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Sudha Ram
McClelland Professor of MIS
Department of Management Information Systems
Director
Advanced Database Research Group
Sudha Ram is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. She is also Professor of Computer Science and member of the Bio5 Institute and the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona. She received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Madras in 1979, PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in 1981, and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1985.
Dr. Ram's research is primarily in the area of Enterprise Data Management. Specifically, her research deals with Interoperability among Heterogeneous Database Systems, Semantic Modeling, Business Rules Modeling, and Web services Discovery and Selection. Her research has been funded by organizations such as, IBM, Intel Corporation, Ford, Raytheon, SAP, US ARMY, NIST, NSF, NASA, and Office of Research and Development of the CIA.
Dr. Ram has published research articles in such journals as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems, Information Systems Research, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly.
Dr. Ram serves on MIS journal editorial boards including Information Systems Research, Journal of Database Management, and the Journal of Systems and Software. She has chaired several workshops and conferences supported by ACM, IEEE, and AIS. She is a cofounder of the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) and serves on the steering committee of many workshops and conferences including the Entity Relationship Conference (ER). Dr. Ram is a member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, INFORMS, and Association for Information Systems (AIS). She is also the director of the Advanced Database Research Group based at the University of Arizona.
Dr. Ram serves as a consultant to several global companies on E-Business strategy and technology infrastructure. She also donates her time to helping develop IT solutions and guidance to non-profit organizations including the Community Food Bank, Native American Seed Search Program, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, and Tucson Police Department. She is a recipient of an IBM faculty Development Award and UA Leading Edge Innovator in Research Award in 2007.
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