Keil Named Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor
May 2, 2005 (Atlanta) - Mark Keil, Board of Advisors Professor of Computer Information Systems at Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business, has been awarded the Georgia State University Alumni Distinguished Professor Award. The award is presented by the University's Alumni Association each spring to one faculty member for outstanding achievements in scholarship, teaching and service.
Keil, a Robinson faculty member since 1991, teaches in the College's undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. In 1994, he received a College of Business Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Teaching and in 2000, he received the College's Faculty Recognition Award for Distinguished Contributions in Research.
His research focuses on software project management, with particular emphasis on understanding and preventing software project escalation. His research is also aimed at providing better tools for assessing software project risk and removing barriers to software use.
Keil's research has been published in MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Sloan Management Review, California Management Review, Communications of the ACM, Decision Sciences, and many other journals. He currently serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, the Journal of Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences. He has also served as an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly, and as Co-Editor of The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems.
Keil has been active in the Academy of Management and has served as Division Chair of the Organizational Communication and Information Systems (OCIS) Division.
He earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University, his master's degree from MIT's Sloan School of Management, and his doctorate in management information systems from the Harvard Business School.
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