Shivendu joined as Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Merage School of Business in July 2008. As a member of the Merage School faculty, Professor Shivendu teaches core courses in the MBA curriculum including Information Technology for Management.

Professor Shivendu is an accomplished researcher in the areas of economics of information systems, digital goods supply chain, forecasting and analytical modeling. His research focuses on the confluence of technology, economics and public policy. One of his early works (with Ramnath Chellappa) on personalization and privacy in online markets won the Best Paper Award in CIST 2003. Professor Shivendu has been published in the Information Systems Research Journal of Management Information Systems and Information Technology and Management. He is currently working on an article for Management Science and has several papers in progress in the areas of pricing and piracy of information goods, personalization and privacy in online markets and digital goods supply chain. A talented presenter and coach, Professor Shivendu has participated in numerous conferences and workshops around the world.

Professor Shivendu’s teaching experience includes a position as visiting lecturer and research associate for Decision and Information Analysis for the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, where he also served as a research associate on forecasting sales for the music industry. At the University of Southern California, Professor Shivendu worked as an assistant instructor teaching Applied Business Statistics and as a teaching assistant for the Introduction to microeconomics. He also worked as a research assistant at the Marshall School of Business and also at the Wrigley Institute of Environmental Studies.

Before moving to academia, Professor Shivendu has worked in India as a member of the Indian Administrative Service for more than a decade in senior administrative and policy-making positions in the state and federal government. He is a nationally recognized expert in innovative health financing products including voucher schemes for maternity services and community based health insurance. He won wide acclaim in public policy arena in India for effective institutional reforms, e-governance initiatives and design of incentives for private provision of public goods including delivery of social services.

Professor Shivendu holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southern California where he also earned his Master of Arts in Economics. Shivendu earned his Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management and his Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology.