Vijayan Sugumaran
442 Elliott Hall (248) 370-2831 | sugumara@oakland.edu Vijayan Sugumaran is Professor of Management Information Systems and Chair of the Department of Decision and Information Sciences at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, USA. He was WCU Visiting Professor at Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea from 2010 to 2012. He received his Ph.D in Information Technology from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. His research interests are in the areas of Agile and Lean Software Development Practices, Service Systems, Ontologies and Semantic Web, Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, and Component Based Software Development. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in Journals, Conferences, and Books. He has edited twelve books and serves on the Editorial Board of eight journals.
His research primarily utilizes the design science paradigm which focuses on designing and developing artifacts and demonstrating their usefulness through empirical or qualitative evaluation. He has published in top-tier journals such as Information Systems Research, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Software and Healthcare Management Science. Dr. Sugumaran is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies. He is the Chair of the Intelligent Agent and Multi-Agent Systems mini-track for Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 1999 - 2015). Dr. Sugumaran served as Chair of the Information Technology committee for the Decision Sciences Institute. He has served as the program co-chair for the International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2008 and NLDB 2013). He also regularly serves as a program committee member for numerous national and international conferences. |
Gene Fliedner
Associate Professor, Operations Management, Decision and Information Sciences Department 416 Elliott Hall (248) 370-4281 | fliedner@oakland.edu Gene Fliedner earned his D.B.A. in Operations Management from Indiana University in 1989. His academic interests focus on the interdependent elements of Lean systems, Project Management, Quality Management, and Supply Chain Management. He has published in numerous top-tier academic and practitioner journals. His book, Leading and Managing the Lean Management Process won the 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award.
Dr. Fliedner is also a member of several professional societies. As a member of the international Decision Sciences Institute, he has served in various capacities, including Vice President. As a member of the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute, he has served in various capacities, including President, Secretary, Program Chair and others. In 2010, he received the distinguished Fellows lifetime service award from the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute. As a member of the American Production and Inventory Control Society he served on the board of Directors of the Houston, TX Chapter and he was awarded certification at the Fellows level in 1995. |