Education

B.A, Information Science, University of Isfahan, Iran
M.S., Information Studies, Tehran Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Iran
Ph.D., Information Science, University of Wolverhampton, UK
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Health and Biomedical Informatics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

Research

Ehsan Mohammadi leads the Hi Da Research Lab, where he conducts innovative research at the intersection of health informatics, social media analytics, misinformation, and applied artificial intelligence. He has designed and directed quantitative and qualitative research projects that address challenges in these areas. His work has been widely recognized and published in top-tier journals and presented at leading academic conferences, including:

• JAMA Network Open
• The Journal of Medical Internet Research,
• Information Processing and Management
• The Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• The Journal of Systems and Software

Essential Science Indicators has acknowledged that several of his papers are among the highly cited publications in the top 1 percent.

Awards

Mohammadi was recognized by the College of Information and Communications at the University of South Carolina as a Research Rising Star in 2022. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Scholarship for his research on measuring the broader impact of scholarly work beyond citation analysis by leveraging social media data.

Teaching

Mohammadi has been a course designer and lecturer on core and emerging courses. He has taught several courses at undergraduate and master's, and Ph.D. levels, including data visualizations, research design and evaluation, information and society, user information behavior, web analytics, information retrieval, and data-driven management. He completed the Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Learning Support in Higher Education Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in England, where he gained knowledge in designing, delivering, and assessing teaching and learning practices.

Recent Publications

Mohammadi, E., Thelwall, M., Cai, Y., Collier, T., Tahamtan, I., & Eftekhar, A. (2026). Is generative AI reshaping academic practices worldwide? A survey of adoption, benefits, and concerns. Information Processing & Management, 63, Article 104350.

Mohammadi, E., Cai, Y., Novin, A., Vera, V., & Soltanmohammadi, E. (2025). Who is a scientist? Gender and racial biases in Google Vision AI. AI and Ethics. 

Lookingbill, V., Mohammadi, E., & Cai, Y. (2023). Assessment of Accuracy, User Engagement, and Themes of Eating Disorder Content in Social Media Short Videos. JAMA Network Open, 6(4), e238897-e238897.

Mohammadi, E., Olejniczak, A. J., Walker, G. E., & Nagarkatti, P. (2023). The impact of geographic inequality in federal research funding: A comparative longitudinal study of research and scholarly outputs in EPSCoR versus non-EPSCoR states. Plos one., 18(6), e0286991. Featured in Science

Salahirad, A., Gay, G., & Mohammadi, E. (2023). Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Software Testing Research over the Past Three Decades. Journal of Systems and Software, 195, Article 111518.

Mohammadi, E., Tahamtan, I., Mansourian, Y. & Overton, H. (2022). Identifying Frames of the COVID-19 Infodemic: Thematic Analysis of Misinformation Stories Across Media. Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Service

Mohammadi has been active in numerous professional activities within and outside academia. He served on 14 committees, initiatives, and programs for different departments at University of South Carolina. He has been invited by the professional community to be a keynote speaker, a committee member for conferences, part of the editorial board of a journal, and a reviewer of academic papers for top conferences and journals nationally and internationally.