Monideepa Tarafdar
Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor | Editor-in-Chief: Journal of the AIS | PhD Coordinator in Information Systems
Operations & Information Management
Education
Ph.D. (Major MIS, Minor Strategic Management), Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Recent Honors / Awards
Public Interest Technology Fellow, 2025-26
Association for Information Systems (AIS) Fellow, 2024
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
Research Interests
Human-AI collaboration
AI in hiring/recruitment
AI bias, transparency and fairness
Platform work and algorithmic management/control
Maladaptive and motivational use of IS
Cognitive and affective well-being from IS
Societal and individual impacts of social media
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