Paul A. Pavlou is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of California at Riverside. He received his PhD from the University of Southern California in 2004. His research focuses on information systems strategy, online marketplaces, and electronic commerce and has appeared in numerous journals. His work has been cited more than 350 times by the Social Science Citation Index of the Institute of Scientific Information and more than 1,200 times by Google Scholar.

Mr. Pavlou won many Best Paper awards, including the 2007 IS Publication of the Year award, the 2007 ISR Best Paper award, the Top 5 papers published by Decision Sciences in 2006, the Best Doctoral Dissertation award of the 2004 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the 2002 Best Interactive Paper award, and the Best Student Paper award of the 2001 Academy of Management Conference (OCIS Division). He also won several Best Reviewer awards, including the 2003 MISQ Reviewer of the Year award and the Best Reviewer award of the 2005 Academy of Management Conference (OCIS Division). Mr. Pavlou sits on the editorial boards of MISQ, JAIS, IJEC, ECRA, and DATABASE.