Summary
Sree Nilakanta is a veteran faculty member and IT consultant with over four decades of experience bridging mechanical engineering roots, business analytics, and information systems. At Iowa State University he has led academic programs and research on data management, warehousing, business process improvement, Six Sigma, and knowledge management while also founding a big-data solutions venture. His recent work uniquely applies knowledge-management and persuasive strategies to chronic disease self-care, notably diabetes, translating organizational knowledge practices to patient behavior change. He combines deep technical skills in database and data warehouse design (Oracle) with practical process-improvement leadership in both academia and industry. As an educator and entrepreneur he mentors graduates into analytics roles and builds pragmatic systems that make institutional history and data actionable. Based in Ames, Iowa, he brings an uncommon blend of long-term research perspective and hands-on product and program leadership.
12 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Ph.D, MBA, Ph.D at University of Houston
BE, BE at University of Madras
Malayalam, Tamil, Hindi, English