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"As scholars and practitioners gradually shift their focus from IT providers to IT consumers, the significance of the role of information systems within an organization emerges clearly—in a digital economy, IT not only enables business processes, but IT also transforms them."

 

 

 

 
Debabrata Dey
Professor of Information Systems
Evert McCabe Faculty Fellow
Chair, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management

PhD, University of Rochester, 1994
MS, University of Rochester, 1992
MS, Syracuse University, 1989
B Tech, IIT Kharagpur, India 1986

Phone:   
 206-543-1855 Mailing Address:
Fax:
 206-543-3968 Michael G. Foster School of Business
Office:
Email:
 365 Mackenzie Hall
ddey@u.washington.edu
 Info Systems and Ops Management Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200
     
Faculty Personal Web Page:   http://faculty.washington.edu/~ddey/


Specialties

    Databases and data warehousing, heterogeneous and distributed systems, systems development and contracting, IT adoption.

Positions Held

    At the University of Washington since 1997
    Assistant professor at Louisiana State University (1993-97)

Selected Publications

  • "Optimal Synchronization Policies for Data Warehouses," with Z. Zhang and P. De, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2006. pp. 229–242.

  • "Record Matching in Data Warehouses: A Decision Model for Data Consolidation," Operations Research, Vol. 51, No. 2, 2003, pp. 240–254.

    "A Distance-Based Approach to Entity Reconciliation in Heterogeneous Databases," with S. Sarkar and P. De, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2002, pp. 567–582.

  • "Modifications of Uncertain Data: A Bayesian Framework for Belief Revision," with S. Sarkar, Information Systems Research, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2000, pp. 1–16.

  • "Improving Database Design through the Analysis of Relationships," with V.C. Storey, and T.M. Barron, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 24, No. 4, 1999, pp. 453–486.

  • "A Probabilistic Decision Model for Entity Matching in Heterogeneous Databases," with S. Sarkar and P. De, Management Science, Vol. 44, No. 10, 1998, pp. 1379–1395.

  • "A Decision Model for Choosing the Optimal Level of Storage in Temporal Databases," with T.M. Barron, and A.N. Saharia, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 2, 1998, p. 297–309.

  • "A Probabilistic Relational Model and Algebra," with S. Sarkar, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol. 21, No. 3, 1996, pp. 339–369.


Current Research

    Network pricing and performance, data warehousing, systems development and contracting, impact of IT in the labor market, and technology diffusion.

Honors and Awards

    Dean's Faculty Research Award (2003)
    PhD Mentor Award (2003)
    Dean's Junior Faculty Research Award (2000)
    Partners for Excellence Teaching Award, Louisiana State University (1996)
    Best Paper Award at the Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (1996)

Academic Service

    Senior Editor, Information Systems Research
    Associate Editor:
    Management Science
    INFORMS Journal on Computing
    Information Technology and Management

    Faculty Mentor, Doctoral Consortium, 27th International Conference on Information Systems (2006) Co-Chair, 13th Annual Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (2003) Co-Chair of Track for Completed Papers, 22nd International Conference on Information Systems (2001)




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