Sona Mardikyan received her BS degree in Control and Computer Engineering from Technical University of Istanbul, MS degree in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University, and PhD in Quantitative Methods from Istanbul University. She is working in Management Information Systems department of Bogazici University as an associate professor. Her research areas are statistics, quantitative methods, information systems and technologies, and data mining. During her 23 years working experience in MIS department, she has taught more than 12 different courses and involved in various research and administrative activities. She was the vice director of School of Applied Disciplines, during 2008-2016. She was one of the local coordinators of the 24th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS, which was held in June 2016, in Istanbul. In the meantime, she is the head of Business Information Systems Master of Arts Program (without thesis). She is also a member of Association for Information Systems.