Collaborators
Established in 2007, CETI is now into its fourth year of operation.
Co-Director: Dr. Rajiv Ramnath obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Ohio State University in 1988. He is the Director of Practice at the National Science Funded research site called Center for Experimental Research and Computer Systems for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (or CETI) at The Ohio State University's Computer Science and Engineering Department. He was formerly a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concentus Technology Corp. and involved in government and DARPA-funded R&D programs such as the National Information Infrastructure Integration Protocols (NIIIP) project. In this capacity he was also responsible for the development of enterprise workflow technology and its highly distributed development process. He is currently engaged in industry-facing programs of applied R&D, education, technology transfer and practice. Dr. Ramnath's expertise and research interests range from wireless sensor network and pervasive computing applications in the enterprise, to the alignment of business strategy and processes with information technology, enterprise architecture, technology management and integration and software engineering, e-Government, collaborative environments, configurable enterprise systems, workflow, and work-management systems. He has published numerous papers in these areas. He also teaches graduate and under-graduate research, technology strategy and software engineering courses at the Ohio State University. Associate Director: Dr. Ola Ahlqvist since undergraduate studies in the late 1980’s, has had one foot within information science and another foot in ecology, environmental management and physical planning. His career path has led him back and forth between these two areas in a very stimulating way. He initially worked professionally for six years with local and regional environmental planning in Finland and Sweden. His subsequent PhD work dealt with how implicit map information could be translated into GIS databases, a direction that he continued as a post-doctoral scholar at Penn State University. His work is largely application driven with strong theoretical research foundation. This also translates into the way he teaches where he emphasize hands-on examples and application oriented assignments to reinforce concepts and theory. His current research interests revolve around semantic uncertainty, geographic data analysis, and neogeography. Recent projects address land cover change, landscape history, participatory mapping, geographic information cyberinfrastructures, visualization of vague information, and mapping of youth violence and drug abuse. In his latest work he seeks to bring together virtual globes with Massive Multiplayer Online Gaming in a platform for social-environmental simulation, collaboration, and decision making to enhance participation in, and discourse about spatial issues. Much of his inspiration is taken from professional experiences in local and regional environmental planning and work with environmental management systems. This is also why he find service and collaboration with other university units and community partners to be a natural ingredient in his work. Co-Director: Dr. Jay Ramanathan obtained her PhD in Computer Science from Rice University in 1977. She is currently the Director of Research at the National Science Funded research site called Center for Experimental Research and Computer Systems for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (or CETI) at The Ohio State University's Computer Science and Engineering Department. Previously she was the Founder and Board Member of Concentus Corporation, Columbus, Ohio and has served in the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer roles. In this capacity she managed the commercialization of enterprise workflow technologies and significant DARPA funded research programs. She has also served as the engagement consultant deploying solutions for business process management at over 150 companies using emerging technologies for the first time within their organizations. She has also written numerous papers and directed many doctoral students in these areas while a tenured faculty member earlier at The Ohio State University. She is currently leveraging this industry and academic experience by researching more principled ways for the emerging discipline of Services Science. Particular areas of interest are Adaptive Complex Enterprise Frameworks for Business-IT alignment, management and innovation. The underlying research includes both developing more analytic architecture frameworks using conceptual methods such as ITIL, TOGAG, Patterns, Complexity Theory and autonomic computing as well as technologies such as middleware, mobile computing, and Web services. This also includes validating the overall effectiveness of business services within its economic ecosystem. Successful applications of these methods have been within Public and Private institutions.
Other OSU collaborations include The John Glenn School of Public Affairs, Fisher College of Executive Education, The Center for Resilience, OIT, Medical Center, and Athletics.
