He has a Ph.D. in Computer Information Systems from Rutgers University. His research interests include electronic commerce, data warehousing and mining, and geographic information systems. He has co-authored and edited three books, many book chapters, numerous papers in journals, such as AI in Engineering, Decision Support Systems, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, IEEE Computer, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Management Information Systems, as well as presented papers in many national and international conferences. He can be reached at <gangopad@umbc.edu>.