Munsif Sokiyna, PhD

I'm an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Analytics in the Business Analytics, Information Systems and Supply Chain Management (BISC) Department at the University of Central Oklahoma. My research asks what keeps open-source software (OSS) communities alive and what pushes them toward collapse - examining how toxicity, trust, and governance capacity shape contributor participation, and how generative AI is reshaping that picture through developer motivation, code trust, and licensing risk.

I completed my PhD in Management Information Systems at the University of Alabama's Culverhouse College of Business, where I also served as instructor of record for Fundamentals of MIS, teaching roughly 150 students per section and receiving the 2025 Outstanding Doctoral Student Teaching Award. My work combines NLP, large language models, longitudinal GitHub data, and survey methods, and has appeared in venues including Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Behavior & Information Technology, Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, AMCIS, and ICIS.

Before moving into academia, I spent nearly a decade in industry - leading IT operations for McDonald's franchise locations in Jordan and co-founding a web development studio - experience that still shapes how I teach technology in practice.