Arun Rai (born 1963) is an Indian-born American scientist. Arun Rai is a permanent Regent's Professor at the

Robinson College of Business The J. Mack Robinson College of Business is the business school of Georgia State University in Atlanta. Based in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business Administration Building, it is one of Georgia State's six colleges. History Robinson College ...

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and holds J. Mack Robinson Chair of IT-Enabled Process Innovation and Supply Chains and the Harkins Chair of Information Systems. He served as an Editor-in-Chief of

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(MISQ) for five years between 2016 and 2020. He has previously served as Senior Editor for

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, MIS Quarterly, and Journal of Strategic Information Systems and as Associate Editor for several journals (e.g., Journal of Management Information Systems, Management Science, Decision Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly and Journal of the Association for Information Systems).

Education and Employment

Arun Rai earned his integrated master's degree in science and technology from

BITS Pilani Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (BITS Pilani) is a Deemed university in Pilani, Jhunjhunu, India. It focuses primarily on higher education and research in engineering and sciences. After expansion to a campus in Dubai, it has b ...

in 1985, MBA from

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in 1987, and PhD in Management Information Systems from

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in 1990. He served as an assistant and later as an associate professor at

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from 1990 until 1997 before moving to Georgia State University in 1997. He has chaired 30 doctoral dissertations as of 2019.

Awards and Recognitions

In recognition of his significant global contributions to scientific research in the field of Information Systems, Rai was recognized as the Fellow of the Association of Information Systems (FAIS) in 2010. Rai was awarded the Information Systems Society (ISS) Distinguished Fellow in 2014. Arun Rai was the recipient of the prestigious LEO award (awarded in 2019 in

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), which is named for the world's first business application of computing (The Lyons Electronic Office), and recognizes truly outstanding individuals in the field of Information Systems.

References

External links

* http://robinson.gsu.edu/profile/arun-rai/ * http://arunrai.us/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Rai, Arun American people of Indian descent Kent State University alumni 1963 births Living people Georgia State University faculty Information systems researchers Management Information Systems Quarterly editors