Officers

Jayan Chirayath Kurian

E-Mail: jayanchirayathkurian@uts.edu.au
Term: 2026

Jayan Kurian is a Lecturer and an experienced Information Systems researcher and developer who is passionate about the realisation of technology that aids humans in spatial computing, business process management and digital transformation. He has a particular interest in mixed and virtual reality systems and their application in aged care, emergency management, contact sports and education. He has led the development of institutional repository for the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore to address real-world problems faced in archiving scholarly articles in a university setting. Jayan was a member of the DSPace Leadership group and was the primary mentor for two projects funded by Google and the DSpace Foundation while working at the Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore. He was invited to attend the Google Summer of Code Mentors’ summit at Google, California. Jayan received the eINDIA award for the best ICT enabled University of the year while working on the SIP@IR Google Summer of Code project. He has professional certifications from PegaSystems, Oracle, Microsoft, SUN Microsystems, Prosoft and CompTIA. He was appointed as a Subject Matter Expert by the Computing Technology Industry Association and as a Judge in the Singapore National Skills Competition. His research examines the communication patterns on the Social Networking Sites of Emergency Management Organisations and has been published in Computer and Education, Online Information Review, FirstMonday, Hawaii International conference on Information Systems, PACIS, ACIS, AIS-SIGEd, and AMCIS. Jayan received his M.Phil in Computer science and Information Technology from the University of Nottingham and PhD degree (2019) from the University of Canberra. Jayan also finds time to help his community through his volunteer work at the ACT State Emergency Services and is a recipient of the Canberra Citizen of the Year Award 2020.

Dimitrios Tsekouras

E-mail: dtsekouras@rsm.nl
Term: 2026

Dr. Dimitrios Tsekouras is an Associate Professor of Transformative Education and the Academic Director of MSc Business Information Management at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University. With experience across the educational ranks (bachelor, MSc, Exec. Education, industry workshops), Dimitrios has developed and is currently teaching courses in the area of Digital Commerce and Digital Business, Research Methods, and Negotiations. Dimitrios’ research interests focus on how information can influence online decision-making and consumer behavior. Dimitrios is an expert in online personalization, recommendation systems, (generative) AI, business analytics, and reputation systems. In his research portfolio, Dimitrios has an inter-disciplinary approach, combining (large-scale) field experiments in close collaboration with firms, observational data, lab experiments and online surveys. His work has appeared in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, Information & Management, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, as well as in multiple international conferences (International Conference of Information Systems, European Conference of Information Systems, INFORMS, Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Marketing Science, ACR, Statistical challenges in E-Commerce Research, Academy of Management). Dimitrios obtained his Ph.D. and MSc in Marketing at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University. Prior to joining academia, Dimitrios worked in the marketing & sales departments in the retail sector (FMCG) and movie & entertainment industry.

Rosetta Romano

E-mail: rosetta.romano@canberra.edu.au
Term: 2026

Rosetta Romano is an Assistant Professor of Information Technology and Systems in the Faculty of Science & Technology at the University of Canberra. She is an Information Systems researcher. Information systems involve humans, processes, and technology to solve business problems. Her Ph.D. research used information systems to compare the legislative burden on an individual being assessed as an ‘Australian resident’ by the government in the welfare, taxation, and immigration settings. An ontology can be used to describe the relationships between things in a system.

After 36 years in the Australian Public Service, she accepted a role at the university where she completed her Bachelor of Arts (Accounting), Master by Research, and Ph.D. part-time studies. As one of two early adopters, she volunteered and developed an Indigenised curriculum for Information Technology. A first for the faculty. In 2021, the work received an international Best Conference Paper award. In 2022, the work attracted a national grant and a University of Canberra Teaching Award for a Program that enhances student learning.

In 2023 she is embarking on a sabbatical to concentrate on her emerging cyber security research. Funding this research are Surround Australia (experts in visualizing the relationships in data to create business knowledge) and Pathfinders Ltd (a not-for-profit company delivering programs and services aiming to improve the quality of life and well-being for children, youth, and families). The aim of the sabbatical is to demonstrate the use of information systems to assist Indigenous, micro, small, and medium businesses to make sense of the cyber security standards that exist to avoid minimum sets of risks that are inherent when operating connected systems. A handbook will be written and reviewed by Indigenous, micro, small, and medium businesses in Australia to support them in understanding why compliance with cyber security standards is so important.

Simon Thompson

E-mail: simon.thompson@anu.edu.au
Term: 2025-2026

Simon Thompson is a Lecturer of Management in the Research Schoo of Management at the Australia National University.

Simon teaches a range of courses across Information Systems, Project Management, and Leadership.
He is starting a Master of Philosophy program at the Australian National University in 2025 aiming to blend his different interests together.

Simon worked in the Australian Public Service for 15 years and other private organisations for a further 10 years.
His time in industry helps to provide context and narrative examples for his teaching and research.

