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

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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. 

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Talha Gulzar MBA’25 (left) and Assistant Professor Nada Hashmi with their awards for Best Student Paper.

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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