The AIS Leadership Excellence Award is given annually to a single person for leadership and innovation in the use and development of information systems. Jen Easterly is the recipient of the 2025 AIS Leadership Excellence Award.
The AIS LEO Award for Lifetime Exceptional Achievement in information systems, named after one of the world’s first commercial applications of computing (The Lyons Electronic Office), recognizes truly outstanding individuals in the information systems community, both academics and practitioners, who have made exceptional contributions to research in and/or the practice of information systems. 2025 LEO Award winners include: Patrick Y.K. Chau, Veda Storey, and Frantz Rowe.
The AIS Fellow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the information systems discipline in terms of research, teaching and service. 2025 AIS Fellows include: Roman Beck, Hsing Kenneth Cheng, Kai-Lung Hui, Gerald C. Kane, Joe Nandhakumar, Gale Oestreicher-Singer, Daniel E. O’Leary, Guy Paré, Jan Pries-Heje and J. Leon Zhao.
The AIS Jessica Pye Doctoral Student Service Award recognizes volunteer contributions made by doctoral students toward the success of AIS conferences, journals and programs. 2025 AIS Jessica Pye Doctoral Student Service Award winners are Himasmita Das, Biju B Varghese, and Hendrik Wache.
The AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award recognizes longstanding members who have provided leadership within the Association, particularly through such activities as participating in the SIGs/chapters/colleges, strengthening the conferences, and participating in AIS-sponsored journals. The 2025 Sandra Slaughter Service Award winners are: Michelle Carter, Elaine Mosconi, Shirish C. Srivastava.
The AIS Early Career Award recognizes individuals in the early stages of their careers who have already made outstanding research, teaching, and/or service contributions to the field of information systems. The 2024 AIS Early Career Award winners are: Dominik Gutt, Hyeokkoo Kwon, Tapani Rinta-Kahila, Dandan Qiao, Lusi Yang, and Mingwen Yang.
The AIS Mid-Career Award was introduced in 2024 and recognizes individuals in the middle stages of their careers who have already made outstanding research, teaching, and/or service contributions to the field of information systems. the 2025 AIS Mid-Career Award winners are:
- Warut Khern-am-nuai, McGill University
- Jingjing Zhang, Indiana University
- Zhijie Lin, Tsinghua University
- Christoph Breidbach, The University of Queensland
- Chong Wang, City University of Hong Kong
- Vilma Todri,
The AIS Impact Award recognizes the impact of information systems research beyond academia. Impactful research can be a powerful individual motivator. Seeing that one’s own research delivers societal value and helps business succeed is rewarding in its own right. 2025 winners include:
- Signe Agerskov, IT-Universitetet i København
- Asger Balle Pedersen, IT-Universitetet i København
- Ting Li, Erasmus University Rotterdam,
- Zherui Yang, IE Business School,
- Andy Tao Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
- Sean Xin Xu Tsinghua University
- Cheng Yi, Tsinghua University
- Dr Tom James , Welsh Government
- Rod Thomas, Health Innovation South West,
- Daniel Rees, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
- Denis Dennehy, Swansea University / Prifysgol Abertawe
The AIS Leadership Team Recognition Award is special recognition for an elected council member’s dedication to the mission of the association. This award was conferred upon Hope Koch, Susanne Strahringer, Xue Yang, Vladimir Zwass.
The AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching recognizes innovation in teaching approaches/techniques (pedagogy) as well as in delivering courses and programs. This award specifically focuses on the uniqueness/innovativeness that increases student interest and drives achievement. The 2024 AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching award winners are:
- Noel Carroll | University of Galway
- Daniel O’Leary | University of Southern California
- Xingwei (Nancy) Yang | Toronto Metropolitan University
The AIS Technology Challenge Award is given to the most significant contributions to the continued development of a community of IS Scholars on AISNet (including AISWorld) in the preceding year. The 2025 AIS Technology Challenge Award Recipient is Ramona Ionescu.
The AIS Technology Vision Award is given to those who have contributed to the technology vision for the association. Whereas the ATLAS and the Challenge Awards represent those that have contributed by developing a resource, the VISION award is given to those that have articulated a strategic thrust for the association. The 2025 recipients are:
- Monica Garfield, Bentley University
- Traci Carte, Illinois State University
- Michael Dohan, Lakehead University
- Alanah Mitchell, Drake University
- Alan Dennis, Indiana University
The AIS Best Conference Paper in IS Education Award recognizes the importance of pedagogy research in the Information Systems field. The 2025 Education for Best Conference Paper in IS Education Award recipients are Janaina Aniceto and Jacqueline Corbett.
The Ting Peng Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award was established in 2021 in memory of Professor Ting Peng Liang who founded PACIS and PAJAIS, served AIS President, and received AIS Fellow and LEO Award. This award recognizes the outstanding young scholar who contributed a best paper at PACIS each year. The 2025 Ting Peng Liang PACIS Young Scholar Award goes to Jiayuan Zhang.
The ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award has been awarded annually to at least one outstanding MIS dissertation. Kahlid Durani is the SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award recipient.
The rest of the Paper Awards can be viewed here.
View the ICIS 2025 Awards Booklet.