Dr. Rohit Rampal
Professor of Management Information Systems & Analytics
Dr. Rohit Rampal has a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) in Electronics and Electrical Communication from TIET, India, an M.B.A. in Marketing and Operations/Systems from UBS, Panjab University, India and a Ph.D. in Management Science and Information Systems from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Oklahoma. He served as a faculty member at the University of Rhode Island, and Portland State University before joining SUNY Plattsburgh in 2007. Over his academic career, Dr. Rampal has been invited to teach in executive, graduate and undergraduate programs in China, India, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Rampal currently teaches in the B.S. management information systems, B.S. cybersecurity management and M.S. in data analytics programs. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Rampal worked in industry in India and the Sultanate of Oman.
Dr. Rampal’s areas of research include innovative use of technology in learning, information security and ethics, information systems in manufacturing, virtual enterprises and networked organizations, business intelligence/analytics, medical decision support systems, and neural networks. He has published in several top-quality journals like Decision Support Systems; European Journal of Operational Research; International Journal of Production Research; International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology; Academy of Marketing Studies Journal; Journal of Legal, Ethical and Regulatory Issues; Annals of Cases in Information Technology; Engineering Economics; Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting; etc. He has presented his research at regional, national, and international conferences where he has won multiple best paper awards. Dr. Rampal served as an associate editor, and subsequently co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking, from 2009–2018. He is serving as the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Social Media and Online Communities since 2018.
Dr. Rampal holds the rank of a full professor and serves as the director of the M.S. in data analytics program as well as the coordinator of the MIS and the business analytics minors in the School of Business and Economics at SUNY Plattsburgh.
- Education
- Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, Oklahoma State University
- M.B.A. in Marketing and Operations/Systems, University Business School, Panjab University Chandigarh India
- B.Eng. in Electronics and Electrical Communication, Thapar University
- Research Areas