Dr. Vadlamani Ravi is Associate Professor, in the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, Hyderabad. He obtained his Ph.D. in the area of Soft Computing from Osmania University, Hyderabad and RWTH Aachen, Germany (2001); MS (Science and Technology) from BITS, Pilani (1991) and M.Sc. (Statistics & Operations Research) from IIT, Bombay (1987). At IDRBT, he spearheads the CRM lab and evangelizes it a big way by conducting customized training programmes for bankers on CRM subsuming OCRM & ACRM; Data Warehousing & Data Mining and conducting POC for banks etc.
He has 100 papers to his credit with the break-up of 51 papers in refereed International Journals, 4 papers in refereed National Journals, 33 papers in refereed International Conferences and 3 papers in refereed National Conferences and 9 invited book chapters. His papers appeared in Applied Soft Computing, Soft Computing, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, Expert Systems with Applications, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Information Sciences, Journal of Systems and Software, Neural Computing and Applications, Knowledge Based Systems, IJUFKS, IJCIA, IJAEC, IJDMMM, IJIDS, IJDATS, IJISSS, IJCIR, IJCISIM, IJBIC, Computers and Chemical Engineering, Canadian Geotechnical Journal, Biochemical Engineering Journal, Bioinformation, Journal of Services Research etc. He also edited a Book entitled "Advances in Banking Technology and Management: Impacts of ICT and CRM" (http://www.igi-global.com/reference/ details.asp?id=6995), published by IGI Global, USA, 2007. Some of his research papers are listed in Top 25 Hottest Articles by Elsevier and World Scientific. He has an H-index of 13 and more than 500 citations for his papers(http://scholar.google.co.in/). He is recognized as a Ph.D. supervisor at Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Hyderabad and Department of Computer Sciences, Berhampur University, Orissa. He is an invited member in Marquis Who's Who in the World, USA in 2009, 2010. He is also an invited member in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century 2009/2010- published by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, He is an Invited Member of "Top 100 Educators in 2009" published by International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England. 2 Ph.D. students graduated under his supervision. So far, he advised 42 M.Tech./MCA/M.Sc projects and at least a dozen Summer Interns from various IITs. He currently supervises 5 M.Tech students. He is on the Expert Committee for some banks embarking on Data Warehouse, Data Mining and CRM.
He is a referee for 35 International Journals of repute. Moreover, he is a member of the Editorial Review Board for the "International Journal of Information Systems in Service Sector" published by IGI Global, USA; "International Journal of Data Analysis Techniques and Strategies" published by Inderscience, Switzerland; International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences (IJIDS), Inderscience, Switzerland; International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences (IJSDS), IGI Global, USA and International Journal of Information Technology Project Management (IJITPM), IGI Global, USA. He is on the PC for some International Conferences and chaired many sessions in International Conferences in India and abroad.
His research interests include Fuzzy Computing, Neuro Computing, Soft Computing, Data Mining, Web Mining, Privacy Preserving Data Mining, Global/Multi-Criteria/Combinatorial Optimization, Bankruptcy Prediction, Risk Measurement, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Churn Prediction in Banks and firms and Asset Liability Management through Optimization. In a career spanning 23 years, Dr. Ravi has worked in several cross-disciplinary areas such as Financial Engineering, Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Chemistry, Medical Entomology, Bioinformatics and Geotechnical Engineering.
Prior to joining IDRBT as Assistant Professor in April 2005, he worked as a Faculty at the Institute of Systems Science (ISS), National University of Singapore (April 2002 - March 2005). At ISS, he was involved in teaching M.Tech. (Knowledge Engineering) and research in the areas of Fuzzy Systems, Neural Networks, Soft Computing Systems and Data Mining & Machine Learning. Further, he consulted for Seagate Technologies, Singapore and Knowledge Dynamics Pte. Ltd., Singapore, on data mining projects.Before leaving for Singapore, he worked as Assistant Director (Scientist E1) from 1996 -2002 and Scientist C from 1993-1996 respectively at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad. He was deputed to RWTH Aachen (Aachen University of Technology) Germany under the DAAD Long Term Fellowship to carry out advanced research during 1997-1999. He earlier worked as Scientist B and Scientist C at the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee (1988-1993) and was listed as an expert in Soft Computing by TIFAC, Government of India.
