Dr. Esther Mead

Dr. Esther Ledelle Mead is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Computer Science at Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia. She received her PhD in Integrated Computing (Computer and Information Science) from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock in December of 2020. She subsequently served as a postdoctoral fellow at the COSMOS Research Center, Little Rock from January 2021 to the end of February 2022. Before that she served as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center from 2016. She holds bachelor’s degrees in Psychology, Finance, and Marketing and master’s degrees in Business Administration and Business Information Systems. She has previously worked as a marketing consultant and taught courses in marketing research and consumer behavior at San Diego State University from Fall 2007 through Fall 2011. Her research interests revolve around data science, machine learning, and computational social science. Contact her at esthermead@saumag.edu. View Dr. Mead’s Research on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OWhNZVIAAAAJ&hl=en