{"id":182,"date":"2018-02-22T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/?page_id=182"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:59:37","slug":"short-vita","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/short-vita\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Vita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Carnegie Mellon University, Information Systems, PhD<\/p>\n<p>Dissertation Title: Essays on Economics of Internet Personalization and Privacy<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta PGDM<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 BITS Pilani, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.E.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Assistant Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University, January 2007 \u2013 June\u00a02013.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Associate Professor (with tenure), Fox School of Business, Temple University, July 2013\u00a0\u2013 June 2021<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Professor (with tenure), Fox School of Business, Temple University, July 2021 \u2013 present<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Academic Awards and Honors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Program co-chair \u2013 International Conference on Information Systems, Munich 2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Member, AIS College of Senior Scholars<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fox School Deans&#8217; Research Honor Roll, 2017<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Top 10 Most Cited faculty, Fox School of Business 2017<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2022\u00a0 <\/em>Guest Editor<em>, Business &amp; Information Systems Engineering (BISE)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Senior Editor, POMS (Jan 2025 &#8211; )<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Associate Editor at Information Systems Research (Jan 2017 \u2013 Dec 2020)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Associate Editor at MIS Quarterly (Jan 2014 \u2013 Dec 2017)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Conference co-chair \u2013 Conference for Information Systems and Technology (CIST)\u00a02016, Nashville TN<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Editorial Review Board \u2013 IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, August 2012 \u2013\u00a0July 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Best Runner up paper at Conference for Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Best Paper at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2012 in research in\u00a0progress category<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 MIS Researcher of the Year, Temple University 2010<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Management Science Meritorious Service Award \u2013 Fall 2009, for notable service to the\u00a0journal (Management Science) as a reviewer<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Nominated for Best Paper at Hawaii International Conference for Systems Sciences\u00a0(HICSS) \u2013 Jan 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Fox School Crystal Award for Innovation in Teaching \u2013 Fall 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Leader in Teaching Innovation Award at Fox School of Business \u2013 Spring 2009<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grants and Fellowships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Irwin Gross Senior Research Fellow (October 2017 \u2013 present)<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Co- PI \u201cBIGDATA: Multi-level predictive analytics &amp; motif discovery across massive\u00a0dynamic spatio-temporal networks in complex socio-technical systems: An\u00a0organizational genetics approach\u201d National Science Foundation grant, $ 899,506. Feb 2015 \u2013\u00a0Jan 2018<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 PI : \u2018Crowdfunding Dynamics and Its Impact on Entrepreneurial Landscape &#8211; Empirical\u00a0Analysis using Big Data\u2019 Kauffman Foundation, $30,000\u00a0March 2014 \u2013 Sept 2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Co- PI \u201cPrivacy in the Big Data era: a technological, social, economic and legal research\u00a0agenda for privacy protection in the Big Data era\u201d National Science Foundation grant, $\u00a050,000. July 2014 \u2013 June 2015<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Co-PI : \u2018The Structure and Dynamics of Generative Innovations: An Organizational\u00a0Genetics Approach\u2019 National Science\u00a0Foundation grant, $ 267,000. May 2013 \u2013 April 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Co-PI : &#8216;Designing the 21st century organization for generativity: An organizationa\u00a0genetics approach&#8217; \u00a0CIGREF (Club Informatique\u00a0des Grandes Entreprises Fran\u00e7aises), $93,000. August 1, 2012 &#8211; July 31, 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 PI &#8211; &#8216;Geography and Social Differences in Online Crowd-Funded Markets&#8217; Wattal S.\u00a0Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), $5000, April 25,\u00a02012 \u2013 August 31, 2013<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 PI &#8211; &#8216;Analyzing the drivers of enterprise 2.0 usage.&#8217; \u00a0Lockheed Martin Corporation and the Institute for Business and Technology. $9,000.\u00a0July 1, 2007 \u2013 June 30, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Citations in Popular Press\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Media mentions in <em>NPR<\/em>, <em>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<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Invited Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 University of Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech University, University of Texas at Austin, University of Texas at Dallas, Penn State University, Michigan State University, Erasmus University, \u00a0University 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<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0 Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, TD Bank, Lockheed Martin, Ascend Philadelphia, Temple University Alumni Association, \u00a0Federal Trade Commission (panel)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Education \u2022 Carnegie Mellon University, Information Systems, PhD Dissertation Title: Essays on Economics of Internet Personalization and Privacy \u2022 Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta PGDM \u2022 BITS Pilani, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.E. &nbsp; Academic Positions \u2022 Assistant Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University, January 2007 \u2013 June\u00a02013. \u2022 Associate Professor (with tenure), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-182","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/182\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/swattal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}