Viswanath Venkatesh, distinguished professor and holder of the George and Boyce Billingsley Chair in Information Systems at the Sam M. Walton College of Business, accepted an appointment as senior editor at MIS Quarterly, beginning in January 2012.

This follows a four-year term as a senior editor at Information Systems Research. He also serves on the editorial boards of several other scholarly journals.

Venkatesh earned a Bachelor of Engineering in computer science and engineering in 1991 from Bharathiar University in India and completed a doctoral degree in business management in 1997 from the University of Minnesota. Before coming to Arkansas, Venkatesh was an associate professor at the Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He joined the Walton College faculty in 2004.

His research focuses on understanding the diffusion of technologies in organizations and in society.

He has published several papers in leading information systems, management, psychology, marketing, operations management and health informatics journals. His works have been cited about 19,000 times per Google Scholar and 6,000 times per Web of Science. In an Information Systems Research paper published in 2011, Venkatesh and Tracy Sykes, a new information systems faculty member at the Walton College, and Xiaojun Zhang, a graduate of the information systems doctoral program at the Walton College, examined factors associated with the use of electronic health care systems and the consequences of using such systems.