Faculty
Venkataramani Raja
Senior Instructor I
Business Information Systems

Venkataramani Raja

541-737-6058

raja@bus.oregonstate.edu

Faculty
Venkataramani Raja
Overview
Overview
Background
Publications

Overview

Biography

Dr. V.T. Raja is a senior instructor in Business Information Systems (BIS) and has been with OSU since 1998. He obtained his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Washington State University (WSU).

Before joining OSU, he has taught at WSU and Western Illinois University (WIU).  He loves teaching and enjoys interacting with students. At the undergraduate level, Dr.Raja's teaching interests include Introduction to BIS, Business Telecommunications and Networking, and Business Process Management. Additionally, his teaching interests relate to Advanced Information Systems and their alignment to business strategy at the graduate and executive levels.  Over the years, he has won several grants and teaching awards at undergraduate and graduate levels.

Dr.Raja’s research interests relate to the business applications of computer networks, with current interests in virtual collaboration, virtual education, and cloud computing.  He has published in high-impact journals such as Computer Law and Security Review, American Business Law Journal, International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, and Telecommunication Systems Journal.

In addition to serving as track chair and panelist at conferences, he has served as a reviewer for book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers.  At OSU and WIU, he has served as the BIS student club advisor and the BIS Professional Development Coordinator.  He has contributed to several task forces and committees, including the Faculty Senate, Peer Review of Teaching Committee, Awards Committee, Profession Ready Business Graduates Taskforce, and the Undergraduate Program Committee.  He has been recognized as a Newcomb Fellow and has won many Newcomb Associate awards for his contributions to key strategic initiatives at the College of Business. 

Credentials

Ph.D. Business Administration

Career Interests

V.T. Raja is an Instructor of Business Information Systems at the College of Business.  His current research interests include the areas of virtual collaboration and legal aspects of cloud computing. 

Professional Activities

Reviewer, Book Chapters

  • Business Information Systems (Baltzan and Phillips), 2011
  • The Handbook of Technology Management (Ed. Bidgoli), 2008

Reviewer, Ad-hoc, Journal Articles – one or more reviews per listed journal

  • Journal of Heuristics, 2007-2008
  • Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery (CACM), 2003-2004
  • International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, 2002-2003
  • European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), 2000-2002

Conference Track Chair, and/or Discussant - One or more tracks/sessions per conference

  • Association for Information Systems – Special Interest Group on Education: International Academy of Information Management (AIS-SIGED:IAIM), 2009
  • Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), 1999-2001
  • Inst. for Operations Research and the Mgt. Sciences (INFORMS), 1998-1999
  • Midwest Business Administration Association Conference, 1997-1998

Reviewer, Conference Papers (in addition to the conferences listed previously)

  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), 2009

Sponsored Research:

Raja, V. Two In-kind Educational Grants. Amazon Web Services, 2010-2011
Using cloud services to teach computer networking. $4500 each.

Reitsma, R., Mathew, P., Raja, V., Grant. College of Business, OSU, 2005 – 2009
ISACA Curriculum Certification Initiative. $250,000.      

Larson, E., Raja, V., Grant. College of Business, OSU, 2005 - 2009
Virtual Project Management and Virtual Collaboration Initiative. $250,000.

Newcomb Research Grant, College of Business, OSU, 2000 and 2001

Research Travel Grant, Western Illinois University, 1997

Graduate Research Award and Travel Grants - Spring 1995, Spring 1994, and Fall 1994 at Washington State University.

 

 

Background

Education

Ph.D.  Business Administration          
Washington State University, Pullman, WA
August 1998
Major: Management Information Systems
Minor: Operations Research/Computer Science
Dissertation: Optimal Design of Local Access Networks 
  
M.S.  Mathematics                           
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
June 1989
Thesis: Graph Algorithms and their Implementation 
  
B.S.  Mathematics                           
Loyola College, Chennai, India
June 1986

Experience

September 2003 - present
Instructor, College of Business
Business Information Systems
, Corvallis

September 1998 – September 2003
Assistant Professor, College of Business
Accounting, Finance, and Information Management 
, Corvallis 
  
August 1996 - August 1998
Assistant Professor, College of Business and Technology
Information Management and Decision Sciences, 
Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois 
  
August 1994 - July 1996
Research Assistant
Office of Grants and Research Development
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 
  
August 1990 - July 1994
Teaching Assistant
Department of Management & Systems
Washington State University, Pullman, Washington

Professional Affiliations

  • Association for Information Systems (AIS), 2009-2010
  • Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), 1996-2002
  • Inst. for Operations Research and the Mgt. Sciences (INFORMS), 1997-2001
  • Midwest Business Administration Association, 1996-1998

Service

My key contributions include the implementation of two strategic initiatives at the College of Business (COB), .

  • In collaboration with BIS and Accounting faculty, I prepared an application to the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) to certify the OSU BIS and Accounting curriculum. As of 2009, OSU was one of only eight institutions in the country and one of only 18 in the world to acquire the ISACA certification.
  • In collaboration with Professor Erik Larson, Management faculty at OSU, I developed virtual collaboration projects between OSU students and students at other institutions. This involved establishing partnerships with faculty members at top institutions in India and at Western Washington University. I recommended and implemented virtual collaboration tools for use in COB courses, developed training modules, assisted with a seminar series on Virtual Project Management, and presented workshops on virtual team education.

