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Service: Program Chair/Track Chair/Session Chair/Panelist

  1. August 1997: Chair for the session titled, "WWW/Internet Applications," Third Annual Association for Information Systems Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
  2. August 1997: Chair for the session titled, "IS/IT Strategies in Multinational Corporations (MNCs)," Third Annual Association for Information Systems Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
  3. August 1997: Chair for the session titled, "Electronic Commerce and Software Development," Third Annual Association for Information Systems Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
  4. August 1997: Chair for the session titled, "IT Differences in the World," Third Annual Association for Information Systems Conference, Indianapolis, IN.
  5. February 1997 -- August 1997: Track Chair for the minitrack on Global IT for the AIS'97 conference to be held in Indianapolis in August, 1997.
  6. April, 1997: Chair for the session titled, "Strategic and Organizational Issues in MIS", Annual Northeast Decision Science Institute Conference, Annapolis, MD.
  7. April, 1997: Chair for the session titled, "Student Learning Perspectives in Systems," Annual Northeast Decision Science Institute Conference, Annapolis, MD.
  8. November, 1996: Panelist for the session titled, "Research Opportunities in International Information Systems," Annual Decision Science Institute Conference, Orlando, Florida.
  9. November, 1996: Panelist for the session titled, "Special International Session on Business Issues of India," Annual Decision Science Institute Conference, Orlando, Florida.
  10. November, 1995: Panelist for the session titled, "Business Opportunities in the Emerging Indian Market," Annual Decision Science Institute Conference, Boston, MA.
  11. May, 1993 to May, 1994: Track Chair, Pan-Pacific IS Issues, Fifth Information Resource Management Association conference, May, 1994 in San Antonio, Texas.
  12. August, 1992-July, 1993: Program Chairperson for the "MIT-NTU conference and CISR-IMARC Executive Seminar" to be held in Singapore from July 19 to July 22, 1993.
  13. November, 1990 - May, 1991: Track-Chair for the "International Information Systems" track, Second Information Resource Management Association conference held in May 1991 in Memphis, TN.
  14. 1990-continued: Chairperson at the MIS/DSS sessions in the IRMA International conferences.
  15. October, 1988 - March, 1989: Co-track chairperson for MIS for the Northeast DSI conference held in March 30-31, 1989 in Baltimore, MD.
  16. 1986-continued: Chairperson at the MIS/DSS sessions in the national and regional conferences of DSI. (top)

Service: Discussant/Editor/Referee/Reviewer

  1. December 1997: External Assessor for a research grant proposal titled, "Discovering Decision Models and Decision Maker Groups for Classification Decision Problems Using Knowledge Discovery Techniques, " submitted to City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  2. November 1997: Discussant for the paper titled, "The Impact of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) on Business Operations," by Bob Rademacher and Marie Liu, Colorado State University, National DSI conference, San Diego, CA.
  3. April 1997: Discussant for the paper titled, "top Management's Perceptions on the Strategic Value of Information Systems: An empirical Analysis," by Girish H. Subramanian, Penn State University -- Northeast DSI conference, Annapolis,MD.
  4. August 1996: Reviewed an article for the Communications of the ACM.
  5. September, 1994-Continued: Consulting Editor, Ivy League Publishers.
  6. June, 1993-continued: Reviewer and Editorial Review Board Member, of Journal of Enterprising Culture, World Scientific.
  7. May, 1993: Reviewer of an article titled," An Experimental Scheme for Managing Uncertain Knowledge," for publication in EEE journal of NTU.
  8. 1992-continued: Associate Editor, of Journal of Global Information Management, Idea Group Publishing. Have reviewed and made recommendations on dozens of articles.
  9. Dec., 1992: Discussant for a paper titled, "An Empirical Investigation into Decision Support Environments: Findings and Considerations," by J. Michael Pearson, Kansas State University, USA; and J.P. Shim, Mississippi State University, USA -- Thirteenth International Conference on Information Systems, Dallas, Texas.
  10. Dec., 1990: Discussant for a paper titled, "Institutions & the International Diffusion of Information Technology," by Gurbaxani, J.L. King, K.L. Kraemer, University of California, Irvine, USA; F.W. McFarlan, Harvard Business School, USA; K.S. Raman, and C.S. Yap, National University of Singapore -- Eleventh International conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  11. 1985-continued: Discussant for several conference papers and panel sessions at the DSI national and regional conferences.
  12. March 1989-1996: Member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of End User Computing.
  13. 1987-continued: Referee for journal articles for MIS Quarterly, Journal of Microcomputer Systems Management, & Decision Sciences.
  14. 1985-continued: Reviewer for several conference articles for Decision Science Institute, National Conferences.
  15. Reviewer for the following books manuscripts:
    1. Dec. 1992-Jan. 1993: A textbook titled PASCAL Programming by Mr. David Keil and co-author. Published in 1994.
    2. Dec. 1989- Jan. 1990: A textbook INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION SYSTEMS by Kenneth and Jane Laudon. Published sometime in 1990.
    3. April, 1988: A textbook titled FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS by Per O. Flaatten, Donald J. McCubbrey, P. Declan O' Riordan, Keith Burgess (Andersen Consulting -- Arthur Andersen & Co.). Published in 1989.
    4. April, 85: A textbook titled INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS: AN INTRODUCTION by James O. Hicks, Jr. This book has been published in 1986. (top)

