AIS Celebrates Excellence in Leadership at ICIS 2024

The Association for Information Systems honored leaders in the field of information systems during the 45th International Conference on Information Systems in Bangkok, Thailand. 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. Harrick Vin is the 2024 AIS Leadership Excellence Award recipient.

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 2024 AIS LEO Award recipients are:

• Brian Fitzgerald
• Shirley Gregor
• Sudha Ram
• Bernard C.Y. Tan
  

The AIS Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service. The 2024 AIS Fellows are:

• Gediminas (Gedas) Adomavicius
• Wendy L. Currie
• Anandasivam (Anand) Gopal
• Armin Heinzl
• Rajiv Kohli
  
• Jan Marco Leimeister
• Paul Benjamin Lowry
• Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah
  
• Radhika Santhanam
• Monideepa Tarafdar

The AIS Leadership Team Recognition Award is special recognition for an elected council member’s dedication to the mission of the association.The 2024 Leadership Team Recognition Award recipients are:

• Ashish Gupta
• Robert Nickerson

The Jessica Pye Doctoral Student Service Award recognizes volunteer contributions made by doctoral students toward the success of AIS conferences, journals, and programs. The 2024 AIS Doctoral Student Service Award recipients are:

• Chuhan Cao
• Eunyoung Kim
• Anna Lampi
• Grant Oosterwyk
• Yan Shi
• Xiao Zeng

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 2024 AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award recipients are:

• Kathryn Brohman
• Jennifer Claggett
• Jacqueline Corbett
• Susanna Shuk Ying Ho
• Matthew Nelson
• Efpraxia Zamani

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 2024 AIS Early Career Award recipients are:

• Dominik Gutt
• Hyeokkoo Kwon
• Tapani Rinta-Kahila
• Dandan Qiao
• Lusi Yang
• Mingwen Yang

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 2024 AIS Mid-Career Award recipients are:

• Aaron Baird
• Adela Chen
• Daniel Gozman
• Ariana Polyviou
• Hani Safadi
• Dezhi Yin

The AIS Outreach Practice Publication Award recognize members who successfully transfer research to practitioner audiences in practice-based publications. Noel Carroll is the 2024 Outreach Practice Publication Award recipient.

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 2024 AIS Impact Award recipients are:

• Atif Ahmad
• Sean Maynard
• Bradley C. Wheeler
• Kalle Lyytinen
• Matti Rossi
• Juha-Pekka Tolvanen
• Steven Kelly
• Pentti Marttiin

The AIS Technology Challenge Award is given to the most significant contributions to the continued development of a community of IS Scholars on AISNet (including AISWorld) in the preceding year. The 2024 AIS Technology Challenge Award Recipients are:

• Michelle Carter
• Kelly Fadel
• Tom Meservy

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 2024 AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching award recipients are:

• Region 2: Thomas Huber and Jeroen Rombouts
• Region 1: Munir Mandviwalla, Laurel Miller and Manoj Chacko
• Region 3: Alexander Richter

The AIS Education for Best Conference Paper in IS Education Award recognizes the importance of pedagogy research in the Information Systems field. The 2024 Education for Best Conference Paper in IS Education Award recipients are:

• Antonia Tolzin
• Nils Knoth
• Andreas Janson

The AIS Outstanding Contribution to Education Award recognizes a faculty who has made outstanding contributions to information systems (IS) education. Ersin Dincelli is the 2024 Outstanding Contribution to Education Award recipient.

The ICIS SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes at least one outstanding MIS dissertation. Ben Ampel is the SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient.

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. Zeyuan (Stephen) Hong is the 2024 TP Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award recipient.