Deepak Khazanchi

Biography

Dr. Deepak Khazanchi is Professor of Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis, Executive Director of the University of Nebraska Center for Management of IT (includes the Attic lab), and Director of the Executive Master's of Science in IT (EMIT) degree program. His research interests include fast response virtual teams, virtual project management, crisis informatics, and B2B assurance services in extended enterprise environments.

Teaching Interests

Philosophical Foundations of IS/T Research, Managing in a Digital World, IT Strategy, Information Systems Theory, Research Methods, Mixed Methods Research, Philosophical, Ethical and Pedagogical Issues in IS.

Research Interests

Virtual project management, virtual teams (VTs), crisis informatics, sensemaking in VTs, metaverse technology capabilities, project management best practices, B2B assurance services and Risk analysis in extended enterprise environments, and the application of philosophy of science in the Information Systems/Technology discipline.

Service Summary

Dr. Deepak Khazanchi has served on a number of NU, UNO, College of IS&T, and ISQA department committees including the UNO General Education committee, Chancellor Search Committee, and the Graduate Council. He is actively engaged with the community in Omaha and Nebraska and is the primary creator of the private grant funded program for 8th/9th grade female-identifying students called CodeCrush and the iSTEM after school programs offered at OPS middle and elementary schools. Dr. Khazanchi is also engaged with a number of universities around the world including participating on the Executive Council of Bennett University (India) and as a collabroator for reseach and teaching with the University of Agder (Norway), MCI (Austria), and UIBE (China). He has worked with a number of nonprofit organizations and is a member of the advisory boards of the Refugee Empowerment Center of Omaha, Collective for Youth, Benson Theater, and the Board of Trustees of Brownell Talbot Preparatory School.

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Specialist, Scholarship/Research - 2014

Education

Ph D, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA., Management Information Systems, Statistics and Statistical Methods; Finance, 1991

MBA, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois, USA, Finance, 1988

Other, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India, Civil Engineering, 1981

Teaching Interests

• Philosophical and Methodological Foundations of IS/IT Research (Ph.D.)
• Technical and Process issues in IS/IT research (Ph.D.)
• IT Audit and Control (MS/BS)
• Electronic Commerce (MS/BS)
• Global IT Leadership (BS/MS)
• IT Strategy (MS)
• Business Data Communications & Distributed Processing Systems (BS)
• Information Systems Analysis (BS)
• Systems Design & Development (BS)
• Information Systems Theory (BS)
• Management of IS (MS)
• Research Methods in IS (MS)
• Philosophical, Ethical, and Pedagogical Issues in IS

Research and Creative Interests

• Virtual project management
• B2B EC assurance and risk management in extended enterprises
• Best Practices in IT Project Management
• Project Management Assurance
• Application of 3D immersive environments such as Second Life in VPM
• Technology-enabled language learning
• Contingency Theory of eLearning
• Knowledge Management and Representation
• Mutual Knowledge
• Pattern Theory
• Philosophical, Methodological, Pedagogical & Ethical issues in IT education & research

Awards

• Fulbright Specialist (2012-2017)
• Received the University of Nebraska Board of Regents Kudos (9/16/2005)
• Life Member, BETA GAMMA SIGMA (the honors society for American Collegiate Schools of Business), Texas Tech University, 1992