BALAJI PADMANABHAN

Information Systems & Decision Sciences
College of Business Administration
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue, CIS 1040
Tampa, FL 33620-7800
(813)-974-6763
bpadmana@coba.usf.edu

 

CURRENT POSITION

 

Anderson Professor of Global Management and Associate Professor

Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences

College of Business Administration, University of South Florida.

Senior Fellow, Patel Center for Global Solutions @USF

 

 

PRIOR POSITIONS

 

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania 

July 1999 – June 2007:

Assistant Professor, Operations and Information Management Department

July 1998 – June 1999:

Lecturer, Operations and Information Management Department

 

Morgan Stanley Inc., New York 

May 1996 - September 1996:

Summer Associate, Data Mining Division

 

New York University 

August 1993 - June 1998:

Research Assistant and Webmaster

 

 

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

 

Ph.D.  (Information Systems), 1999

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
New York University

 

M.A. (Information Systems), 1996

Leonard N. Stern School of Business
New York University

 

B.Tech. (Computer Science), 1993

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Chennai (Madras), India

 

 

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

 

Information & communication technologies and their impact on business and society

Design and evaluation of information systems, particularly Web-based systems

Computational methods in business

Data mining and data-driven decision making

Learning from clickstream data on the Web

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Articles published in refereed journals

 

1.       Selectively Acquiring Customer Information: A New Data Acquisition Problem and an Active Learning Based Solution, Z. Zheng and B. Padmanabhan. In Management Science, 52(5), pp. 697-712, 2006.

 

2.       An Empirical Analysis of the Value of Complete Information for eCRM Models,                 B. Padmanabhan, Z. Zheng and S. Kimbrough. In MIS Quarterly, 30(2), pp. 247-267, 2006.

 

3.       On Characterization and Discovery of Minimal Unexpected Patterns in Rule Discovery,      B. Padmanabhan and A. Tuzhilin. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 18(2), pp.202-216, 2006.

 

4.       Constructing Ensembles from Data Envelopment Analysis, Z. Zheng and B. Padmanabhan. Forthcoming in INFORMS Journal on Computing.

 

5.       GHIC: A Hierarchical Pattern Based Clustering Algorithm for Grouping Web Transactions, Y. Yang and B. Padmanabhan. In IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 17(9), pp.1300-1304, 2005.

 

6.       Evaluation of Online Personalization Systems: A Survey of Evaluation Schemes and A Knowledge-Based Approach, Y. Yang and B. Padmanabhan. In Journal of Electronic Commerce Research 6(2), pp.112-122, 2005. A short conference paper, not listed below, was presented at WITS 2001.

 

7.       The Interestingness Paradox in Pattern Discovery, B. Padmanabhan. In Journal of Applied Statistics, 31(8), pp. 1019-1035, 2004.

 

8.       On the Use of Optimization for Data Mining: Theoretical Interactions and eCRM Opportunities, B. Padmanabhan and A. Tuzhilin. In Management Science, 49(10), pp. 1327-1343, 2003.

 

9.       On the Existence and Significance of Data Preprocessing Biases in Web Usage Mining,       Z. Zheng, B. Padmanabhan and S. Kimbrough. In INFORMS Journal on Computing, 15(2), pp. 148-170, 2003.

 

10.   Knowledge Refinement Based on the Discovery of Unexpected Patterns in Data Mining,     B. Padmanabhan and A. Tuzhilin. In Decision Support Systems, 33(3), pp. 309-321, 2002.

 

11.   Unexpectedness as a Measure of Interestingness in Knowledge Discovery, B. Padmanabhan and A. Tuzhilin. In Decision Support Systems, 27(3), pp. 303-318, 1999.

 

12.   The Identification and Satisfaction of Customer Analysis Driven Information Needs of Marketers on the WWW, S. Sen, B. Padmanabhan, A. Tuzhilin, N. White and R. Stein. In European Journal of Marketing, 32(7/8), pp. 688-702, 1998.

 

 

Highly Refereed Conference Publications

 

Articles in Proceedings of the KDD and ICDM Conferences.

The ACM Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) conference and the IEEE Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) are premier data mining conferences which publish full-length, triple refereed papers.

 

13.   Cluster evolution and interpretation via penalties, D. Fleder and B. Padmanabhan. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Data Mining 2006, Workshop on Data Mining for Design and Marketing.

