Eiman Ahmed

Eiman
Ahmed

Instructor of Library and Information Science

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EMAIL:
eiman.ahmed@rutgers.edu
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Eiman Ahmed aims to foster healthier digital environments by analyzing how information systems impact individuals' health and well-being. Ahmed’s work primarily focuses on social networking platforms and users’ online digital footprints.

Education

Pace University
BS, Computer Science

Rutgers University
Ph.D., Communication, Information, and Media

Research

Ahmed’s research focuses on utilizing computational social science methods and data analytics to examine the relationship between technology, well-being, and other social patterns. Her research has been published in informatics journals including Electronics, as well as peer-reviewed Information Systems conferences such as the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences and the International Conference on Information.

Currently, Ahmed’s research examines:

  • Social Media Addiction
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Mental Health
  • The Impact of Online Social Networks on Mental Well-Being

Research Groups

Selected Publications

Ahmed, Eiman; Ahmed, Saad. (2025, January). Social media addiction, personality traits, and disorders: an overview of recent literature. In Current Opinion in Psychiatry, 38(1), (pp. 72-77)

Ilyas, F., Ahmed, E., Ali, H., Ilyas, M., Sarfraz, S., Khalid, M., Khalaf, M., Mudireddy, P. R. (2024, March). Temporal trends in colorectal cancer mortality rates (1999 - 2022) in the United States. In Cancer Reports, 7(3), (pp. 1-4)

Ahmed, E., Xue, L., Sankalp, A., Kong, H., Matos, A., Silenzio, V., Singh, V. K. (2023, November). Predicting Loneliness through Digital Footprints on Google and YouTube. In Electronics, 12(23), (pp. 1-13)

Park, J., Ahmed, E., Asif, H., Vaidya, J., Singh, V. K. (2022, February). Privacy Attitudes and COVID Symptom Tracking Apps: Understanding Active Boundary Management by Users. In International Conference on Information (pp. 332-346)

Ahmed, E., Vaghefi, I. (2021, January). Social Media Addiction: A Systematic Review through Cognitive- Behavior Model of Pathological Use. In Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (p. 6681-6690)

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