Dr. Rajiv Kishore’s Grants and Awards

Grants

• National Science Foundation (NSF) (Grant #9907325) for the period 1999-2003 on “Information Systems Sourcing: A Multi-theoretic Analysis,”, Co-PI with H. Raghav Rao, competitively awarded in August 1999, renewed in August 2000, August 2001, and August 2002.
• Research Planning Grant (with Upadhyaya, S., Braynov, S., Cusick, T., Ghosh, S., Govindaraju, V., Jayaraman, B., Qiao, C., Rao, H. R., Reis, R., Selman, A. L., and Sharman, R.), “Securing the Cyberspace  – A Planning Proposal,” Office of Vice President for Research, State University of New York at Buffalo, competitively awarded in November 2002.
• Software License Award, The Brain Technologies Corporation, awarded in July 2000.
• Summer Research Award, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, competitively awarded in 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006.
• Small Grant for Research Interactions, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo, competitively awarded; 2003, 2004.
• Individual Development Award, State of New York and United University Professions, competitively awarded; 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006.
• Research Grant for IT Outsourcing research, Canada US Trade Center, J. Goo, PI and R. Kishore and H. R. Rao, Co-PIs, competitively awarded in May 2003.
• Exemplary Doctoral Student Award, Windfall Funding, College of Business Administration, Georgia State University, 1994.
• Unrestricted Academic Scholarship, Atlanta CASE Users Group, 1992.

Awards and Distinctions

• Certificate of Recognition, Identified by students in a year after survey of 2003 graduates as a teacher in the School of Management who had a positive influence on his students, April 2005.
• Nomination for a Best Paper Award – Organizational Systems and Technology Track, Thirty-Eighth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-38), January 2005. (Randeree, E., Kishore, R., and Rao, H. R., “Exploring the moderating effect of trust and privacy in the adoption of application service providers in the healthcare industry.”).
• Nomination for a Best Paper Award – Emerging Technologies Track, 2003 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2003), August 2003. (Zhang, H., Kishore, R., Ramesh, R. and Sharman, R., “The GRITICKA ontology for modeling multiagent-based integrative business information systems.”).
• Best Paper Award – IT Management Track, 2001 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2001), August 2001. (Agrawal, M., Kishore, R., and Rao, H. R. “The role of intermediaries in information services outsourcing: a testbed for simulation.”).
• Doctoral Dissertation nominated to the ICIS (International Conference on Information Systems) Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition after being chosen as the best doctoral dissertation from among three dissertations completed at Georgia State University during the period July 1, 1999 through June 30, 2000.
• Doctoral Consortium, Decision Sciences Institute, 1997
• Member, Phi Beta Delta National Honor Society for International Scholars, 1997
• Member, Beta Gamma Sigma, National Scholastic Honorary Society for Business School Students, 1997
• Invited Expert Faculty, Commonwealth Secretariat, UK, 1992
• “Person of the Year” Award, awarded by Chairman, CMC Limited, India, 1991
• Best Management Trainee Award; Winner of Chairman's Trophy – the “Wilkinson Sword,” awarded by Chairman, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, India, 1982