PROFESSOR MONIDEEPA TARAFDAR Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor of Information Systems Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 121 Presidents Drive, Amherst MA 01003, USA Email: mtarafdar@umass.edu SCHOLARLY PROFILE: Research and teaching profile focused around information systems strategy, management and use, with field research in large/SME organizations, doctoral program leadership/mentoring, teaching, policy engagement, and administration experience, in United States, United Kingdom, India, and Europe. External funding of more than one million USD as Principle Investigator. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Information systems strategy and business innovation, maladaptive and motivational use of IS, enterprise artificial intelligence, information systems in operations and supply chain management and healthcare operations, societal impacts of information systems. CURRICULAR INTERESTS: IS strategy and strategic information systems, digital innovation, strategic and organizational aspects of data analytics/AI/algorithms, dark side of information technology. A. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE 1. January 2021 – present: Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor of Information Systems 2. September 2013 – December 2020: Lancaster University (Management School), United Kingdom Professor of Information Systems and Co-Director, Research Center for Technological Futures - Co-Director, Doctoral Program (interdisciplinary program with Management School, School of Computing and School of Design), 2014-2019 - Lever Hulme Research Fellow – United Kingdom, 2017- 2018 - Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Sloan School of Management (CISR), August - December 2016 - Senior Fellow, Wiezenbaum Internet Institute, Berlin, 2019 3. August 2012 – August 2003: University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, USA Professor of Information Systems: August 2012 – August 2013 Associate Professor of Information Systems (tenured): August 2007 – July 2012 Assistant Professor of Information Systems (tenure - track): September 2003 – July 2007 4. September 2001 – August 2003: Assistant Professor (tenure track): University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA 5. 2007- 2018: Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India Dr. Monideepa Tarafdar, Curriculum Vitae, September 2021 Page 1 B. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 6. July 2018 - present: Scientific Advisor, Unplug, Dublin 7. Sept. 1995 to June 1996: Process Engineer: Philips India Limited, India 8. Sept. 1994 to Sept. 1995: Product Engineer: Tata Telecom Limited, India. C.EDUCATION 1. Doctoral – Ph.D. in Management: 2002, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India Major: Management Information Systems, Minor: Strategic Management 2. Graduate - Bachelor of Technology: 1994, University of Calcutta, India Majors: Electronics/Telecommunication Engineering 3. Undergraduate - Bachelor of Science (Honors): 1991, St. Xavier’s College, Calcutta, India Majors: Physics (Honors), Chemistry, Mathematics D. RESEARCH IMPACT 1. Scholarly: H index of 40, H10 index of 68, citations 9041 (Google Scholar). 2. Policy: Member (2018 – 2020) of the UK Government’s Digital Skills Inclusion Research Working Group, Department of Media, Culture and Society. Provide research inputs on digital well-being and digital skills, based on my research for government policy input 3. Practice: Scientific Advisor (2017-present) Unplug, Dublin. This is a start-up company that designs and conducts technology use/wellbeing related corporate training programs. I advise them on content based on my research 4. Media/Op-Eds: My research has had a global media coverage reach of 15 million across leading outlets across UK, USA, EU and Asia – Pacific. It has been featured in, among others, MIT Technology Review (US), Boston Globe (US), MSN (US), The Medium, HR Magazine (UK), The Guardian (UK), Personnel Today (UK), New Statesman (UK), Channel News Asia (Asia). In 2016, I was invited and presented my research live on BBC World News Television, London, (estimated audience global more than 350 million). E. AWARDS, RECOGNITION, KEYNOTES 1. Keynote 2021: Symposium on ‘Instruments for measuring psychosocial/physical stress and strain in the context of digitalization’ at the 56th Annual Conference for German Society for Social Medicine and Prevention, September 2021 2. Distinguished Member Cum Laude, Association of Information Systems, 2019 3. Reviewer Hall