Praveen Ashok Pathak

Praveen Pathak is the Robert B. Carter Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management. He received his Ph.D. from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2000. He holds a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, , and a B.Tech. (Honors) from the Indian Institute of Technology. Prior to joining University of Florida, he was working as an Assistant Professor at Purdue University. His research interests are in the field of Information Retrieval, and Web Mining. He has also done research in the area of Business Process Outsourcing, and Healthcare IT. He has published in various journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Management Information Systems, Production and Operations Management, IEEE Transaction on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Decision Support Systems, Information Processing and Management, Journal of The American Society for Information Science And Technology, and IEEE Intelligent Systems. His work has also been published in various leading conferences including Proceedings of the International Conference of Information Systems, Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Americas Conference on Information Systems, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, and Meetings of Decision Sciences Institute.

Professor Pathak’s teaching interests are in the field of Business Data Communications Management, Data Mining, Business Statistics, and Network Security. Prof. Pathak is Member of ACM, IEEE, INFORMS, DSI, and AIS. He is on the editorial board of Decision Sciences, and Journal of Database Management, a program committee member of Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems, and Conference on Information Systems and Technology, and an ad- hoc referee for Management Science, Information Systems Research, Information Processing and Management, International Conference of Information Systems, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, and Americas Conference on Information Systems. Before entering academics, Prof. Pathak had worked with Citibank, Index Computing, and Indian Telephone Industries. While at Citibank his team started the bank’s mortgage business and established it across all of India.