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	Akhil Kumar
	Professor of Information Systems Department: Supply Chain and Information Systems Office: 420 Business Building Phone: 814-863-0034 Fax: E-mail: akhilkumar@psu.edu Member of Faculty Since: 2002

Personal Homepage:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/a/x/axk41/

Introduction

Akhil Kumar joined the Smeal faculty in June 2002. He received his Ph.D. from Berkeley and has previously been on the faculties at Cornell University and University of Colorado. He also spent a sabbatical year as a scientist at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. He has published more than 60 papers in academic journals and international conferences. He was coauthor of a paper which received the best paper award at the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology in November 2001.

Akhil serves on the editorial boards of Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing and Information and Technology Management Journal. He has been a principal investigator for National Science Foundation, and also received support from IBM, Sun Microsystems and other organizations for his work.

Akhil Kumar has taught the following courses at Penn State.

MIS431: Database Systems (Fall 2002)

MIS434: Internet Technologies (Spring, Fall 2004)

MIS436: Business Data Communications (Fall 2003)

BA523: Introduction to Information Technologies (Spring 2003)

MIS/SCIS597: PhD seminar course (Spring 2003, Spring/Fall 2004)

Current Research

His current research is in workflow management systems, E-business and distributed information systems.

His research interests are in workflow systems, e-services, various aspects of database systems, distributed information systems and intelligent systems, e.g., replication and concurrency control, data mining, online analytical processing, data structures for spatial data. ( Publications)

Expertise

Workflow systems, Web services, Internet technologies, Process mining, Database systems, Intelligent systems

Editorship

Information Systems Research, Associate Editor
INFORMS Journal on Computing, Associate Editor
Information Technology and Management, Associate Editor

Education

Ph.D., Information Systems, Berkeley,  1988 
M.S., Computer Science, Berkeley,  1986 
P.G.D.M. (, Information Systems, IIM Ahmedabad,  1980 
B.S. , Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi,  1978 

Courses

MIS434, Internet Technologies
SCIS597E, Introduction to Information Systems (Advanced)