Bio

Karthikeyan Umapathy is currently working as an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, University of North Florida (UNF). He received his PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from the Pennsylvania State University. He is the 2018 - 2020 recipient of the FIS Distinguished Professor in Computing Award. His research interests are complex software development, data science, data-driven decision making, system interoperability, data interoperability, patterns, design and development of web services-based solutions, systems integration, IT standardization, and IT adoption and usage in Nonprofits. His research works are published in various conferences such as Americas Conference on Information Systems, Conceptual Modeling, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, International Conference on Web Services, Service Computing Conference, and Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology; and journals such as IEEE Computer, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, Information Systems and e-business Management, Journal of Information Systems Applied Research, and Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. He serves as an editorial board member for Journal of Information Systems Applied Research and Information Systems Education Journal. He served as publicity chair for 2009, 2010, and 2011 Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology conference. His teaching interests are object oriented programming, eBusiness, software design and development, systems design and analysis, enterprise integration fundamentals, and advanced enterprise information systems and technologies. He is a Co-PI for Digging into Human Rights Violations Project funded by National Science Foundation. He is a Florida Campus Compact STEM Fellow, Florida Campus Compact STEM Certified Scholar, and UNF Community Scholar.

Academic Background

Awards and Honors

•  2020 Best Paper Award in Information Systems in Use track at the Southern Association of Information Systems (SAIS) Conference.
•  2019 Best Paper Award for the SIG Computer and Internet Applications in Education Papers at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting.
•  2019 Best Faculty and Student Best Paper Award at the 2019 Southern Association of Information Systems (SAIS) Conference.
•  2019 Best Faculty and Student Best Paper Award at the 2019 Southern Association of Information Systems (SAIS) Conference.
•  Featured in the UNF Faculty Forum.   UNF Marketing and Publications  
•  2018 UNF Presidential Faculty Leaders Award.
•  2017-2018 UNF Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award.
•  2018-2020 FIS Distinguished Professor in CIS Award.
•  2016-2017 UNF Community Engaged Scholar.
•  IEEE Senior Member, April 2016.
•  Received Conference Best Paper – Finalist Award at the 2016 Southern Association of Information Systems (SAIS) Conference.
•  Featured in the Penn State IST graduate alumni profile.   Penn State News  
•  2012-2013 UNF Community Scholar.
•  2012-2013 Florida Campus Compact STEM Certified Scholar.
•  Conference Best Paper Award received for 2012 Conference on Information Systems Applied Research (CONISAR) paper.
•  Recognized as one of the 2012 "Movers and Shakers" of the Northeast Florida by the Indo-US Chamber of Commerce of Northeast Florida for contributions to the entrepreneurial community.
•  Featured in the University of North Florida Center for Community-Based Learning video to promote service learning.   UNF Cares  
•  2010 ICIS Junior Faculty Consortium Fellow - MIS Camp, St Louis, MO, USA.
•  2009 First S.T.A.R. (Award for Research Excellence), University of North Florida.
•  Received Meritorious Award for the 2008 Conference on Information Systems Applied Research (CONISAR) paper.
•  Inducted into Upsilon Pi Epsilon, Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines (December 2008, through University of North Florida Chapter).

Experience

  Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of North Florida (Aug 2013 to Present)

  Assistant Professor, School of Computing, University of North Florida (Jan 2008 to Aug 2013)

  Visiting Instructor, School of Computing, University of North Florida (Aug 2007 to Jan 2008)

  Graduate Teaching Assistant, College of IST, Penn State University (Aug 2005 to Aug 2007)

  Graduate Research Assistant, College of IST, Penn State University (Jan 2003 to Aug 2005)

  Graduate Research Assistant, Department of IE, Penn State University (Aug 2000 to Aug 2002)

  Production Planning Engineer, ELGI ELECTRIC & Industries Ltd., Coimbatore, India (June 1998 to Dec 1999)

