Dr. V. Ravi

Dr. Vadlamani Ravi, is Assistant Professor, in the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad, since April 2005. He obtained his Ph.D. in the area of Soft Computing from Osmania University, Hyderabad and RWTH Aachen, Germany (2001); MS (Science and Technology) from BITS, Pilani (1991) and M.Sc. (Statistics & Operations Research) from IIT, Bombay (1987).

Prior to joining IDRBT, he worked as a Faculty at the Institute of Systems Science (ISS), National University of Singapore (April 2002 - March 2005). At ISS, he was involved in teaching M.Tech. (Knowledge Engineering) and research in the areas of Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks, Soft Computing Systems and Data Mining & Machine Learning. Further, he consulted for Seagate Technologies, Singapore and Knowledge Dynamics Pte. Ltd., Singapore, on data mining projects.

Email: vravi@idrbt.ac.in

Before leaving for Singapore, he worked as Assistant Director (Scientist E1) from 1996 -2002 and Scientist C from 1993-1996 respectively at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad. He was deputed to RWTH Aachen (Aachen University of Technology) Germany under the DAAD Long Term Fellowship to carry out advanced research during 1997-1999. He earlier worked as Scientist B and Scientist C at the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee (1988-1993) and is listed as an expert in Soft Computing by TIFAC, Government of India.

In a career spanning 20 years, Dr. Ravi has worked in several cross-disciplinary areas such as Financial Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, Medical Entomology, Bioinformatics and Geotechnical Engineering. He published 53 papers in refereed International / National Journals / Conferences and invited book chapters. He also edited a Book entitled “Advances in Banking Technology and Management: Impacts of ICT and CRM” (http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?id=6995), published by IGI Global, USA, 2007. Further, he has advised more than 35 M.Tech./MCA/M.Sc projects and currently supervises 3 Ph.D. students.

Dr. Ravi is a referee for the several international journals including Annals of Information Systems, Applied Intelligence, Computers and Operations Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, European Journal of Operational Research, Information Sciences, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, International Journal of Computational Intelligence, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Decision Support Systems, Quantitative Finance, Indian Journal of Engineering and Material Sciences and International Journal of Tourism Management. Moreover, he is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the "International Journal of Information Systems in Service Sector" published by IGI Global, USA; “International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies” published by Inderscience, Switzerland; International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences (IJIDS), Inderscience Publications, Switzerland; International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS), IGI Global, USA and International Journal of Information Technology Project Management (IJITPM), IGI Global, USA.


Dr. Ravi's research interests include Fuzzy Computing, Neuro Computing, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Web Mining, Privacy Preserving Data Mining, Global/Multi-Criteria/Combinatorial Optimization, Bankruptcy Prediction, Risk Measurement, Churn Prediction in Banks and firms (CRM) and Asset Liability Management through Optimization. He is recognized as a Ph.D. supervisor at Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad and is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, USA.