Rahul Telang

rtelang.AT.andrew.cmu.edu

Associate Professor of Information Systems and Management
H. John Heinz III College,
Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University
2107D, Hamburgh Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 268-1155
Fax: (412) 268-5337

I am co-chairing this year’s Workshop on Economics of Information security (WEIS’07) to be held on June 7-8 in Pittsburgh, PA. Pl. visit the website for the details. http://weis2007.econinfosec.org/

Education

PhD (Information Systems), Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002.
Thesis: Consumer Choice of Internet Search Engines: Empirical and Analytical Framework

M.S. Industrial Administration (Information Systems), GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999.

MBA , Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, India, 1997.

B.E. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India 1994.

Recent Working Papers

1. Anuj Kumar, Rahul Telang, “Product Customization and Customer Service Costs: An Empirical Analysis”, working paper.

2. B Danaher, S Dhanasobhon, M Smith, R. Telang, “Converting Pirates without Cannibalizing Purchasers: The Impact of Digital Distribution on Physical Sales and Internet Piracy”, working paper.

3. S Romanosky, R Telang, A Acquisti, “Do Data Breach Disclosure Laws Reduce Identity Theft?”, working paper.

Journal Publications

1. Y. S. Kim, R. Telang, B. Vogt, R. Krishnan, “Empirical Analysis of Mobile Voice and SMS Service: A Structural Model”, forthcoming, Management Science. paper.

2. Sunil Wattal, Rahul Telang, Tridas Mukhopadhyay (2009), "Information Personalization in a Two-Dimensional Product Differentiation Model”, Journal of MIS, forthcoming.

3. Michael Smith, Rahul Telang (2008), “Competing with Free: The Impact of Movie Broadcasting on DVD Sales and Internet Piracy”, MIS Quarterly, 33(2), 321-338. paper

4. A. Arora, R Krishnan, R Telang, Y Yang (2008) "An Empirical Analysis of Software Vendors’ Patch Release Behavior: Impact of Vulnerability Disclosure", Information Systems Research (ISR), forthcoming. paper

5. Ashish Arora, Rahul Telang, Hao Xu (2007), “Optimal Policy for Software Vulnerability Disclosure”, Management Science, 54(4), 642-656 paper

6. Rahul Telang, Sunil Wattal (2007), “An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Software Vulnerability Announcements on Firm Stock Price”, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering paper , 33 (8), 544-557.

7. S Bhattacharjee, R Gopal, K Lertwachara, J Marsden, R Telang (2006), “The Effect of Digital Sharing Technologies on Music Markets: A Survival Analysis of Albums on Ranking Charts”, Management Science, 53(10), 1359-1374. [lead Article] paper

8. R Krishnan, M D. Smith, Z Tang, R Telang (2007) “Digital Business Models for Peer-to-Peer Networks: Analysis and Economic Issues”, Review of Network Economics, 6(2), 194-213.

9. Ashish Arora, Anand Nandkumar, Rahul Telang (2006), “Does Information Security attack frequency increase with Vulnerability disclosure? - An Empirical Analysis”, Information Systems Frontier, 8(5), 350-362.paper

10. Anindya Ghose, Michael Smith, Rahul Telang (2006), "Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact", Information Systems Research (ISR), 17(1), 3-19, [Lead Article] paper

· An article about this paper appeared in The New York Times article.

· Won the runner-up best published paper award in ISR.

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

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

13. Robert E. Kraut, Shyam Sunder, Rahul Telang, James Morris (2005), "Pricing to Solve the Problem of Spam", Human-Computer Interaction, 20, 195-223 paper

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

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

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

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

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

19. Ramayya Krishnan, Michael Smith, Rahul Telang (2004), "The Economics of Peer to Peer Networks", Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application (JITTA), 5(3), 31-44. paper

20. Ashish Arora, D Hall, C. A. Pinto, D Ramsey, R Telang (2004), "Measuring the Risk BAsed Value of IT Security Solutions", IEEE IT Professional, 6(6), 35-42.

Referred Conferences

· Rahul Telang, Sunil Wattal (2005), “Impact of Vulnerability Disclosure on Market Value of Software Vendors: An Empirical Analysis", 4h Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Boston, June 1-3.

· Ashish Arora, R Krishnan, R Telang, Y Yang (2005), “An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Vulnerability Disclosure”, 4h Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Boston, June 1-3.

· Ashish Arora, R. Telang and Hao Xu (2005), “Optimal Time Disclosure of Software Vulnerabilities”, 5th ZEW Conference: The Economics of Information and Communication Technologies, Mannheim, July 1-3.

· Rahul Telang (2005), “An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Voice and Data Services”, NET Institute Conference, New York University, NY, April 1.