Grants

1. Umapathy, K. (PI). Training Data Scientists While Building Capacity for Nonprofits. 2020. Funded by the FIS Distinguished Professorship in CIS Award, School of Computing, University of North Florida. Total awarded amount: $36,000.
2. Umapathy, K. and Richard, D. (PIs). Building Decision Science Capacity for Community Organizations. 2020. Funded by the Jaguar Foundation. Total awarded amount: $5,000.
3. Umapathy, K. and Richard, D. (PIs). Preparing Data Scientists with a Social Conscience. 2019. Funded by the University of North Florida Foundation. Total awarded amount: $25,000.
4. Umapathy, K. (PI). Benchmarking Use of Data Analytics in the Nonprofit Sector (Analytics-in-Nonprofits). 2018. Funded by the FIS Distinguished Professorship in CIS Award, School of Computing, University of North Florida. Total awarded amount: $36,000.
5. Umapathy, K. and Richard, D. (PIs). 2018 FL-DSSG Big Reveal Event Sponsorship. 2018. Funded by the Agile Thought. Total awarded amount: $2,000
6. Umapathy, K. and Richard, D. (PIs). 2018 FL-DSSG Summer Internship. 2018. Funded by the University of North Florida. Total awarded amount: $17,000.
7. Umapathy, K. and Richard, D. (PIs). Establishing Florida Data Science for Social Good (FL-DSSG) Program. 2017. Funded by the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida. Awarded amount: $20,000.
8. Umapathy, K. (PI), Chuan, Ching-Hua (PI). 2013. Web Technology Development for Community Organizations. 2013 UNF Transformational Learning Opportunities (TLO) Award. Awarded amount: $5,000 (Requested amount: $10,000).
9. Miller, B. (PI-US Team, GSU), Umapathy, K. (Co-PI, UNF), Xiao, Lu (PI-Canada Team, UWO, Canada), Pullman, G. (Co-PI, GSU), and Karmakar, S. (Co-PI, GSU). 2012. Digging into Human Rights Violations: Anaphora Resolution and Emergent Witnesses. 2012 Digging into Data Challenge. Total awarded amount: $235,000. US Team is funded by National Science Foundation #1209172. US Team Award: $175,000 (UNF sub-award: $36, 883). Canadian Team is funded by SSHRC. Canadian Team Award: $ 60,000.
10. Umapathy, K. (PI), Chuan, Ching-Hua (PI). 2011. A Pilot for School of Computing TLO Internship Program. 2012 UNF Transformational Learning Opportunities (TLO) Award. Awarded amount: $10,000 (Requested amount: $12,000).

Thesis Supervision

M.S Thesis Chair

1. Jacob M. Koza (Spring 2019). Active Analytics: Suggesting Navigational Links to Users Based on Temporal Analytics Data. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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2. Adetunji A. Olunuga (Spring 2019). Profile Analysis of Mobile Application Security.. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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3. Christopher Travis LaValley (Summer 2018). Holistic Model of Website Design Elements that Influence Trustworthiness.. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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4. Joshua M. Joiner (Spring 2018). Automating CIRI Ratings of Human Rights Reports Using Gate. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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5. Lucas Coffey (Spring 2018). Assessing Ratio-based Fatigue Indexes using a Single Channel EEG. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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6. Dishi Shrivastava (Fall 2017). The Impact of Social Presence and User Experience on Gender Sensitive E-Tail Websites. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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7. Mareh F. Al-Sammarraie (Summer 2017). An Empirical Investigation of Collaborative Web Search Tool on Novice's Query Behavior. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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8. Hibah A. Khalil (Spring 2017). The Role of the Quality of a Website in Consumer Perception. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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9. Doaa H. Gamal (Spring 2017). Social Networks Influence Analysis. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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10. William R. Carle II (Spring 2016). Active Analytics: Adapting Web Pages Automatically Based on Analytics Data.. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida
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11. Mwaka Mahanga (Spring 2015). Unknown Exception Handling Tool Using Humans as Agents. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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12. Britto Arockiasamy (Fall 2014). Trustworthiness of web services. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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13. Chirag N. Rana (Spring 2014). Enabling One-Phase Commit (1PC) Protocol for Web Service Atomic Transaction (WS-AT). M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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14. Enrique Caliz (Spring 2010). Analysis of WS-CDL Specifications using Colored Petri Nets. M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.

M.S Thesis Committee Member

1. Larry D. Snedden (Fall 2017). Improving Search Ranking Using a Composite Scoring Approach. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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2. Jason Frier (Spring 2017). Genetic Algorithms as a Viable Method of Obtaining Branch Coverage. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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3. Chanchal Khatwani (Spring 2017). Security Analysis of ECC Based Protocols. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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4. Priyanka Dhoopa Harish (Fall 2015). Towards Designing Energy-Efficient Secured Hashes. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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5. Neha Vilas Soni (Summer 2015). An Empirical Performance Analysis of IaaS Clouds with Cloudstone Web 2.0 Benchmarking Tool. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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6. Jeffrey B. Gouge (Summer 2015). A Targeted Denial of Service (DOS) Attack on Data Caching Networks. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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7. Jaime Kaufman (Fall 2014). A Hybrid Approach to Music Recommendation: Exploiting Collaborative Music Tags and Acoustic Features. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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8. Lucas M. Downard (Spring 2013). The Effect Overall Density Plays On Performance and Preference in a Windowed Environment. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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9. Jim Littleton (Spring 2012). ColorDots: An Intersection Analysis Resistant Graphical Password Scheme for the Prevention of Shoulder-surfing Attack. M.S. in Computing and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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10. Pavan Kumar Potti (Spring 2011). On The Design Web Services: SOAP vs. REST. M.S. in Computer and Information Sciences, University of North Florida.
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Software Artifacts

