Jatinder N.D. Gupta is currently an eminent scholar of management, Professor of
Management Information Systems, and chairperson of the Department of Accounting
and Information Systems in the College of Administrative Science at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. Most recently, he was a professor of Management, Information and Communication Sciences, and Industry and Technology at Ball
State University, Muncie, Indiana (USA). He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering (with
specialization in Production Management and Information Systems) from Texas Tech
University. A co-author of a textbook in operation research, Dr. Gupta serves on the
editorial boards of several national and international journals. A recipient of the
Outstanding Faculty and Outstanding Researcher awards from Ball State University, he
has published numerous papers in such journals as the Journal of Management
Information Systems, the International Journal of Information Management, INFORMS
Journal of Computing, Annals of Operations Research, and Mathematics of Operations
Research. More recently, he served as a co-editor of a special issue on Neutral Networks
in Business of Computers and Operation Research and a book titled Neutral Networks
in Business: Techniques and Applications. His current research interests include
information and decision technologies, scheduling, planning, and control, organizational learning and effectiveness, systems education, and knowledge management. Dr.
Gupta is a member of several academic and professional societies including the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI),
and the Information Resources Management Association (IRMA).