 Service: Organizations and Committees

    1. September 1997 -- Co-authored Faculty Handbook for the College of Management's School of Business, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.
    2. October 1996 -- Continued: Member of the Departmental Curriculum Committee at Long Island University.
    3. October 1995 --Continued: Member of the Faculty Development Committee at Long Island University.
    4. October-November, 1995: Coordinator of Departmental Task Force on "New Faculty Orientation Tips" at Long Island University.
    5. October 1995 - continued: Chair of the MIS Quality Team at Long Island University.
    6. November, 1989 to May, 1990: Member of the Babson's Strategic Planning Excel team on Human Resource Development.
    7. September, 88 to August, 89: Member of the Faculty Computer Committee.(top)

Service: College Involvement

  1. May, 1997: Organized a well attended campus event at LIU -- lecture on Global IT Architecture for the Financial Services Industry and the Challenges of the year 2000 by Mr. Steven L. Sheinheit, Senior Vice President of Corporate Computer Systems, Chase Manhattan Bank, New York.
  2. May, 1995 - June, 1995: Supervised several business attachment programmes at NTU.
  3. August, 1994 - March, 1995: Supervised Final Year Projects -- Awareness and Usage of Internet Among Academics and Organizations in Singapore, also Success Story of Singapore Telecom.
  4. March, 1994 - May, 1994: Supervised several business attachment programmes at NTU.
  5. August, 1993 - March, 1994: Supervised Final Year Projects -- Role of Sponsorship in the Advertisement-Mix, and Entrepreneurship in Publishing Industry.
  6. March, 1993 - May, 1993: Supervised several business attachment programmes at NTU. One of the students got an award for doing an excellent report.
  7. September, 1990: Made a presentation titled, "Valuing Diversity and Discipline," for the incoming undergraduate freshmen.
  8. August, 1990 - May, 1992: Faculty Advisor to undergraduate freshmen and sophomore students.
  9. January, 1987 to May, 1989: Supervised twelve Systems Analysis and Design projects; six of these were for Babson College. All internal clients were happy; one of them sent an appreciation letter.

     

  10. 1986 - 1988: One of the Initiators and Champions of the idea of making MCFE (Management Consulting Field Experience) program required for all day M.B.A. students.
  11. 1987- 1992: Actuarial Science Program Champion: Initiated and coordinated the exploration and experimentation of an "Actuarial Science" program at Babson.
  12. Fall, 1987 to Fall, 1990: Director of the Math/Science Colloquium series. The series was a resounding success.
  13. College Colloquium presentations:  
  14. September 1997: " The Challenges of Using the Exploding Internet for Global Electronic Commerce," at Long Island University.
  15. November, 1989: "Global Issues of MIS: A Comparison between USA and India, " at Babson College.
  16. February, 1987: "Effect of Mode of Presentation on Problem Solving Efficiency and Effectiveness: A Progress Report, " at Babson College.
  17. 1986 - 1992: Served on several committees and subcommittees to revise and revitalize MIS programs at Babson.
  18. Sept. 1984 - May 1985: Coordinator of the Introductory Computer Science Course for undergraduate students at Kent State Univ.
  19. May - July, 1984: Supervised three Systems Analysis & Design projects. (top)