INFORMS Information Systems Society Andrew B. Whinston Pathbreaking Research Award – 2025
Call for Nominations
The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites nominations for the ISS Andrew B. Whinston Pathbreaking Research Award. Approved by INFORMS in April 2025, this award aims to recognize an individual researcher or a team of researchers who have made a substantive contribution to the field of Information Systems research.
Eligibility
The award recognizes an individual researcher or a team whose contributions over the last 20 years have been pathbreaking, opening a new line of inquiry or advancing an existing research stream in a substantial manner. For an award to a team, it typically honors a joint work. Although recent work should not be excluded, the award should emphasize work that has stood the test of time, demonstrating long-term scholarly significance. The award committee will evaluate nominations based on innovation, impact, enduring influence, and breadth of contributions.
Nominators are encouraged to provide the award selection committee with specific indicators of a nominee's contributions. The committee members are Sulin Ba, Ming Fan (ex-officio, President-ISS), Alok Gupta, Saby Mitra, and Olivia Sheng (Chair).
Submission Instructions
Though self-nominations are discouraged, anyone can email a nomination to Professor Ming Fan (mfan@uw.edu) and use the subject line as "Nomination for Andrew B. Whinston Research Award - 2025”. The deadline for submission of nominations is August 23, 2025.
The nomination should include a brief, no more than two pages in length, description of the nominee's achievements and eligibility for the award, and should be accompanied by the nominee’s up-to-date CV. Any member of the award selection committee may nominate additional nominees at their discretion and judgment. However, the ex-officio member cannot vote on the final selection.
Winners of the award will be notified before the CIST. The society will announce the award winners and present them with award plaques at the ISS Award session during the 2025 Conference on Information Systems Technology (CIST) in Atlanta. We invite the winners and all of our members to come celebrate the winners’ achievements as well as those of our society. Organization details of this celebration event will be updated later. Prior to the Award session, winners may individually share the good news with their deans, department heads, nominators, mentors and mentees, but the winners and others aware of the winning results should not reveal such information via online social media.
About the Informs Information Systems Society (ISS)
The Information Systems Society (ISS) serves INFORMS members in the field of information systems. It provides support for academic forums such as the annual Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), the spring Theory in Economics of IS (TEIS) workshop, the summer Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR) conference, and the annual IT Teaching workshop. The society also provides support for editorial activities and publication of Information Systems Research. In addition, the society sponsors or supports several awards each year including the ISS Distinguished Fellow Award, the Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award, the Gordon Davis Young Scholar Award, the ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award, the ISS Practical Impacts Award, the ISS Haim Mendelson Teaching Innovation Award, the ISS Andrew B. Whinston Pathbreaking Research Award, the ISS Social Justice Best Paper Award, the ISS President's Service Award, the ISS Best Paper in Management Science Award, the ISS Cluster Best Paper Award, and the ISS Cluster Best Session Chair Award to recognize the deserving efforts of our community.