Information Technology Management
Resume:
SINAN K. ARAL
th
Phone: 212-***-**** (O)
New York, NY, 10012. 617-***-**** (C)
Website: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~saral
Email: *****@*****.***.***
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2007
- Assistant Professor,
NYU Stern School of Business
Department of Information, Operations & Management Sciences
2008 - Research Affiliate,
MIT Sloan School of Management
EDUCATION
2007
MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA.
Ph. D
., Information Systems
Dissertation: Information, Technology & Information Worker Productivity
Chair: Erik Brynjolfsson
2001
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
M.P.P
., Information Technology Policy
1999
London School of Economics, London, U.K.
M.S
.c., Information Systems
1996
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
B.A
., Political Science
AWARDS & HONORS
2010 Microsoft Faculty Fellowship. (Description; ) Video
2010 PopTech Science and Public Leaders Fellowship. ( Description, ) Video
2009 NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
2009 IBM Faculty Award.
2009 Best Paper Nominee IT Economics - Intl. Conference on Information Systems.
2008 Best Overall Paper - International Conference on Information Systems.
2007 Best Dissertation, ACM SIGMIS Award.
2006 Best Overall Paper - International Conference on Information Systems.
2006 Best Paper IT Value Track - International Conference on Information Systems.
2006 Best Paper IT Economics Track - International Conference on Information Systems.
2005 Doctoral Consortium Fellow - Internati onal Conference on Information Systems.
2004, 2005 Gert & Daisy Daniels Fellowship, MIT.
2002, 2003 Duane Petersen Fellowship, MIT.
2001 Presidential Fellowship, MIT.
2001 Best Master s Thesis, JFK School of Government, Harvard University.
1999 Graduated with Distinction (2/180), London School of Economics.
1998, 1999 Information Systems Scholarship, London School of Economics.
1996, 1997 Fulbright Scholar, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
1996 Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University.
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1996
Graduated with Honors, Northwestern University.
1992-1995 Coon-Hardy Scholarship, Northwestern University.
RESEARCH GRANTS
2010 $200,000 Research Grant Microsoft Faculty Fellowship. Economic Consequences of
Information Diffusion in Massive Online Social Networks.
2009 $475,566 Research Grant NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) Award
Social and Economic Consequences of Information Diffusion in Networks.
2009 $35,000,000 Research Grant Army Research Labs. Center for Social and Cognitive
Networks. (Team of 29 researchers from 11 institutions. Individual Grant Portion:
$680,000).
2009 $40,000 Research Grant IBM Faculty Award. Unlocking the Business Value of
Information in Large Dynamic Social Networks.
2008 $50,000 Research Grant Office of the Dean of Faculty, NYU Stern School of
Business. The Economic Value of Online Networks: How Local Interactions Drive
Revenues Online. (with A. Sundararajan)
2008 $50,000 Research Grant Institute for Innovation and Information Productivity. The
Economic Value of Online Networks: How Lo cal Interactions Drive Revenues Online .
(with A. Sundararajan)
2008 $100,000 Research Grant Oracle Center for Enterprise Information and Innovation.
Unrestricted Grant for Research on Information Value.
2008 $200,000 Research Grant SAP. Enterprise By Design: Productivity, Demand
Prediction and Pricing in the Market for Enterprise Software as a Service.
2007 $15,000 Research Grant Marketing Sciences Institute. The Economic Value of Online
Networks: How Local Interactions Drive Revenues Online . (with A. Sundararajan)
2007 $200,000 Research Grant Cisco Systems, Center for Digital Business, MIT.
Collaboration and Trust in the Age of Globalization and Dispersion . (with E.
Brynjolfsson & M. Van Alstyne)
2007 $200,000 Research Grant SAP, Center for Digital Business, MIT. Micro-Level
Evidence on Enterprise Systems & Productivity: Best Practices, Process Replication &
the Delineation of Firm Boundaries. (with E. Brynjolfsson)
2006 $200,000 Research Grant Cisco Systems, Center for Digital Business, MIT.
Information, Technology & Information Worker Productivity: Results of a Natural
Experiment. (with E. Brynjolfsson & M. Van Alstyne)
2006 $150,000 Research Grant SAP, Center for Digital Business, MIT. Optimizing
Enterprise Systems for Productivity & Business Value: Benchmarking & Best
Practices. (with E. Brynjolfsson)
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Washington
DC. July. Title: Identifying Peer Influence and Social Contagion in Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Conference Presentation. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
Summer
Institute,
Cambridge, MA. July. Title: Creating Social Contagion through Viral
Product Design: A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Panelist. Sunbelt XXVIII Social Networks Conference, Garda Lake,
Italy.
June July. Title: Network Science Meets Web Science.
