Ting Peng Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award

About the Award

The TP 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, and passed away in May 20, 2021. This award recognizes the outstanding young scholar who contributed a best paper at PACIS each year. This award was granted for the first time in 2022.

Winner of 2025
TBA

Selection Committee 2025

• Patrick Chau (Committee Chair as Past AIS President from R3) - Term ends at December 31, 2027
• Barney Tan (Selection Chair as PACIS 2025 Program Chair) - Term ends at December 31, 2026
• Michael Chau (PACIS 2024 Program Chair) - Term ends at December 31, 2025
• David Phang (Program Chair from PACIS 2026) - Term ends at December 31, 2027
• Juan (Jane) Feng (VP of R3) - Term ends at December 31, 2025
• James Jiang (EIC of PAJAIS) - During the term of EIC

Winner of 2023

Shiyi Wang (Nanyang Technological University, Ph.D. Candidate)

Selection Committee 2023
Jae Kyu Lee (Chair of Committee)
Bo Sophia Xiao (Selection Chair; PACIS 2023 Program Chair)
Dongming Xu (PACIS 2022 Program Chair)
Michael Chau (PACIS 2024 Program Chair)
Juan (Jane) Feng (VP of R3)
James Jiang (EIC of PAJAIS)

Winner of 2022
Jicheng Zeng (Ph.D. Candidate in City University of Hong Kong)

Selection Committee of 2022
Jae Kyu Lee (Committee Chair) 
Dongming Xu (Program Chair of PACIS 2022 & Selection Chair of 2022)
Bo Sophia Xiao (Program Chair of PACIS 2023) 
Kathy Ning Shen (Program Chair of PACIS 2021) 
Atreyi Kankanhalli (VP of R3) 
James Jiang (EIC of PAJAIS)

Qualifications for the Award

Nominee for the Award should be a young scholar in the early stage of Information Systems research career. The nominee should be an AIS member and have contributed an outstanding paper at PACIS of the year.

The Award Committee 

The Award committee is comprised of the following members representing PACIS, VP of R3, and PAJAIS. Current committee members are:

• Jae Kyu Lee (Committee Chair;Term ends December 31, 2024)
• Michael Chau (PACIS 2024 Program Chair) - term ends December 31, 2025
• Bo Sophia Xiao (PACIS 2023 Program Chair) - term ends December 31, 2024
• Barney Tan (PACIS 2025 Program Chair) - term ends December 31, 2026
• Juan (Jane) Feng (VP of R3) - term ends December 31, 2025
• James Jiang (EIC of PAJAIS) - during the term of EIC
  
  

The Selection Process

Young author(s)' Best Paper(s) at PACIS each year will be selected; The Award Selection Committee will select the awardee(s) in cooperation with the PACIS Program Committee of the year. The selected awardee(s) will be announced at PACIS, but the formal AIS Award will be delivered at ICIS Plenary Session.  PACIS program committee nominates their awardee(s) through the AIS Award Nomination web page and the Award Selection Committee selects the Awardee(s) according to the AIS Award Nomination process.