Monideepa Tarafdar
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Monideepa Tarafdar

Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor | Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the AIS | PhD Coordinator in Information Systems

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Monideepa Tarafdar is Charles J. Dockendorff endowed professor and Public Interest Technology Fellow at Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the editor-in-chief o

Monideepa Tarafdar is Charles J. Dockendorff endowed professor and Public Interest Technology Fellow at Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems. She has received research grants of over $1.5 million as principal investigator from, among others, Leverhulme Trust (U.K.) and the Economic and Social Science Research Council (U.K.) and has collaborated on research with organizations in the U.S., U.K., EU and India. Her work has been published in journals such as Science, PNAS Nexus, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. She is listed in the Stanford/Elsevier database of the world’s top 2% cited scientists for 2024 and 2025. She is a recipient of Best Paper awards from the Decision Sciences Institute, INFORMS and the AIS. She is an AIS Fellow. Her research has been featured in among other outlets, Boston Globe, Chronicle of Higher Education, The Economist, The Guardian, Hindustan Times, MIT Technology Review, Wired, BBC World News, and Reuters.  

Education

Ph.D. (Major MIS, Minor Strategic Management), Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India

Recent Awards

Public Interest Technology Fellow, 2025-26
Included in Elsevier-Stanford Top 2% Cited Scientists' List, 2024, 2025
Best Paper Runner-up Award, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 2023
Provost's Interdisciplinary Research Grant, 2023
Research Excellence Award, Isenberg School of Management, 2023
Association for Information Systems (AIS) Best Publication Award 2022: Association for Information Systems, 2022
Information Systems Research 2022 Runner up Award for Best paper published in 2021: Information Systems Research-INFORMS Information Systems Research, 2022
European Conference on Information Systems Runner up Award for Best Research-in-Progress Paper: European Conference on Information Systems, 2022
Research Excellence Award, Isenberg School of Management, 2022
University of Massachusetts Amherst Spotlight Scholar, 2022
Association of Information Systems Doctoral Student College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, 2021
Distinguished Member Cum Laude, Association of Information Systems, 2019
Reviewer Hall of Fame, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, 2019
Annual Best Paper Award, Decision Sciences Journal, Decisions Sciences Institute, 2017
Dean’s Research Award, Lancaster University Management School, 2017
Outstanding Research Award, University of Toledo, 2007 and 2011
Graduate Teaching Award, University of Toledo, 2009

Professional Experience

Scientific Advisor, Unplug, Dublin, Ireland, 2017-present

Academic Appointments

Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor of Information Systems, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, January 2021- present
Professor, Lancaster University (Management School), United Kingdom, 2013-2021
Professor, University of Toledo, Ohio, 2012-2013
Associate Professor, University of Toledo, Ohio, 2007-2012
Assistant Professor, University of Toledo, Ohio, 2003-2007

Teaching Areas

Masters
  • Information management and strategy
Doctoral
  • Information systems theory
  • Information systems methods
  • Algorithms and AI
  • The dark side of information systems

Research Interests

Use of GenAI in science and scholarship
Human-AI collaboration (GenAI, agentic AI and Large Language Models)
AI in hiring/recruitment
AI bias, transparency and fairness
Algorithmic management and control
Technostress and digital wellbeing
Cognitive and affective well-being from IS
Societal and individual impacts of social media
IS and product/process innovation
Intellectual and viewpoint diversity in the Information Systems discipline

Other Academic Appointments

Visiting Scholar, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2023
Senior Fellow, Wiezenbaum Internet Institute, Berlin, 2019
Leverhulme Research Fellow, United Kingdom, 2017-2018
Visiting Scholar, MIT Sloan School Center for Information Systems Research, 2016-2018
Co-Director, Highwire Doctoral Training Program (EPSRC-funded), Lancaster University, 2014-2019
Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India, 2007-2018
Media, Industry, and Public ImpactInternational AIS Fellow, 2024 Co-ranked #1 internationally for publications as first author in the AIS Senior Scholars’ Basket of Eight journals, three-yea

Media, Industry, and Public Impact

International 

  1. AIS Fellow, 2024 
  1. Co-ranked #1 internationally for publications as first author in the AIS Senior Scholars’ Basket of Eight journals, three-year period 2021-2023 (AIS Research Rankings -https://www.aisresearchrankings.org/). 
  1. Distinguished Member Cum Laude, Association of Information Systems, 2019. 
  1. Journal of Strategic Information Systems Best Paper Runner up 2023 
  1. Association for Information Systems (AIS) Best Publication Award 2022: Association for Information Systems 
  1. Information Systems Research 2022 Runner up Award for Best paper published in 2021: Information Systems Research/INFORMS 
  1. European Conference on Information Systems Runner up for Best Research-in-Progress Paper: European Conference on Information Systems 2022 
  1. INFORMS Service Award 2025: completion of Senior Editor term at Information Systems Research  
  1. Association for Information Systems (AIS) Faculty Mentor Award for Outstanding Leadership 2021: Association of Information Systems Doctoral College  
  1. INFORMS Service Award 2020: completion of Associate Editor term at Information Systems Research   

