School of Information Systems and Management

Information Systems and Management Points of Pride

• Best Associate Editor Award from the European Conference on Information Science
  Matt Mullarkey
• USF Outstanding Faculty Award 
  Anol Bhattacherjee
• Global Engagement Faculty Award Honorable Mention
  Sunil Mithas
• Faculty Outstanding Research Achievement Award
  Sunil Mithas
• Stafford Beer Medal – Best Paper in European Journal of Information Systems
  Anol Bhattacherjee
• Fulbright Award to Austria
  Wolfgang Jank
  
• AIS Research Rankings Top Worldwide Scholar 
  Sunil Mithas
• Best Practitioner Presentation Award at Frontiers in Service Finalist
  Sunil Mithas
  
• IEEE Fellow Awards
  Al Hevner
  
• Rutgers Research Fellows​
  Tony Kong
  
• Extraordinary Research Scientist, South Africa, North West University, Workwell Institute, Potchefstroom, S.A. AY2020
  Matt Mullarkey
• Semi-Finalist, X-Prize Award. "Bull Nose" SARS-CoV-2 Volatile Organic Compound Detector, Research Scientist.
  Matt Mullarkey
  
• Completed Fulbright Core Scholar Award, Dublin, Ireland, Defining Design Principles for Smart, Connect, Healthy, Caring Cities, 2019-2020.
  Matt Mullarkey
  
• Panelist for the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2020
  Ehsan Sheybani
  
• Selected as Editor in Chief of Group Decision & Negotiation Journal - the official journal of the INFORMS Section on Group Decision & Negotiation, published by Springer
  Gert-Jan de Vreede
  
• Selected for I-CORPS Fall 2020 ​
  Triparna de Vreede
  
• Senior Investigator on $2 million NSF grant "IUSE/PFE:RED: Breaking Boundaries: An Organized Revolution for the Professional Formation of Electrical Engineers"
  Grandon Gill
  
• Completed Hurricane Evacuation Mobile App for Hillsborough County
  Harvey Hyman
  
• Guest Associate Editor, MIS Quarterly special issue on digital resilience
  Denny Yin
• Return-to-Work: ASPeCT System for Contagion Geo-Fencing Project. Awarded $50,000 by Hillsborough County
  Wolfgang Jank
  
•  $1 million [$200,000 AY2020-2021] ReliaQuest Cyber Security Labs at the USF Muma College of Business, Principle Investigator
  Matt Mullarkey
• $1.75 million [$100,000 AY2020-2021] KnowBe4 Cyber Resiliency Labs at the USF Muma College of Business, Principal Investigator
  Matt Mullarkey
• $50,000 Project ASPeCT Grant from the Hillsborough County Emergency Management Fund
  Matt Mullarkey
  
• $25,000 COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Proposal #100353, Wearable COVID Diagnostic Device with Machine Learned Physiological Signatures, Co-PIs, Dr. Karel Calero, Dr. Asa Oxner, Dr. Ming Ji
  Matt Mullarkey
  
• $30,000 Blackness & Anti-Black Racism Grant #100005, Black Microbusiness Economic and Social Resilience to Natural Disasters: The Case for Targeted Policy Interventions and Resiliency Support Network for Minority Lead Microbusinesses, from September 2, 2020 to September 1, 2021
  Matt Mullarkey
  
• $23,450 COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Proposal #100436, COVID-19 Integrated Contagion Modeling for Community Policy and Governance, from August 26, 2020 to August 25, 2021.
  Matt Mullarkey
  
• Information Systems Research's Best published paper in 2018
  Sunil Mithas

• $1.2M ($275K USF share) of highly competitive and prestigious NSF funding for his work related to developing AI on the Dark Web, 2019
  Sagar Samtani
  
  

• $1.75 million KnowBe4 Cyber Resiliency Labs at the USF Muma College of Business, 2019
  Matthew Mullarkey, Moez Limayem, Clinton Daniel and Dezhi Yin
   

• Ranulph Glanville Memorial Award for Excellence in Case Method and Cyber-security, 2019
  Grandon Gill
  
  

