Sixth Annual Netcentricity Conference

Conference Co-Chairs

G. “Anand” Anandalingam

Anand Anandalingam is the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science and Chair of the Department of Decision and Information Technologies. He is also the founder of the Center on Electronic Markets and Enterprises at the Smith School of Business and was the co-director from 2001-2004. Before joining the Smith School, he was with the University of Pennsylvania for almost 15 years where he was the National Center Professor of Resource and Technology Management, and a professor of operations and information management at the Wharton School. He was chair of the department of systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania from January 1997 to May 2001. He also directed the Executive Master's Program in Technology Management from 1990 to 1995.

Dr. Anandalingam is an associate editor of Management Science and Operations Research, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Telecommunications Systems and Networks and Spatial Economics. He has also guest edited a volume of Management Science on Electronic Markets. He is a senior member of both INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) and IEEE ( Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers). He received his PhD from Harvard University.

Michael O. Ball

Michael Ball is the Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science in the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He also holds a joint appointment within the Institute for Systems Research (ISR) in the Clark School of Engineering. He is former chair of the decision and information technologies faculty area within the Robert H. Smith School of Business and former chair of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Systems Research. He is currently director of research for the Smith School.

Dr. Ball's research interests are in network optimization and integer programming particularly as applied to problems in transportation systems and supply chain management.. He is co-director of NEXTOR, the National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research. Within NEXTOR, which is funded by the FAA, NASA and members of the airline industry, he directs the Collaborative Decision Making research project. The interdisciplinary nature of his work led to Dr. Ball receiving the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award from the ISR in 1997. He has over 100 publications in the aforementioned areas and has made over 100 presentations on these topics. He also has extensive consulting experience, which, in certain cases, has led to the development and successful implementation of major software systems. He received his PhD from Cornell University.