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Mahesh Boodraj, Ph.D.

Maheshwar Boodraj

Assistant Professor

Department of Information Technology Management

mboodraj@boisestate.edu
Office: MBEB 2111

Mahesh Boodraj is an assistant professor of information technology management at the College of Business and Economics at Boise State University. His research focuses on cybersecurity, IT project management, and software development. He has published several peer-reviewed articles in various journals, including the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, the Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, and MIS Quarterly Executive. He also has extensive experience teaching at the undergraduate, master, and executive levels. He is a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a Distinguished Member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Project Management Professional (PMP). Before joining academia, he spent twelve years in various managerial and technical roles at the Mona School of Business and Management and IBM.

Education

  • Ph.D., Computer Information Systems, Georgia State University
  • M.Sc., Management Information Systems, University of the West Indies
  • B.Sc., Computer Science, University of the West Indies

Research/Teaching Areas

  • Cybersecurity
  • IT Project Management

Awards/Accomplishments

  • Leadership Excellence Award, AIS Special Interest Group on IT Project Management
  • Faculty Service Award, AIS Doctoral Student College
  • Outstanding Contribution Award, Robinson Ph.D. Fellows at Georgia State University
  • Leadership Award, AIS Doctoral Student College
  • GTA Teaching Excellence Award, Georgia State University
  • Alashoor, T., Boodraj, M., Quintanilha, A., Palme, S., & Aldawood, H. (2025). Insights on How Data Privacy Officers Can Build a Corporate Privacy Culture. MIS Quarterly Executive, 24(1), 6.
  • Saffarizadeh, K., Keil, M., Boodraj, M., & Alashoor, T. (2024). “My Name is Alexa. What’s Your Name?” The Impact of Reciprocal Self-Disclosure on Post-Interaction Trust in Conversational Agents. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 25(3), 528-568.
  • Campbell, M., Keil, M., & Boodraj, M. (2022). The Impact of Behavioral Similarity on DSS Advice Acceptance: A Field Experiment. The DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems, 53(3), 10-25.