Vidya Haran

Vidya Haran is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also serves as Academic Director of the B.S. in Information Systems Program and holds an affiliate role in Biomedical and Translational Sciences. Her research focuses on behavioral barriers in technology adoption, e-mentoring, data privacy, and human-centered design.

Her work spans interdisciplinary areas including public health app usability, organizational mentorship systems, and social media engagement dynamics. Recent studies address challenges in user innovation persistence and ethical design of digital platforms.

Key contributions include analyzing barriers to adoption of the Safer Illinois app (2021), exploring e-mentoring's impact on organizational commitment (2019), and investigating social media feature lock-in effects (2017). Research consistently integrates qualitative analysis with real-world community data.

No scientific awards explicitly mentioned in the profile.

Currently oversees the Information Systems undergraduate program without reported grant activities or formal advisees listed.