Office: 4022, RAWLS Phone: 765-494-3414 Email: kkarthik at purdue.edu

Karthik Kannan is an Associate Professor at Purdue's Krannert School of Management.  He is the originator of the concept called "Design for Instincts," as a way to organize businesses in the current age. To learn more about the concept, visit http://www.designforinstincts.com.

His research also can be themed along the same dimension "design for instincts."  His research work tries to understand and sometimes even manipulate human's instinctive behavior in specific contexts through the use of information technology.  You can learn more about his research from here.  He works on two primary research streams 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, andConference 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 currently serves/has served as an Associate Editor for Management Science, Information Systems Research, and MIS Quarterly. He is a member of AIS and INFORMS. He is also a CERIAS Fellow and Krannert's Faculty Fellow.

At Purdue, he teaches the IT course in the MBA programs  (in the regular, weekend, and Exec Ed MBA).  He has also been a visiting faculty member at GISMA and ISB.  Earlier he has taught undergraduate required course as well as a database course.

Prior to joining Purdue, he obtained his PhD in information systems, MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and MPhil in Public Policy and Management all from Carnegie Mellon University.  His undergraduate degree is in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NIT Trichy (formerly, REC Trichy).  Before joining the graduate school, he worked with Infosys Technologies for a couple of years.