Prof. Vijayan Sugumaran is a Distinguished University Professor and Janke Scholar of Management Information Systems in the School of Business Administration at Oakland University, Rochester, MI, USA. He is also the Chair of the Department of Decision and Information Sciences, Co-Director of the Institute for Data Science, and Director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics program. He completed his PhD studies in Information Technology at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA. His research interests include big data management and analytics, ontologies, the semantic web, intelligent agents, and multi-agent systems.