Professor Ravi Bapna
Associate Professor of Information Systems
Executive Director, CITNE
Professor Ravi Bapna is the Executive Director of the Centre for Information Technology and the Networked Economy (CITNE) at the Indian School of Business, as well as a tenured Associate Professor in the Information Systems area. He teaches in the ISB’s PGP and Executive Education programmes.
Prior to joining the ISB, Professor Bapna was an Associate Professor and Ackerman Scholar in the Operations and Information Management Department at the School of Business, University of Connecticut. His research interests are in the areas of Online Auctions, E-market Design, Grid Computing, and the Economics of Information Systems. His research has been extensively published in a wide array of journals such as Management Science, Informs Journal on Computing, Statistical Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Retailing, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, CACM, Naval Research Logistics, DSS, EJOR and ITM. He was awarded the prestigious Ackerman Scholar Award for outstanding research at the University of Connecticut.
He contributes regularly to popular press outlets such as India Knowledge @ Wharton, The Economic Times and Business Today.
Professor Bapna has been invited to present his research at the Federal Trade Commission, Washington DC, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, University of Maryland, IIM-Calcutta, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, University of Washington, National University of Singapore and University of Minnesota, among others. He serves on the editorial board of the flagship journals MIS Quarterly, as well as for the journal Production and Operations Management. He also serves as ad-hoc AE for Management Science. He regularly serves on programme committees of major international IS conferences and workshops, and is the Co-Chair of the First International Symposium of Information Systems to be held at the ISB. He is a member of the Nasscom Innovation Institute, a think-tank to foster innovation in the Indian IT/ITeS industry.
Professor Bapna completed his Bachelors in Computer Engineering from the Manipal Institute of Technology and received his doctorate degree from the University of Connecticut, where his thesis was in the area of Information Systems.
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