Giri Kumar Tayi

Giri Kumar Tayi

Faculty Fellow

Specialty

  • Operations Management
  • Information Systems
  • Digital Government
  • Supply Chains & Data Quality

Brief Bio

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:

  • E-Commerce and Omni-Channel Retailing, Information Sharing in Supply Chains
  • Economics of Information Systems (Information Security, Pricing of Information Goods)
  • Modeling of Online Communities (Creative Commons, Digital Copyright Policies)
  • Geographically Distributed Software Development (Process Choice, Process Diversity, Software Quality)
  • IS Project Outsourcing (Risk Management, Engagement Models)
  • Data Quality and Data Mining, Models and Algorithms for Mobile Computing Environments
  • Digital Government, Open Data Initiatives and Grid Computing
  • Operations Management and Digital Processes
  • Modeling of Supply Chains (Reverse Logistics, Product Recovery and Return Architectures)

He has published nearly 60 refereed journal articles, has over 60 conference proceedings/ presentations, has served on about 20 research panels organized by NSF, at academic conferences (such as ICIS, INFORMS, IEEE, CSWIM, ICIQ, PACIS) and several book chapters covering the above three fields.

Many of the articles appear in top-tier academic journals:

  • Operations Research
  • Information Systems Research
  • Management Science
  • MIS Quarterly
  • IEEE Transactions
  • Networks
  • Naval Research Logistics
  • EJOR, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
  • INFORMS Journal of Computing
  • Journal of Computer Security
  • Quantitative Marketing and Economics
  • Journal of Operations Management
  • Government Information Quarterly
  • Communications of the ACM

He serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of academic journals:

  • Information Systems Research (AE and SE)
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • IEEE Computing Now
  • Decision Sciences Journal
  • ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality
  • Information Technology Management
  • Information Systems Frontiers
  • Information and Management
  • International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics

Education

  • Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon