ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award

Purpose of the Award

The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites submissions for the Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award (NCDA). The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors, Jay Nunamaker and Hsinchun Chen, who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems.  The winner of the 2018 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award will receive a US$1000 prize.

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About the Award/Namesake

The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors,
Jay Nunamaker http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/jnunamaker.asp and
Hsinchun Chen http://mis.eller.arizona.edu/faculty/hchen.asp,
who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems.


Past Awardees

2024
Runner-Up
Zenan Chen, University of Texas at Dallas
Jonathan E. Gomez Martinez, University of Southern California
Qiaochu Wang, New York University
2023
Winner(s)
Shuxuan Zeng, University of California, Davis
Meizi Zhou, Boston University
Runner-Up
Prasanna Parasurama, Emory University
2022
Winner(s)
Runshan Fu, Carnegie Mellon University
Runner-Up
Chenshuo Sun, National University of Singapore
Tongxin Zhou, Arizona State University
2021
Winner(s)
David Holtz, University of California, Berkeley
Bowen Lou, University of Connecticut
Runner-Up
Emaad Manzoor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
2020
Winner(s)
Avinash Collis, University of Texas at Austin
Runner-Up
Yang Jiang, Nanjing University, China
Sameer Mehta, University of Illinois
Jingchuan Pu, Pennsylvania State University
Lanfei Shi, University of Virginia
Yoonseock (Yoon) Son, University of Notre Dame
2019
Winner(s)
Yingjie Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas
Runner-Up
Mingwen Yang , University of Washington
Shunyuan Zhang , Harvard Business School
Shuo Yu , Texas Tech University
Veronica Marotta, University of Minnesota
2018
Winner(s)
Mochen Yang, Indiana University
Runner-Up
Manmohan Aseri, Carnegie Mellon University
Sagar Samtani, University of South Florida
Xue (Jane) Tan, Indiana University
2017
Winner(s)
Yi-Jen Ian Ho, Penn State
Runner-Up
Zike Cao, Erasmus University
Tianshu Sun, U of Southern California
2016
Winner(s)
Runner-Up
2015
Winner(s)
Runner-Up
2014
Winner(s)
Runner-Up
Yili Kevin Hong, University of Houston
2013
Winner(s)
Beibei Li, CMU
Jingjing Zhang, Indiana University
Runner-Up
Vibhanshu Abhishek , University of California - Irvine