M.S., Moscow State University; Ph.D., Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. Mechitov is currently Professor of Management Information Systems in the Stephens College of Business at the University of Montevallo.  He teaches MIS (Database Management, Business Programming, Management Information Systems), Quantitative Methods (Statistics and Computerized Data Analysis), and International Business classes in the undergraduate and MBA programs. Dr. Mechitov received his bachelor and master degrees from Moscow State University and his Ph.D. from the Institute for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia).  Before coming to the University of Montevallo in 2001, he worked in Texas A&M University, East Carolina University, and in The University of West Alabama.  His current research interests include multi-criteria decision analysis, decision support and expert systems, and data mining. He has co-authored two books and has published over a hundred refereed papers in journals such as Decision Sciences, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Decision Support Systems, Journal of International Business and Economics. Dr. Mechitov is a regular presenter at national and international conferences and has received several best paper awards and was named the University Scholar in 2003. He also publishes on business education and was three times included into Who’s Who Among American Teachers, nominated by his students.