Professor Ramaprasad is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining UMD, she was an Associate Professor of Information Systems at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University on Montreal, QC. She received her doctorate in Management, Information Systems from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. She holds a B.S. from the University of Southern California.
Professor Ramaprasad’s research examines interactions on online platforms and their impact from multiple perspectives. Specifically, she studies the impact of platform features and social influence – measured by social media activity, social buzz, and social network characteristics – on user participation, interaction, consumption, and payment in online music and online dating platforms. More recently, her work has turned to examine the nefarious aspects of engagement in online communities, where she examines the interplay between online incivility and engagement.
Professor Ramaprasad has presented her work at a variety of IS conferences and to industry audiences. She and her co-authors were nominated for the best conference paper award at the flagship conference in IS, the International Conference on Information Systems, and won the best conference paper award at the Conference on Information Systems and Technology at INFORMS in October 2009. Her papers have been public at Information Systems Research, Management Information Systems Quarterly, and Management Science.
She has served as a chair of multiple conferences, including the Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) 2016 in Nashville, TN and CIST 2021 in Newport Beach, CA; the Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) 2014 in Auckland, NZ, WISE 2020 (online) and currently planning WISE 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand; and Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR) in 2012 in Montreal, SCECR 2020 (online), SCECR 2021 (online), and SCECR 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Professor Ramaprasad has served on a variety of other conference program committees as associate editor, session chair, track chair, discussant and reviewer. She reviews extensively for the top IS journals including Information Systems Research (ISR), officially serving on the ISR Editorial Review Board in 2023, Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), and Management Science. She is currently on the editorial board of ISR and Management Science, serving as an Associate Editor since January 2024 and February 2019 respectively. She has recently rolled off the editorial board of MISQ, where she served from 2017-2023.
