Dr. Samir Chatterjee is a Professor and Fletcher Jones Chair of Design, Technology & Management at CGU’s Center for Information Systems & Technology (CISAT). A leading scholar in healthcare informatics, machine learning, design science, and cybersecurity, he has made significant contributions to research and education.

He joined CGU in 2001 and founded the Network Convergence Laboratory (now IDEA Labs) with NSF funding. He has received numerous honors, including the AIS Lifetime Achievement Award (2015) and the Mahatma Gandhi Pravasi Samman (2017). He has also held visiting positions at USC, Keck Graduate Institute, IIMs, and IIT Mumbai.

Dr. Chatterjee's early research focused on high-speed networks, VoIP, and multimedia networking, contributing to the ITU-T H.350 standard. His work evolved into transdisciplinary research spanning computer science, health sciences, and behavior psychology. A champion of Design Science Research (DSR), he founded the DESRIST conference series and co-authored the best-selling book “Design Research in Information Systems”.

His healthcare informatics research began with telemedicine, leading to heavily cited work and the launch of DCL Health, a digital health startup. His current projects apply AI and machine learning to cancer caregiving, stroke prediction, and chronic disease management.

Dr. Chatterjee has published over 170 peer-reviewed articles in top IS and medical informatics journals. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Health Systems Journal and has been an Associate Editor for MIS Quarterly. His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, Northrop-Grumman, and others.

Samir Chatterjee offers an annual doctoral seminar at the Institute for Information Systems.