AIS Honors Top IS Leadership and Research at ICIS 2023

The Association for Information Systems honored leaders in the field of information systems during the 2023 International Conference on Information Systems in Hyderabad, India. Honored scholars and students have demonstrated exemplary efforts to educate, research, and serve the field through continued engagement and contribution.

The AIS Leadership Excellence Award is given annually to a single person for leadership and innovation in the use and development of information systems. Dr. Bhaskar Ghosh is the recipient of the 2023 AIS Leadership Excellence Award. Dr. Ghosh, who has demonstrated exemplary leadership and innovation in the use and development of information systems, was one of the keynote speakers in Hyderabad.

The AIS LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in information systems, named after one of the world’s first commercial applications of computing (The Lyons Electronic Office), recognizes truly outstanding individuals in the information systems community, both academics and practitioners, who have made exceptional contributions to research in and/or the practice of information systems. The 2023 AIS LEO Award winners are:

• Soon Ang
• Chrisanthi Avgerou
• Yolande Chan
• F. Warren McFarlan

The AIS Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service. The 2023 AIS Fellows are:

• Ravi Bapna
• Michael Barrett
• Wai Fong Boh
• Traci Carte
• Ola Henfridsson
• James Jiang
• Shaila Miranda
• Sunil Mithas
• Emma Vaast
• Merrill Warkentin
• Han Zhang

The AIS Leadership Team Recognition Award is special recognition for an elected council member’s dedication to the mission of the association. This award was conferred upon Eleanor Loiacono and Alex Barsi Lopes for exceptional strategic contributions made while serving as AIS AVP of DEI and AVP of Student Chapters respectively.

The AIS Doctoral Student Service Award recognizes volunteer contributions made by doctoral students toward the success of AIS conferences, journals, and programs. The 2023 AIS Doctoral Student Service Award winners are:

• Jenny Elo
• Lucia Castro Herrera
• Quanchen Liu
• Harsh Parekh
• Saima Qutab
• Laura Watkowski

The Sandra Slaughter Service Award recognizes longstanding members who have provided leadership within the Association, particularly through such activities as participating in the SIGs/chapters/colleges, strengthening the conferences, and participating in AIS-sponsored journals. The 2023 AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award winners are:

• Wai Fong Boh
• Denis Dennehy
• Monica Garfield
• Atreyi Kankanhalli
• Mohammad Merhi
• Choon Ling Sia
• Sam Zaza

The AIS Early Career Award recognizes individuals in the early stages of their careers who have already made outstanding research, teaching, and/or service contributions to the field of information systems. The 2023 AIS Early Career Award winners are:

• Carolina Alves de Lima Salge
• Yue Katherine Feng
• Dongwon Lee
• Chen Liang
• Warut Khern-am-nuai
• Jingchuan Pu
• Van-Hau Trieu
• Melody Zou

The AIS Mid-Career Award recognizes individuals in the middle stages of their careers who have already made outstanding research, teaching, and/or service contributions to the field of information systems. The 2023 AIS Mid-Career Award winners are:

• Panagiotis Adamopoulos
• Abayomi Baiyere
• John Dong
• J.J. Po-An Hsieh
• Silvia Masiero
• Ling Xue

The AIS Outreach Practice Publication Award recognize members who successfully transfer research to practitioner audiences in practice-based publications. The 2023 Outreach Practice Publication Award was awarded to Mareike Mohlmann and Barbara Wixom.

The AIS Impact Award recognizes information systems research with widespread impact on practice in business and society. The key criteria are breadth of use in practice as well as relevance to information systems research. The assessment of the quality of the work is considered secondary to the degree to which it has been widely adopted. The 2023 AIS Impact Award Winners are:

• Jørn Anders Braa
• Kristin Braa
• Yan Li
  
• Balasubramaniam Ramesh
• Manoj A. Thomas

The AIS Technology ATLAS Award is given to those individuals who have made the most significant contributions toward the intellectual infrastructure of the association. The ATLAS stands for the AIS Technology Legacy Award and recognizes those who have, through their lifetime, served the community in a significant way. Ronald Freeze is the recipient of the 2023 AIS Technology ATLAS Award.

The AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching recognizes innovation in teaching approaches/techniques (pedagogy) as well as in delivering courses and programs. This award specifically focuses on the uniqueness/innovativeness that increases student interest and drives achievement. The 2023 AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching award winners are Tilo Böhmann and Kai R. Larsen.

