Dr. Erraguntla is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department of Texas A&M University and a faculty member at Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems. His areas of expertise include data mining, healthcare analytics, logistics, supply chain management, lean healthcare, epidemiology, and evidence-based medicine. He has 25 years of research experience in the industry and 7 years of teaching and research experience at Texas A&M University. His industry experiences include Knowledge based systems, AT&T Big data center of excellence, and i2 Technologies. He was the principal investigator and co-investigator for QNRF, CDC, DOD, DHHS, NASA, DOT, and Defense Health Program (DHP) funded Phase I, II and III projects on epidemiology, healthcare analytics, donor hemovigilance, crowd sourced data collection, and healthcare supply chain optimization. Currently, at Texas A&M, he is focused on teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, mentoring students based on experience and insights gained from industrial applications, and on executing analytics focused research projects.