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Carlson School Professor of Information & Decision Sciences. CSOM Information &Decision Sci, CSOM MIS Quarterly, CSOM Information &Decision Sci 3-436 CarlSMgmt 321 19th Ave S Minneapolis, MN  55455 Phone: 612/626-0276 gupta037@umn.edu Personal URL

Education
PhD, 1996, management science and information systems, University of Texas-Austin
MS, 1991, electrical systems, Pennsylvania State University
BS, 1988, mining engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University

Alok Gupta is Curtis L. Carlson Schoolwide Chair in Information Management and Chair of Information and Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota; from 1996 to 2001 he was an Assistant Professor at Dept. of OPIM, University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science and Information from the University of Texas, Austin. His research has been published in various information systems, economics, and computer science journals such as Management Science, ISR, MIS Quarterly, CACM, JMIS, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Computational Economics, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Internet Computing, International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Information Technology Management, and Journal of Organizational Computer and Electronic Commerce. In addition, his articles have been published in several leading books in the are of economics of electronic commerce. He was awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for his research on dynamic pricing mechanisms on the internet. From 1999-2001, he served as co-director of Treibick Electronic Commerce Initiative (TECI), an endowed research initiative at Dept. of OPIM, University of Connecticut. He is also an affiliate of the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce (CREC) at the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as Senior Editor for ISR and an Associate Editor for Management Science. He also serves on the editorial boards of JMIS, DSS and Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics. He has been serving as Publisher of MIS Quarterly since 2005. He teaches courses in the areas of computer networking, electronic commerce, decision support, IT infrastructure, and computer programming at the undergraduate, MBA and Ph.D. levels.

Expertise
Electronic commerce
Network externality and pricing
Online auctions
Information security and digital rights management
Real-time mechanism
Information economics
Decision support systems
Data communications

Major Publications

• Overlapping Online Auctions: Empirical Characterization of Bidder Strategies and Auction Prices, Ravi Bapna, Seok-Joo Chang, Paulo Goes, and Alok Gupta, MIS quarterly (2009).
• "An Analysis of Incentives for Network Infrastructure Investment Under Different Pricing Strategies," Alok Gupta, Boris Jukic, Dale O. Stahl and Andrew B. Whinston, Information Systems Research (2009).
• "Designing Intelligent Software Agents for Auctions with Limited Information Feedback," Gedas Adomavicius, Alok Gupta and Dmitry Zhdanov, Information Systems Research (2009).
• Computational Infrastructure for Auctioning Vertically Integrated Online Services," Ravi Bapna, Paulo Goes, and Alok Gupta, Journal of MIS, 25 (3), Winter 2009, 65 - 98.
• Predicting Bidders' Willingness to Pay in Online Multi-Unit Ascending Auctions: Analytical and Empirical Insights, Ravi Bapna, Paulo Goes, Alok Gupta and Gilbert Karuga, INFORMS Journal of Computing, 20 (3), 2008, 345-355.
• Making Sense of Technology Trends in the IT Landscape: A Design Science Approach, Gedas Adomavicius, Jesse Bockstedt, Alok Gupta and Rob Kauffman, MIS Quarterly (2008).
• Market Forces and Unbiased Electronic Markets: A Theoretical Framework, Granados, Nelson, Alok Gupta, and Robert J. Kauffman, Journal of AIS (2006). [Winner Best Paper Award for JAIS, 2006 & Awarded IS Publications of the Year Award at ICIS 2007]
• "Towards Comprehensive Real-Time Bidder Support in Iterative Combinatorial Auctions," Alok Gupta and Gedas Adomavicius, Information Systems Research (2005).
• "Pricing and Allocation for Quality Differentiated Online Services," Alok Gupta, Ravi Bapna, and Paulo Goes, Management Science (2005).
• "GIST: A Model for Design and Management of Content and Interactivity of Customer-Centric Websites," Alok Gupta, Terri Albert, and Paulo Goes, Management Information Systems Quarterly (2004).
• "User Heterogeneity and its Impact on Electronic Auction Market Design: An Empirical Exploration," A. Gupta, R. Bapna, P. Goes, and Y. Jin, Management Information Systems Quarterly (2004).
• "Replicating Online Yankee Auctions to Analyze Auctioneers'' and Bidders'' Strategies," A. Gupta, R. Bapna, and P. Goes, Information Systems Research (2003).
• "Analysis and Design of Business-to-Consumer Online Auctions," A. Gupta, R. Bapna, and P. Goes, Management Science (2003).
• "Optimal Design of the Online Auction Channel: Analytical, Empirical, and Computational Insights," A. Gupta, R. Bapna, P. Goes, and G. Karuga, Decision Sciences (2002).
• "Integrating User Preferences and Real-Time Workload in Electronic Commerce," A. Gupta, P. Konana, and A. Whinston, Information Systems Research (2000).
• "Extracting Consumers'' Private Information for Implementing Incentive-Compatible Internet Traffic Pricing," Alok Gupta, Boris Jukic, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston, Journal of Management Information Systems (2000).
• "The Economics of Network Management," Alok Gupta, Dale O. Stahl, and Andrew B. Whinston, Communications of the ACM (1999).
• "A Stochastic Equilibrium Model of Internet Pricing," A. Gupta, D. Stahl, and A. Whinston, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (1997).

Courses

Fall, 2009

IBUS 3001 International Business Topics Sec.  002

IDSC 3001 Information Systems for Business Processes and Management Sec.  004

Current Editorial Appointments

• Associate Editor, Management Science
• Senior Editor, Information Systems Research
• Area Editor, Decision Support Systems
• Board of Editors, Journal of MIS
• Publisher, MIS Quarterly, 2005 -- Present
• Associate Editor, Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics
• Ad-hoc Departmental Editor, Management Science 2009.
• Ad-hoc Senior Editor, MIS Quarterly, 2009

Scholarly Service and Honors

• Innovation in Teaching Award, School of Business Administration, University of Connecticut, 2000
• NSF CAREER Award for research on online mercantile processes, 2001
• Online mercantile processes
• Mini-Track Co-Chair, Mini-Tracks on Intellectual Property Rights in Digital Economy, Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, 2001-present
• Program Committee Member, INFORMS CIST, 2002-2003
• Runner-up for best paper at the International Conference on Information Systems, 1997
• NSF panels, 1999-present
• Best 2006 Journal Paper Award from Journal of AIS, 2007
• IS Publications of The Year Award, AIS 2007.