· Michael Smith, Rahul Telang (2005), “Incentives and Protocols for Self-Organizing Interest-Based Peer-to-Peer Networks.” NET Institute Conference, New York University, NY, April 1

· Ashish Arora, R. Telang and Hao Xu (2004), “Optimal Time Disclosure of Software Vulnerabilities”, 9th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, Denver CO, October 23-24.

· A Ghose, M Smith, and R Telang (2004), “Price Elasticities and Social Welfare in Secondary Electronic Markets”, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Washington DC

· A Asvanund, D Nagin, R Krishnan and R Telang (2004), “Consumption Patterns and Optimal Tariffs: An Empirical Analysis of Cellular Voice and Data Services”, Austin Roundtable Mobility Conference, Austin, TX. (March).

· K Kannan, R. Telang (2004), “Economic Analysis of the Market for Software Vulnerability Disclosure", 3rd Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Minneapolis, May 13-15.

· Ashish Arora, R. Telang and Hao Xu (2004), “Optimal Time Disclosure of Software Vulnerabilities”, 3rd Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Minneapolis, May 13-15.

· A Arora, A Nandkumar, R Krishnan, R Telang, Y Yang (2004),  “Impact of Vulnerability Disclosure and Patch Availability — An Empirical Analysis”, 3rd Workshop on Economics and Information Security, Minneapolis, May 13-15.

· T. Mukhopadhyay, U. Rajan and R. Telang (2004), "Competition Between Internet Search Engines", 37th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computing.

· K. Kannan, R. Telang, H. Xu (2004), "Economic Analysis of the Market for Software Vulnerability Disclosure", 37th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computing.

· R. Krishnan, M. Smith, Z. Tang, R. Telang (2004), "Impact of Free-Riding on Peer to Peer Networks", 37th Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences, IEEE Computing.

· A. Ghose, R. Telang, R. Krishnan (2003) "Do Secondary Electronic Markets Help of Hurt Suppliers?" International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle

· A. Ghose, M. Smith, R. Telang (2003), "The Welfare Impact of Used Good Market" International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Seattle

· Kraut, R. E., Sunder, S., Morris, J., Telang, R., Filer, D.,Cronin, M. (2002), "Markets for attention: Will postage for email help?", Proceeding, Computer Supported Cooperative Work , 206 - 215, New York: Association of Computing Machinery.

· R Krishnan, M Smith, Z. Tang, R. Telang (2002) "The Virtual Commons: Why Free-riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks?" International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Barcelona

· A. Asvanund, R. Krishnan, M. Smith, R. Telang (2003) "Intelligent Club Formation in P2P Networks" Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS, Seattle).

WorkShop Presentations

· Michael Smith, Rahul Telang (2004), “Internet Exchanges for Used Goods”, Statistical Challenges in Ecommerce, University of Maryland, May 22-23.

· Sunil Wattal, T Mukhopadhyay, R Telang (2004), “Measuring Personalization-Privacy Tradeoff – an Empirical Investigation with Email Advertisements”, Statistical Challenges in Ecommerce, University of Maryland, May 22-23.

· Ashish Arora, R. Telang and Hao Xu (2005), “Optimal Policy for Software Vulnerabilities Disclosure”, 16th Annual Decision and Information Sciences Workshop Economics in OM/IT, Feb 25, University of Florida.

· A. Ghose, R. Telang, R. Krishnan (2004), “Impact of Secondary Electronic Markets on Information Goods Suppliers”, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), DC, Dec 13-15

· Michael Smith, Rahul Telang (2004), “Internet Exchanges for Used Goods”, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), DC Dec 13-15

· Rahul Telang, Sunil Wattal (2004), “Impact of Vulnerability Disclosure on Market Value of Software Vendors: An Empirical Analysis”, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), DC

· A Ghose, M Smith and R Telang (2004), “Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Implications and Policy Issues”, MISRC/CRITO Symposium on Digital Divide, Minneapolis, MN (August).

· Pei-Yu Chen, R. Telang, S Wattal (2003), "On Personalization Technology Adoption and Information Sharing in Digital Markets", Wokshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Seattle

· R Krishnan, M Smith, Z. Tang, R. Telang (2003) "The Virtual Commons: Why Free-riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks?" Wokshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Seattle

· A. Ghose, R. Telang, R. Krishnan (2003) "Do Secondary Electronic Markets Help of Hurt Suppliers?" INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, College Park MD.