•   Temporal Active Analytics – a dynamic front-end system for automatically updating web page navigational elements using time variant data from Google Analytics reports (Koza, J. and Umapathy, K. 2018).
•   AutoCIRI – automates CIRI (Cingranelli-Richards) rating of human rights practices reported in the U.S Department of State annual country reports (Joiner, J. and Umapathy, K. 2018).
•   Active Analytics – provides ability for website designers to configure portions of user interface to be highlighted based on Google Analytics data to help users find highly used menu options faster (Carle, W. and Umapathy, K. 2016).
•   WSAT-1PC for JBoss Transaction – provides one phase protocol commit mechanism for Web Service Atomic Transaction specifications used within JBoss Transactions (Rana, C. and Umapathy, K. 2014).
•   CHORtoNET – converts Web Service Choreography (WS-CDL) specifications into Colored PetriNet (CPN) representations (Caliz, E. and Umapathy K., 2010).
•   IDAssist (Integration Designer Assistant) – assists designers with selecting integration patterns and developing web service based systems integration solutions for a given business process (Umapathy K. and Purao S., 2008).
•   Dimensional Engineering – provides guidance for metal casting designers with steel casting pattern allowance prediction (Umapathy K. and Voigt R., 2003).
•   OperationsDB – converting assembly and machine operation reports from paper format into a computerized database (Umapathy, K., 1998).

Publications

Services

Center/ Institute/ Initiatives

•   Co-Program Director for Florida Data Science for Social Good (FL-DSSG) Program.
•   Digital Humanities Initiative Advisory Council Member: 2015 – Present.

Outreach and Advisory Board Representations

•   UNF representative in the St. Johns County School District IT Council Board, since September 2015.
•   Chair of Transforming Teaching and Learning committee within the council.
•   Co-organizer for CodeforAwhile Programming Competition for High School Students 2021, 2022
•   Co-organizer for NestforAwhile Programming Competition for College Students 2021
•   Mentor for 2021 UNF MedNexus Innovation Challenge Pitch Competition for High School Students
•   Mentor and Judge for 2020 Palm Coast Tech Beach Hackathon
•   Advisory member for 2016 Data and Technology Summit organized by the Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida.
•   Mentor/Coach for Jacksonville Startup Weekend organized by iStartJax, for Years – 2015 and 2016.
•   Advisory Board member of Eight Technologies, LLC.
•   Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS) Chapter Board Member, since 2016.

