ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award

INFORMS ISS Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award - 2024

 

Call for Submission

The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites submissions for the 2024 Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award (NCDA). The NCDA is named in honor of two University of Arizona professors, Jay Nunamaker and Hsinchun Chen, who have made significant contributions to the field of Information Systems over the past several decades. The NCDA has been created to recognize and reward outstanding dissertation research by scholars in the field of Information Systems.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the 2024 competition, dissertations must be in the field of information systems and must have been completed in the period from June 1, 2023 to May 31, 2024. Candidates must have successfully defended their dissertations and should have received the final approval and all required sign-offs on their dissertation documents by May 31, 2024. Dissertations that do not meet these criteria will not be considered eligible for the award.

Submission Instructions

INFORMS ISS encourages submissions from any country; however, all submitted materials must be in English.

Submissions should be emailed to Professor Nina Huang (nhuang@miami.edu), and state the subject as "Nomination Nunamaker-Chen Dissertation Award - 2024". The deadline for submission of nominations is August 15, 2024.

The following four documents are required. All four files must be submitted as a single pdf file in the order listed below. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will not be reviewed.

  1. A one-page summary of the dissertation.
  2. A copy of the entrant's current curriculum vitae.
  3. An extended abstract of the dissertation that highlights the significance of the problem, the methodological approach, and the key results and their potential applications. The extended abstract should be no more than 4000 words (not including references, tables, or figures).
  4. A letter of recommendation from the entrant's dissertation advisor that describes the significance of the research and comments on the originality of the work.

Optional: If there are working papers or publications based on the dissertation, these can be cited in the extended abstract, and submitted as additional materials.  All additional materials should be included in the same pdf file that contains the four required documents.

Reviewing Process and Winner Announcement

The committee members are Ahmed Abbasi, Anindya Ghose, Nina Huang (ex-officio, VP-ISS), Beibei Li (Chair), and Arun Rai. Dissertations will be evaluated based on the following criteria: creativity and novelty, scope and magnitude of contribution to IS research, relevance to practice, technical quality, and richness of methodological approach.

The winner will be announced during the 2024 Conference on Information Systems Technology (CIST) in Seattle, WA. We invite the winners and all of our members to come celebrate the winners’ as well as our society’s achievements at the Award session. 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.