Dr. Dmitry Zhdanov
State Farm Endowed Chair in Cybersecurity
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OU Old Union 207
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- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected Research
Biography
Dr. Zhdanov is an award-winning educator and an expert in cybersecurity, responsible artificial intelligence, and sustainability areas.
Current Courses
IT 350.002 Operating Systems Concepts and Administration
IT 359.002 Tools And Techniques in Penetration Testing
Teaching Interests & Areas
Cybersecurity Principles and Applications
Data Analytics
Emerging Technologies
Research Interests & Areas
Cybersecurity
Socially Responsible Computing
Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence
Economics of Information Systems
Sustainability
PhD Management Information Systems
The University of Minnesota
MBA Business Administration
The University of Texas at Dallas
BBA Marketing
Voronezh State University
Outstanding Faculty Citizen Award
School of Information Technology at Illinois State University
2025
Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award
INFORMS Information Systems Society
2024
Best Cybersecurity Professor - five-time awardee (2017-2022)
Georgia State University
2022
Distinguished Contribution in Teaching Award
J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
2022
Top Cited Article
Production and Operations Management Journal
2022
Undergraduate Teaching Award
School of Business, University of Connecticut
2015
Best Poster Paper Award
WITS-2013
2013
Innovation in Teaching Award
School of Business, University of Connecticut
2012
Grants and Contracts
GAI-Secure: Transforming Cybersecurity Training with Cutting-Edge AI
Dmitri Zhdanov, Thomas Caldera.
Connected Communities Initiative (OSF+ISU). January 1 2024 - December 31 2024
CyberCorps Scholarship for Service: Cybersecurity Workforce Preparation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Takabi, Dmitri Zhdanov, Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Zhipeng Cai.
National Science Foundation. January 20 2022 - May 30 2022
Conference Proceeding
Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition
Dmitri Zhdanov, Yousra Javed.
2025 CAE in Cybersecurity Symposium, 39, (2025)
Using Generative AI for Cybersecurity Awareness Training in Healthcare
Dmitri Zhdanov, Thomas M Caldera, Mary Elaine Califf.
Proceedings of the 19th Pre-ICIS Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, (2024)
Facilitating a Sustainable Electric Vehicle Transition through Consumer Utility Driven Pricing
Konstantina Valogianni, Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Information Systems, (2018)
Effective Management of Electric Vehicle Storage using Smart Charging
Konstantina Valogianni, Wolfgang Ketter, John Colling, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-14), (2014)
Enabling Sustainable Smart Homes: An Intelligent Agent Approach
Konstantina Valogianni, Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Information Systems, (2014)
Electric Vehicles: Policy and Research Implications
Dmitri Zhdanov.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Technology, Economics and Policies, (2012)
Drivers, Metrics and Best Practices for Information Security
Dmitri Zhdanov.
Proceedings of the 12th Americas Conference on Information Systems, (2006)
Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition
Dmitri Zhdanov, Yousra Javed.
2025 CAE in Cybersecurity Symposium
Journal Article
Securing Digital Assets: Research Curation
Kai-Lung Hui, Anthony Vance, Dmitri Zhdanov.
MIS Quarterly Research Curations, (2023), 10.25300/05272016
Incorporating FAT and Privacy Aware AI Modeling Approaches into Business Decision Making Frameworks
Dmitri Zhdanov, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Mikhail Bragin.
Decision Support Systems, 155, article 113715, (2022)
Real or Not? Identifying Untrustworthy News Sites using Partner Networks
Ram Gopal, Hooman Hidaji, Raymond Patterson, Erik Rolland, Sule Kutlu, Dmitri Zhdanov.
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 11 (3), 1-20, (2020)
Sustainable Electric Vehicle Charging using Adaptive Pricing
Konstantina Valogianni, Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Production and Operations Management, 29 (6), 1550-1572, (2020)
How Much to Share with Third-Parties? Users’ Privacy Concerns and Website’s Dilemma
Ram Gopal, Hooman Hidaji, Raymond Patterson, Erik Rolland, Dmitri Zhdanov.
MIS Quarterly, 42 (1), 143-164, (2018)
Design Improvements for Message Propagation in Malleable Social Networks
Ram Gopal, Hooman Hidaji, Raymond Patterson, Erik Rolland, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Production and Operations Management, 25 (6), 993-1005, (2016)
Special Issue Introduction: A Comprehensive Perspective on Information Systems Security – Technical Advances and Behavioral Issues
Xin Luo, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Decision Support Systems, 92, 1-2, (2016)
A Decision Methodology for Managing Operational Efficiency and Information Disclosure Risk in Healthcare Processes
Xue Bai, Ram Gopal, Manuel Nunez, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Decision Support Systems, 57, 406-416, (2014)
Growth and Sustainability of Managed Security Service Provider Networks: An Economic Perspective
Alok Gupta, Dmitri Zhdanov.
MIS Quarterly, 36 (4), 1109-1130, (2012)
On the Prevention of Fraud and Privacy Exposure in Process Information Flow
Xue Bai, Ram Gopal, Manuel Nunez, Dmitri Zhdanov.
INFORMS Journal on Computing, 24 (3), 416-432, (2012)
Social Network Meets Sherlock Holmes: Investigating the Missing Links of Fraud
Ram Gopal, Raymond Patterson, Erik Rolland, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Computer Fraud and Security, 7, 12-18, (2012)
On Managing Information Security Risks for Business Processes
Xue Bai, Ram Gopal, Manuel Nunez, Dmitri Zhdanov.
International Jounal of Decision Science, 1 (1), 45-53, (2010)
Designing Intelligent Software Agents for Auctions with Limited Information Feedback
Gediminas Adomavicius, Alok Gupta, Dmitri Zhdanov.
Information Systems Research, 20 (4), 507-526, (2009)
Magazine/Trade Publication
Our Private Data and the Market for Third-Party Providers of Functionality to Websites
Ram Gopal, Raymond Patterson, Erik Rolland, Dmitri Zhdanov.
LSE Business Review, (2017)
Presentations
Central Illinois High School Cyber Defense Competition
Dmitri Zhdanov, Yousra Javed.
2025 CAE in Cybersecurity Symposium, Charleston, SC, April 9, 2025
Using Generative AI for Cybersecurity Awareness Training in Healthcare
Dmitri Zhdanov, Thomas M Caldera, Mary Elaine Califf.
19th Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Bangkok, Thailand, December 15, 2024
Tailored Gamification: A New Definition and Application to Common-Pool Resource Provisioning for Electric Power Grid Balancing
Dmitri Zhdanov, Sudip Bhattacharjee, Laurens Rook, Xu He, Wolfgang Ketter, Priyanka Goyal.
SCECR-2023, Bogota, Colombia, June, 2023
Building Cybersecurity Programs
Dmitri Zhdanov.
Information Systems Teaching Workshop, Minneapolis, MN, May, 2022
Towards Efficient Energy Management: Transforming Energy Business with IT
Dmitri Zhdanov.
WITS-2018, Santa Clara, CA, December, 2018
A Dynamic Model of Dark Market Equilibrium
Dmitri Zhdanov, Fanghui Xue.
2018 Theory in Economics of Information Systems Workshop, San Diego, CA, March, 2018
A Dynamic Model of Dark Market Equilibrium
Dmitri Zhdanov, Fanghui Xue.
WITS-2017, Seoul, Korea, December, 2017