Arun Rai is a permanent Regent's Professor at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and holds the Howard S. Starks Distinguished Chair at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Arun Rai earned his integrated master's degree in science and technology from BITS Pilani in 1985, MBA from Clarion University of Pennsylvania in 1987, and PhD in Management Information Systems from Kent State University in 1990.
[1] Rai was awarded the Information Systems Society (ISS) Distinguished Fellow in 2014.
[2] Arun Rai was the recipient of the prestigious LEO award (awarded in 2019 in Munich), which is named for the world's first business application of computing (The Lyons Electronic Office), and recognizes truly outstanding individuals in the field of Information Systems.
[3][4] He served as an Editor-in-Chief of Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ) for five years between 2016 and 2020.