Aral, S. 2010. Conference Presentation. Sunbelt XXVIII Social Networks Conference, Garda
Lake,
Italy. June July. Title: Combining Netw ork Science and Textual Content Analysis
to Understand Information and Knowledge Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Conference Presentation. Sunbelt XXVIII Social Networks Conference, Garda
Lake,
Italy. June July. Title: Combining Netw ork Science and Textual Content Analysis
to Understand Information and Knowledge Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Conference Presentation. Sunbelt XXVIII Social Networks Conference, Garda
Lake,
Italy. June July. Title: Engineering Contagions: Identifying Optimal Seeing and
Virality Strategies in Social Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Conference Presentation. Sunbelt XXVIII Social Networks Conference, Garda
Lake,
Italy. June July. Title: Discovering the Network Structures that Support Massive
Distributed Collaboration in Wikipedia..
Sunbelt XXVIII Social Networks Conference, Garda Lake, Aral, S. 2010. Conference
Presentation.
Italy. June July. Title: Creating Social Contagion through Viral Product Design:
A Randomized Trial of Peer Influence in Networks.
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Aral, S. 2010. Conference Presentation. Proceedings of the Academy of Management
Conference,
Montreal, CA. August. Title: Combining Network Science and Textual Content
Analysis to Understand Information and Knowledge Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. Yahoo!. May. Title: Identifying Peer Influence and
Social
Contagion in Massive Social Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. International Conference on Network Science (NetSci).
May. Title:
Contagion and Causality in Network Diffusion.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. Microsoft, Redmond, WA. April. Title: Information
Diffusion in
Networks: Content, Contagion and Causality.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. NYU-Poly Workshop on Cloud Computing, New York, NY.
April.
Title: Strategic Implications of the Cl oud and the Procurement of Software as a
Service.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ. March.
Title:
Creating Social Contagion through Viral Product Design: A Randomized Trial of
Peer Influence in Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Conference Presentation. Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, Salt
Lake
City, UT. March. Title: Creating Social Contagion through Viral Product Design:
Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment.
Aral, S. 2010. Conference Presentation. Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, Salt
Lake
City, UT. March. Title: Cramer s Rule: How Information Content Moves
Markets.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. MIT, Cambridge, MA. March. Title: Distinguishing
Influence
Based Contagion from Homophily Driven Diffusion in Dynamic Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. Wharton, Philadelphia, PA. January. Title:
Distinguishing
Influence Based Contagion from Homophily Driven Diffusion in Dynamic
Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. Global Leaders Conference, Singapore. January.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong
Kong.
January. Title: Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion from Homophily Driven
Diffusion in Dynamic Networks.
Aral, S. 2010. Invited Speaker. National University of Singapore, Singapore. January.
Title:
Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion from Homophily Driven Diffusion in
Dynamic Networks.
Aral, S. 2009. Conference Presentation. Workshop on Information Systems Economics,
Phoenix,
AZ. December. Title: Cramer s Rule: How Information Content Moves Markets.
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Aral, S. 2009. Conference Presentation. Workshop on Information Systems Economics,
Phoenix,
AZ. December. Title: Identifying Peer Influence in Massive Online Social
Networks: A Platform for Randomized Experimentation on Facebook.
Aral, S. 2009. Conference Presentation. International Conference on Information Systems,
Phoenix, AZ. December. Title: Testing Three-Way Complementarities: Incentives,
Monitoring and Information Technology
Aral, S. 2009. Invited Speaker.
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Meeting on Methodology
for
Empirical Research on Social Interactions, Social Networks and Health (MERSIH)
November. Title: Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion from Homophily
Driven Diffusion in Dynamic Networks.
Aral, S. 2009. Invited Speaker. City University of New York (CUNY) Computer Science, New
York, NY. November. Title: Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion from
Homophily Driven Diffusion in Dynamic Networks.
Aral, S. 2009. Invited Speaker. MIT, Cambridge, MA. November. Title: Strategic
Implications of
the Cloud and the Procurement of Software as a Service.
Aral, S. 2009.
Invited Speaker. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. October. Title:
Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion from Homophily Driven Diffusion in
Dynamic Networks.
Aral, S. 2009. Invited Speaker. University of Chicago Innova tion, Organizations and
Society
Conference, Chicago, IL. October. Title: Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion
from Homophily Driven Diffusion in Dynamic Networks.
Aral, S. 2009. Conference Presentation. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), New
York,
NY. September. Title: Networks, Info rmation and Brokerage: The Diversity-
Bandwidth Tradeoff.
Aral, S. 2009. Conference Presentation. Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN), New
York,
NY. September. Title: Distinguishing Influence Based Contagion from Homophily
Driven Diffusion in Dynamic Networks.
Aral, S. 2009. Invited Panelist. Academy of Management Conferen ce, Chicago, IL. August.
Title:
Sociometric Badges:
Evidence Predicting Productivity in IT Configuration
Aral, S. 2008. Invited Speaker. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD,
November.
