Paul M. Di Gangi, Ph.D.

Paul M. Di Gangi is a Professor of Information Systems, steward of the Dora and Sanjay Singh Endowed Fund for Information Systems Research, and Chair of the Management, Information Systems, and Quantitative Methods Department in the Collat School of Business at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) based on his work relating to policy and risk analysis. Paul serves as a Senior Editor for MIS Quarterly Executive and an Associate Editor for the European Journal of Information Systems and Information & Management.

His research examines the intersection of digital networks and organizations with a focus in three areas: 1) the influence of social networks on information security practices, 2) role of online communities in business, and 3) user-driven innovation processes/ crowdsourcing. His research has been published or is forthcoming in the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, Information & Organization, International Journal of Information Management, Internet Research, and MIS Quarterly Executive, among others.