Kaushik Dutta is a Muma Professor and Director of the School of Information Systems and Management at Muma College of Business, University of South Florida. Previously, he was the Chair, Associate Chair of the department and also the Academic Director for the MS in Business Analytics and Information Systems and Weekend Executive MS in Business Analytics and Information Systems program. Kaushik Dutta has 22 years of professional and research experience in the field of enterprise IT infrastructure, data analytics and big data systems. Dutta's current research interest is data analytics in the area of mobile advertisement and healthcare. Dutta's primary expertise combines operations research and data mining techniques with computer science systems knowledge to design large scale systems, to efficiently handle big data and to manage large IT infrastructure. Dutta has published 34 journals and 64 peer-reviewed conference publications, and he also holds patents in the area of IT infrastructure, caching and cloud security. Dutta has received about 2 million USD fund from public and private organization for research, student project and University IT infrastructure. Dutta has served as a reviewer of many IEEE, ACM and INFORMS journals and conferences. Before joining USF, Dutta was a tenured associate professor at the National University of Singapore and Florida International University. Before starting his academic path, he pursued a career in engineering, most recently as the chief technology officer and vice president of engineering of Mobilewalla, an NUS-incubated and Madrona-funded company that developed big data based mobile advertisement platforms.