• Doctor of Philosophy, University of Florida, Gainesville, August, 1993. Decision and Information Sciences, College of Business Administration.
• Bachelor of Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, 1986. Electronics and Communications Engineering

AWARDS

• National Science Foundation grant: "Dynamic Leader-Follower Problems: A New Theoretical Framework and a Machine Learning based Computational Approach (ECS-0601590), 2006.
• Favorite MBA Professor, Liautaud Graduate School of Business,UIC, December, 2004.
• CBA Dean's Recignition of Teaching Excelle nce, College of Business, UIC, 1999, 2000, 2002 to 2006.
• Grinter Graduate Fellowship, University of Florida, 1992.

RESEARCH

• Business intelligence, Data mining
• Complexity, Computational modeling in business
• Evolutionary computation , Machine learning
• Information Technology, E-business

EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor, Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business Administration,University of Illinois at Chicago, 2003-present.
• Assistant Professor, Information and Decision Sciences Department, College of Business and Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago, August, 1997 - 2002.
• Visiting Researcher, Olsen and Associates, Research Institute for Applied Economics, Zurich, Switzerland, Summer 1996.
• Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems, Department of Management, College of Business and Administration, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1993-1997.
• Graduate Assistant in the Decision and Information Sciences Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1989-993.
• Customer Engineer (computer systems customer support) with ORG Systems, Baroda, India, 1986-1989. (systems planning, implementation and maintenance of various computer systems and networks; design and support for application software projects).