Professor of Information Systems

Chairman, Doctoral Program

Prof. David G. Schwartz’s career spans both academia and business.  David is professor of information systems, and former vice-chairman, at the Graduate School of Business Administration of Bar-Ilan University, Israel.  His research has appeared in publications such as JAIS, Management Science, Information Systems Research, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Intelligent Systems, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, JASIST, The Lancet's eClinicalMedicine, and JMIR mHealth & uHealth. His books include Cooperating Heterogeneous Systems; Internet-Based Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory; and the Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management.  David has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University, Department of Biomedical Informatics (2004), Monash University, Faculty of Information Technology (2007-8) and National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2017 and 2020-21).  In 2016 he was awarded a Visiting Erskine Fellowship at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand as well as a Visiting Scholar position at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. From 1998 to 2011 he served as editor-in-chief of the journal Internet Research, has held senior editorial roles at the European Journal of Information Systems, Int'l Journal of Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce Research.  David is currently serving as a Senior Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and Associate Editor of JMIR mHealth & uHealth. His main research interests are Digital Therapeutics, mHealth, Human-in-the-loop AI, Knowledge Management, Social Network Analysis, and Computer-mediated Communications.

Serving as an expert assessor of technology innovation and investment, David has advised the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment; the Mauritius Ministry of Information Technology; and the European Commission Innovation Council.

David has served on the Board of Directors of multiple public companies including Psagot Investment House, Israel's leading investment house with over $35B assets under management (Acquired by APAX Partners, 2010); Cham Foods Ltd. (TASE), a multinational producer of ingredients for the food and nutriceutical industries; C.I. Systems (TASE) a producer of electro-optic systems for the military and semiconductor industries; and Copernic (NASDAQ: CNIC), an Internet search innovator (Acquired by DecisionPoint Systems/DPNI, 2010). For over two decades David led and managed investments in Israel’s world-class technology venture capital industry.  Prof. Schwartz received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University, USA; MBA from McMaster University, Canada; and B.Sc. from the University of Toronto, Canada.