Payam Hanafizadeh is an assistant professor of Industrial Management Department at Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU) and a member of Design Optimization under Uncertainty Group, Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. He pursues his research in "Information Systems" and "Decision-making under Uncertainty". Likewise, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic University.  The results of his research have appeared in scientific journals such as: Journal of Global Information Management, Telecommunications Policy, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Expert Systems with Applications, The Information Society, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Information Technology Research, Business Process Management Journal, Journal of IT Cases and Applications Research,  International Journal of Value Chain Management, International Journal of Decision Support Systems Technology, International Journal of E-Adoption, International Journal of Engineering Science, Transactions on Operational Research, Journal of Industrial Engineering International and also in many Iranian scientific journals.  Meanwhile, he  has been serving on the Editorial Review Board for the International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach, the International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems,  the Journal of Information Technology Research,  the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, and the International Journal of Decision Support System Technology. In addition, he is the author of e-Commerce (2nd edition), Internet Advertising: New Opportunity for Promotion (2nd edition), Holding Companies: Definitions, Concepts, and Structures (1'st edition), and has translated e-Business and ERP, Rapid Implementation and Project Planning (by Murrell G. Shields) into Persian. He is also a member of Emerald Literati Network. It is noteworthy that  Dr. Hanafizadeh was introduced as the best researcher of Tehran province by the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology and at ATU in 2007. He has seriously worked for developing Information Systems in Iran. He has been the executive of the national project entitled "Preparing and compiling ICT development indicators in Iran and proposing methods for collecting their statistics".