Professor Venky Shankararaman

Vice Provost (Education) Singapore Management University (SMU)

Professor Venky Shankararaman is a Professor of Information Systems (Education) and Vice Provost (Education) at Singapore Management University (SMU). He holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His current areas of specialisation include digital transformation, business process management and analytics, enterprise architecture and integration and Higher Education leadership. He has around 30 years of experience in the IT industry in various capacities as a researcher, academic administrator, educator, IT professional, and industry consultant. Professor Venky has contributed significantly to Computing and Information Systems education nationally and internationally. He was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) and Public Administration Medal (Bronze) by Singapore Government for his contribution to education. He was awarded the SAP Outstanding Academic Award for Southeast Asia; the award was presented by SAP to recognise his contributions to enterprise systems education. He was also awarded the Association of Information Systems (AIS) Award for Outstanding Contribution to IS Education. At SMU, he has won several awards namely Distinguished Educator, SMU-X (Experiential Project Based Learning) Excellent Teacher Award and the Distinguished Teacher Award. He is the current President of the Asia Pacific Association for International Education (APAIE). He is member of the AIS Education Committee, ACM Education Advisory Committee, and senior member of Singapore Computer Society (SCS), and member of the executive committee for the SCS Cloud Computing Chapter. He has published over 100 papers in academic journals and conferences.