He is also the associate director of the Advanced Enterprise Information Management Systems Research Center at the university. His research interests include Web engineering, e-business technologies and applications, e-transformation, intelligent agents, enterprise information systems, and new information-retrieval schemes. He received his PhD in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He also holds BE and MTech degrees in electrical engineering from the PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, respectively.