Arun Sundararajan graduated from the
Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1993 with a BTech in
electrical engineering. He subsequently attended the
University of Rochester where he received an M.Phil. in
operations research and a PhD in
business administration. After he earned his doctorate, he joined the faculty at
New York University, where his work focuses on the transformation of business and society by information technologies, and the Indian economy. Sundararajan's scholarly research analyzes what makes the economics of IT products and industries unique. He asserts that there are three technological invariants—digitization, exponential growth, and modularity—that have characterized and distinguished information technologies since the 1960s, and that these invariants lead to the ubiquity of information goods,
digital piracy and
network effects in IT industries. His research papers illustrate how these distinctive economics of information technologies warrant new pricing strategies, careful digital rights management, and a deeper understanding of network structure and dynamics. Sundararajan periodically writes and speaks about transformation through information technologies and business with a frequent focus on privacy and on India. He has been elected to the editorial boards of the prestigious journals Management Science and
Information Systems Research (where he is currently a Senior Editor). He co-founded the NYU Summer Workshop on the Economics of Information Technology and the Workshop on Information in Networks. He received a 2010 Google-WPP Marketing Research Award, the Best Paper award at the 2008 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, and the Best Overall Paper award at the 2004
International Conference on Information Systems. ==See also==