Prof. Dr. Savindu Herath

• Research and Consulting

• Course Development and Teaching

• Supervision and Coaching

• BSc Digital Business & AI

• BSc International Business Administration

• BSc Business Administration

• Basics of Artificial Intelligence - WBAI

• Basic Digital Skills - EBDS

• Information Systems Design

• Human-AI Collaboration

• Online Communities

• Human-Centered Design

• Design Science Research

• Human-Computer Interaction

• Open Source Software

• 2021 - 2025 Research Associate ETH Zurich
• 2018 - 2019 Software Engineer Loepfe Brothers
• 2016 - 2018 Software Engineer London Stock Exchange Group

• 2021 - 2025 PhD in Information Systems ETH Zurich
• 2019 - 2021 Master in Management, Technology, and Economics ETH Zurich
• 2014 - 2017 Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) University of Moratuwa

• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA, UK)

• Herath Pathirannehelage, S., Shrestha, Y. R., & von Krogh, G. (2025). Design principles for artificial intelligence-augmented decision making: An action design research study. European Journal of Information Systems, 34(2), 207-229.

• Herath, S., Bashardoust, A., Bole, Y., & Shrestha, Y. R. (2026). Design principles for text-to-image generative artificial intelligence creativity support tools for visual design. European Journal of Information Systems, 1-26.

• Li, L., Herath, S., & Grumbach, C. (2026). Hack-Agents: A Multi-Agent System for Innovation-Proof of Concept and Implications for AI-Augmented Hackathons. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-6).

• Kruk, F., Herath, S., & Choudhury, P. (2025). BanglAssist: A Bengali-English generative AI chatbot for code-switching and dialect-handling in customer service. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-9).

• Herath Pathirannehelage, Savindu; Jóhannsson, Jóhann G.; Shrestha, Yash Raj; and von Krogh, Georg F., "Artificial Intelligence-Augmented Decision Making in Supply Chain Monitoring: An Action Design Research Study" (2023). ECIS 2023 Research Papers. 282.

• Herath, S., & Brilliantov, K. (2025) Competing yet cohabiting, building together apart: coordination between open-source communities after a competitive fork. ECIS 2025 Proceedings.

• Association for Information Systems (Academic)

• Academy of Management (Academic)

• Association for Computing Machinery (Professional)

Schulte, K., Herath, S., Möller, F., & Legner, C. (2026, June). The Medium is the Prompt: Prompts as Design Science Artifacts. In International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (pp. 312-330). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

Dissertation titled "Leveraging data-driven decision-making in co-creation business models to improve firm performance: Evidence from online fashion retailing" (Grade 6/6)

• English - Native or bilingual proficiency
• German - Elementary proficiency
• Sinhala - Native or bilingual proficiency

• Sri Lanka