Associate Professor
Dominic Thomas is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University. His current research focuses on improving the usefulness of technology in healthcare both in organizational and individual settings. His teaching spans the past 25 years and all ages from preschool to 80-yearolds with several teaching awards. He has professional experience in three major categories that assist him in his research and teaching:
• international development (including time as a Peace Corps Volunteer and as a systems architect for the primary international network of field epidemiologists endorsed by the World Health Organization)
• education systems design (including time designing ESL curricula at UGA, creating nationwide 11th and 12th grades in Nepal and improving English curricula in Japan for the Japanese government)
• business systems analyst and developer (including more than 100 projects mostly with small and medium businesses).
In total, he has served as primary investigator or assisted in over $180 million in grant and project work varying from global health efforts to Fortune 500 enterprise systems implementations.
He has published articles in leading journals in his field including Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Project Management Journal, and Information Systems Management. Dr. Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia (2005), a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University (1994), and foreign language certifications in Russian, Nepalese, and Japanese.
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About Dominic Thomas
Dominic Thomas is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University. His current research focuses on improving the usefulness of technology in healthcare both in organizational and individual settings. His teaching spans the past 25 years and all ages from preschool to 80-yearolds with several teaching awards. He has professional experience in three major categories that assist him in his research and teaching:
• international development (including time as a Peace Corps Volunteer and as a systems architect for the primary international network of field epidemiologists endorsed by the World Health Organization)
• education systems design (including time designing ESL curricula at UGA, creating nationwide 11th and 12th grades in Nepal and improving English curricula in Japan for the Japanese government)
• business systems analyst and developer (including more than 100 projects mostly with small and medium businesses).
In total, he has served as primary investigator or assisted in over $180 million in grant and project work varying from global health efforts to Fortune 500 enterprise systems implementations.
He has published articles in leading journals in his field including Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Information Systems Quarterly, European Journal of Information Systems, Project Management Journal, and Information Systems Management. Dr. Thomas holds a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia (2005), a B.A. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University (1994), and foreign language certifications in Russian, Nepalese, and Japanese.
| Present | Associate Professor, Kennesaw State University ‐ Information Systems | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Grants
| 2014 - 2018 | Innovation Scholars Program |
| Eastern Bank Foundation | |
| Role: Director | |
| 2012 - 2015 | Digital Disease Detection |
| Skoll Global Threats Fund | |
| Role: Co-Investigator | |
| $3,000,000 | |
| 2008 - 2012 | (various) |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
| Role: Consultant/Co-Investigator | |
| Colleague(s): (various) | |
| 1999 - 2000 | 10+2 School Construction Support Grant |
| US AID | |
| SPA - Nepal | |
| Role: Director | |
| 1993 - 1993 | Exploration of Perestroika |
| National Endowement for the Humanities | |
| Younger Scholars Grant | |
| Role: Primary Investigator |
Professional Service and Affiliations
| Present | Member, ACM | Present | Member, AIS |
Honors and Awards
- Service Award (Suffolk University, 2017)
- Teaching Award (National Society for Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi, 2018)
- Teaching Excellence Award (Terry College of Business, UGA, 2004)
- Faculty of the Year Finalist (Suffolk University, 2013, 2016, 2017)
- Best Paper in Mini-Track (HICSS, 2014)
Courses
- Dev Ops
- Qualitative Methods (Doctoral Seminar)
- Intro to IS Theory
- Digital Markets
- Social Media and Virtual Communities
- Project Management
- Doctoral Seminar on IS Leadership
- Intro to MIS
- IS Capstone
- Application Development (Python)
- Systems Analysis and Design
| 2005 | PhD, Graduate Presidential Leadership Scholar, University of Georgia ‐ Management Information Systems | |
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| 1990 | BA, Brandeis University | |
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