Sudha Ram is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. She has joint faculty appointments as Professor of Computer Science, member of BIO5 Institute, and Institute for the Study of Plant Earth.  She is the director of the Advanced Database Research Group (ADRG) and INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics at the University of Arizona.  Dr. Ram received a Ph.D.  from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985.  Her research is in the areas of Enterprise Data Management, Business Intelligence, Large Scale Networks and Data Analytics.  Her work uses different methods such as machine learning, statistical approaches, ontologies and conceptual modeling. Dr. Ram has published more than  200 research  articles in refereed journals, conferences and book chapters.  Her research funded by the Library of Congress and the National Science Foundation  has resulted in the development of the W7 model for data provenance which has been widely adopted for use in Raytheon Missile Systems, SAP, and Ford.  She is a co-investigator of the iPlant Collaborative funded by NSF.

Her research has been funded by organizations such as, IBM, Intel Corporation, SAP, Ford, Raytheon Missile Systems, US ARMY, NIST, NSF, NASA, and Office of Research and Development of the CIA. Dr. Ram served as the senior editor for Information Systems Research, and is on the editorial board for many leading Information Systems journal and currently a co-editor in chief of the Journal on Data Semantics. She is a cofounder of the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) and serves on the steering committee of many workshops and conferences including the Entity Relationship Conference (ER).  Dr. Ram has published articles in such journals as Communications of the ACM, IEEE Expert, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information Systems, Information Systems Research, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly. 

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