Kaushal Chari

Department of Information Systems & Decision Sciences
College of Business Administration
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue, CIS 1040
Tampa, FL 33620-7800

(813)-974-6768
kchari@coba.usf.edu

Current Position:
Professor and Chair of Information Systems & Decision Sciences, University of South Florida

Education:
Ph.D. Business Administration
University of Iowa

M.B.A. (Emphasis in Information Systems)
University of Iowa

B.Tech. (Mechanical Engineering)
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Honors: 
Research Achievement Award, College of Business Administration, University of South Florida, 2003
ORBIX Award, Iona Technologies, 1998
Kroeber Development Fellowship, James Madison University,1996
Bauman Faculty Development Award, James Madison University, 1995
Beta Gamma Sigma, 1986

Previous Academic Experience:
Director of Research, College of Business Administration, University of South Florida
Associate Professor (Tenured), James Madison University
Assistant Professor, James Madison University
Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University

Industry/Consulting:
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Bell Atlantic Network Services
Axess Communications

Current Research Interests:

• Software Engineering
  • Software Testing
  • Software Effort, Cycle-time & Quality
  • Software Requirements
• Business Intelligence
  • Multi-classifier Combination
  • Model Management & DSS
  • Fraud Detection
• Computational Methods in Business
  • Agent-Based Simulation
  • Heuristics
  • Math Programming
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Information Markets
• IT Systems
  • Application Integration
  • Workflow Systems
  • Distributed Systems
  • Information Security & Risk Management

Publications:
Authored or co-auhored papers that have appeared in Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Telecommunication Systems, Communications of the ACM, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Reseach, Omega, Communications of the AIS, Interactive Transactions of ORMS, International Journal of Operations & Quantitative Management and numerous conference proceedings.
Selected Publications

Teaching Interests:
Telecommunications Management, Web Applications Development, Object-Oriented Programming.
 Teaching Page

Professional Activities:

Service in Professional Organizations
Vice Chair, INFORMS Information Systems Society, 2007-
Secretary/Treasurer, INFORMS Information Systems Society, 2005-2007

Editorial Service
Associate Editor-MIS, Interfaces
Co-Guest Editor, Information Technology & Management, Volume 5, Nos 1/2, 2004
Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies

Ad Hoc Reviewer
Management Science
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Information Systems Research
Operations Research
Telecommunications Systems
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Decision Support Systems
Annals of Operations Research
Interfaces
Information Systems Frontier
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Information Technology & Management
Electronic Commerce Research
Journal of Information Systems & E-Business
Computers & Operations Research
IEEE Software
Database
Industrial Management and Data Systems
International Journal of Operations & Quantitative Management
ICIS, HICCS, WITS & AMCIS

Conference / Program Chair
Co-Chair, The Seventeenth Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2007, Montreal, Canada.
Program Co-Chair, The Fourth Workshop on E-Business (WeB 2005), Las Vegas ,Nevada.
Co-Chair, The 6th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST-2001), Miami Beach, Florida

Track / Cluster Chair
Chair, Information Systems Cluster, INFORMS Annual Meeting Atlanta 2003.
Chair, MIS/DSS/AI Track, SE DSI Meeting Charleston, 1996.

Program Committee Member
Member, Program Committee, The Sixth Workshop on eBusiness (WeB)2007, Montreal, Canada
Member, Program Committee, The Twelfth INFORMS Conference on Information Systems & Technology (CIST), 2007, Seattle, Washington
Member, Core Committee, Winter Conference on Business Intelligence 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah
Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2006, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Member, Program Committee, The Fifth Workshop on E-Business (WeB 2006), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Member, Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) 2006, Chicago, Illinois.
Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2005, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Member, Program Committee, The Third Workshop on E-Business (WeB 2004), Washington DC.
Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2004, Washington DC.
Member, Program Committee, The Second Workshop on E-Business (WeB 2003), Seattle, Washington.
Member, Program Committee, The Second Workshop on E-Business (WeB 2003), Seattle, Washington.
Member, Program Committee, The First Annual Pre-ICIS Workshop on Decision Support Systems 2003 , Seattle, Washington.
Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2003, Seattle, Washington.
Member, Program Committee, The 8th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems & Technology (CIST- 2003), Atlanta, Georgia
Member, Program Committee, The 7th INFORMS Conference on Information Systems & Technology (CIST- 2002), San Jose, California
Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2002, Barcelona, Spain.
Member, Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2001, Tampa, Florida.
Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Member, Program Committee, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS) 2000, Brisbane, Australia.
Member, Program Committee, IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) 2000, Tampa, Florida.
Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 1999, Charlotte, North Carolina