 

14.   On the Discovery of Significant Statistical Quantitative Rules, H. Zhang, B. Padmanabhan and A. Tuzhilin. In Proceedings of KDD 2004, pp. 374-383, 2004 (Full paper. Acceptance rate 40 of 337 submissions).

 

15.   A DEA Approach for Model Combination, Z. Zheng, B. Padmanabhan and H. Zheng. In Proceedings of KDD 2004, pp. 755-760, 2004 (Poster paper. Acceptance rate 45 posters, 40 full of 337 submissions). An extended version of this was published as article #4.

 

16.   Segmenting Customer Transactions Using a Pattern-Based Clustering Approach, Y. Yang and B. Padmanabhan. In Proceedings of ICDM 2003, pp. 411-419, 2003 (Full paper. Acceptance rate 58 of 501 submissions). An extended version was published as article #5.

 

17.   On Active Learning for Data Acquisition, Z. Zheng and B. Padmanabhan. In Proceedings of ICDM 2002, pp. 562-570, 2002 (Full paper. Acceptance rate 72 of 369 submissions).

 

18.   Personalization from Incomplete Data: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt, B. Padmanabhan, Z. Zheng and S. Kimbrough. In Proceedings of KDD 2001, pp. 154-164, 2001 (Full paper. Acceptance rate 20 of 203 submissions).

 

19.   Small is Beautiful: Discovering the Minimal Set of Unexpected Patterns, B. Padmanabhan, and A. Tuzhilin. In Proceedings of KDD 2000, pp. 54-64, 2000 (Full paper. Acceptance rate 26 of 248 submissions). An extended version of this was published as article #3.

 

20.   A Belief-Driven Method for Discovering Unexpected Patterns, B. Padmanabhan and           A. Tuzhilin. In Proceedings of KDD 1998, pp. 94-100, 1998 (Full paper. Acceptance rate 18 of 250 submissions). An extended version of this was published as article #11. A prior (more restrictive) algorithm was presented as a short paper in WITS 97 (not listed below). An invited book chapter was reprinted with modifications in Data mining, rough sets and granular computing, Tsau Lin, Yiyu Yao and Lotfi Zadeh eds, Physica-Verlag, 2002.

 

21.   Pattern Discovery in Temporal Databases: A Temporal Logic Approach, B. Padmanabhan and A. Tuzhilin. In Proceedings of KDD 1996, pp. 351-355, 1996 (Poster paper. Acceptance rate 30 posters, 42 full of 215 submissions).

 

Articles in Proceedings of the WITS Conferences.

The Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) publishes short papers that are triple refereed, and is a mainstream venue for new research in the business school Information Systems community, often specifically attracting technical work (in the sense of having more of a technology / systems-centric perspective).

 

22.   Query-Driven Conceptual Browsing, K. Jerath and B. Padmanabhan, 2005. In Proceedings of WITS 2005, pp. 117-122, 2005 (Acceptance rate 42 of 153 submissions).

 

23.   Using Randomization to Determine a False Discovery Rate for Rule Discovery, H. Zhang and B. Padmanabhan. In Proceedings of WITS 2004, pp. 140-145, 2004 (Acceptance rate 42 of 157 submissions).

 

24.   Divide and Conquer: An Approach to Model Building Using Pattern-based Clustering,        Y. Yang and B. Padmanabhan. In Proceedings of WITS 2003, pp. 165-170, 2003 (Acceptance rate 37 of 112 submissions).

 

25.   On Usage Metrics for Determining Authoritative Sites, S. Kimbrough, B. Padmanabhan and Z. Zheng. In Proceedings of WITS 2000, pp. 43-49, 2000 (Acceptance rate 39 of 79 submissions).

 

Articles in other conference proceedings.

 

26.   On Original Generation of Structure in Legal Documents, S. Kimbrough, T. Lee,                 B. Padmanabhan and Y. Yang. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL), pp. 152-161, 2003.

 

27.   Web Living Case: A Web Based Business Case Delivery System for Collaborative Work,   R. Madhavan, B. Padmanabhan and J.Turner. One page abstract on Technologies in Action in Proceedings of ICIS, pp. 522, 1996.

 

28.   Identification and Valuation of Real Options in Technology Investments, A. Damodaran,    A. Kambil and B. Padmanabhan. Extended abstract in Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, pp.335-337, 1996.

 

29.   A Web Based Decision Simulation, S. Slade, R. Arunkundram and B. Padmanabhan. Extended abstract in Proceedings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems, pp. 380-382, 1996.

