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, Hamburg Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: (412) 268-1155
Fax: (412) 268-5337
Professor Telang’s research interest lies in two major domains. First is on Digital Media Industry with a particular focus on how alternative channels of distribution affect traditional channel. In particular, he has examined the issue of online piracy and its impact on traditional music and movies sale. Recently, he is investigating the role of social networking on music diffusion, technology adoption etc and interaction of multiple platforms (web portals vs telephony for customer service; SMS and voice for cellular phones). He was the recipient of Sloan Foundation Industry Study fellowship for his work in this domain and is a co-director of Digital Media Research Center at the Heinz College. His second area of work is on economics of information security and privacy. He has examined the issue of vendors’ incentives to improve the quality of their products and role of policy making and standards in changing these incentives. His earlier work explores the challenges of vulnerability disclosure and how competition and policy making affect these patch release decisions. Recently, he is examining the role of data breach disclosure laws on identity thefts. He was the recipient of NSF CAREER award for his work on economics of information security.
Dr. Telang has published extensively in many top tier journals like Management Science, Information Systems Research and Journal of Marketing Research. He is on the editorial board of Management Science and ISR. He has organized many conferences and workshops and many of his papers have received top honors at journals and conferences.
Education
PhD (Information Systems), Graduate
Thesis: Consumer Choice of Internet Search Engines: Empirical and
Analytical Framework
M.S. Industrial Administration (Information Systems), GSIA,
MBA , Indian Institute of Foreign Trade,
B.E. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Birla Institute of
Technology and Science,
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
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An
article about this paper appeared in The New York Times article.
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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.
AWARDS
1. William Larimer Mellon Fellowship,
2. Nominated for ICIS 2000 Doctoral Consortium
to be held in
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, 2008.
9. Cylab Reseach Grant (2004, 2005, 2006)
10. Sloan Foundation Industry Studies Fellowship.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
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Associate
Editor – Management Science. June 05-
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Associate
Editor – Information Systems Research, Feb 06-
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Editorial
Board, Journal of Accounting and
Public Policy
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Editorial
Board, Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society.
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Associate
Editor – ICIS 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Economics of IS, security and policy,
Digital Industry tracks
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Co-chair of the "eBusiness Management"
Track in the 5th International Conferecence on eCommerce" held in
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Co-chair for the workshop “Workshop on Economics of Information Security”, June 2007,
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Program
Co-Chair, CIST, INFORMS Pittsburgh, PA Nov 2006.
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Program
Co-chair, SCECR, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2009.
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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.
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Session
Chair in the Workshop "Economic of
P2P Networks" held in UC
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Session
Chair in the Workshop “Workshop on
Economics of Information Systems (WISE05)”, Dec 2005
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Session
Chair in the Workshop “Workshop on
Economics of Information Security (WEIS’05)”, June 2005
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Program
Committee, CIST, INFORMS,
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Program
Committee, CIST, INFORMS,
San-Francisco. Nov 2005
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Program
Committee, Workshop on Economics and Information Security.
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Member
of American Information Systems, INFORMS.
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Reviewer
for – Management Science, Marketing
Science, Information System Research, American Economic Review, MIS Quarterly,
Journal of Management Information Systems and numerous conferences.