Title: Modeling Networks, Information & Economic Outcomes
Aral, S. 2008. Invited Speaker. SAP Academic Symposium, S unnyvale, CA. August. Title:
Incentive Systems & Information Technology
Aral, S. 2008. Invited Speaker. Center for Digital Business, MIT. CIO Symposium and
Annual
Conference, Cambridge, MA. May. Title: Networks, Information & Economic
Outcomes
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Aral, S. 2008. Invited Speaker. Stanford University, Management Science & Engineering
Division,
Palo Alto, CA, January. Title: Networks, Information & Social Capital
Aral, S. 2007. Invited Speaker. Harvard University, Eric M. Mindich Conference on
Computational Social Science, Cambridge, MA. December. Title: Networks,
Information & Economic Outcomes
Aral, S. 2007. Panelist. Harvard University, Eric M. Mindich Conference on Computational
Social
Science, Cambridge, MA. December. Title: Panel: The Future of Computational
Social Science
Aral, S. 2007. Conference Presentation. Workshop on Information Systems Economics,
Montreal,
CA. December. Title: Regional Economic Context and the Value of Firm Level IT
Investment
Aral, S. 2007. Conference Presentation. International Conference on Information Systems,
Montreal, CA. December. Title: Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in
Networks
Aral, S. 2007. Invited Conference Presentation . Informs Annual Meeting,
Seattle, WA.
November
.
Title: Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks
Aral, S. 2007. Invited Speaker. Chicago Graduate School of Busi ness, Chicago, IL.
October. Title:
Networks Structure & Information Advantage
Aral, S. 2007. Invited Speaker. Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA. October. Title:
Networks Structure & Information Advantage
Aral, S. 2007. Invited Speaker. IBM Watson Research Center - Services Research Seminar
Series,
Yorktown Heights, NY. October. Title: Information, Networks & Information
Worker Productivity
IT Business Value Track)
Aral, S. 2006. Invited Speaker. MIT Center for Digital Business, Cambridge, MA. November.
Title: Which Came First, IT or Productivity The Virtuous Cycle of Investment and
Use in Enterprise Systems
Aral, S. 2006. Invited Speaker. Yahoo! Social Networks Workshop, Sunnyvale, CA. July.
Title:
Information, Networks & Information Worker Productivity
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1. Aral, S. 2005. IT Savvy: Achieving Industry Leading Returns from your IT Portfolio
(with
Peter Weill) Center For Information Systems Research, MIT Research Briefing; July.
2. Aral, S. 2004. IT Savvy Pays Off (with Pe ter Weill) Center For Information Systems
CASES & RESEARCH BRIEFINGS
Research, MIT Research Briefing; October.
Aral, S. 2004. Managing the IT Portfolio: Re turns from Different Asset Classes (with
Peter 3.
Weill) Center For Information Systems Research, MIT Research Briefing; March
4. Aral, S. 2003. Managing the IT Portfolio (with Peter Weill) Center For Information
Systems
Research, MIT Research Briefing; March.
COURSES TAUGHT
Information Technology in Business and Society (C20.001), Spring 2010.
o Course Faculty Evaluations: Section 1: 6.4/7.0; Section 2: 6.5/7.0
Information Technology in Business and Society (C20.001), Spring 2009.
o Course Faculty Evaluations: Section 1: 6.4/7.0; Section 2: 6.5/7.0
Information Technology in Business and Society (C20.001), Spring 2008.
o Course Faculty Evaluations: Section 1: 6.2/7.0; Section 2: 6.6/7.0
Average Teacher Rating: 6.43/7.00
STUDENT ADVISING
Doctoral:
Lynn Wu (PhD Committee Member MIT, Current)
Sean Taylor (PhD Thesis Advisor NYU, Current)
Post-Doctoral:
Lev Muchnik (Post Doctoral Advisor NYU, Current)
Dylan Walker (Post Doctoral Advisor NYU, Current)
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Member 3 Member Junior Faculty Review Panel Search for new Editor in Chief (EIC) of
Information Systems Research; 2010.
Program Committee International Confer ence on Network Science (NetSci); 2010.
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Member of University Wide Panel supporting External Review of NYU Grant and Research
Fund Raising Initiatives; 2009.
Organizer Workshop on Information in Netw orks (WIN), NYU Stern School of Business;
2009, 2010.
Track Director Social Networking Research Track - Center for Digital Economy
Research
(CeDER); 2009- .
Organizer Information Systems Seminar Series, NYU Stern School of Business; 2007-
2009.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Appointed member of the Board of Academic Advisors, Institute for Innovation and
Information
Productivity. (2007 - )
Ad Hoc Reviewer for: American Journal of Sociology, Information Systems Research,
Management Science, MIS Quarterly, Organization Science, Proceedings of the National
Academy
of Sciences, Science.
NON-ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Charles River Venture Capital
; Cambridge, MA
2000
-2002Consultant
GeoPartners Research, Cambridge, MA (part time
)
2000
Consultant
Integral, Inc
., Cambridge, MA (summer)
1999
Research Associate
Field,
Fisher, Waterhouse, London U.K. (part time)
1997
-1998Assistant to the
Director
Department of Southern Mediterranean Relations (DG1B-E3)
European Commission, Brussels, Belgium (1997-1998
)
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