Balaji Padmanabhan

Balaji Padmanabhan is the Anderson Professor of Global Management and Associate Professor of Information Systems & Decision Sciences at the University of South Florida. He received a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras and a Ph.D. in Information Systems from New York University. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests are in data mining and data-driven decision making with a focus on learning from Web clickstream data. His research addresses applications such as behavioral profiling, recommender systems and online fraud detection. His work has been published in leading venues in Computer Science as well as in Information Systems including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Decision Support Systems, ACM KDD, IEEE ICDM, WITS and AIS. He has served on the program committees of several ACM, IEEE, SIAM and WITS conferences and is an ad-hoc Associate Editor of Management Science and an Editorial Review Board member of the Journal of Database Management. He is also currently the Vice-chair of the INFORMS College on Artificial Intelligence and is a member of INFORMS, ACM and IEEE. He has designed and taught undergraduate, MBA and doctoral courses in Data Mining and Enabling (Information) Technologies.