 2024)
Shidler College of Business BBA Professor of the Semester for a Business Core Course (Fall 2023)
Shidler College of Business BBA Professor of the Semester for a Business Core Course (Spring 2023)
Shidler College of Business Teaching Award (2023)