AIS Celebrates Excellence in Leadership at ICIS 2025

The Association for Information Systems honored leaders in the field of information systems during the 46th International Conference on Information Systems in Nashville, Tennessee. 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. Jen Easterly is the 2025 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 2025 AIS LEO Award recipients are:

• Patrick Chau | Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
• Frantz Rowe | Universite de Nantes
• Veda Storey | Georgia State University

The AIS Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching, and service. The 2025 AIS Fellows are:

• Roman Beck | Bentley University
• Hsing “Kenneth” Cheng | University of Florida
• Kai-Lung Hui | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Gerald C. Kane | University of Georgia
• Joe Nandhakumar | Warwick Business School
• Gal Oestreicher-Singer | Tel Aviv University
• Daniel O'Leary | University of Southern California
• Guy Paré | HEC Montréal
• Jan Pries-Heje | Roskilde University
• Jianliang (Leon) Zhao | School of Management and Economics Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

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 2025 AIS Early Career Award recipients are:

• Zhi (Aaron) Cheng | London School of Economics
• Marta Stelmaszak Rosa | University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Randy Wong | University of Auckland
• Jiaheng Xie | University of Delaware

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 2025 AIS Mid-Career Award recipients are:

• Christoph Breidbach | The University of Queensland
• Warut Khern-am-nuai | McGill University
• Zhijie Lin | Tsinghua University
• Vilma Todri| Emory University
• Chong Wang | City University of Hong Kong
• Jingjing Zhang | Indiana University

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 2025 AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award recipients are:

• Michelle Carter | The University of Manchester
• Elaine Mosconi | Université de Sherbrooke
• Shirish Srivastava | HEC Paris

The Jessica Pye Doctoral Student Service Award recognizes volunteer contributions made by doctoral students toward the success of AIS conferences, journals, and programs. The 2025 AIS Doctoral Student Service Award recipients are:

• Himasmita Das | Department of Management Studies , IIT Delhi
• Biju Varghese | Rochester Institute of Technology
• Hendrik Wache | ICN Business School

The ICIS SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes at least one outstanding MIS dissertation. Khalid Durani from University of Innsbruck is the 2025 SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation 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 2025 AIS Impact Award recipients are:

Regulatory Impact

• Tom James | Welsh Government
• Daniel Rees | Swansea University
• Rod Thomas | Health Innovation South West
• Denis Dennehy | Swansea University

Communal Impact

• Ting Li | Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
• Zherui Yang | IE Business School
• Andy Tao Li | University of Technology and Science of China
• Sean Xin Xu | Tsinghua University
• Cheng Yi | Tsinghua University

Regulatory Impact

• Signe Agerskov | IT University of Copenhagen
• Asger Balle Pedersen | IT University of Copenhagen

The AIS Education 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 2025 AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching award recipients are:

• Noel Carroll | University of Galway
• Daniel O’Leary | University of Southern California
• Xingwei (Nancy) Yang | Toronto Metropolitan University

The AIS Outstanding Contribution to Education Award recognizes a faculty who has made outstanding contributions to information systems (IS) education. Ramesh Venkataraman from Indiana University is the 2025 Outstanding Contribution to Education Award recipient.

The AIS Best Conference Paper in IS Education Award recognizes the importance of pedagogy research in the Information Systems field. The 2025 Best Conference Paper in IS Education Award recipients are:

• Janaina Aniceto | Université Laval
• Jacqueline Corbett | Université Laval

The AIS Leadership Team Award is special recognition for an elected council member’s dedication to the mission of the association. The 2025 Leadership Team Award recipients are:

• Hope Koch | Baylor University
• Susanne Strahringer | Dresden University
• Xue Yang | Nanjing University, China
• Vladimir Zwass | Journal of Management Information Systems Editor in Chief

• Ricarda Schlimbach, Bijan Khosrawi-Rad, Tim C. Lange, Timo Strohmann, Susanne Robra-Bissantz; Design Knowledge for Virtual Learning Companions from a Value-centered Perspective. -Communications of the Association for Information Systems

• Ojelanki Ngwenyama, Frantz Rowe, Stefan Klein, Helle Zinner Henriksen; The Open Prison of the Big Data Revolution: False Consciousness, Faustian Bargains, and Digital Entrapment. -Information Systems Research

• André Sagodi, Benjamin van Giffen, Johannes Schniertshauer, Klemen Niehues, Jan vom Brocke; How Audi Scales Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing - MIS Quarterly Executive

• Isam Faik, Avijit Sengupta, Yimeng Deng; Inclusion by design: Requirements elicitation with digitally marginalized communities. - MIS Quarterly

• Thorsten Schoormann, Frederik Möller, Leona Chandra Kruse, Boris Otto; BAUSTEIN—A design tool for configuring and representing design research. - Information Systems Journal

• Kevin Bauer, Rebecca Heigl, Oliver Hinz, Michael Kosfeld; Feedback Loops in Machine Learning: A Study on the Interplay of Continuous Updating and Human Discrimination - Journal of the Association for Information Systems

• Monica Garfield | Bentley University
• Traci Carte | Illinois State University
• Michael Dohan | Lakehead University
• Alanah Mitchell | Drake University
• Alan Dennis | Indiana University

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 is Ramona Ionescu from Virginia Tech.

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. Jiayuan Zhang from Tsinghua University is the 2025 TP Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award recipient.

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