Tom Novak

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Tom P. Nov\;k h is Albert O. Steffey Professor of Marketing and Co-Director of the Sloan Center for Internet Retailing at the University of California, Riverside, where he joined the faculty in July 2006. Novak's research since 1993 has focused exclusively on Internet and Web based commerce. His current research areas include measuring the online consumer experience (flow, consumer control, and the design of compelling online environments), online advertising (Web advertising metrics and modeling online advertising exposure), Internet marketing strategy (business models, new paradigms for electronic commerce), and electronic commerce policy (the "digital divide", privacy, and trust).

Novak has published in academic journals in a range of scholarly disciplines, including Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Communications of the ACM, the Information Society, Science, and Harvard Business Review. He has also been a contributing writer to both Wired and HotWired.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of California at Riverside, Novak served on the faculties of Vanderbilt University, New York University, Columbia University, and Southern Methodist University.^{[citation needed]} From 1995 through 1999, he spent summers as a visiting scholar at Paul Allen's Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, California, USA, and was a visiting scholar at Stanford University in the summers of 1997 and 2000.^{[citation needed]}