BD-US professor receives career award

FE Team | Published: December 04, 2018 22:15:30

Saifur Rahman

Bangladeshi-American Dr. Mohammad Saifur Rahman, an associate professor of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, has been honoured with the 2018 INFORMS's Information Systems Society (ISS) Sandy Slaughter Early Career Award.
INFORMS is the world's largest professional association dedicated to and promoting best practices and advances in operations research, management science, and analytics to improve operational processes, decision-making, and outcomes, said a statement.
Rahman was honoured with the award during a conference recently on information and systems and technology. President of Information Systems Society (ISS) Dr. Ramnath K Chellappa handed over this award to Rahman,
The prize recognises Rahman as an early career individual on a path toward making outstanding intellectual contributions to the information systems discipline.
Earlier, Rahman was also named one of the 'World's Top 40 Business School Professors under 40' by Poets and Quants in 2017.
He is one of world's leading experts in Digital Transformations. His research primarily focuses on Digital Business, Big Data, Omni-channel Retailing, Technology Usage, Retail and Web Analytics, and Consumer Behavior and Decision Making.