ISS President's Service Award – 2026
Call for Nominations
The INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) invites nominations for the ISS President's Service Award. This award honors distinguished information systems (IS) academics who have demonstrated outstanding dedication in their service to the IS community.
This award aims to recognize IS academics who have exhibited extraordinary dedication in serving the IS community over time. Nominees are expected to be deeply involved with ISS-related organization activities, administrative roles, and leadership positions that benefit the growth and impact of the IS field, the engagement of IS professionals, and broader impact to the IS and business community.
The ISS President's service award also recognizes IS academics who support the IS community across the globe and have a positive impact on underrepresented parts of the IS community.
Eligibility
This award focuses on recognizing information system (IS) faculty who have exhibited extraordinary dedication in serving the IS community. Nominees are deeply involved with various activities that benefitted the growth of the information system field and the engagement of IS professionals and academics.
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 (not to exceed two pages) description of the candidate's achievements and eligibility for the award, and should be accompanied with a CV and/or a bio. 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 Ravi Bapna (Chair), Bin Gu, Subodha Kumar, Xinxin Li, and Jianqing Chen (ex-officio, President-ISS).
The award selection committee will deliberate upon the pool of nominees solely based on the information available in the nomination letters, the candidates' CVs or bios, and any supporting materials submitted, and make recommendations to the President of ISS. Winners of the award will be notified before the CIST. To be fair to all nominees, the selection committee cannot review new information about the nominees nor will the committee revote on the nominees after the notifications have been sent to the winners and nominators. We kindly request nominators of the non-selected nominees to provide additional information about their nominees in the nomination letters the next year.
The society will announce the full list of 2026 ISS President's Service 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' 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.
It is a condition of the award that the ISS President's Service 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.