Me, in a nutshell

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CV

Let me highlight some of my passions

Doing Research

My research focuses on designing and using trustworthy, sociotechnical systems with auspicious value propositions
Main areas of work to achieve trust:
- Performing (continuous) certification and awarding assurance seals
- Ensuring data protection & information security
- Fostering trust transfer
- Achieving digital sovereignty through ecosystems
Focus on internet-based technologies, including:
- Cloud, fog and edge computing
- Artificial intelligence
- Distributed ledger technology
I received the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award for my doctoral thesis
Holding a visiting professorship in the winter semester 2023/2024, being a substitute for the chair ‘Information Systems and Systems Development’ (W3) at the University of Kassel

Working on Projects

Operational lead of the projects AUDITOR (www.auditor-cert.de) and DIRECTIONS (www.directions-cert.de), developing novel data protection certifications funded by the German ministries
Co-responsible for the project “Accountable Artificial Intelligence-based Systems” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Taking part in the development of a manufacturing service ecosystem based on Gaia-X

Passionate Teaching

Fortunate to supervise a team of eighth phd students
Teaching bachelor and master lectures and seminars @ KIT and KIT HECTOR School
I’m currently acquiring the university didactics certification from Baden-Wuerttemberg, requiring diverse training courses and a total workload of 150 hours to improve my teaching skills

Supporting the Community

Being reviewer for leading journals (e.g., European Journal of Information Systems; Information Systems Journal; Business & Information Systems Engineering) and conferences (e.g., International Conference on Information Systems)
Associate editor for the International Conference on Information Systems, European Conference on Information Systems, and Workshop on Information Security and Privacy
Taking part in diverse committees, including the working group Gaia-X Compliance, sector committee data protection of the German Accreditation Body, and expert group of the project eduCheck Digital

Selected Publications

Greulich, M; Lins, S.; Pienta, D.; Thatcher, J. B.; Sunyaev, A (2023). Exploring Contrasting Effects of Trust in Organizational Security Practices and Protective Structures on Employees’ Security-Related Precaution Taking. In: Information Systems Research (ISR), forthcoming.
Adam, M; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A.; Benlian, A. (2023).The Contingent Effects of IS Certifications on the Trustworthiness of Websites. In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), forthcoming, doi: 10.17705/1jais.00836
Lins, S.; Becker, J-M; Lyytinen, K.; Sunyaev, A. (2023). A Design Theory for Certification Presentations. In: ACM SIGMIS Database 54 (3), doi: 10.1145/3614178.3614183
Thiebes, S.; Lins, S.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Trustworthy artificial intelligence. Electronic Markets 31 (2), doi:10.1007/s12525-020-00441-4
Lins, S.; Pandl, K.; Teigeler, H.; Thiebes, S.; Bayer, C.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Artificial Intelligence as a Service – Classification and Research Directions. Business & Information Systems Engineering, 63, 441–456. doi:10.1007/s12599-021-00708-w
Kannengießer, N.; Lins, S.; Sander, C.; Winter, K.; Frey, H.; Sunyaev, A. (2021). Challenges and Common Solutions in Smart Contract Development. In IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 48 (11), 4291–4318. doi:10.1109/TSE.2021.3116808
Kannengießer, N., Lins, S., Dehling, T., & Sunyaev, A. (2020). Trade-Offs between Distributed Ledger Technology Characteristics. ACM Computing Surveys, 53 (2), Art. Nr.: 42. doi:10.1145/3379463
Lins, S.; Kromat, T.; Löbbers, J.; Benlian, A.; Sunyaev, A. (2020). Why Don’t You Join In? A Typology of Information System Certification Adopters. Decision Sciences 53 (3), 452–485. doi:10.1111/deci.12488
Lins, S., Schneider, S., & Sunyaev, A. (2018). Trust is Good, Control is Better: Creating Secure Clouds by Continuous Auditing. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 6 (3), p. 890 - 903. doi: 10.1109/TCC.2016.2522411
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