ISS Distinguished Fellow Award

2025 Winner(s)

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

2025
Winner(s)
Ahmed Abbasi, University of Notre Dame
Kai-Lung Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
M. S. Krishnan, University of Michigan
Han Zhang, Hong Kong Baptist University
2024
Winner(s)
Michael D. Smith , Carnegie Mellon University
Zhiqiang Eric Zheng , University of Texas at Dallas
Sulin Ba, DePaul University
Hsing Kenneth Cheng, The University of Florida
Karthik Kannan, Eller College of Management, University of Arizona
Wonseok Oh, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
2023
Winner(s)
Pei-yu (Sharon) Chen, Arizona State University
Yu Jeffrey Hu, Purdue University
Galit Shmueli, National Tsing Hua University
Venkat Venkatraman, Boston University
D. J. (DONGJUN) WU, Georgia Institute of Technology
2022
Winner(s)
Soon Ang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Bin Gu, Boston University
Vijay Gurbaxani, University of California, Irvine
Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, University of Texas at Austin
Sunil Mithas, University of South Florida
2021
Winner(s)
Elena Karahanna , University of Georgia
Veda Storey , Georgia State University 
Sudha Ram, University of Arizona
Olivia Sheng, University of Utah
2020
Winner(s)
Chrysanthos (Chris) Dellarocas, Boston University
Debabrata (Deb) Dey, University of Washington
Kartik Hosanagar, University of Pennsylvania
Paul A. Pavlou, University of Houston
2019
Awardee(s)
Indranil R Bardhan, University of Texas at Austin
Chris Forman, Cornell
Param Vir Singh, Carnegie Mellon University
2018
Awardee(s)
Ravi Bapna, University of Minnesota
Anandhi Bharadwaj, Emory University
Kevin Zhu, University of California at San Diego
2016
Awardee(s)
2014
Awardee(s)
Alok Gupta , University of Minnesota
2013
Awardee(s)
Ritu Agarwal, University of Maryland
2009
Awardee(s)
Charles H. Kriebel (posthumous), Carnegie Mellon University
Izak Benbasat, University of British Columbia
Gordon B. Davis, University of Minnesota
Prabuddha De, Purdue University
Haim Mendelson, Stanford University
Andrew B. Whinston, University of Texas-Austin
Robert W. Zmud, University of Oklahoma