Ramesh Sharda is Director of the Institute for Research in Information Systems (IRIS) , ConocoPhillips Chair of Management of
Technology, and a Regents Professor of Management
Science and Information Systems in the College of
Business Administration at Oklahoma State
University. He received his B. Eng. degree from University of Udaipur, M.S. from The Ohio State University and an MBA and Ph. D. from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research has been published in major journals in
management science and information systems including Management Science, Information
Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Interfaces, INFORMS Journal on Computing,
Computers and Operations Research, and many others. He served as the Founding Editor of
the Interactive Transactions of OR/MS
and serves on the editorial boards of other journals such as the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems
Frontiers, Journal of End User Computing, and OR/MS Today. One of his major activities
in the last few years was to start the MS in Telecommunications
Management Program at Oklahoma State. Now he is establishing a major
interdisciplinary Institute for Research in Information Systems (IRIS) at OSU. His research interests are in
decision support systems, information systems support for collaborative applications,
and technologies for managing information overload . Defense Logistics Agency, NSF,
Marketing Science Institute, and other organizations have funded his research. Ramesh
is also a cofounder of a company that produces virtual trade fairs, iTradeFair.com.
