Distinguished Fellow Award

Purpose of the Award

The primary aim of the award is to recognize individuals who have made outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline. The awards committee recognizes the multi-dimensional nature of intellectual contributions and will pay attention to a variety of scholarly contributions, including, but not limited to:

1. Publications that have made a significant impact on theory, research, and practice.

2. Intellectual leadership in the discipline as reflected in editorial appointments, particularly of INFORMS journals.

3. Intellectual stewardship of the field as reflected in the mentoring of doctoral students and young researchers

Past Awardees

2012 Awardee Hasan Pirkul Tridas Mukhopadhyay Abraham Seidmann
2011 Awardee Barrie R. Nault
Erik Brynjolfsson
Vijay Mookerjee
Vallabh Sambamurthy, Michigan State University
Ramayya Krishnan
2009 Awardee Gordon B. Davis, University of Minnesota
Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia
Prabuddha De, Purdue University
Charles H. Kriebel (posthumous), Carnegie Mellon University
Haim Mendelson, Stanford University
Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas-Austin
Robert W. Zmud, University of Oklahoma
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Application Process

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Committee

Ravi Bapna (Chair)
Izak Benbasat
Prabuddha De
Andrew B. Whinston

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