ISS Andrew B. Whinston Pathbreaking Research Award – 2026
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 nominator and the nominee must be members of ISS at the time of nomination, except for unusual circumstances approved by the President of ISS.
Submission Instructions
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 INFORMS ISS member may submit nominations and may nominate more than one candidate at their own discretion and judgment.
One ISS member nomination is sufficient, multi-member nomination is not necessary.
Though self-nominations are discouraged, nominations may be submitted through the ISS 2026 Awards nomination portal (Qualtrics): https://commercevirginia.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5i38OVCe2w1GcGa. The deadline for submission of nominations is 11:59 PM Pacific Time on August 8, 2026.
Process and Timeline
The committee members are Sulin Ba (Chair), Gedas Adomavicius, Varghese Jacob, Ramayya Krishnan, and Jianqing Chen (ex-officio, President-ISS).
The award selection committee will deliberate upon the pool of nominees solely based on information available in their CVs and the nomination letters.
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 2026 Conference on Information Systems Technology (CIST) in San Francisco, CA. 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.
It is a condition of the award that the ISS Andrew B. Whinston Pathbreaking Research Award winner be a member of ISS, and, except for unusual circumstances approved by the President of ISS, remain a member of the Society until they retire from full-time work.