Office: 489, KRAN Phone: 765-494-3414 Email: kkarthik at purdue.edu

Professor Kannan’s current research focuses on markets and pricing of information goods/services through auctions, and economics of information security. His papers have been accepted in several leading conferences and journals in the information systems area, including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Workshop on Information Technology and Systems, Workshop on Information Systems Economics, International Conference on Information Systems, and Conference on Information System and Technology. His papers have won the Best Paper Awards in the 10th and the 15th Annual Workshop on Information Technology and Systems. He is a member of AIS and INFORMS. He is also affiliated with CERIAS.

A report he prepared with his colleagues, Professors Jackie Rees and Eugene H. Spafford, for McAfee Inc. received media coverage (e.g., CNET, Bloomberg) and, with respect to that report, he is quoted in Forbes.

Professor Kannan's teaching interests include database management, electronic commerce and telecommunication. He typically teaches the core MIS course in both the undergraduate and the graduate programs at Krannert. He has been recognized as a distinguished teacher on both the occasions he has taught in the MBA program.