Student Excellence
Dean’s Award 2017, School of Management, University at Buffalo
- The Dean’s Award honors senior doctoral students who have demonstrated exceptional research and the highest potential as scholars, based on journal publications, research awards and presentations and papers at top conferences ($2500).
PhD Rising Star Award 2014, School of Management, University at Buffalo
- The award honors the first- or second-year doctoral student who has most exhibited exceptional early overall performance in the PhD program through their engagement with faculty on research, performance on coursework and contributions to the intellectual atmosphere of the School of Management ($1000).
Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities & Colleges 2016
- Featured in the Who’s Who list in an academic publication that compiles a list of outstanding students in the United States. Students are honored based on outstanding campus leadership, scholastic ability (includes a GPA requirement), leadership on and off campus, and community service.
Berner Award 2015 and 2016, School of Management, University at Buffalo
- Selected for research excellence among all School of Management PhD students to receive a grant for supporting my dissertation ($2600).
Graduate Assistantship, University at Buffalo (Spring 2012 – present)
Doctoral Consortia
ICIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow 2016, Dublin, Ireland
- 1 among 40 selected participants from around the world – for the most promising MIS PhD dissertation proposal. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) is the topmost conference in MIS academia. This doctoral consortium is very selective and the most prestigious.
ACM SIGMIS-CPR Doctoral Consortium Fellow 2017, Bengaluru, India
- Competitively selected to participate in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Management Information Systems (SIGMIS) Computers and People Research (CPR) Conference doctoral consortium chaired by leading scholars in the MIS academia.
AMCIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow 2016, San Diego, CA
- Competitively selected to participate in the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) doctoral consortium chaired by leading scholars in the MIS academia.
Award for Research Papers
AMCIS 2017 Best Paper Award Runner Up, Boston, Massachusetts
- Paper on meta-analyses of social presence-task performance relationship was selected as one of the three finalists for the best paper award from the entire AMCIS 2017 program. Over 1000 submissions were received from around the world..
Best PhD Poster Award 2016, School of Management, University at Buffalo
- Research poster on “MIS scholar research productivity” was awarded one of the two Best PhD Research Posters in a doctoral student poster competition within the School of Management where only selected posters from the entire school were presented by doctoral students ($1000).
Best Paper Nomination, WITS, Orlando, Florida, 2012
- Prototype of “Patient Safety Knowledge Management System” got nominated for INFORMS Information Systems Society Design Science Research Award 2012.