Education

• Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1997 - 2003

• Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration, Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Bombay, India, 1995 - 1997.

• Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), Anna University, Madras, India, 1990 - 1994.
  

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Research and Teaching Interests

Professional Honors and Awards

• Teaching Excellence Award, Baruch College, 2009

• Faculty Scholarship and Creative Achievement Award, Baruch College, 2004, 2006, 2008

• Eugene Lang Fellowship, 2006

• ICIS Doctoral Consortium Scholar, 2001

• Dean Earle MacPhee Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 1997-2000

Selected Publications

• Ofer Arazy, Nanda Kumar and Bracha Shapira, Social Recommendations Systems: A Theory-Driven Framework for Social Recommender Systems, IEEE IT Professional, Vol. 11, Issue 4, 2009

• Abbe Mowshowitz and Nanda Kumar, Then There Were Three: Consolidation in the Search Engine Industry and Its Impact on Information Access and Control, IEEE Computer, Vol. 42, Issue 2, pp 114-116, 2009.

• Nanda Kumar and Roumen Vragov, Active Citizen Participation Using ICT Tools: The Road Less Traveled, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp 118-121, 2009.

• Kannan Mohan, Nanda Kumar and Raquel Benbunan-Fich, Aligning Individual Communication Media Characteristics with Task, Information and Process Characteristics: An Investigation Using Traceability in Software Development, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Vol. 52, Issue 1, pp 17-39, 2009.

• Martin Yu, Karl Lang and Nanda Kumar, Internationalization of Online Professional Communities: An Empirical Investigation of AIS-ISWorld, International Journal of Electronic Collaboration, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp 13-21, 2009.

• Nanda Kumar, Kannan Mohan and Richard Holowczak, Locking the Door but Leaving the Computer Vulnerable: Factors Inhibiting Home Users’ Adoption of Software Firewalls, Decision Support Systems, Vol. 46, Issue 1, pp. 254-264, 2008.

• Abbe Mowshowitz and Nanda Kumar, Internet Governance Forum: Leveraging Multi-Stakeholder Participation to Reduce Digital Divide and Improve Freedom of Expression, IEEE Technology and Society, Vol. 27, Issue 2, pp 33-36, 2008.

• Nanda Kumar and Karl Lang, Do Search Terms Matter? The Interplay between Specification of Search Engine Queries and Clustering Support, Decision Support Systems, Vol. 44, pp 159-174, 2007.

• Abbe Mowshowitz and Nanda Kumar, Net Neutrality: Private vs. Public Interest on the Internet,  Communications of the ACM, 50(7), pp. 23 - 25, 2007.

• Nanda Kumar and Izak Benbasat, The Influence of Recommendations and Consumer Reviews on Evaluations of Websites,  Information Systems Research, 17(4), pp. 425 - 439, 2006.

• Roumen Vragov and Nanda Kumar, Electronic Markets for the Allocation, Financing and Distribution of Public Goods, Electronic Markets, 16(4), pp. 274 - 281, 2006

• Nanda Kumar and Charlie Peng, Strategic Alliances in E-Government Procurement,   International Journal of Electronic Business, 4(2), pp. 136 - 145, 2006.

• Nanda Kumar and Abbe Mowshowitz, Who Should Govern the Internet?, Communications of the ACM, 49(2), pp. 35 - 37, 2006.

• Nanda Kumar, Karl Lang and Charlie Peng, Consumer Search Behavior in Online Shopping Environments, e-Service Journal, 3(3), pp. 87 - 102, 2005.

• Nanda Kumar and Izak Benbasat, The Effect of Relationship Encoding, Task Type and Complexity on Information Representation: An Empirical Investigation of 2D and 3D Graphs, MIS Quarterly, 28(2), pp. 255 - 281, 2004.

• Nanda Kumar and Izak Benbasat, Para-Social Presence and Communication Capabilities of a Web Site: A Theoretical Perspective, e-Service Journal, 1(3), pp. 5 - 24, 2002.

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