Dr. Shailendra C. Palvia is Professor Emeritus of MIS at Long Island University (LIU) Post. At LIU, he was Director of Management Information Systems program from 1997-2004. He received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota and B.S. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India. He has published over 150 referenced articles in several academic journals, conference proceedings and books. As Founding Editor and Editor, he edited the Journal of IT Case and Application Research (JITCAR) during 1999-2007, and again from 2014 to 2020. From 2002 to 2013, he organized and chaired eleven annual international smart sourcing conferences (www.outsourcegloval.org) in USA, India, and South Korea. In 2012 and again in 2026, Dr. Palvia was nominated from LIU Post to receive the Abraham Krasnoff Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.

He was a Fullbright-Nehru Senior Research Scholar during 2016-2017. He as invited speaker to Germany, India, Italy, Russia, Singapore, and Thailand. Dr. Palvia is an ardent follower of Jainism and has attended several JAINA (Federation of Jain Associations in North America) conventions and annual JAANA (Jain Adhyatmik Academy of North America) workshops organized in different cities in the USA since 1990. He represented Jain religion at the Swami Vivekanand Celebration at the All Religions Harmony program organized by the Vedanta Society in New York City, NY, in the last quarter of 2018. He and his wife Rajkumari donated ¼ million dollars to Georgia College and State University (GCSU), Milledgeville, GA, to establish the S &R Palvia Veetraag Vigyaan Professorship in Jain Studies in January 2023. He has conducted six Ahimsa Internship Youth Camps in Georgia and Virginia.