Other service activities include:

  • Undergraduate Program Committee (2007-present)
  • Peer Review of Teaching Committee (2004-2005, 2010-2011)
  • Faculty Senate, (2000-2002, 2007-2008)
  • Profession Ready Business Graduates Task Force (2006)
  • Faculty Advisor, Students in Information Management (SIM) Club (2004-2009)
  • BIS Faculty Search Committees (2001-2005)
  • Affirmative Action Committee, (2000-Present)
  • Co-Faculty Advisor: Management Information Systems Association, WIU (1997)
  • Council on Admissions, Graduation, and Academic Standards, WIU (1997)
  • Awards Committee, IMDS Department, WIU (1998)
  • Assessment Subcommittee, IMDS Department, WIU (1998)

Honors & Awards

Teaching Awards

Betty and Forrest Simmons Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
College of Business, , June 2010

Faces of OSU - Brilliance in the Classroom Recognition
University Advancement Office Campaign for Exceptional Teachers, , February 2006

Byron Newton Excellence in Teaching Award
College of Business, , June 2005

Students in Information Management (SIM) Teaching Award
College of Business, , June 2005

Top Professor Award
Mortar Board Honor Society, , May 2000

Outstanding Teacher Award
College of Business and Technology, Western Illinois University, Spring 1998

Service Awards

Exceptional Dedication to OSU MIS Students Award
Students of Information Management (SIM) Club, , June 2009

Newcomb Fellow for Contributions to Strategic Initiatives, 
College of Business, , June 2005

Teaching and Service Awards

Newcomb Associate Awards
College of Business, , 2007-2011

Research Awards

First Place Finish in the Social and Administrative Sciences Division of the Graduate and Professional Student Research Exposition
Certificate of Excellence in Research and Cash Award, Washington State University, 1995

Publications

Conference
BIS

“Supporting Student Collaboration for Online Learning: The Impact of Two Instructional Interventions”

This research provides an overview of an exploratory study that is being conducted to investigate two potential ways in which an instructor may be able to support online student teams assigned to analyze a case and create a collaborative digital document. Specifically, the study was designed to examine the impact of instructor leadership style and process structure on student perceptions and performance. Data has been collected for 60 3-person teams of students enrolled in an upper-division undergraduate information systems course entitled “Business Process Management.” The research data has been collected and will be analyzed. Preliminary findings from the study will be discussed.
Details

2022 Association for Information Systems - Special Interest Group - Education (AIS - SIG - Ed) - 2021 Craig Tyran Venkataramani Raja Kristi Tyran

Academic Journal
BIS

“What Do They Know About Me In The Cloud? A Comparative Law Perspective On Protecting the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Consumer Data”

How much does the cloud know about us? Should we care? In cloud computing, sensitive personal data flows in a global network of internet connected computers, creating attractive targets for hackers, challenging law enforcement and raising concerns about government surveillance. From an information privacy perspective, this article discusses how well the management information systems practices and laws in the United States and Europe protect the privacy and security of sensitive consumer data in the cloud. It examines policies and proposed regulations and makes suggestions for legal reforms in both jurisdictions to protect the privacy and security of sensitive information.
Details

413-482 pages 2013 Nancy King Venkataramani Raja View on:

Academic Journal
BIS

“Protecting the Privacy and Security of Sensitive Customer Data in the Cloud”

The global ubiquity of cloud computing may expose consumers' sensitive personal data to significant privacy and security threats. A critical challenge for the cloud computing industry is to earn consumers' trust by ensuring adequate privacy and security for sensitive consumer data. Regulating consumer privacy and security also challenges government enforcement of data protection laws that were designed with national borders in mind. From an information privacy perspective, this article analyses how well the regulatory frameworks in place in Europe and the United States help protect the privacy and security of sensitive consumer data in the cloud. It makes suggestions for regulatory reform to protect sensitive infomraiton in cloud computing environments and to remove regulatory constraints that limit the growth of this vibrant new industry.
Details

308-319 pages 2012 Nancy King Venkataramani Raja View on:

Academic Journal
BIS

“A GRASP Heuristic for Solving an Extended Capacitated Concentrator Location Problem”

Local Access Networks (LACNs) are often considered the "last mile" over the Internet provided that they are connected to some existing Wide Area Network backbone. In this paper, a revised LACN-WAN interconnection model is presented as an extension to the conventional Capacitated Concentrator Location Problem (CCLP). An efficient heuristic is also developed to seek near-optimal deployment of telecommunication devices (e.g. links, concentrators, etc.) while minimizing the total connection costs for the network interconnection. Our solution algorithm could serve as a decision-making tool in solving problems with a real world size (i.e. 120 nodes and 30 concentrators).
Details

597-618 pages 2003 International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making Bernard Han Venkataramani Raja View on:

Academic Journal
BIS

“An Efficient Heuristic for Solving an Extended Capacitated Concentrator Location Problem”

In this paper, a mathematical model and a solution algorithm are developed for solving an extended capacitated concentrator location problem. Our model extends the conventional formulation by simultaneously addressing the two capacity constraints, total connection ports and maximum data processing rate, on each concentrator to be selected for satisfying the communication demands of the given end-user nodes. Since the problem is NP-complete, an efficient and effective Lagrangian heuristic is developed and tested by solving 100 randomly generated test problems with sizes ranging from 30(nodes)×30(concentrators) to150×30. Altogether 58% of the tested problems are solved optimally with an average solution gap 0.36% from the optimality and average solution times are from a few seconds to one half of a minute.
Details

171-199 pages 2003 Telecommunication Systems Venkataramani Raja Bernard Han View on: