Ramesh Sharda

Ramesh Sharda is the Watson Chair and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. This year he is also serving as the Interim Director of the MS in Business Analytics and Data Science progam. He recently returned to faculty after serving as the Vice Dean for Graduate Programs and Research in Spears Business for more than 10 years. He has coauthored two textbooks ( Analytics, Data Science, and Artificial Intelligence: Systems for Decision Support, 11th edition, Pearson and Business Intelligence, Analytics, Data Science, and AI: A Managerial Perspective, 6th Edition, Pearson). His research has been published in major journals in management science and information systems including Management Science, Operations Research, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Interfaces, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and many others. He is a member of the editorial boards of journals such as the Decision Support Systems, Decision Sciences, ACM Database, and Information Systems Frontiers. He served as the Executive Director of Teradata University Network through 2020 and was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in 2016. Ramesh is a Fellow of INFORMS and AIS. He has received many other awards including INFORMS Computing Society HG Greenberg Service Award, AMCIS Leadership Service Award,  etc. 

He was the winner of 2020 OSU Eminent Faculty Award. Ramesh also won the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award at Aalto University in Finland for 2022-2023.

Research Interests:

Analytics/AI/Data Science applications in various domains including health, business, natural resource management, etc.