Paul Benjamin Lowry

Biography

Prof. Paul Benjamin Lowry, Ph.D. is an Eminent Scholar and the Suzanne Parker Thornhill Chair Professor in Business Information Technology at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech where he serves as the BIT Ph.D. and Graduate Programs Director. He is a former tenured Full Professor at both City University of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and an MBA from the Marriott School of Business. He has published 280+ publications, including 160+ journal articles in the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Information Systems Research (ISR), MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), various IEEE Transactions, and others. In the last 10+ years, he has been consistently ranked in the top-5 in the world in various top information systems journal rankings. He is a Department Editor (DE) at Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ). He is on the senior board of editors at the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS). He also is a Senior Editor (SE) at Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) and Information Systems Journal (ISJ), and an Associate Editor (AE) at Information Systems Research (ISR). His research interests include (1) organizational and behavioral security and privacy; (2) online deviance, online harassment, and computer ethics; (3) HCI, social media, and gamification; and (4) business analytics, decision sciences, innovation, and supply chains.