Indian American management guru Ramesh Sharda wins AMCIS 2025 Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Award

MONTREAL (TIP): Ramesh Sharda, an Indian American management guru is among the annual Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) Outstanding Conference Service Leadership Award for 2025.
Association for Information Systems’ award honors those who have made outstanding contributions in the form of service leadership to AMCIS. The AIS Vice President of Conferences announced the recipients of this year’s awards after AMCIS 2025 in Montréal, Canada.
The recipient of this award should show substantial engagement with AMCIS conferences and/or AMCIS ancillary events in a leadership position over a period of time (minimally, over two years or conferences). Candidates are nominated based on impact on the conference, contribution over time, and involvement with multiple roles and responsibilities, according to a media release.
Ramesh Sharda is the ConocoPhillips Chair and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University.
He recently returned to faculty after serving as the Vice Dean for Graduate Programs and Research in Spears Business for more than 10 years. He has coauthored two textbooks ( Analytics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support, 11th edition, Pearson and Business Intelligence, Analytics, and Data Science: A Managerial Perspective, 5th Edition, Pearson). His research has been published in major journals in management science and information systems including Management Science, Operations Research, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Interfaces, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and many others.
He is a member of the editorial boards of journals such as the Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, ACM Database, and others. Ramesh is a Fellow of INFORMS and AIS. He was the AMCIS Co-chair with Rob Nickerson for AMCIS 2009 (San Francisco) and 2016 (San Diego).
Sharda served as the Executive Director of Teradata University Network through 2020 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2016. He is also a co-founder of SIGDSA and the Big XII+ MIS Research Symposia series that has been active since 2003.
Sharda is a Fellow of INFORMS and AIS. He was awarded a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Aalto University Finland in 2023.