Dr. Pathak received his Ph.D. in Operations and Information Management from the University of Connecticut in 2006. Dr. Pathak's teaching interests are in the areas of electronic commerce, decision support systems, management information systems, and data mining. Dr. Pathak's research interests are in the areas of electronic commerce, online recommender systems, social networking, shopbots, and online promotions. His research has been published in the Journal of Retailing, Communications of the AIS, and Industrial Management and Data Systems.