Khadija Ali Vakeel

Academic Degrees

• PhD, Information Systems Management, Indian Institute of Management Indore, 2018
• BE, Information Technology, Shri GS Institute of Science and Techn​ology, 2012

Written Biography

Khadija Ali Vakeel is an assistant professor in the Department of Management & Entrepreneurship in the Driehaus College of Business at DePaul University. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Spiegel Digital and Database Research Center at Northwestern University. Vakeel earned her PhD in Information Systems Management from the Indian Institute of Management Indore. She is a trained computer scientist, and her teaching focuses on business analytics and database management systems.

Vakeel’s research interests include online retailing, eye-tracking and recommender systems. Her research has appeared in the Journal of Advertising and the Journal of Service Management, among others. Her research has received the Journal of Advertising Best Paper Award and nominations for the best paper award at the International Conference on Research in Advertising (twice). Her current research examines online multi-sided platforms where she collaborates with numerous industry-partners to gain deeper insights into consumer behavioral data.