 


Working Papers (drafts available)

30.   Clickprints on the Web: Are there Signatures in Web Browsing Data? B. Padmanabhan and Y. Yang (in preparation for submission to Information Systems Research in Fall 07).

 

31.   On Cluster Evolution: An Integrated Approach to Discovering and Describing Changes, D. Fleder and B. Padmanabhan (in preparation for submission to INFORMS Journal on Computing in Fall 07).

 

32.   Pattern Discovery and Web Clickstream Data: A Framework and Applications.                    B. Padmanabhan (conditionally accepted as a chapter for Business Computing, Elsevier).

 

33.   Inferring Competitive Measures from Aggregate Data: Information Sharing Using Stochastic Models, Z. Zheng, B. Padmanabhan and P. Fader.

 

34.   On the Use of Patterns for Leveraging Unlabeled Data for Classification, Y. Yang and B. Padmanabhan.

 

 

DOCTORAL ADVISING

 

Dissertation Advisor (Chair)

 

·    Zhiqiang Zheng.

Dissertation title: “On an Incomplete Data Problem in Modeling: Evidence from Web Usage Mining and a General Purpose Solution”.

Defended his dissertation in May 2003 and currently an Assistant Professor at University of Texas at Dallas.

·    Yinghui Yang.

Dissertation Title: “New Data Mining and Marketing Approaches for Segmentation and Promotion Planning on the Internet”.

Defended her dissertation in May 2004 and currently an Assistant Professor at University of California, Davis.

·    Hong Zhang.

Working on his dissertation on the use of randomization in rule discovery. Currently at Citibank.

 

Dissertation Committee Member:

 

·    Shinyi Wu (2003), OPIM Dept, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

·    Gedas Adomavicius (2002), Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU.

·    Garrett Dworman (1999), OPIM Dept, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

 

 

TEACHING

·    Designed and taught undergraduate, MBA and doctoral courses at Wharton.

·    Developed a technology elective, Enabling Technologies.

·    Received an Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Undergraduate Division.

·    Nominated for a university-wide Lindback Award for distinguished teaching.

·    Taught in the Wharton eFellows program and in the Executive Masters in Technology Management (EMTM) program.

 

Summary of courses taught at Wharton and teaching evaluations from Fall 2000-Fall 2006

 

(the scale for evaluations was 0 to 4):

 

·    Taught 15 sections of Enabling Technologies.

Avg. evaluations in the 9 MBA sections:                         instructor eval. 3.67,  course eval. 3.43.

Evaluations in the 6 UG sections:                                    instructor eval. 3.68,  course eval. 3.42.

 

·    Taught 4 sections of Computer Mediated Communication.

Avg. evaluations in the 2 MBA sections:                         instructor eval. 3.55,  course eval. 3.52.

Avg. evaluations in the 2 UG sections:                instructor eval. 3.44,  course eval. 3.27.

 

·    Taught 5 sections of the UG core course, OPIM 101

Avg. evaluations:                                                           instructor eval. 3.41,  course eval. 2.96.

 

·    Taught 1 section of Decision Support Systems

Avg. evaluations:                                                           instructor eval. 3.35,  course eval. 2.87.

 

·    Taught two PhD seminar courses.

Avg. evaluations:                                                           instructor eval. 3.29,  course eval. 3.25.

 

Summary of teaching evaluations from Spring 1999-Spring 2000

 

(the scale for evaluations was 1 to 5):

 

·    Taught 4 sections of Computer Mediated Communication.

Avg. evaluations in the 2 MBA sections:                         instructor eval. 4.35,  course eval. 4.37 .

Avg. evaluations in the 2 UG sections:                instructor eval. 4.47,  course eval. 4.08 .

 

·    Taught 2 sections of Decision Support Systems

Avg. evaluations:                                                           instructor eval. 4.42,  course eval. 4.35.

 

·    Taught a PhD seminar course on Knowledge Based Systems.

Avg. evaluations:                                                           instructor eval. 4.88,  course eval. 4.38 .

 

Courses taught at the Stern School of Business, New York University

·    C20.0001, Computer Based Systems for Management Support (1997).

·    Designed and taught modules on the Internet and World Wide Web for MBA students.

 

 

AWARDS and HONORS

 

·    Excellence in Teaching Award, Wharton Undergraduate Division, 2003.

·    Nominated for the University of Pennsylvania’s Lindback Award, 2003.

