Officers

SIGDSA OFFICERS

For the year 2023-24, the new officers of SIGDSA are as follows:

  1. Chair: Aleš Popovič,  NEOMA Business School, France (ales.popovic@neoma-bs.fr)
  2. Vice-Chair: Vic Matta, Ohio University (matta@ohio.edu)
  3. Recent past chair: Ciara Heavin, University College Cork (c.heavin@ucc.ie)
  4. Program Chair: Shwadhin Sharma, California State University, Monterey Bay (ssharma@csumb.edu)
  5. Program Chair-elect: Amir Zadeh, Wright State University (amir.zadeh@wright.edu)
  6. Secretary/Treasurer:  Stephen McCarthy, University College Cork (stephen.mccarthy@ucc.ie)
  7. Communication Chair/Student Ambassador: Richard Harris 

 SIGDSA ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

  1. Chair: Lakshmi Iyer, Professor and Department Head, Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, UNC Greensboro (Lsiyer@uncg.edu), Term 2 expires June 2024
  2. Babita Gupta, California State Univ. Monterey Bay (bgupta@csumb.edu), Term 2 expires June 2024
  3. Ozgur Turetken, Ryerson University (turetken@ryerson.ca), Term 2, expires June 2024
  4. Gloria Phillips-Wren, Loyola University Maryland (gwren@loyola.edu), Term 2. expires June 2026
  5. Amit Deokar, University of Massachusetts Lowell, (Amit_Deokar@uml.edu), Term 2, expires June 2026
  6. Ashish Gupta, Auburn University, (azg0074@auburn.edu),  Term 1, expires June 2025
  7. Sagnika Sen, Pennsylvania State University (sagnika.sen@psu.edu), Term 1, expires June 2025

SIGDSA PAST CHAIRS

  1. Paul Gray (Founding Past Chair) 2002-2004
  2. Daniel J. Power 2002-2004
  3. Michael Goul 2004-2005
  4. Ramesh Sharda 2005-2006
  5. Karen Corral 2006-2007
  6. Frada Burstein 2007-2008
  7. David Paradice 2008-2009
  8. Jim Courtney 2009-2010
  9. Uday Kulkarni 2010-2011
  10. Dianne Hall 2011-2012
  11. Gloria Phillips-Wren 2012-2013
  12. Lakshmi Iyer 2013-2014
  13. Ozgur Turetken 2014-2015
  14. Babita Gupta 2015-2016
  15. Thilini Ariyachandra 2016-2017
  16. Amit V. Deokar 2017-2018
  17. Uzma Raja 2018-2019
  18. Ashish Gupta,  2019-2020
  19. Sagnika Sen, 2020-2021
  20. Haya Ajjan, 2021-2022

SIGDSA EMERITUS BOARD MEMBERS

  1. Andrew Whinston
  2. Barbara Wixom
  3. Henk Sol
  4. Hugh Watson
  5. Jim Courtney
  6. Murray Turoff
  7. Steve Alter
  8. Ralph W. Sprague
  9. Uday Kulkarni
  10. Frada Burstein 
  11. David Paradice 
  12. Ramesh Sharda - Recent Past Board Chair