Dr. Hemant K. Bhargava joined UC Davis' Graduate School of Management in July 2003, and holds a secondary appointment as Professor of Computer Science. He has previously held faculty positions at Penn State University's Smeal College of Business Administration, and at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, and visiting appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, Humboldt University (Berlin, Germany) and the University of Maastricht (The Netherlands).

His current research is in the economics of information systems and the IT and network industries. This research highlights distinctive characteristics of information and network goods, and their impact on specific elements of operations, marketing, and competitive strategy. Dr. Bhargava's recent publications in this area include sponsored search in recommenders and search engines, stockout compensation practices, performance-based pricing for IT goods, product versioning, pricing strategies for grid computing, and information structures in contract design. His work has appeared in several academic journals including INFORMS Journal on Computing, Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Computer, Decision Support Systems, and Interfaces. His research on DecisionNet won Best Paper Awards at leading Information Systems conferences. Dr. Bhargava was awarded the Menneken Prize for Excellence in Research at the Naval Postgraduate School in 1998. He has held editorial positions for leading journals, and served as Faculty Chair at the Graduate School of Management, UC Davis.