Manish Agrawal teaches courses in business data communications, computer networks, information systems, the development of web applications and information. An associate professor in the Information Systems Decision Sciences Department, Agrawal was the recipient of USF's university-wide award recognizing teaching excellence in 2006. An expert in the areas of cyber security, social media analytics, software quality, offshoring and outsourcing, his research interests include extreme event response, social media analytics, decision fusion, and software quality. An avid researcher, his work has been published in numerous academic journals, including Management Science, MIS Quarterly, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Decision Support Systems and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. His research and teaching have been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Justice, the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and Sun Microsystems. Agrawal earned a PhD in information systems at SUNY Buffalo, and studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India.