Arun Sundararajan (

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: அருண் சுந்தர்ராஜன்) (born in the

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) is the NEC Faculty Fellow, Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics and a Doctoral Coordinator at the

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. For 2010–12, he is the Distinguished Academic Fellow at the Center for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business. Sundararajan is an expert on the economics of digital goods and network effects. He also conducts research about network science and the socioeconomic transformation of India.

Life and work

Arun Sundararajan graduated from the

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in 1993 with a BTech in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

. He subsequently attended the

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where he received an M. Phil in

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and a PhD in

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. After he earned his doctorate, he joined the faculty at

, where his work focuses on the transformation of business and society by information technologies, and the Indian economy. Sundararajan's scholarly research analyzes what makes the economics of IT products and industries unique. He asserts that there are three technological invariants—digitization, exponential growth, and modularity—that have characterized and distinguished information technologies since the 1960s, and that these invariants lead to the ubiquity of information goods,

digital piracy Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, su ...

and network effects in IT industries. His research papers illustrate how these distinctive economics of information technologies warrant new pricing strategies, careful digital rights management, and a deeper understanding of network structure and dynamics. Sundararajan periodically writes and speaks about transformation through information technologies and business with a frequent focus on privacy and on India. He has been elected to the editorial boards of the prestigious journals Management Science and

Information Systems Research ''Information Systems Research'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the areas of information systems and information technology, including cognitive psychology, economics, computer science, operations research, de ...

(where he is currently a Senior Editor). He co-founded the NYU Summer Workshop on the Economics of Information Technology and the Workshop on Information in Networks. He received a 2010 Google-WPP Marketing Research Award,Professors Anindya Ghose and Arun Sundararajan Granted Prestigious Google & WPP Marketing Research Awards
/ref> the Best Paper award at the 2008 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, and the Best Overall Paper award at the 2004

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Arun Sundararajan's personal web page

NYU Stern Faculty Page

Center for IT and the Networked Economy, Indian School of Business
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