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	Name:	Giri Kumar Tayi
	Position:	Professor
	Education:	Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982
	Email:	g.tayi@albany.edu

Giri Kumar Tayi is a Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the State University of New York at Albany.  He obtained his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and his research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and span the fields of Information Systems, Operations Management and Operations Research.  His current research streams include Economics of Information Systems (Information Security, Software Sample Design, Pricing of Information Goods), Modeling of Online Communities (Creative Commons, Digital Copyright Policies), Geographically Distributed Software Development (Process Choice, Software Quality), IS Project Outsourcing (Risk Management, Engagement Models), Data Quality and Data Mining, Models and Algorithms for Mobile Computing Environments, Online Auctions, Grid Computing, Modeling of Supply Chains (Reverse Logistics, Product Recovery and Return Architectures).

He has published about 45 refereed journal articles and several book chapters covering the above three fields.  Many of the articles appear in top-tier academic journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions, Networks, Naval Research Logistics, EJOR, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, INFORMS Journal of Computing, Journal of Computer Security, Government Information Quarterly, Communications of the ACM.

He serves on the Editorial Board of academic journals such as Information Systems Research, ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality, Information Technology Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Information and Management, International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics.  He has co-guest edited six special issues for EJOR, Communications of the ACM, Information Technology Management, Information Systems Frontiers and Government Information Quarterly covering topics such as Multistage Production-Inventory Systems, Data Quality, Communication Networks, Mobile Computing, Information Integration and Digital Government.

He regularly serves on the Program Committee of several academic conferences and workshops including WITS, CIST, C-SWIM, AMCIS, ICIQ, IEEE Services Computing, dg.o, ICE-Gov, ECIS, HICSS, ISIS.  He is regularly invited to present his research at major research universities around the world.

He regularly serves as an External Reviewer of Research Grant Proposals for the National Science Foundation (NSF), University Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, National Research Grants Council of Singapore.

He serves as a Visiting Professor at Singapore Management University (SMU), National University of Singapore (NUS), Polytechnic University of Hong Kong and the Indian School of Business (ISB).

He is a Senior Faculty Fellow in the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at the University at Albany where he is involved in research in the broad area of Digital Government.  He has served as a Co-PI on several research projects that were funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and New York State to the tune of $2.5 million.

He is a Visiting Faculty at the Center for Information Technology and Networked Economy (CITNE) at the Indian School of Business (ISB) where he is involved in several research projects with Global Indian IT firms such as Satyam, Infosys, TCS and WIPRO in the broad area of Information Technology Management.

He has held several administrative positions including Director of Full-time MBA program, Director of Weekend MBA program, Department Chair and Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development.

He has taught and conducted Executive Education Programs on Supply Chain Management, Information Quality, Operations Management, Service Quality, Business Analytics, Decision Support Systems and Quantitative Models for Decision Making for middle and upper-level executives and managers from private and public sector organizations in United States, Argentina, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Kenya and India.

He has supervised about twenty funded year-long Master’s level Information Systems Field Projects for several private firms and New York State government agencies.