Professional

•   Managing Editor for Journal of Southern Association of Information Systems (JSAIS), since 2017.
•   Executive Editor for Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), since 2017.
•   Coordinating Editor for Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), 2014 to 2017.
•   Editorial Board member
•   Information Systems Education Journal (ISEDJ), since 2009
•   Journal of Information Systems Applied Research (JISAR), since 2012
•   Journal of Database Management (JDM) 2008, Special Issue on Service-oriented Computing
•   Associate Editor for
•   International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2012
•   European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2013
•   Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2016 Emergent Research Forum (ERF) Co-Chair
•   Publicity Chair for the International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) 2009, 2010, 2011
•   Grant proposal reviewer for
•   National Science Foundation (NSF) CSforAll solicitation, 2017
•   Research Tools and Instruments Grants Program, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2012
•   Program committee member for
•   ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research (CPR) Conference 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
•   Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
•   IEEE Service Computing Conference (SCC) 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
•   International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC) 2006, 2007
•   ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SCM), Special track on Middleware Engineering 2008
•   IEEE International Workshop on Middleware Engineering (ME) 2009, 2010, 2011
•   International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) 2020, 2021
•   Adhoc Reviewer for
•   Frontiers in Big Data – Data Analytics for Social Impact 2021
•   Computer Science Education 2021
•   MIS Quarterly 2009, 2010, 2011, 2019, 2020
•   Journal of the Association for Information Systems 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017
•   The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems 2009, 2015, 2016
•   AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction 2010
•   Journal of Database Management (JDM) 2007
•   Software and Systems Modeling 2011
•   International Journal of Information Technology and Management (IJITM) 2005
•   International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021
•   IEEE Service Computing Conference (SCC) 2005, 2007, 2020
•   Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011
•   Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST) 2011, 2019, 2020, 2022
•   Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 2008
•   European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2011, 2016
•   European Journal on Information Systems (EJIS) 2015, 2016
•   IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, for the Dependable Computing and Communication Symposium (DCCS) track 2006
•   Information Systems Frontiers 2011, 2015
•   IEEE Transactions on Service Computing (TSC) 2012, 2014
•   Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS) 2012
•   ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research (CPR) Conference 2013
•   Information Systems and e-Business Management (ISeB) 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
•   Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2014
•   Focal Press Book Proposal Review 2014
•   Southern Association of Information Systems (SAIS) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2022
•   ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS) 2015, 2017, 2018
•   Production Planning & Control Journal 2016
•   IEEE Transactions on Education (ToE) 2017
•   Human Technology 2018
•   Information Systems Journal 2018
•   Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) International Convention 2019, 2020
•   Conference on Information Systems Applied Research (CONISAR) 2018, 2019, 2020
•   International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) EdTech Conference 2020
•   Session Chair
•   2020 Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS) Conference, Session: 2C – Governance, Project Management, & Strategy
•   2019 Southern Association for Information Systems (SAIS) Conference, Session: 2C – eBusiness, eCommerce, and Digital Commerce
•   2018 Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Session: 2C – Security
•   2017 Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Session: 5B – Business Analytics
•   2017 ACM SIGCSE Symposium, Session 11L: Transactions on Computing Education 2
•   2016 Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Session: 3A – Social Presence Theories
•   2015 Southern Association for Information Systems Conference, Session: 1B – Trust and Credibility
•   2014 Information Systems Education Conference, Session: Teaching cases and Abstracts
•   2011 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research (CPR), Session: IT Workforce Management II
•   2009 International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST), Session: Domain-Specific Design Research
•   2009 Workshop for e-Business, Session: Web Services & Architecture
•   2007 IEEE Service Computing Conference (SCC), Session: Research Session 10
•   Formed Graduate Student Body for Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University
•   Elected-Chairman of Graduate Student Body for Information Sciences and Technology (Penn State University) for year 2005
•   Assisted conference chair with organizing IEEE Service Computing Conference (SCC) 2005

University

•   Department level
•   Graduate Program Committee, August 2010 – Present
•   Search Committee, August 2010 – August 2011, August 2012 - 2015, August 2016 – 2020
•   Diversity and Inclusion (DIVE-IN) Committee, April 2019 – Present
•   Curriculum Committee, August 2009 – August 2010, Fall 2021 – Spring 2022
•   FIS Distinguished Professorship Award Committee, Spring 2022
•   Chair of SoC Symposium Committee, January 2011 – April 2019
•   Chair of Assessment Committee, January 2013 – December 2013
•   Assessment Committee, January 2014 – August 2014
•   Scholarship Selection Committee, May 2012 – Present
•   Suspension Review Committee, August 2012 – August 2014
•   Information Systems & Science Taskforce, August 2012 – August 2013, August 2015 - Present
•   Data Science Taskforce, August 2020 – Present
•   Information Technology Taskforce, August 2012 – August 2013
•   Chair of Computing Resources Committee, January – August 2009
•   Computing Resources Committee, January 2009 – August 2010
•   School of Computing Director Advisory Committee, January – August 2009
•   College level
•   CCEC Selection Committee for Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, August 2010 – December 2010, August 2011 – January 2012, August 2012 – December 2012
•   CCEC Selection Committee for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, August 2011 – January 2012
•   University level
•   Outstanding Faculty Community Engaged Scholarship Award Selection Committee, January – April 2014, January – April 2015, January – April 2016, January – April 2017, January – April 2018
•   Campus Technology Committee, 2021 - 2022
•   Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award Committee, January 2020 – March 2020
•   Outstanding Faculty Community Engaged Scholarship Award Selection Committee, January – April 2014, January – April 2015, January – April 2016, January – April 2017, January – April 2018
•   Undergraduate Studies Council, August 2012 – Present
•   University Campus Technology Committee, October 2013 - Present
•   UNF Constitution Convention, October 2013 - April 2014
•   Adjuncts Affair Committee, August 2009 – August 2013
•   Space Committee, August 2012 – August 2013
•   Outstanding Faculty Service Award Selection Committee, January – April 2012
•   Research Committee, August 2008 – August 2010
•   Ad hoc Internet Presence CMS Gap Analysis Committee, August 2014 – December 2014

Professional Affiliations

•   Member of Association of Information Systems (AIS), since 2003.
•   Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), since 2005.
•   Member of Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), from 2008 to 2019.
•   Member of Education Special Interest Group of Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), from 2008 to 2019.
•   Member of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), since 2010.
•   Member of IEEE Computer Society, since 2011.
•   Member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, since 2017.