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Biography

Rahul Telang is an Associate Professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Bachelors of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani (India), and received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. He is on the editorial board of two leading journals and has served as the co-chair of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2003), Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2006), and Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2007). He has been a visiting professor at Indian School of Business.

Prior to receiving his Ph.D., Dr. Telang worked in a leading telecommunications software firm.

Dr Telang has received the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award for his research in economics of information security. He dissertation, “Consumer Choice of Search Engines: Empirical and Analytical Framework,” won the William W. Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award. He has received numerous awards from the Networks and Electronic Commerce, Institute, Amazon.com, and Berkman Faculty Development.

Telang’s key research field is in economics of Information security. He has done extensive empirical as well as analytical work on disclosure issues surrounding software vulnerabilities, software vendors’ incentives to provide quality, mechanism designs for optimal security investments in a multi-unit firms etc. His work on impact of vulnerability announcement on vendors’ stock price has received wide media coverage. He also has worked consumer usages of new technologies (like P2P networks) and impact of these technologies on market structure. His work on the used book market has been reported in The New York Times among other media outlets. His research has been published in leading journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of MIS, and Human computer Interaction, etc.

Dr. Telang teaches Economics and Policy of Information Security and Risk Management to both masters and doctoral students. This is a university-wide course with students from engineering as well as management background. He also teaches Telecommunication Management.

Telang currently serves on the editorial boards of Management Science, Information Systems Research, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. He has served as the co-chair of the International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2003), Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2006), and Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2007).

Selected Publications

Rahul Telang, Peter Boatwright, Tridas Mukhopadhyay (2004), "A Mixture Model for Internet Search Engine Visits" Journal of Marketing Research, 41(2), 206-214.

Rahul Telang, Uday Rajan, Tridas Mukhopadhyay (2004), "Market Structure for Internet Search Engines", Journal of MIS, 21(2), 137-160.

Rober Kraut, Shyam Sunder, Rahul Telang, James Morris (2004), "Pricing to Solve the Problem of Spam", Human-Computer Interaction, 20, 195-223

Karthik Kannan, Rahul Telang (2005), "Market For Software Vulnerabilities? Think Again", Management Science, 51(5), 726-740.

Rahul Telang, Tridas Mukhopadhyay (2005), "Drivers of Web Portal Use", Electronic Commerce Research and Applications. 4(1): 46-62.

Anindya Ghose, Rahul Telang, Ramayya Krishnan (2005), "Impact of Electronic Secondary Markets on Information Goods Supply Chain, Journal of MIS, 22(2), 91-120.

Ashish Arora, Rahul Telang (2005), "Economics of Software Vulnerability Disclosure", IEEE Security and Privacy, 3 (1), 20-25.

Ashish Arora, Jonathan Caulkins, Rahul Telang (2006), "Research Note-Sell First, Fix Later: Impact of Patching on Software Quality", Management Science, 52(3), 465-471.

Ghose, Anindya, Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang (2006), “Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact”, Information Systems Research, 17(1) 3-19.

Education

PhD, Information Systems, Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper School of Business)

Working Papers

• Converting Pirates without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy
• An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Software Vulnerability Disclosure
• Impact of Software Vulnerability Announcements on the Market Value of Software Vendors - An Empirical Investigation
• Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact
• Optimal Policy for Software Vulnerability Disclosure
• An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Voice and Data Services
• Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Club Economics Approach
• Sell First Fix Later: Impact of Patching on Software Quality
• Competition Between Internet Search Engines
• The Economics of Peer-To-Peer Networks
• The Virtual Commons: Why Free-riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks

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