Associate ProfessorRavi Seethamraju

BTech (Mech) JNTU; M IndEng NITIE; GradDip Ad Ed UTS ; PhD W.Syd

Ravi’s research is multi-disciplinary and industry-relevant. It explores the evolving relationships between IT-enabled innovations and performance. He works in two particular areas, the first exploring how these innovations are effectively adopted and used in organizations, supply chains, health care, public distribution and education. The second examines the role of these innovations in improving students’ learning experiences, skills and ‘work-readiness’. His research was published in several leading international journals including Information Systems Frontiers, Australian Accounting Review, Business Process Management Journal, Engineering Management Journal, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, Management Review and others. Ravi’s research was funded by national grants, university/school grants and large Australian teaching and learning research grants.

He is currently working on several collaborative research projects – i)Designing Artificial intelligence solution for the detection and diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, ii) Influence of Blockchain technology on accounting profession, iii) - adaptation of information systems for sustainability performance management and reporting, iv) analysis of impact and implications of digital disruption in public health and public distribution systems in India, and iii) comparative effects of culture on information load and honesty in managerial reporting.

Ravi teaches accounting systems and management accounting in the discipline and earlier taught process management, enterprise systems, operations management to undergraduate, post graduate, MBA and executive MBA students at the University of Western Sydney, Macquarie Graduate School of Management and Queensland University of Technology. He led the introduction of several curriculum design initiatives and teaching and learning innovations.

Before moving into academe Ravi had 9 years of management consulting and training experience and still maintains a strong engagement with industry and practitioners. He is regularly invited to train visiting senior executives from Chinese industry on enterprise systems and process management. He served in the Supply Chain Council ANZ board as its chairperson and board member for a number years and now serving as an invited member in the Education committee for the Association for Information Systems, APICS Supply Chain Council Research committee and member of the governing council of a higher education institution.

Ravi won Sydney University Business School teaching excellence award, Kit Dampney prize for information systems teaching and research excellence and three best research paper awards in international conferences. He currently serves as a chair person for the business school ethics review committee and university academic board nominee. Ravi’s service to the community include: Member - Association for Information Systems (AIS) Education Committee, Associate Editor and Track chair for several international conferences (International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), ACIS, PACIS, HICSS); Regional editor for the International Journal of Operations & Quantitative management, reviewer/associate editor for Information Systems Research, Information Systems Journal, Information & Management, Information Technology & People, Information systems frontiers, BPM journal, Australian Accounting Review and Abacus.