Hemant K. Jain
Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Management Information Systems
Tata Consulting Services Professor

Ph.D., Information Systems, Lehigh University
M. Tech., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Indian Institute of Technology
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Indore, India

Dr. Jain specializes in information system agility through web services, service oriented architecture and component based development. His work focuses on architecture design, distributed and co-operative computing systems, database management, data warehousing, data mining and visualization. Dr. Jain is currently working on developing measurements for IS agility and issues related to system integration within a corporation and across multiple corporations. Dr. Jain teaches courses in e-commerce, networking and distributed systems, and database management.

Dr. Jain has published over 50 articles in leading journals including Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of MIS, IEEE Transactions Systems Man and Cybernetics, Naval Research Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Decision Support Systems, Communications of ACM, and Information & Management. Additionally, he has published over 40 papers in referred conference proceedings. Dr. Jain is the associate editor of Information Systems Research, the flagship journal of INFORMS, and serves on the editorial board of a number of other highly regarded publications.

Within the School, Dr. Jain led the development of UWM’s Master of Science in eBusiness program. He has also led the development of customized management training programs for Wisconsin corporations, and worked with the Milwaukee Public School System on technology management issues. Dr. Jain was instrumental in establishing a research program with the support of Tata Consulting Services for the development of tools and techniques for the design and development of reusable business components and web services. He served as director of the UWM MIS Consortium from 1995 to 2000.

Dr. Jain has served as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, and is quoted on economic and technology issues in the Wisconsin business press.