· R. Telang and U Rajan (2003) "Sequential Entry, Switching costs, and Strategic Overpricing", INFORMS Marketing Science Conference, College Park MD

· A. Asvanund, R. Krishnan, M. Smith, R. Telang (2003) "Intelligent Club Formation in P2P Networks" Workshop on Economic of P2P Networks, Berkeley

· S Wattal, R. Telang, T Mukhopadhyay (2002) "Impact of Personalization on Product Price and Quality" with Wokshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) Barcelona

· T. Mukhopadhyay, U. Rajan and R. Telang (2000) "Competition between Search engines", Wokshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Brisbane

· R. Telang, T. Mukhopadhyay, R. Wilcox (1999) "An Empirical Analysis of the antecedents of Internet Search Engines Choice," Wokshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Charlotte NC

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Working Papers/ Papers Under Review

Markets and Competition

· "Sequential Entry, Switching costs, and Strategic Pricing", with U Rajan paper

· "On Personalization Technology Adoption and Information Sharing in Digital Markets" with S Wattal and Pei-Yu Chen

·  “Measuring Personalization-Privacy Tradeoff – an Empirical Investigation with Email Advertisements” with Sunil Wattal and Tridas Mukhopadhyay,

Software Quality and Security

· "Optimal Time for Vulnerability Disclosure" with A Arora and H Xu

· “An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Vulnerability Disclosure” with Ashish Arora and Yubao Yang paper

·  "Impact of Vulnerability Disclosure on Market Value of Software Vendors: An Empirical Analysis", with Sunil Wattal paper

· "Impact of Patches and Software Vulnerability Information on Frequency of Security Attacks - An Empirical Analysis", with Ashish Arora, Anand NAndkumar and Ramayya Krishnan

Networks Economics

· "The Virtual Commons: Why Free-riding Can Be Tolerated in File Sharing Networks?" with R. Krishnan, M. Smith and Z. Tang paper

· "Intelligent Club Formation in P2P Networks" with A. Asvanund, R. Krishnan and M. Smith paper

· "Estimating demand for Cellular Voice Services: A Structural Model",

· "The Effect of Digital Sharing Technologies on Music Markets: A Survival Analysis of Albums on Ranking Charts"  with S. Bhattacharjee, R. Gopal, K. Lertwachara, J Marsden paper

AWARDS

1. William Larimer Mellon Fellowship, Carnegie Mellon University, 1997.

2. Nominated for ICIS 2000 Doctoral Consortium to be held in Brisbane, Australia.

3. Winner of the 2002 William W Cooper Doctoral Dissertation Award.

4. Amazon.com Grant

5. Berkman Faculty Development Grant.

6. NET institute Grant for four separate papers in 2004 and 2005

7. National Science Foundation NSF CAREER AWARD for the proposal "Securing Cyberspace: Role of Markets and Policy"

8. Center for the Analysis of Property Rights and Innovation (CAPRI) Grant, Oct 2006.

9. Cylab Reseach Grant (2004, 2005, 2006)

PROFESSIONAL WORK

· Associate Editor – Management Science. June 06- (Ad-hoc AE from June 05-06)

· Associate Editor – Information Systems Research, Feb 06-

· Associate Editor – ICIS 2006, Economics of IS track.

· Co-chair of the "eBusiness Management" Track in the 5th International Conferecence on eCommerce" held in Pittsburgh, PA, October 2003.

· Co-chair for the workshop “Workshop on Economics of Information Security”, June 2007, Pittsburgh PA.

· Program Co-Chair, CIST, INFORMS Pittsburgh, PA Nov 2006.

· Editorial Board, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy

· Editorial Board, Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society.

· Session Chair in the workshop " Revolutionary Strategies and Tactics in Research Design and Data Collection for eBusiness Management Research", held in Pittsburgh PA, October 2003.

· Session Chair in the Workshop "Economic of P2P Networks" held in UC Berkeley, May 2003,

· Session Chair in the Workshop “Workshop on Economics of Information Systems (WISE05)”, Dec 2005

· Session Chair in the Workshop “Workshop on Economics of Information Security (WEIS’05)”, June 2005

· Program Committee, CIST, INFORMS, Denver, Nov 2004.

· Program Committee, CIST, INFORMS, San-Francisco. Nov 2005

· Program Committee, Workshop on Economics and Information Security.

· Member of American Information Systems, INFORMS.

· Reviewer for – Management Science, Marketing Science, Information System Research, American Economic Review, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems and numerous conferences.

RECENT INVITED TALKS

· University of California, Davis – Internet Exchanges for Used Books: An Empirical Analysis of Product Cannibalization and Welfare Impact, November 2004.

· University of Texas, Austin; Mccombs School of Management - An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Software Vulnerability Disclosure Policy, Feb 2006

· University of Maryland, RH Smith School of Business - An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Software Vulnerability Disclosure Policy, March 2006

· American University, Koggod School of Management - An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Software Vulnerability Disclosure Policy, March 2006

· University of Pittsburgh, Katz School of Business – March 2006.

· Georgia Tech University, School of Management – Competition and Quality Restoration: An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Software Vulnerabilities – Oct 2006.

· University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management – Competition and Quality Restoration: An Empirical Analysis of Vendor Response to Software Vulnerabilities – Nov 2006.