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Divakaran Liginlal (Lal) is an Associate Teaching Professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. Lal holds a B.S. in Telecommunication Engineering from CET, a M.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Science, and a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona. Before joining CMU, he taught at three U.S. universities, including nine years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a recipient of the Mabel Chipman Award for Faculty Excellence in Teaching and the Lawrence J. Larson Grant Award for Innovation in Curriculum Design. As a graduate student, Lal received the University of Arizona Foundation Award for meritorious teaching. His research in information security and decision support systems has been published in such journals as CACM, IEEE-TKDE, IEEE-SMC, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Security, Decision Support Systems, Fuzzy Sets & Systems, IEEE Technology & Society, Computers & Security, IJIM, and IRM Journal, . Lal's teaching and research have been supported by organizations such as Microsoft Corporation, Hewlett Packard, CISCO, Cargill, Qatar Foundation, and the ICAIR at the University of Florida.