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
• Guest Editor, Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE)
• Senior Editor, POMS (Jan 2025 – )
• Associate Editor at Information Systems Research (Jan 2017 – Dec 2020)
• 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.
Research Citations in Popular Press
• Media mentions in NPR, Economic Times, Forbes, New York Times, Washington Post, Fox 29, CBS Philly, Politico, Philadelphia Business Journal, Yahoo Finance, Business News Daily, Daily Mail UK, New Scientist, Security Focus, Insider, The Register UK, Morning Consult, Philadelphia Inquirer
Invited Talks
• University of Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas, Penn State University, Michigan State University, Erasmus University, University of Maryland, Emory University, Purdue University, University of Minnesota, Arizona State University, University of St Gallen, University of Utah, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, University of Wisconsin, University of Tilsburg, University of Arizona, University of Rochester, HEC Paris, University of South Florida
• Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, TD Bank, Lockheed Martin, Ascend Philadelphia, Temple University Alumni Association, Federal Trade Commission (panel)