Dr. Pratyush Nidhi Sharma is the H. Taylor Morrissette Endowed Faculty Fellow, Associate Department Head, and Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Information Systems, Statistics and Management Science, in the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse College of Business. Dr. Sharma’s interdisciplinary research interests focus on the development, application, and the impact of Information Systems. On the technology supply side, his work investigates how online collaboration communities can better develop technological artifacts such as open source software. On the demand side, his research investigates factors that affect individual and organizational adoption of information technologies, and the effect on user satisfaction and firm performance.

Dr. Sharma has published in distinguished management research journals, has served as an associate editor for ICIS, session chair at INFORMS, and is a member of the scientific advisory committee for the 2020 International Conference on Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling, and teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses. He has also been selected as a Fellow of the University of Alabama’s 2024-25 Leadership U program. Dr. Sharma received a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, master’s in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo, and bachelor’s in Computer Science & Engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India.