Giri Kumar Tayi
PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1982
Faculty Expertise and Achievement
Professor Tayi has published about 80 refereed journal articles, has over 65 conference proceedings/ presentations and several book chapters covering the fields of IS, OM and OR. Many of the articles appear in top-tier (including FT-50 and UTD-24) academic journals such as 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 (QME), Journal of Operations Management, Government Information Quarterly, Communications of the ACM, Journal of the Association of Information Systems (JAIS), Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS), Production and Operations Management (POMS)
He serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of top-tier (FT-50 and UTD-24) academic journals such as Information Systems Research (AE and SE), JAIS (SE), POMS (SE), IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Computing Now, Decision Sciences Journal (AE), ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (AE), Information Technology Management (AE), Information Systems Frontiers, Information and Management, International Journal of Shipping and Transport Logistics.
He received several awards including SUNY-wide Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research, University at Albany Excellence in Research, Best Associate Editor of ISR, INFORMS Outstanding Service Award, Outstanding Associate Editor of Decision Sciences Journal.
He is a Senior Faculty Fellow in the Center for Technology in Government (CTG) at the State University of New York at Albany where he is involved in research in the broad area of Digital Government. At CTG, he has served as a Co-PI on several research projects that were funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the tune of $3.25 million.
He has Co-guest edited nine special issues for EJOR, Communications of the ACM, Information Technology Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Government Information Quarterly, and IEEE Computing Now.
He serves or has served as a Visiting Research Professor/Scholar at Singapore Management University (SMU), National University of Singapore (NUS), Polytechnic University of Hong Kong (PolyU), City University of Hong Kong (CityU), South China University of Technology (SCUT), Monash University (MU), Malaysia, IIM Bangalore and Ahmedabad, Xian Jiaotong University (XJTU) Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Indian School of Business (ISB).
He has made over 80 invited presentations at Doctoral and Research Colloquia at leading Business Schools and Management Institutes around the world. He has served as External Reviewer for about 50 research portfolios for faculty promotion and tenure at major research universities around the world.
Research Interests
Specific sub-area keywords/topical areas: Responsible AI and Algorithmic Bias, Ecommerce and Supply Chains, Digital Platforms, Interface of IS, OM and Marketing, DAOs
Research Websites
Teaching Interests and Areas
- BITM 621 – Optimization and Business Analytics
- BITM 691 – Experiential Learning Field Project