Invited Keynotes 

  1. Keynote 2026: Taiwan Summer Information Systems Management Workshop, Taipei, July 2026 
  1. Keynote 2026: Virginia Research Seminar Series, Washington D.C., March 2026 
  1. Keynote 2025: Taiwan Summer Information Systems Management Workshop, Taipei, July 2025 
  1. Keynote 2025: AIM Conference, Lyon, France, May 2025 
  1. Keynote 2025: Front-Range Seminar on Information Systems Research, Colorado Springs, May 2025 
  1. Keynote 2024: Northeast AIS Conference on Information Systems, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, October 24. 
  1. Keynote 2024: Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS), Porto, October 3-4. 
  1. Keynote 2024: Dewald Roode Information Security Workshop, IFIP Working Group (IFIP WG 8.11/11.13), October 4-5. 
  1. Keynote panel 2023: DIGIT Workshop, Hyderabad, December 2023 - Innovation Amplified - Unleashing the Potential of AI and Emerging Technologies through Effective Adoption and Diffusion 
  1. Keynote 2021: 12th Workshop on the Changing Nature of Work (CNOW), Austin, December 2021 
  1. Keynote 2021: International Conference on the Digital Economy, Indian Institute of Management Raipur, December 2021  
  1. Keynote 2021: Symposium on ‘Instruments for measuring psychosocial/physical stress and strain in the context of digitalization’ at the 56th Annual Conference for German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention, September 2021 

Practitioner Publications 

  1. Tarafdar, M., Stelmaszak, M., How IT can solve common DEI problems, Harvard Business Review, August 15, 2024.  
  1. Pinski, M., Tarafdar, M., and Benlian, A., How executives cannot get comfortable with AI, MIT Sloan Management Review, April 09, 2024  
  1. How Social Media keeps us coming back even when it makes us unhappy, Conversation - https://theconversation.com/technostress-how-social-media-keeps-us-coming-back-for-more-even-when-it-makes-us-unhappy-121071  

Policy Report (UK Government) 

Yang Hu, Monideepa Tarafdar, Jabir Alshehabi Al-Ani, Irina Rets, Shenggang Hu, Nicole Denier, Karen D. Hughes, Alla Konnikov, and Lei Ding Policy, Gendered STEM Workforce in the United Kingdom: The Role of Gender Bias in Job Advertising, Policy Report submitted to and accepted by the UK Parliamentary committee on Diversity in STEM. March 2022

Professional Links LinkedInORCID: 0000-0003-2831-1364 

Professional Links 

  • ORCID: 0000-0003-2831-1364 

Selected Publications

  • Tarafdar, M., Adam, M., Nguyen, L.T., How Reflection Enhances Task Factuality in the Use of Large Language Models, Journal of MIS, forthcoming. 
  • Tarafdar, M., Rets, I., Hu, Y., Catch me if you can: Dynamic Nature of Bias in Machine Learning Applications, Information Systems Journal, forthcoming. 
  • Hui, H., Tarafdar, M., Hess, T., A Partitioning Model of Control on Digital Labor Platforms, Journal of the AIS, May-June 2026. 
  • Hu, Y., Ding, L., Denier, N., Tarafdar, M., Konnikov, A., Hughes, K., Hu, S., Knowles, B., et al., Language in job advertisements and the reproduction of labor force gender and racial segregation, forthcoming in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) Nexus 
  • Tarafdar, M., Rets, I., Zuloaga, L, and Mondragon, N., How Hirevue created a transparency glass box, MIS Quarterly Executive, March 2025 
  • Bagchi, C., Menczer, F., Lundquist, J., Tarafdar, M., Paik, A., Grabowic, P. A., Social media algorithms can curb misinformation, but do they? Science, September 2024. 
  • Smailhodzic, E; Fernandes, A; Dube, N; Tarafdar, M; “Navigating tensions between Indigeneity and social media participation: A case study of the Guarani community in South America" Information Systems Journal, 35, 4, 1198-1217. 
  • Tarafdar, M., Stich, J-F., Maier, C., and Laumer, S., Techno-eustress Creators: Conceptualization and Empirical Validation, Information Systems Journal. 34. 6, 2024, 2097-2131 
  • Mattern, J, Tarafdar, M., Klein, S., Schellhammer, S., Thriving in a bruising job: How high-achieving IT professionals can cope with occupational demands, Information Systems Journal., 34. 6, 2024, 902-1934 
  • Tarafdar, M., Rets, I., Hu, Y., Can ICT Enhance Workplace Inclusion? ICT-Enabled Workplace Inclusion Practices and a New Agenda for Inclusion Research in Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, June, 2023. Winner of 2023 Best Paper Runner Up for JSIS 
  • Nastjik., I., Trang, S., Grummeck-Braamt, J.V, Tarafdar, M., Adam, M., Integrating and Synthesizing Technostress Research: A Meta-Analysis on Technostress Creators, Outcomes, and Usage Contexts, European Journal of Information Systems, forthcoming, 2024. 
  • Tarafdar, M., Shan, G., Thatcher, J., Gupta, A., Intellectual Diversity in Information Systems: Discipline-based conceptualization and an illustration from ISR, Information Systems Research, 24, 6, December, 2022.  
  • Tarafdar, M., Page, X., Marabelli, M. Algorithms as Co-workers: Human-Algorithm Role Interactions in Algorithmic Work, Information Systems Journal, 33,2, 233-267, 2023 
  • Cram, A., Wiener, M., Tarafdar, M., Benlian, A., Algorithmic Control and Technostress experienced by Uber Drivers, Journal of MIS, 39, 2, 2022 
  • Tarafdar, M., and Saunders, C., Remote, mobile and blue-collar: ICT-enable job crafting to elevate occupational well-being, Journal of the AIS, 23,2, 2022. Top ten contributor to impact factor of JAIS for 2024. 
  • Tarafdar, M., and Ray, D., The role of social media in social protest cycles: A sociomaterial examination of a social protest cycle in India, Information Systems Research, 23, 3, September 2021, 675-1097. Winner of AIS Best Paper Award and ISR (INFORMS) runner up for best paper award.