• Extraordinary Research Scientist, Workwell: Research Unit for Economic & Management Sciences, North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 2019
  Matthew Mullarkey
  
  

• Poets&Quants 40 Best Business School Professors under the Age of 40 in the World, 2019
  Tony Kong
  
  

• The Leadership Quarterly 2019 Editorial Board Award for Timeliness and Productivity, 2019
  Tony Kong
   

• Ascendant Scholar Award (named by the Western Academy of Management), 2019
  Tony Kong
  
  

• $1 million ReliaQuest Cyber Security Labs at the USF Muma College of Business, 2018
  Matthew Mullarkey and Clinton Daniel
  
  

• $175K National Science Foundation Grant on Cyber Threat Intelligence, 2018

  Sagar Samtani 
  
  
• Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair award for 2018-19
  Anol Bhattacherjee
  
  
• ISR Best Published Paper 2018 
  Sunil Mithas
• Outstanding Reviewer of the Year Award for MIS Quarterly, 2018
  Dezhi Yin
  
  
• Best Reviewer Award for Workshop on e-Business (WeB), 2018
  Dezhi Yin
  
  
• Best Conference Paper Runner Up at 39th International Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, 2018
  Sunil Mithas
  
  
• Runner-up, Best Paper Award, IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI), 2018
  Sagar Samtani 
  
  
• Runner-up, INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award, 2018
  Sagar Samtani 
  
  
• Distinguished Computer Science Alum from the Purdue University College of Science, 2018
  Alan Hevner 

• Distinguished University Professor, 2017
  Alan Hevner 

• Top Management Information Systems scholar at USF and 80th world-wide all time on a list compiled by University of Arizona, 2017
  Gert-Jan de Vreede

• DoL TechHire award in collaboration with Career Source Tampa Bay, one of 39 such awards distributed nationally, 2016

• Core Fulbright Award to Belarus, 2016
  Jerry Koehler

• Practice center completes 50 projects since inception, completing over $1million in projects and serving over 50 companies, 2016

• NSF i-corps award for technology commercialization, 2015
  Matt Mullarkey & team

• Core Fulbright Award to South Africa, 2015
  Grandon Gill
  
  
• #25 in the nation by BusinessWeek magazine, 2013
  Business Analytics & Information Systems undergraduate program
  
  
• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, 2012
  Alan Hevner
  
  
• 2nd Place - International Case Competition on the Strategic Value of IT Management 2011 (sponsored by Computer Associates)
  Ravi Dhanwani, Karthik Sekhar, and Telma Frege
  
  
• Best Paper Award, IADIS International Conference, Rio de Janerio, Brazil, 2011
  Varol Kayhan and Anol Bhattacherjee
  
  
• Herbert A. Simon Best Paper Award, Sixth International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems, 2011
  Grandon Gill and Al Hevner
  
  
• #14 World ranking in MIS research for publications in premier journals (Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Information Systems Research) during 2008-2010
  USF MIS Research
  
  
• #8 Ranked MIS Researcher in the World for publications in premier journals (Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Information Systems Research) during 2001-2010
  Anol Bhattacherjee
  
  
• 2nd Place – Computer Associates' Smart Phone Challenge Competition, 2010
  Sohail Bhola, Jeremy Fisher, and Naresh Kumar Kalla
  
  
• Design Science Award 2010 (from INFORMS Information Systems Society)
  Johan Perols, Kaushal Chari, and Manish Agrawal
  
  
• Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Design Science Research, DESRIST 2009
  Al Hevner
  
  
• #7 World ranking in MIS research for publications in premier journals (Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Information Systems Research) during 2007-2009
  USF MIS Research
  
  
• Magid Igbaria Outstanding Conference Paper Award – ACM SIGMIS/SIGCPR Conference 2007
  Sandra Newton, J. Ellis Blanton, and Steve Wingreen
  
  
• Instructional Innovation Award 2007 (from Decision Sciences Institute)
  Grandon Gill
  
  
• Instructional Innovation Award 2005 (from Decision Sciences Institute)
  Grandon Gill
  
  
• Orbix Award (from Iona Technologies), 1998
  Kaushal Chari