Akhil Kumar
Professor of Information Systems
Smeal College of Business
420 Business Bldg.
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802.
Phone: (814) 863-0034
Fax: (814) 863-7067
Email: FirstName AT psu DOT edu
Check out my book, Business Process Management, Routledge, 2018. www.routledge.com/9781138181854
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Akhil Kumar received his Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley and has previously been on the faculties at Cornell University and University of Colorado and has spent a sabbatical year as a scientist at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. He has published more than 125 papers in academic journals and international conferences.
He is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award for 2022-2023.
His current research interests are in BPM and workflow systems, Blockchain technology, Business analytics, Deep learning, Health IT and Healthcare forums, and process mining.
Akhil published a book on Business Process Managment in 2018 . This book introduces students to business process management, an approach that aims to align the organization's business processes with the demands of the marketplace. Blending a strong grounding in current research with a focus on concepts and tools, Business Process Management is an accessible textbook full of practical examples and cases that will appeal to upper level and graduate students.
Akhil currently serves as an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems. He has previously been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, INFORMS Journal on Computing and Information Systems Research. He was a co-program-chair of BPM 2017 Conference. He also served as a co-program chair of CoopIS'11 and as a co-chair of Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS'07). He has been a principal investigator for National Science Foundation, and also received support from IBM, Sun Microsystems and other organizations for his work. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
He was a coauthor of a paper which received the best paper award at the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology in 2001. He has collaborated extensively with researchers in US, and also internationally with several co-authors at the Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands; Ulm University, Germany; Tsinghua University, China; and Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane.
Akhil has taught various courses at Penn State.
MIS479W: Enterprise Resource Planning
SCIS505: Information Systems Research Seminar
MIS431: Database Systems
MIS434: Internet Technologies
MIS436: Business Data Communications
BA523: Introduction to Information Technologies
MIS597: PhD seminar course
Hobbies: Badminton, tennis, yoga, hiking and bicycling.