Ravi Vatrapu
Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.
Research field: business data analytics, computational social science, social set analysis, learning analytics & teaching analytics, computer supported collaborative learning, comparative informatics.
Ravi Vatrapu is director of the Centre for Digital Enterprise Analytics and Leadership (DEAL), Loretta Rogers Research Chair in Digital Enterprise, and professor of computational social science at the School of Information Technology Management, Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. Currently, he is a professor of computational social science at the Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark; adjunct faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, India; visiting professor at the Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam, India; and honorary visiting professor for the Engineering Schools of GITAM deemed to be University, India. He was the founding director of the Centre for Business Data Analytics at the Copenhagen Business School. Formerly, he was an adjunct professor of applied computing at the Kristiania University College, Norway. Prof. Vatrapu conducts transdisciplinary basic research on big data at the socio-technical intersections of computer science and social science with specific applications to managers in organizations, teachers in schools, and residents in communities. Prof. Vatrapu's publication record consists of 2 edited books, 8 book chapters, 25 journal articles, 127 conference proceedings, 16 tool demonstrations, 1 doctoral consortium paper, and 2 theses and dissertation monographs. His co-authored papers have received 5 best paper awards (HICSS, ICCE, CSCL, & CABS) and 4 best paper nominations (CHI, CSCL, CABS, & LDIC) at premier conferences in the academic disciplines of information systems, learning sciences, human-computer interaction, and operations management.