·    Pfizer Inc., $15,000 grant, Fall 2002.

·    Wharton eBusiness Initiative, $20,000 grant, Summer 2001.

·    Wharton eBusiness Initiative, $20,000 grant, Summer 2002.

·    Wharton eBusiness Initiative, $12,000 grant, Summer 2004.

·    One of seven investigators at Wharton in a grant from Lockheed Martin Corporation on “Analyzing Issues Related to Interdependent Extreme Terrorism Risks”, 2006.

·    NJ Society of Information Management, Best Dissertation Paper award, 2nd place, 1998.

·    ICIS Doctoral Consortium, 1997.

·    Dean's Fellowship, New York University, 1997.

·    Fellowship, New York University, 1993-1996.

·    AAAI Scholarship to present at KDD 1996.

·    National Talent Scholarship, University Grants Commission, Government of India 1987-93.

 

 

SERVICE

 

To the Information Systems and Decision Sciences Department  at COBA, University of South Florida:

·    Ph.D. Coordinator, 2007-current.

·    Chair, ISDS Doctoral Program Review Committee

 

To the Operations & Information Management department at Wharton:

·    Ph.D. Committee member 1999-2006.

·    Served on the faculty recruiting committee in 1999, 2004 and on the department seminar organizing committee in 2000.

·    Served as a reader for the OPIM scholars program for doctoral students in 2005, 2006.

·    Part of the undergraduate core course teaching and re-design team, 2004-current.

·    Supervised numerous independent studies at the undergraduate, MBA and doctoral levels.

 

To The Wharton School:

 

·    Panel Moderator for various student-run conferences including:

Emerging Technologies. Wharton India Economic Forum, November 2000.

Directions in Telecom. Wharton Entrepreneurship Conference, November 2001.

Wireless Beyond Voice. Wharton Technology Conference, February 2002.

On Fixing Telecom: Wharton Technology Conference, February 2003.

Web Services: Wharton Technology Conference, February 2003.

Wireless Technologies: Wharton Technology Conference, February 2004

Web Services: Wharton Technology Conference, February 2004

·    One of three judges for the AOL Case Competition held at the AOL headquarters, Feb. 2005.

·    Made presentations specifically geared for opportunities in the technology sector.to both undergraduate and MBA student groups ahead of recruiting seasons.

 

To the community:

 

·    Publicity Chair, IEEE Conference on Data Mining, 2003.

 

·    Program Committee Member for:

            Workshop on Information Tech. and Systems (WITS) 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.

            Advisory Board Member, SIG-DSS Workshop, ICIS.

ACM KDD 2001, 2007

ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 2002

IEEE Conference on Data Mining 2003, 2006, 2007.

ECML/PKDD 2006

SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 2006, 2007.

Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (IIWAS) 2001

 

·    Vice-chair, INFORMS College on Artificial Intelligence, 2007.

 

·    Organized/chaired two invited paper sessions at the International Conference on Electronic Commerce, 2007.

 

·    Editorial service

            Ad-hoc Associate Editor, Management Science

            Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Database Management.

 

·    Reviewer for:

ACM Computing Surveys

Annals of Operations Research

Communications of the ACM

Data and Knowledge Engineering Journal

Decision Support Systems

Environment and Planning B

European Journal of OR

IBM Systems Journal

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Information Systems Research

Information Technology and Management

Interfaces

Journal of AI Research

Journal of Database Management

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Management Information Systems Quarterly

Management Science

Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

For several KDD, ICDM, HICSS, ICIS and WITS conferences each year.

 

·    Organized a data mining competition as part of the KDD-CUP Organizing Committee, 1997.

 

·    Worked with the Futures Industry Association in developing electronic standards. Presented at the Options and Futures Industry Association Conference at Chicago (October 1994).

 

 

INVITED TALKS

 

Ø      University of Washington, Seattle, May 2007.

 

Ø      Microsoft Research / Microsoft Live Labs, March 2007.

 

Ø      Carlson School of Management, Univ. of Minnesota, March 2007.

 

Ø      University of South Florida, February 2007.

 

Ø      IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Sep. 2006.

 

Ø      University of Maryland, Sep. 2006.

 

Ø      Villanova University, March 2006.

 

Ø      Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA, Nov. 2005.

 

Ø      McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Nov. 2005.

 

Ø      The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Nov 1 2005.

 

Ø      Winter Information Systems Conference at University of Utah, March 2005 (one of ten invited presentations).

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