Novel Approaches to Information Systems Design

Naveen Prakash obtained his doctoral degree from IIT Delhi in 1980. He worked in the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre and at NCSDCT, TIFR before joining the R&D group of CMC Ltd. Thereafter, he worked in the department of Computer Science and Engg., IIT Kanpur, and at NSIT Delhi. He was scientific advisor to the British Council Division, New Delhi. Prof. Prakash took up the directorship of various educational institutes in India. He provided consultancy to Asian and African Development Bank projects in Sri Lanka and Tanzania respectively. He was a UNDP consultant to IGNCA and worked on a World Bank project in Malawi. Professor Praksh has lectured extensively in various universities abroad. He is on the editorial board of the Requirements Engineering Journal, Springer and of IJISMD, IGI Global and has been Chairperson of 5 International Conferences and member of Programme Committees of about 100 others. He has published about 70 research papers and authored two books. Prof. Prakash continues to be an active researcher. Besides Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing, his interests are in the Internet-of-things and NoSQL database. He also lectures in the IIIT, Delhi.

Deepika Prakash obtained her Ph.D. from Delhi Technological University, Delhi in the area of Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering. She has experience in both academics and industrial R&D. As a researcher, she has authored a number of papers in international journals/conferences. She has co-authored a book entitled “Data Warehouse Requirements Engineering - A Decision Based Approach” published by Springer in 2018. She is also on the program committee of international conferences like ENASE. Her responsibilities in industry spanned the complete life cycle, from requirements engineering through conceptual modeling to extract-transform-load (ETL) activities. Her research in industry focused on agile Data Warehouse systems and data mart integration. In academics she is currently faculty in NIIT University. Her current research interests include Data Warehouse systems, NoSQL databases and Health Informatics.