PARAM VIR SINGH

param vir singh Param is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the David A Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from the Foster School of Business, University of Washintgon, Seattle. He holds Masters degrees in Business Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies from University of Washington and Texas Tech University, respectively. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Param's research interests focus on the causes and consequences of online social relationships. With respect to causes, he investigates how individual incentives, demography, and homphily affect the formation of network ties. From a consequence prespective, he investigates how social relationships affect economic outcomes (performance, adoption and diffusion of products, practices, and information) over and above the economic drivers. He particularly focuses on the design of online systems for achieveing the preferred social network structure as well as the economic outcome.

Param also builds structural models of knowledge worker learning to understand heir productivity dynamics. In this area, he develops tools and techniques to determine the different regimes (low vs high productivity for knowledge workers) and finding out ways of switching workers from a lower to a higher regime.