Merrill Warkentin is a Professor of MIS and the Drew Allen Endowed Fellow in the College of Business at
Mississippi State University. His research, primarily on the impacts of organizational, contextual,
situational, and dispositional factors on individual user behaviors in the context of information security
and privacy, addresses security policy compliance/violation and social media use, and has appeared in
MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems,
Computers & Security, Information Systems Journal, Communications of the ACM, Communications of
the AIS, Journal of Information Systems, and others. He is the author or editor of several books on
technology, including a 2015 book on Data Analytics. He is the AIS Departmental Editor for IS Security &
Privacy, the Chair of the UN-sponsored IFIP Working Group on IS Security Research, an Associate Editor
for MIS Quarterly and Information & Management, an SE for AIS Transactions on Replication Research,
and the Eminent Area Editor (MIS) for Decision Sciences. He has chaired several international
conferences, has chaired security/privacy tracks at ICIS, AMCIS, ECIS, and DSI, and will be the 2016
AMCIS Program Co-Chair. His work has been funded by NSF, IBM, NSA, DoD, Homeland Security, and
others. Dr. Warkentin served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM).