Professor Rao graduated from Krannert Graduate School of
Management at Purdue University. His interests are in the areas of
management information systems, decision support systems,
e-business, emergency response management systems and information
assurance. He has chaired sessions at international conferences and
presented numerous papers. He also has co-edited four books of
which one is on Information
Assurance in Financial Services. He has authored or co-authored
more than 175 technical papers, of which more than 100 are
published in archival journals. His work has received best paper
and best paper runner up awards at AMCIS and ICIS. Dr. Rao has
received funding for his research from the National Science
Foundation, the Department of Defense and the Canadian Embassy and
he has received the University's prestigious Teaching Fellowship.
He has also received the Fulbright fellowship in 2004. He is a
co-editor of a special issue of The Annals of Operations
Research, the Communications of ACM, associate editor
of Decision Support Systems, Information Systems
Research and IEEE Transactions in
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, and coEditor-in-Chief
of Information
Systems Frontiers. Dr. Rao also has a courtesy appointment
with Computer Science and Engineering as adjunct Professor.
Professor Rao's PhD students have placed at Sogang U, UNCG, ASU,
USF, FAU, MSU, OKState, FSU, PennState and others. Professor Rao
teaches Information
assurance, Networks and e-commerce.
Prof Rao is also the recipient of the 2007 State University of New
York Chancellor's award for excellence in scholarship and creative
actitivities. In 2010, Professor Rao was appointed a SUNY
Distinguished Service Professor. He is the only School of
Management Professor to be honored as a SUNY Distinguished Service
Professor, which represents a promotion in rank above full
professor. At ICIS, December 2010 in St. Louis USA, Professor Rao
and his colleagues won the Best Paper Award in information Systems
Research, for the year 2009. The article was entitled, "Two
Stepping Stones for Successful E-commerce Relationships" (by Dan
Kim, Don Ferrin, H. R. Rao). His recent book on Information
Assurance Security and Privacy Services (edited by H. R.
Rao and S. Upadhyaya) was published by Emerald Group Publishing
ISbn 978-1-84855-194-7.
