Dr. Hieu Pham

Assistant Professor, Management Science

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Business Administration Building
Room 368
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.2331
hieu.pham@uah.edu

Biography

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering - Operations Research and Analytics, Iowa State University, 2018
  • M.S., Mathematics, Kansas State University, 2015
  • B.S., Mathematics, Tennessee Technological University, 2014

Honors & Awards

  • Outstanding Undergraduate Faculty Teaching Award, UAH College of Business 2024
  • Outstanding Graduate Faculty Teaching Award, UAH College of Business 2024
  • 1st Place in Image-Based Sorghum Head Object Detection and Counting Machine Learning Competition, 2019
  • Research Excellence Award - Iowa State University, 2018
  • Teaching Excellence Award - Iowa State University, 2017

Affiliations

  • 2018 – Present: INFORMS, Membership

Recent Publications

  • Can, E., Lyu, K., Pham, H., & Yang, J. (2026). The efect of the Kansas tax reform on self-employment hours worked. International Tax and Public Finance. 1-15. (ABDC Rank: A).

  • Pham, H., Arwade, G., Tan, Y., Bhatt, P., & Pavlopoulos, V. (2026). Training data optimization for classification via weighted dimensional reduction and adaptive stratified clustering for balanced and imbalanced data. Journal of Classification. 43, 382–401.

  • Tan, Y., Orman, W., Pavlopoulos, V., Pham, H., & Patnayakuni, R. (2026). A dynamic decision support system for real-time student risk identification via Bayesian networks. International Journal of Knowledge Management, 22(1), 1-27. (ABDC Rank: B).

  • Pham, H., Pavlopoulos, V., Patnayakuni, R., Verderbar, S., & Bliss, K. (2025). The hidden keywords: An algorithmic approach to uncovering the value of negative keywords in search advertising. Decision Sciences. (ABDC Rank: A*).

  • Bhatt, P., Singh, T. Pavlopoulos, V., & Pham, H. (2025). Decoding Sentiments, Unveiling AI-Generated Content Through Sentiment Analysis and Human Evaluation. Journal of Global Information Management, 33(1), 1-32. (ABDC Rank: A).

  • Tettey, A., Pham, H., Chen, H., Dongsheng, W., & Wooley, A. (2025). A decision support framework for electric demand planning in distribution systems during extreme minimum temperatures. Energy Reports, 14, 1137-1148.

  • Pham, H., Bhatt, P., Pavlopoulos, V., Tan, Y., & Patnayakuni, R. (2025). A comparative study of convolutional neural networks and vision transformers for agricultural image classification. Journal of Database Management, 36(1), 1-27. (ABDC Rank: A).

  • Wallach, K., Pham, H., Koschmann, A., & Arwade, G. (2025). Analyzing the impact of faces on consumer engagement in branded social media videos: A machine learning approach. Journal of Consumer Marketing, 42(3), 318-335. (ABDC Rank: A).

  • K. Wood, C. Pyun, and H. Pham. “Beyond Green Labels: Assessing Mutual Funds’ ESG Commitments through Large Language Models”. Finance Research Letters. 2024; (ABDC Rank: A).

  • H. Pham, Y. Tan, T. Singh, V. Pavlopoulos, and R. Patnayakuni. “A multi-head attention-like feature selection approach for tabular data”. Knowledge-Based Systems. 2024; 112250. (ABDC Rank: A).