Ajit Appari has been a research fellow with the Glassmeyer/McNamee Center for Digital Strategies (CDS) at Tuck since 2008. He is also affiliated with the Institute for Security, Technology, and Society as a post doctoral research fellow. His current research interests include studying the management and policy issues of using information technology (IT) in the healthcare sector. Particularly, he is interested in examining the information security and privacy challenges including HIPAA compliance, and value (quality and cost) impact of IT in the complex clinical, organizational, and economic environment of healthcare. In addition, his research focuses on economic impact of information security risks to organizations. His research has been published in journals including IEEE Software, International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management, and several peer-reviewed international conference proceedings including Workshop on Economics of Information Security, Workshop on Information Security and Privacy, Academy of Management, and American Conference on Information Systems.

Ajit received his PhD from the Syracuse University in Business Administration and taught at the Whitman School of Management before joining the CDS center. Before entering the PhD program, he worked in quality management and software development for Honeywell Technology Solutions Lab in Bangalore India, an R&D arm of Honeywell. Ajit received his bachelor of technology in Production Engineering and Management from National Institute of Technology (formerly Calicut Regional Engineering College, Calicut University), and his master of technology in Quality, Reliability and Operations Research from the Indian Statistical Institute in Calcutta, India.