Monideepa Tarafdar is the Charles J. Dockendorff Endowed Professor of Information Systems at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst. She holds a PhD in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, specializing in Information Systems and Strategy. Her research focuses on technostress, AI ethics, and the societal impacts of digital technologies. She has held academic roles at Lancaster University and the University of Toledo, and visiting positions at MIT Sloan and LSE. A world-leading scholar, she was named AIS Fellow (2024) and featured in Stanford’s Top 2% Cited Scientists (2024). Her work examines technostress creators like overload, complexity, and invasion, offering coping strategies such as proactive reorientation and organizational support. She studies AI’s role in hiring bias, social media addiction, and gig economy well-being. As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of AIS and coordinator of Isenberg’s PhD program, she drives interdisciplinary research in IS. Key achievements include over 120 papers, mentorship accolades, and grants addressing ICT-enabled inclusion and algorithmic transparency. Recent awards include the AIS Best Publication Award (2022), multiple Research Excellence Awards, and recognition for her impactful work on workplace resilience. She advises organizations on managing technostress and serves as a scientific advisor to Unplug (Dublin). Her current projects explore gender bias in job ads and the sociotechnical dimensions of climate change discourse.









