Talha Gulzar MBA’25 and Nada Hashmi Win Award for Research Paper at NEAIS

Talha Gulzar MBA’25 won the Best Student Paper Award at the seventh annual New England Association for Information Systems (NEAIS) conference last weekend at the University of Massachusetts Boston. 

The winning research paper, “Signals in the Prompt: Classifying Tone in Student–LLM Dialogues,” was co-written with Nada Hashmi, assistant professor of information systems at Babson College. The paper analyzes the tone of students’ AI prompts and discusses the implications for tone-aware tutoring and course practices that encourage inquiry-oriented, reflective prompting. 

This is the second year in a row that Hashmi has been honored for her research writing by NEAIS. Last year, her research paper, “Teaching Programming with Generative AI Tools: Implications for Students with Different Learning Styles”—co-written by Zhi Li, assistant professor of practice in Operations and Information Management (OIM); Salvatore Parise, professor in OIM; and Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, professor and division chair of OIM—won the Best Paper Award. 

Hashmi, also a research affiliate at MIT, was named to Poets & Quants’ list of 40-Under-40 Best MBA Professors of 2024. 

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