Paul Lowry

Biography 

Prof. Paul Benjamin Lowry is the Visiting Broadway Eminent Scholar at the Department of Business Analytics & Information Systems, at the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University, August 2025–December 2025. He is also an Eminent Scholar and the Suzanne Parker Thornhill Chair Professor in Business Information Technology at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, where he serves as the BIT Ph.D. and Graduate Programs Director. He is an AIS Fellow, and a member of the AIS College of Senior Scholars and the AIS College of Academic Leadership. He is a former tenured Full Professor at City University of Hong Kong and The University of Hong Kong, and was an invited distinguished visiting Full Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business School (Singapore) during August 2024 to July 2025. He received his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona, where he was advised by Jay F. Nunamaker, Jr., and an MBA from the Marriott School of Business. He has published 300+ publications, including 175+ journal articles in the Journal of Management Information Systems (JMIS), Information Systems Research (ISR), MIS Quarterly (MISQ), Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), Journal of Information Technology (JIT), Decision Sciences Journal (DSJ), various IEEE Transactions, and others. In the last 10+ years, he has been consistently ranked in the top 5 in the world in various top information systems journal rankings. He has been cited over 27,000 times, with an H-index of 80 and i-10 index of 192. He has formally taught, mentored, helped place, and co-authored with over 64 students who completed Ph.D. and DBA degrees. He is on the senior board of editors at the JMIS and is an AE at ISR. He has previously served as co-EIC of THCI; DE at DSJ; SE at JAIS, ISJ, and THCI; AE at ISJ, EJIS, I&M, ECRA, SGR, and CAIS. He has served in multiple guest SE and AE roles at MISQ, JMIS, EJIS, and JIT. His research interests include (1) organizational and behavioral security and privacy; (2) online deviance, online harassment, and computer ethics; (3) HCI, social media, and gamification; and (4) business analytics, decision sciences, innovation, and supply chains.