简介
Dr. Mehrbakhsh Nilashi is currently an Assistant Professor at UCSI Graduate Business School in Malaysia. Prior to his academic career, he joined UTM Alumni and UTM Career Centre as a data scientist and website developer.
Dr. Nilashi graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Software Engineering from the Islamic Azad University, Lahijan Branch in 2006. He received his Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology in 2010. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Computing, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2014. He was a postdoctoral fellow and visiting researcher at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia from 2014 until 2021.
Dr. Nilashi’s research interests are mainly in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics. He has had the results of his projects disseminated in journals of the uppermost echelon, such as the Nature Scientific Reports (Nature; SCIE), Technovation (Elsevier; SSCI), Tourism Management (Elsevier; SSCI), Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (Elsevier; SSCI), International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (Springer; SCIE), Information Sciences (Elsevier; SCIE), Journal of Cleaner Production (Elsevier; SCIE), Journal of Biomedical Informatics (Elsevier; SCIE), Computers & Industrial Engineering (Elsevier; SCIE), Complexity (Hindawi; SCIE), Universal Access in the Information Society (Springer; SCIE), Technology in Society (Elsevier; SSCI), Journal of Medical Informatics (Elsevier; SCIE), Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier; SCIE), Knowledge-Based Systems (Elsevier; SCIE), Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (Elsevier; SSCI), Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology (Elsevier; SCIE), Telematics and Informatics (Elsevier; SSCI), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (Elsevier; SSCI), Computers in Human Behavior (Elsevier; SSCI), International Journal of Hospitality Management (Elsevier; SSCI), Optics & Laser Technology (Elsevier; SCIE), Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier; SCIE), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier; SCIE), Journal of Infection and Public Health (Elsevier; SCIE), Resources, Conservation and Recycling (Elsevier; SCIE), ICT Express (Elsevier; SCIE), Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier; SCIE).
Associate Editor of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier [2016-Present]
Associate Editor of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Elsevier [2020-Present]
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Soft Computing and Decision Support Systems, UTM Press [2014-Present]
Editorial board of Technological and Economic Development of Economy, Taylor
Associate Editor of Intelligent Systems with Applications, Elsevier
Editorial board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , Springer
Member of Harvard Business Review’s Advisory Council
i. Top Malaysia Scientist in Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing (https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/8)
ii. PPUSM National Academic Excellence Award graced by The Right Honourable Prime Minister of Malaysia, YAB Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim, 2026, No. 1 in the field of “Information & Communication Technologies” among all researchers in Malaysia’s private higher education institutions, based on the World’s Top 2% Scientists
iii. Most prolific and impactful researcher for the application of machine learning in sustainability practices based on a bibliometric analysis (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.100987)
iv. The most referenced author in Neuro-Fuzzy Systems and Inference in the Evolution of Intelligent Systems (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394302581.ch18)
v. Top Cited Article 2025 (co-authored with Behzad Foroughi, Mohammad Iranmanesh, Morteza Ghobakhloo, Shahla Asadi, Mana Khoshkam)(https://doi.org/10.1002/cb.2252)
vi. Top 2% scientists in the World in the Field of Artificial Intelligence Ranked by Stanford University (2020-2025)
vii. Head of Artificial Intelligence & Business Informatics, Centre for Business Informatics and Industrial Management, UCSI
viii. Top Research Publications Contributor at UCSI University, 2023, 2024 and 2025
ix. Best P.h.D student at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 2014
x. Publication of more than 300 ISI papers in high-ranking journals
xi. Article nominated for ATLAS award from across Elsevier’s 1,800 journals
