Krishnan Edits Special Edition of Management Science
Ramayya Krishnan, William W. and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems, is the co-editor of a special issue of Management Science. The newly released issue begins a two part commentary on e-business and management science. Articles explore the impact of the emerging digital economy on management science research. According to editors Krishnan and Arthur M. Geoffrion, the digital economy is giving birth to new research questions in three ways - enabling technology mediated interactions, spawning large-scale digital data sources, and creating recurring operational decisions that need to be automated.
Professor Krishnan's research interests lie in problems that arise at the interface of technology, business and policy aspects of internet-enabled systems. His current research projects investigate the emergence of virtual communities in peer-to-peer networks, study intermediation in e-markets and the design of policies that take into account the competing needs of promoting data access and protecting privacy. His work on these topics 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 has been funded by the National Science Foundation, The Army Research Office, and ARPA.
He is the co-area editor for Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce at the INFORMS Journal on Computing, an Associate Editor for Management Science. He recently co-edited a special issue of Interfaces on e-business (available at http://silmaril.smeal.psu.edu/interfaces/ebiz/) and is currently co-editing a special issue of Management Science on OR and E-business. He is the immediate past president of the INFORMS Computing Society.
Professor Krishnan 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 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 Master of Information Systems Management program.