The AIS Education for Best Conference Paper in IS Education award recognizes the importance of pedagogy research in the Information Systems field. The winners are:

• Charlotte Husom Grøder
• Stefan Schmager
• Elena Parmiggiani
• Polyxeni Vassilakopoulou
• Ilias Pappas
• Sofia Papavlasopoulou

The Senior Scholars have annually recognized up to five papers with a Best Information Systems (IS) Publications Award. This award was established to recognize the breadth of high-quality work that is being published in the information systems discipline and was designed to bring outstanding papers across a range of journals to the attention of the IS community, and to give due credit to the journals in which they are published. 2023 winners are:

• Priyanga Gunarathne, Huaxia Rui and Abraham Seidman – Racial bias in customer service: evidence from Twitter, Information Systems Research
• Elena Parmiggiani, Thomas Østerlie and Petter Grytten Almklov – In the backrooms of data science, Journal of the Association for Information Systems
• Tapani Rinta-Kahila, Ida Someh, Nicole Gillespie, Marta Indulska and Shirley Gregor – Algorithmic decision-making and system destructiveness: A case of automatic debt recovery, European Journal of Information Systems
• Carolina Alves de Lima Salge, Elena Karahanna and Jason Bennett Thatcher – Algorithmic Processes of Social Alertness and Social Transmission: How Bots Disseminate Information on Twitter, MIS Quarterly
• Arisa Shollo, Konstantin Hopf, Tiemo Thiess, Oliver Müller – Shifting ML value creation mechanisms: A process model of ML value creation, Journal of Strategic Information Systems

The Ting-Peng Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award was established in 2021 in memory of Professor Ting-Peng Liang who founded PACIS and PAJAIS, served AIS President, and received AIS Fellow and LEO Award. This award recognizes the outstanding young scholar who contributed a best paper at PACIS each year. The 2023 TP Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award winner is Shiyi Wang.

ICIS 2023 also featured awards for numerous excellent papers.

ICIS 2023 Best Complete Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang

• Ellenrieder, Sara; Kallina, Emma Marlene; Pumplun, Luisa; Gawlitza, Joshua Felix; Ziegelmayer, Sebastian; and Buxmann, Peter, Promoting Learning Through Explainable Artificial Intelligence: An Experimental Study in Radiology (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Complete Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang, Runner Up

• Lippert, Isabell; Kirchner, Kathrin; Wiener, Martin; and Saunders, Carol, Job Crafting in The Era of Algorithmic Management (2023).
• Li, Junyi; Hahn, Jungpil; and Tayi, Giri, Meta-Organizational Learning Through Digital Consensus (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Short Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang

• Kahdan, Manoj; Hartwich, Nicole Janine; Salge, Oliver; and Cichy, Patrick, Navigating Uncertain Waters: How Organizations Respond to Institutional Pressure in Times of the Looming EU AI Act (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Short Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang, Runner Up

• Bello Rinaudo, Nadia; Matook, Sabine; and Dennis, Alan, AI Algorithms and Time Experience in Social Media: Explaining Discontinued Use (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Impact Paper Award, in Recognition of Nunamaker-Chen

• Kleiner, Romina; Hartwich, Nicole; Antons, David; Enhancing Perceived Fairness of AI-Based Personnel Selection Procedures: The Role of AI Certification (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Impact Paper Award, in Recognition of Nunamaker-Chen, Runner Up

• Herbe, Amandine; Leveraging Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service to Build Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Student Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang

• Hu, Manting; LIN, Qingyuan; Zhang, Denghui; Lu, Angela;Junming, Liu; Xiong, Hui; Graph Learning of Multifaceted Motivations for Online Engagement Prediction in Counter-party Social Networks (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Student Paper Award, in Honor of TP Liang, Runner Up

• Svendsrud, Daniel; Paparova, Dragana; Data Hierarchies: The Emergence of an Industrial Data Ecosystem (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Design Science Paper Award

• Tokerud, Simen; Jansen, Jarand; Niemimaa, Marko; Järveläinen, Jonna; Designing Extended Zero Trust Maturity Model – From Technical to Socio-Technical (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Design Science Paper Runner-Up

• Pinski, Marc; Haas, Miguel; Franz, Anjuli; AiLingo – A Design Science Approach to Advancing Non-Expert Adults’ AI Literacy (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Kauffman Paper Award

• Nehme, Joseph J.; Srivastava, Shirish C.; Aman, Aman; How ‘Zerodha’ Used Technology to Disrupt the Indian Stock Trading Industry? (2023).
• Kumar, Anaya; Shirish, Anuragini; What triggers digital employee advocacy behavior? (2023).

ICIS 2023 Best Kauffman Paper Runner-Up

• Bashardoust, Amirsiavosh; Safaei, Negin; Haki, Kazem; Shrestha, Yash Raj; Employing Machine Learning to Advance Agent-based Modeling in Information Systems Research (2023).
• Katavic, Rio; Pahuja, Aseem; Syed, Tahir Abbas; Navigating the Use of ChatGPT in Classrooms: A Study of Student Experiences (2023)

For more information on current and previous AIS Award winners click here.