Winners of the AMCIS Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Award
Thursday, August 17, 2023
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The AMCIS Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Award was created to recognize members who have made outstanding service contributions to the Americas Conference on Information Systems. Winners are selected based on contributions to conferences over a period of time, involvement in multiple roles within the AMCIS community, and overall impact on the conference. The AMCIS Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Committee recipients honored in Panama are:
Lakshmi Iyer, University of North Carolina Greensboro
Dr. Lakshmi S. Iyer is Professor and Head of the Information Systems and Supply Chain Management department in the Bryan School of Business and Economics at University of North Carolina Greensboro. She recently served as Interim Associate Dean of Graduate Programs & Research and Director of the Master of Science in Applied Data Analytics in the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University.
Her research interests are in the area of emerging technologies & its impact on organizations and users, and social inclusion in IS. Her research work has been published in the Journal of the AIS, Communications of the AIS, European Journal of Information Systems, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Frontier, Information Technology & People, Journal of Computer information Systems, Science of the Total Environment and others. She received the Hugh J. Watson Award that honors and recognizes an individual whose significant achievements and high-quality contributions to the data and analytics academic community. She is an Associate Editor for the Decision Support Systems journal. She is Co-PI on the ImPACT IT grant funded by NSF that focuses on advancing women to full-professor positions in IS academia.
Lakshmi Iyer has served in several different roles for AMCIS throughout her involvement with AIS. She has served on the program committee for over six AMCIS conferences. She was involved in a few AMCIS innovations: proposing and executing the Emergent Research Forum (a multi-mode presentation Slam Presentation/Video/Posters) in 2015 at San Juan and the Social projects during 2019 and 2021 conferences. The social projects engaged students from several institutions to develop IT prototype solutions for non-profit organizations in the respective conference host cities - Cancun, Mexico and Montreal, Canada. During AMCIS 2021, she was part of the paper development sprint committee that implemented a pilot program to help authors substantially improve their research paper to a manuscript for journal submission. She has also served as co-chair for ancillary meetings/workshop and junior faculty consortium and track co-chair for several AMCIS conferences. Iyer served on the AIS Council as VP of SIGs and Colleges from 2016-2021 during which she planned and conducted the Community leaders breakfast meeting at AMCIS and ICIS conferences.
Martin Santana, Universidad ESAN
Martin Santana is Full Professor at the Graduate School of Business, Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru. His research covers Digital Business, Digital Transformation, IT Innovation Management, adoption of emerging technologies, and strategic use of information technology. He has published in journals such as the Journal of Information Technology, Behaviour & Information Technology, Journal of Computer Personnel, and Latin American and Caribbean Journal of the AIS, as well as in leading conferences such as AMCIS, Iberoamerican Academy of Management, International Corporate Governance Society, Information Systems in Latin America, and Business Association of Latin American Studies. He has been on the editorial boards of various journals such as Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Journal of Information Technology, and Latin American and Caribbean Journal of the AIS.
He is serving on, or has served on, several international conference committees in the field of Information Systems, including Conference Co-Chair, IFIP 9.4 2022, and AMCIS 2010; Program Co-Chair, AMCIS 2019; Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair, AMCIS 2021; Mid-Career Consortium Co-Chair, AMCIS 2023; Track Co-Chair, ICIS 2023, and ICIS 2022; and Junior Faculty Consortium Advisor, AMCIS 2018, among others.
In 2008, Dr. Santana was appointed as a Visiting Scholar of the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He has also been Visiting Professor at several universities such as Universidad Externado, Colombia; Tecnologico de Costa Rica (TEC); and Barcelona Management Institute, Spain. Dr. Santana has held various executive leadership roles at Universidad ESAN in Lima, Peru, where he served as Academic Director, MBA Director, and Director of Information Technology. He has now taken on the role of Vice President for Research since 2019.
Dr. Santana received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Florida International University, Miami, Florida. He holds a M.Sc. in Information Systems from HEC Montreal, Canada; a master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Information Technology from National Polytechnic Institute – Ensimag, Grenoble, France; and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad de Lima, Peru.
Keng Siau, University of Hong Kong
Professor Keng Siau is an AIS Fellow and AIS Distinguished Member – Cum Laude. Professor Siau has contributed to AMCIS for more than 20 years. He has chaired or co-chaired more than 40 tracks and minitracks (in addition to organizing and participating in Workshops, Panels, and Doctoral Consortia) for AIS/AMCIS since 1998.
Professor Siau has published more than 300 scholarly articles and is on Stanford University’s list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists. He is a recipient of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Outstanding Service Award in 2006, IBM Faculty Awards in 2006 and 2008, IBM Faculty Innovation Award in 2010, AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award in 2019, and AIS Award for Outstanding Contribution to IS Education in 2019.
Troy J. Strader, Drake University
Troy J. Strader is the Aliber Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Zimpleman College of Business at Drake University. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Information Systems) from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1997. Dr. Strader has edited three books and his research has been published in Decision Support Systems, Electronic Markets, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Communications of the ACM, Electronic Commerce Research, European Journal of Information Systems and other academic and practice publications. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief for the Drake Management Review.
Dr. Strader joined the Association for Information Systems in 1994 as a doctoral student at University of Illinois. His involvement with AMCIS conferences began in 1997 as a co-chair of the e-commerce mini-track. Since then, he has been an AMCIS conference track co-chair 13 times and an AMCIS mini-track co-chair eight times. Dr. Strader has also volunteered at the regional level with the MWAIS group and was MWAIS conference co-chair in 2020, MWAIS conference program co-chair in 2009, and is currently a senior editor for the Journal of the Midwest Association for Information Systems (JMWAIS). Dr. Strader has a long history of service to AIS and affiliated conferences whose work has assisted in the development of conferences and the growth of the organization.
Criteria for the AMCIS Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Award can be found here: https://aisnet.org/page/AMCISServiceAward
Nominations will open in February 2024
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