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Bonnie Anderson is the IB and Eleanor Romney Distinguished Professor of Information Systems in the Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University, contributing to the Business & Economics faculty. She served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Research from 2020 to 2025, Chair of the Information Systems Department from 2017 to 2020, and Director of the Master of Information Systems Management program since 2008. Anderson earned her BS and MAcc-IS from Brigham Young University in 1995 and PhD in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University in 2001. Earlier in her career, she worked as a consultant at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) from 1995 to 1997 and as adjunct faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and Duquesne University from 2000 to 2001. She has held leadership roles including co-chair of the Faculty Advisory Council, president of the Faculty Women’s Association, and member of the University Faculty Development Council.
Anderson's research focuses on information systems security, habituation to security warnings, NeuroIS, and cybersecurity careers, employing neurophysiological tools such as fMRI, EEG, and eye-tracking. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Google Faculty Research Award, and White House BRAIN Initiative. Key publications include "The Fog of Warnings: How Non-security-related Notifications Diminish the Efficacy of Security Warnings" (MIS Quarterly, 2025), "Tuning Out Security Warnings: A Longitudinal Examination of Habituation through fMRI, Eye Tracking, and Field Experiments" (MIS Quarterly, 2018), "From Warning to Wallpaper: Why the Brain Habituates to Security Warnings" (Journal of Management Information Systems, 2016), and "How Users Perceive and Respond to Security Messages: A NeuroIS Research Agenda and Empirical Study" (European Journal of Information Systems, 2016). She has received the AIS Technology Vision Award (2020), Marriott School Scholarly Excellence Award (2018), Women Tech Award--Pathway Champion (2024), J. Owen Cherrington Faculty Service Award (2020), and Special Recognition Award from Utah Women in Higher Education Network (2019). Anderson serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, is involved with IFIP Working Group 8.11/11.13 and AIS Special Interest Group on Security, and delivered the BYU devotional address "Cybersecurity and Spiritual Safety" in 2015. She speaks Japanese.