Management Information Systems

Professor S Sadagopan is (since 1999) Director of the International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru. As the first Director there, he is involved in visioning, planning and executing the growth of this institute that is counted as one of the premier technology institutes in India. He was also involved with several new-generation institutes including the IIITs in Bhubaneshwar, Delhi and Thiruvanthapuram, Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology in Bengaluru as well as Institute of Space Science and Technology in Thiruvanthapuram. Prior to joining IIIT, Professor Sadagopan taught for more than twenty-five years (1979-95) at IIT-Kanpur, for four years (1995-99) at IIM Bangalore and for a year (1987-88) at IIT-Madras, as well as in Bangkok, Thailand (1989) and RUTGERS, The State University of New Jersey in USA (1997). His research interests include Operations Research, Decision Theory, Multi-criteria Optimization, Simulation, Enterprise Computing, ERP, Supply Chain Optimization, IT in education, Multimedia and e-Governance. Professor Sadagopan is a Fellow of the UK’s IET, Computer Society of India and Institution of Engineers (India). He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM and a Fulbright Scholar.