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fellowship was awarded Dec. 15, 2024, at the International Conference on In-
formation Systems in Bangkok, Thailand.
“Being an AIS Fellow is a recognition of the cool topics that we, as profes-
sors of information systems, study and teach,” said Tarafdar, who was appoint-
ed editor-in-chief of Journal of AIS in July. “It’s also an exciting reminder
of the huge opportunity and responsibility we face as we make sense of how
technologies such as AI affect every aspect of our work and personal lives.
“I’ve been fortunate to have studied and written about such topics,” add-
ed Tarafdar, who began teaching at UMass Amherst in 2021 and serves as the
Information Systems PhD program coordinator.
“I’m also happy that my students, colleagues in the information systems
discipline, and collaborators from the world of practice and policy have found
my work impactful.”
The AIS Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstand-
ing contributions to the information systems discipline in research, teaching,
and service with global and local contributions to the information systems dis-
cipline. Tarafdar has published more than 120 papers, many in leading jour-
nals such as Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, and MIT Sloan
not believed you, but my story is the kind of promise that America holds. I Management Review.
am honoured to be the first, but not the last, as I represent Virginia’s 10th in Educated in her native India, Tarafdar studied physics, math, and chem-
Congress.” istry as an undergraduate and earned a master’s degree in engineering. She
Acknowledging Subramanyam’s election Congressman Ami Bera said
that he welcomed more Indian Americans to Congress. earned a PhD in management, specializing in information systems and strat-
egy, from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, where she was the
“When I was first sworn in twelve years ago, I was the sole Indian Ameri-
can Member of Congress and only the third in U.S. history. Now, our coalition first female doctoral student to graduate with a major in MIS. She has taught
at the University of Toledo (Ohio) and at Lancaster University in England
is six strong! I am excited to welcome even more Indian Americans to the halls and held visiting scholar positions at MIT Sloan, the LSE, and Weizenbaum
of Congress in the years to come,” Bera posted on X. Internet Institute in Germany, among other schools.
Before joining Congress, Subramanyam served as a Policy Advisor to
President Barack Obama. He was elected to the Virginia General Assembly To read more about Indian diaspora and Global Indians, log on to and follow
in 2019, where he founded the bipartisan “Commonwealth Caucus” to foster our website www.TheIndianEYE.com
collaboration across party lines.
He resides in Ashburn, Virginia, with his wife, Miranda, and their two
young daughters, Maya (4) and Nina (3).
MONIDEEPA TARAFDAR

Professor honored as

Association for Information

Systems (AIS) Fellow

he Association for Information Systems (AIS) has named Monideepa
Tarafdar an AIS Fellow. Tarafdar, Isenberg’s Charles J. Dockendorff
TEndowed Professor in Information Systems, is a world leader in her
field and has published many influential papers concerning the positive and
negative impacts of modern technology use and artificial intelligence (AI). The

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