So, thank you Doctor Rohit the one for giving me this opportunity to talk to you and to also eventually our doctor doctoral students and junior faculty members. I'm honored by the opportunity. I am originally from the city called Jamshedpur in India, it's a mid size city. The Tata group had started in Jamshedpur and still there's a large steel plant, automobile manufacturing plant that runs out of Jamshedpur. I lived in Jamshedpur till I finished my 10th grade and left town to go to a small town called Hazari Bagh where I finished intermediate of science which is almost like the junior and senior years in the United States. Then I lived in a town called Surathkal where I finished my undergraduate in Computer Science in general. And finally I've lived in a large city in India called Chennai also well-known as Madras where I worked for a one and a half years or so after my MBA. I like to cook, hike, travel, spend time with my wife and twin children. And whenever we can afford to have people over or go to their houses. I like to host a dinner parties and also socialize on a very limited basis with our friends. I like to read of obsessively fiction and non fiction and I like to keep current by reading a large variety of news sources.

So, in the undergraduate program especially for our CIS undergraduate students, we offer the typical courses that would expect a good program support, Intro to IS, Database Management, programming, systems analysis and design, cyber security and information systems, a couple of elective classes. These students end up joining consulting companies, health information technology companies, IT product companies that are at Atlanta and also in the southeast region of the United States. Home Depot is headquartered here so they absorb a number of our the students. Delta Airlines takes quite a number of students. So in terms of industry sector, there's a big range and in terms of the nature of the job, many go working in the consulting companies of like aspect, some also do more technical work. On the graduate side, we offer a large variety and number of courses and I have been fortunate to teach in seven graduate programs which is quite a lot, I know. So, I have taught in the MBA program and the Masters of Health Administration, executive MBA to professional MBA, master of science in analytics, master of science in IS and master of science in business administration program. Again the kinds of courses that the students take varies, it depends on which program they're in. Courses I have taught are structured and unstructured data management, health information systems, health analytics, operations and technology management. These students once again end up going to many, many different industries and our graduate students are tend to have more mobility. So, majority again get absorbed in the Atlanta area and in the Southeast but they do end up accepting positions all over the country and also internationally.

Over the last decade or so I have well worked extensively on health informatics and health analytics. My dissertation research was on supply chain management and procurement. So, I transitioned from that stream of research to health information systems analytics. Although I still have some interest in my earlier work. Then more recently I have been spending a lot of time looking at Blockchain and its applications and how it can revolutionize the technology applications as also the financial workings of many industry sectors. And on the text mining side that we have a large amount of variety of text information available that I think can be used in a very productive manner. And in my interest is in two domains actually one is on online bullying and trolling and the other is in the integration of refugees and minority community with the majority community. And I've been collecting some data and analyzing them using many classifies and text analytics techniques. I try to ground my research in strong theory and I tried to use our innovative data analysis methodologies. So one project that my collaborators and I have made a lot of progress on, let me talk about that. It's a project on health analytics and informatics and the larger question that we're trying to address is the impact of technology in combination on cost and quality of care at the level of hospitals. So my collaborators on this project are Yuyur Dau, who was my graduate student, Mark Kyle and Kat Ho who are both faculty in Georgia State University. So we started to think about how technology could actually make an impact on both cost and quality of care. And our strong hunch was that we had to look at technology in combination and not in isolation. And not only technology implemented in one time period but our thinking was that technology implemented in multiple times period could interact with each other and be complementary. So we collected the data with this sort of hunch. We went out, we collected data from five different sources and created a large panel. And with the hospital discharge data from seven states and we looked at almost 85 million discharges over a period of six or seven years. And we found that some of our hunches are actually quite correct. That technologies can interact across time periods and of course different technologies can impact and can interact and the impact they have on cost and quality of care is contingent upon the ratio of chronic to acute patients that the hospital sees. We've been working on this on this paper and this paper will soon be submitted. It was already submitted to Management Science and got rejected. We are now thinking about sending it to either Information Systems Research or my school only. We got some good feedback. On this project we have another paper where we are looking at bi-variate models, BDLDSL is what we call it. And this is about dynamic interaction between input and output variables and how we can sort of model it in a longitudinal framework to address the causality concerned that a lot of our colleagues tend to have. This paper was presented at CIST this year but the journal version, we're hoping to set it out by the end of summer this year.