Alan R. Hevner is a Distinguished University Professor and Eminent Scholar in the School of Information Systems and Management in the Muma College of Business at
the University of South Florida. He holds the Citigroup/Hidden River Chair of Distributed Technology.

His areas of research interest include design science research, digital innovation, information systems development, software engineering, distributed database
systems, and healthcare systems. He has published over 300 research papers on these topics with nearly 30,000 citations to his papers.

Hevner received a PhD in computer science from Purdue University. He has held faculty positions at the University of Maryland and the University of Minnesota. Hevner is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems, and a Fellow of IEEE. He is a member of ACM and INFORMS.

Additional honors include selection as a Parnas Fellow at Lero, the Irish software research center, and the 2018 Distinguished Alumnus award from the Purdue University Computer Science Department. From 2006 to 2009, he served as a program manager at the U.S. National Science Foundation in the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate.

Alan Hevner offers an annual doctoral seminar about "Design Science Research" at the Institute for Information Systems.