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 applied artificial intelligence, health informatics, misinformation and social media analytics. He has designed and directed data science and computational research projects that combine large-scale data analysis with human-centered inquiry to study real-world challenges. His work has been published in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and at leading academic conferences. His research has also received international recognition within and outside academia, including a recent paper featured in Science.  

Funded Research

Mohammadi has secured competitive internal and external research funding as PI and Co-PI, including grants from federal agencies such as the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM).

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.

Service

Mohammadi has been active in institutional governance and professional service at local, national, and international levels. Currently, he is the Ph.D. program lLead in the School of Information Science. He has served on 14 committees, initiatives and programs across multiple departments at the University of South Carolina. He has also been invited by the professional community to serve as a keynote speaker, a conference committee member, an editorial board member and a peer reviewer for leading journals and top conferences in the United States and internationally.