Toon Abcouwer

E-Mail: Toon Abcouwer
Term: 2025-2026

Toon works at the University of Amsterdam at the Faculty of Science. His research interest is on how organisations deal with crises. Especially the different roles that information and information systems play in the various phases of crisis handling has his particular interest. Management must learn to deal with the problem to integrate that roles in one single Information systems infrastructure. Based on the understanding of these organisational change processes, he published several articles with a focus on the requirements for eLearning in the different phases of the change processes. Do we teach our students to deal with challenges now, in the foreseeable future or the unknown future? And how do we develop information infrastructures that facilitate these different learning processes organisations go through?

Tania Prinsloo

E-mail: Tania Prinsloo
Term: 2025-2026

Tania Prinsloo is a senior lecturer in Informatics at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. She obtained her doctorate in 2018 and her research focus is two-fold: ICT for Agriculture and ICT for Education, both falling under the auspices of ICT4D. In 2018, she received the Newton grant and visited the School of Agriculture of the University of Reading for six weeks. She wrote an article for SIGED with a colleague from Reading about MOOCs, also in 2018. In recognition of her research publication outputs, the National Research Foundation of South Africa awarded her a Y2 researcher rating in 2020, classifying her as a young researcher having the potential to be recognised internationally for the research she is doing. In total, she has published five journal publications and ten conference publications. She also published an article in The Conversation Africa in 2019, which attracted significant attention.

Riana Steyn

E-mail: riana.steyn@up.ac.za
Term: 2025-2026

Riana Steyn is an associate professor in the Informatics department at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and holds a Ph.D. in Informatics from the University of Pretoria.

Riana’s research focuses mainly on technology-enhanced teaching techniques and learning in higher education. She is actively involved in international research projects based on teaching practices and exploring micro-credential viability for higher education and programmatic assessments. She is also actively engaged in entrepreneurial research in the South African context and has recently published work in 4IR for the entrepreneurial and education sectors. She has published numerous articles in various national and international conferences and journals, including Communications of the AIS (CAIS), PLOSONE, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Trends in Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research, Int. J. of Innovation and Technology Management (IJITM) and The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

She is the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) South African rep for TC3, the Education track. Riana received the 2019 – UP Teaching Excellence Laureates awarded by the University of Pretoria, 2018/2019, and the AIS Award for Innovation in Teaching, awarded by AIS World in 2018.

Craig Van Slyke

E-mail: vanslyke@latech.edu
Term: 2025-2026

.Craig Van Slyke is the Mike McCallister Eminent Scholar Chair in Information Systems at Louisiana Tech University. Before joining Tech, he was professor and dean of the W.A. Franke College of Business at Northern Arizona University, and before that, professor, associate dean and department chair at Saint Louis University. He has also held faculty positions at the University of Central Florida, and Ohio University. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. His current research focuses on behavioral aspects of information technology, cyber security, and privacy. Dr. Van Slyke has published over sixty articles in respected journals including Communications of the AIS, Decision Sciences, Communications of the ACM, European Journal of Information Systems, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, and Journal of the Association for Information Systems.  The fifth edition of his fourth co-authored textbook, Information Systems in Business: An Experiential Approach, was published in 2024.

Kranthi Addanki

E-mail: kranthi.addanki@jcu.edu.au
Term: 2026-2028

Dr. Kranthi Addanki is a lecturer in Information Technology at James Cook University (JCU). She is a learning science enthusiast experimenting with ways to improve student performance using various digital technologies supported by teaching models. Her research includes Artificial Intelligence, Learning Analytics, Natural Language Processing, Digital Twins, and Nudge technologies. She is a qualitative and mixed-methods researcher studying adult student engagement with online and blended learning models in higher education. She was a co-director for the Queensland AI hub Townsville chapter and an expert speaker at various AI literacy workshops upskilling local communities in Cairns’ region through JCU Founder-in-residence portfolio. Kranthi serves as a mentor in Women in Professional Leadership and Community Mentoring Program as a part of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education community.

Vasso Stylianou

E-mail: Vasso Stylianou
Term: 2026

Dr. Vasso Stylianou is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Management Information Systems, and the Program Coordinator for the undergraduate program of Computer Science, at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus.  She received a Doctorate Degree from the Middlesex University, UK, for research work in the area of Knowledge Management.  She also holds an MBA degree with concentration on Information Systems from the MSM Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands, a BSc in Computer Science from Intercollege, Cyprus and an ASc in Business Data Processing from the University of Indianapolis, USA.  She is a dedicated academic, with a long experience in tertiary education, and researcher with a number of publications in book chapters, academic journals and international conference proceedings.  She has attended and presented her work in several international conferences.  She has also served as a reviewer and a member of the organizing and scientific committees of international conferences and journals.  Her research interests include Knowledge Management, ICT in Education, E-Learning, Databases, and Computer Graphics.  She is currently researching issues relating to Creative Thinking and Learning, Gamification in Education, and Knowledge Management.