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Ramayya Krishnan

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Email: rk2x@andrew.cmu.edu

Biography

Ramayya Krishnan is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. He has a B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research and a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an International Research Fellow of the International Center for Electronic Commerce in Korea and a Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Information Systems at Humboldt University (Germany). He is faculty chair of the university’s Masters of Information Systems Management program.

His current research projects investigate risk management in business process design and in information security, social network analysis in settings ranging from call data records to knowledge sharing communities, consumer behavior in e-business settings and the design of policies that take into account the competing needs of promoting data access and protecting privacy. He has published widely on these topics and his work received the Best Paper awards at the HICSS conference (1997), the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (1996, 2000) and the AIS conference (2001) and was a runner up at ICIS (2002). His work has been funded over the last decade by the National Science Foundation, The Army Research Office, and DARPA.

Krishnan’s current teaching interests lie at the interface of technology, business and policy aspects of internet-enabled systems. He teaches courses on e-business, telecommunications management and a capstone course – digital transformation – that integrates technology and organizations aspects of technology implementation. He is the recipient of the General Motors (GM) Technical Education Program Outstanding Distance Learning Faculty Award, which honors a professor for demonstrating excellence in distance learning education. He is also been the recipient twice of the Teaching Award for the Heinz College’s IT programs. He teaches in numerous executive education programs and is an expert on the use of IT to both create and capture value for organizations.

He is presently the co-Department Editor for Information Systems at Management Science. His editorial experience includes his work as co-area editor for Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce at the INFORMS Journal on Computing, as an Associate Editor for Management Science, as an Associate Editor for Operations Research, and as an Associate Editor for Information Systems Research. He co-edited a special issue of Interfaces on e-business (available here) and co-edited two special issue volumes of Management Science on E-business. He is the past president of the INFORMS Information Systems Society and the INFORMS Computing Society.

Education

PhD, Management Science and Information Systems, University of Texas at Austin

Representative Publications

Working Papers