Education
• Carnegie Mellon University, Information Systems, PhD
Dissertation Title: Essays on Economics of Internet Personalization and Privacy
• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta PGDM
• BITS Pilani, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.E.
Academic Positions
• Assistant Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University, January 2007 – June 2013.
• Associate Professor (with tenure), Fox School of Business, Temple University, July 2013 – June 2021
• Professor (with tenure), Fox School of Business, Temple University, July 2021 – present
Academic Awards and Honors
• Program co-chair – International Conference on Information Systems, Munich 2019
• Member, AIS College of Senior Scholars
• Fox School Deans’ Research Honor Roll, 2017
• Top 10 Most Cited faculty, Fox School of Business 2017
• Associate Editor at Information Systems Research (Jan 2014 – Dec 2017)
• Associate Editor at MIS Quarterly (Jan 2014 – Dec 2017)
• Conference co-chair – Conference for Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2016, Nashville TN
• Editorial Review Board – IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, August 2012 – July 2015
• Best Runner up paper at Conference for Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2015
• Best Paper at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2012 in research in progress category
• MIS Researcher of the Year, Temple University 2010
• Management Science Meritorious Service Award – Fall 2009, for notable service to the journal (Management Science) as a reviewer
• Nominated for Best Paper at Hawaii International Conference for Systems Sciences (HICSS) – Jan 2009
• Fox School Crystal Award for Innovation in Teaching – Fall 2009
• Leader in Teaching Innovation Award at Fox School of Business – Spring 2009
• William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University
Grants and Fellowships
• Irwin Gross Senior Research Fellow (October 2017 – present)
• Co- PI “BIGDATA: Multi-level predictive analytics & motif discovery across massive dynamic spatio-temporal networks in complex socio-technical systems: An organizational genetics approach” National Science Foundation grant, $ 899,506. Feb 2015 – Jan 2018
• PI : ‘Crowdfunding Dynamics and Its Impact on Entrepreneurial Landscape – Empirical Analysis using Big Data’ Kauffman Foundation, $30,000 March 2014 – Sept 2014
• Co- PI “Privacy in the Big Data era: a technological, social, economic and legal research agenda for privacy protection in the Big Data era” National Science Foundation grant, $ 50,000. July 2014 – June 2015
• Co-PI : ‘The Structure and Dynamics of Generative Innovations: An Organizational Genetics Approach’ National Science Foundation grant, $ 267,000. May 2013 – April 2016
• Co-PI : ‘Designing the 21st century organization for generativity: An organizationa genetics approach’ CIGREF (Club Informatique des Grandes Entreprises Françaises), $93,000. August 1, 2012 – July 31, 2013
• PI – ‘Geography and Social Differences in Online Crowd-Funded Markets’ Wattal S. Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), $5000, April 25, 2012 – August 31, 2013
• PI – ‘Analyzing the drivers of enterprise 2.0 usage.’ Lockheed Martin Corporation and the Institute for Business and Technology. $9,000. July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008.