SMART people 
Nigel Melville
University of Michigan
Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Assistant Professor of Business Information Technology
Special Sworn Status researcher of the U.S. Census Bureau
Michigan Research Data Center
What inspires me about SMART:
The opportunity to learn new avenues in which innovative application of information systems can improve environmental sustainability via smart mobility.
Biography:
Nigel Melville is an Assistant Professor of Business Information Technology at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. He is also a Special Sworn Status researcher of the U.S. Census Bureau at the Michigan Research Data Center, University of Michigan. Previously, Professor Melville was the Sam M. Walton SIFE Free Enterprise Fellow and Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, Boston College.
His professional experience includes new product development and R&D with Motorola, radiation detector development at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and co-founding a CRM software company. The common theme was innovative application of information systems to create new value for organizations, which is the focus of his research.
Professor Melville is an expert on information systems innovation and organizational performance. He is the author of numerous research articles appearing in leading academic and professional journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Decision Support Systems, and Communications of the ACM (cited more than 150 times in total - ISI). He is an editor of the book Global E-Commerce: Impacts of National Environment and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Professor Melville earned a BS in electrical engineering from UCLA, an MS in electrical and computer engineering from UC Santa Barbara, and a PhD in management from UC Irvine. His hobbies include travel and fitness.
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