Awards and Honors

• 2018 Axiom Business Books Award (Gold in 'Business Technology' and Bronze in 'Economics').
• 2017 Thinkers50 Nomination for Top Digital Thinker Distinguished Achievement Award.
• 2017 Thinkers50 Radar Award for Top 30 Management Thinkers Globally.
• 2016 NSF EAGER Award.
• 2015 Best Paper in Management Information Systems Quarterly.
• 2015 Best Publication of the Association of Information Systems.
• 2015 Distinguished Fellow Award from the INFORMS IS Society.
• 2015 Best Paper Nomination CIST-INFORMS.
• 2015 Adobe Faculty Research Award.
• 2014 Best Paper in Management Science IS department from the last 3 years (2011-2013)
• 2014 Best Paper in Information Systems Research.
• 2014 Best Overall Conference Paper Award, American Marketing Association (AMA) Conference.
• 2014 Selected For Top 40 Under 40 Business School Professors by "Business Week".
• 2014 Selected For Top 200 Thought Leaders for Big Data and Business Analytics. by "Analytics Week".
• 2014 Kauffman Foundation Grant for “Crowdfunding Dynamics and its Impact on Entrepreneurial Landscape – Empirical Analysis using Big Data” (with G. Burtch and S. Wattal, $30,000).
• 2013 Google Faculty Research Award for “Mobile Analytics in the New Mobile Economy” ($66,500).
• 2012 Best Theme Paper Award, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS).
• 2012 Marketing Science Institute Grant for “Apps and Advertising in the Mobile Economy” ($15,500).
• 2012 SEI-Wharton Future of Advertising Grant for “Innovative Approaches to Measuring Advertising
  Effectiveness,” (with S. Han, $6000).
• 2012 Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative Grant for "Modeling Attribution, Interdependencies, and Optimal Marketing-Mix in Multichannel Environments" (with P. Singh and Q. Wang).
• 2012 SEI Center's Future of Advertising Program Grant for "Innovations in Advertising Effectiveness Measurement" (with S. Han, $6,000).
• 2012 Institute on Asian Consumer Insight (ACI) Grant for "Mobile Ad Effectiveness and App Adoption in Asian Markets"($30,000).
• 2011 Google Faculty Research Award "Designing Ranking Systems for Products on Search Engines Using Economic Theory Models for Improving Online Shopping" (with P. Ipeirotis, $60,000).
• 2011 Best Paper Award "Internet's Dirty Secret: Assessing the Impact of Technology Shocks on the Outbreaks of STDs" (with J. Chan), Workshop on Health IT & Economics (WHITE), University of Maryland at College Park.
• 2011 Daniel P. Paduano Fellowship in Business Ethics at NYU Stern School of Business.
• 2011 Best Paper Award International World Wide Web Conference.
• 2011 Selected to the 6th Biennial Marketing Science Institute Young Scholars Program.
• 2010 NSF IGERT Award, for "INSPIRE:Information Security and Privacy: An Interdisciplinary, Research and Education Program ", DGE-0966187, 2010-2015 ($ 2.9 million, with R. Karri, N. Menon, H. Nissenbaum, and R. Zimmerman).
• 2010 MSI-Wharton Interactive Media Initiative (WIMI) Grant for "Modeling Consumer Behavior in Social Media: Analyzing the Role of Geographical Location and Multichannel Usage in Microblogging Platforms," (with S. Han, $ 10,000).
• 2010 Google WPP Marketing Research Award, for "Modeling The Dynamics Of Consumer Behavior In Mobile Advertising And Mobile Social Networks," ($75,000).
• 2009 NSF Federal Cyber Service Scholarship For Service Award, for "ASPIRE: An SFS Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education", DUE-0911982, 2009-2011 ($ 2.12 million, with R. Karri, N. Menon, H. Nissenbaum, and R. Zimmerman).
• 2009 MSI-Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Grant for "The Economic Impact of User-Generated Content: Combining Text mining with Demand Estimation in the Hotel Industry,for " (with P. Ipeirotis).
• 2009 NET Institute Research Grant for "A Structural Model of User Learning and Dynamics in Mobile Media Content" (with S. Han).
• 2009 MSI-Wharton Interactive Media Initiative Grant for "User Content Generation and Usage in Digital Media: Interdependencies, Social Networks, and Mobile Advertising," (with S. Han).
• 2009 NYU-Poly Seed Grant for "The Economics of User-Generated Content in Online Social Media," (with V. Dhar and K. Ross, $73,500)
• 2008 NET Institute Research Grant for "Impact of Product Attributes and Geography in Search Engine Advertising: A Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling Approach".
• 2007 Best Conference Paper Award Nominee and Best Track Paper Award International Conference in Information Systems (ICIS 2007), "Estimating Menu Costs in Online Markets", (with B. Gu)
• 2007 Marketing Science Institute Grant "An Empirical Analysis of Search Engine Advertising," (with S. Yang, $ 10,000).
• 2007 Runner-Up Award for ISR Best Published Paper in Information Systems Research for "Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact", (with M. Smith and R. Telang).
• 2007 NET Institute Research Grant for "Using Text Analytics to Estimate the Economic Value of Online Product Reviews", (with P. Ipeirotis).
• 2007 NET Institute Research Grant for "An Empirical Analysis of Sponsored Search in Online Advertising", (with S. Yang).
• 2007 Microsoft Virtual Earth Award for the research proposal "Local Search for Hotels and Restaurants using Econometrics, Spatial Data, and Image Classification", (Unrestricted Cash Gift of $35,000, with P. Ipeirotis).
• 2007 NSF CAREER Award, "Identifying and Measuring the Economic Value of Information on the Internet", IIS-0643847, 2007-2012 ($ 500,000).
• 2006 NET Institute Research Grant for "Search Costs and Menu Costs in Electronic Markets: Theory and Evidence", (with B. Gu).
• 2006 NET Institute Research Grant for "Electronic Commerce and Local Competition", (with C. Forman and A. Goldfarb).
• 2006 Microsoft Live Labs Search Award for the research proposal "Combining Econometric and Text Mining Approaches for Measuring the Effect of Online Information Exchange", (Unrestricted Cash Gift of $37,000, with P. Ipeirotis).
• 2006 NYU Research Challenge Grant for "Consumer Use of Electronic Markets: An Empirical Analysis of New and Used Good Markets."
• 2005 ACM SIGMIS Best Doctoral Dissertation Award in ICIS 2005 (2nd place).
• 2005 NET Institute Research Grant for "Used Good Trade and Adverse Selection: A Cross-Country Comparison of Electronic Secondary Markets".
• 2005 NET Institute Research Grant for "Pricing and Product Line Strategies for Consumer Software", (with A. Sundararajan).
• 2005 Best Conference Paper Award Nominee, Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2005), "Welfare Implications of Secondary Electronic Markets", (with M. Smith and R. Telang).
• 2004 Best Conference Paper Award Nominee, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2004), "Price Elasticities and Social Welfare in Secondary Electronic Markets", (with M. Smith and R. Telang).
• 2003 Finalist, Third Annual e-BRC Doctoral Support Award Competition.