V.S. Prakash Attili

Dr. Prakash Attili holds a Ph.D. in the Information Systems (IS) area from the Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras. He won the Best Doctoral Student Award (2017) from the Association of Information Systems (AIS), USA. He pursued his master’s degree from IIT Bombay, specializing in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. He has completed his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Andhra University (University First, Gold Medal).

He has more than 17 years of extensive experience in IT Service Delivery and Corporate Training. This includes 6 years of client-facing roles in USA, A decade of management experience in driving global, large-scale IT projects. He is also an Agile Coach and Certified Scrum Master and has acted as Strategic Advisory for multiple teams. He has been part of leadership teams in his earlier organization and has won the prestigious Award of Excellence as Most Valuable Contributor in 2016 and 2018.

He has published in various refereed journals and conferences including, Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Pre-International Conference On Information Systems (ICIS) workshops, etc. He has delivered invited talks, keynote speeches and presented research work at prestigious industry forums like CII, ISACA, DSCI, EFY, and SPIN. He is a Member of AIS, ISACA and DSCI. Currently serving as Treasurer (Executive Committee) of AIS India Chapter to support academic and professional activities of the Information Systems community in India.

He actively contributed as an industry expert to the AICTE review committee (headed by MHRD), to restructure and strengthen the technical education in India. As a member of the Board of Studies / Industry Expert has contributed to the development of course curriculum for various universities, including SRM University, Vellore Institute of Technology, Veltech University, B. S. Abdur Rahman University, and M.O.P. Vaishnav College for Women. He actively participated in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) activities of Infosys like Rural Reach Program (RRP) - to create awareness of Computers among rural school children and Catch Them Young (CTY) to train high school students in the power of Information Technology.

Current Research Interests:

• Agile Transformation
• IT Program Management
• Information Privacy
• Cyber Security

Referred Journals:

• Attili, V.S.P., Mathew, S.K. & Sugumaran, V. (2021). Information Privacy Assimilation in IT Organizations. Inf Syst Front. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10796-021-10158-0 [ ‘A’ Category Journal as per ABDC classification]
• Chillakuri, B. and Attili, V.S.P. (2021), Role of blockchain in HR's response to new-normal, International Journal of Organizational Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-08-2020-2363 [ ‘B’ Category Journal as per ABDC classification]
• Attili, V. S. P., S. K. Mathew and V. Sugumaran (2018). Understanding Information Privacy Assimilation in IT Organizations using Multi-Site Case Studies, Communications of the Association for Information Systems: Vol. 42, Article 4. DOI: 10.17705/1CAIS.04204. [ ‘A’ Category Journal as per ABDC classification]

Conference Proceedings:

• Narayanan, Sudarshan and Attili, V S Prakash (2021, August), Combating the spread of fake news on social media through a blockchain-led intervention. AMCIS 2021 Proceedings. 10.
• Bhushan, Vishwa and Attili, V S Prakash (2021, August), Role of Knowledge Management in Agile Execution during Pandemic. AMCIS 2021 Proceedings. 4.
• V Chandra and VSP Attili (2020, December), Privacy Issues in IoT - A Conceptual Framework. Bright Internet Global Summit 2020
• A Kumar and VSP Attili (2020, December), Privacy and Fear Appeals: Study on Smart Homes. Bright Internet Global Summit 2020
• Attili, V. S. P., S. K. Mathew and V. Sugumaran (2018, December). Organizational culture and information privacy assimilation: An empirical study. Proceedings of 13th Pre-ICIS Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, San Francisco, USA.
• Attili, V. S. P., S. K. Mathew and V. Sugumaran (2018, August). Privacy & Security: An organization-wide DSS Framework. Proceedings of 24th Americas Conference on Information Systems, New Orleans, USA.
• Attili, V. S. P., S. K. Mathew and V. Sugumaran (2017, December). Information Privacy Assimilation in IT Organizations: An Empirical Investigation. Proceedings of 12th Pre-ICIS Workshop on Information Security & Privacy, Seoul, South Korea. Won 2017 Doctoral Student Award of $1000, Certificate of Excellence.
• Attili, V. S. P., S. K. Mathew and V. Sugumaran (2017, August). Antecedents of Information Privacy Assimilation in Indian IT Organizations - An Empirical Investigation. Proceedings of 23rd Americas Conference on Information Systems, Boston, USA.
• Attili, V. S. P., S. K. Mathew and V. Sugumaran (2015, August). Information Privacy Assimilation in Organizations - A Neo Institutional Approach. Proceedings of 21st Americas Conference on Information Systems, Puerto Rico, USA.
• Attili, V. S. P. and S. K. Mathew (2013, December). Digital Data Privacy in Organizations: A Conceptual Decision Support Framework. Proceedings of 17th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, IIT Madras, India.

Teaching

• Management Information Systems
• Information Technology Concepts
• Agile Transformation
• IT Project, Program and Product Management
• Information Privacy in Digital Wold (Ph.D. / FPM Course)

Education

• Ph.D. : Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras (2012-17)
• Master of Technology: Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, IIT Bombay (2000-02)
• Bachelor of Engineering: Mechanical Engineering, Andhra University (1996-2000)

Awards & Honours

2021 Selected Treasurer, Association for Information Systems (AIS) India Chapter

2018 Award For Excellence (AFE) as Most Valuable Contributor (Infosys)

2018 Best Business Enabler Award (Infosys)

2017 Best Doctoral Student Award from Association of Information Systems (AIS)

2016 Award For Excellence (AFE) as Most Valuable Contributor (Infosys)

2015 Part of Indian delegation for ISO International Conference (ISO/IEC/JTC1 SC27)

2015 Best Business Enabler Award (Infosys)

2015 Chennai DC CHAMPION - Ambassador Award (Infosys)

2014 Best Business Enabler Award (Infosys)

2012 Certificate of Excellence for Business Value Contributions (Infosys)

2011 Certificate of Excellence for Business Value Contributions (Infosys)

2010 Certificate of Excellence for Business Value Contributions (Infosys)

2000 University First Rank - Gold Medal (Andhra University)