Dr. Niharika Dayyala

Biography

Dr. Niharika Dayyala is an Assistant Professor at Illinois State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration with specialization in information systems from The University of Texas at El Paso. She has a master’s in Information Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India, and a Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Andhra University, India. During her master’s she also earned a collaboration certification from the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to joining Illinois State University, She worked as a lecturer and a visiting assistant professor at The University of Texas at El Paso.

Her teaching interests include data analytics, database management, information systems security, business application programming and statistics. Her research interests include Diffusion of Technologies, Software development, Software project management, Applications of Big Data Analytics. Her research was published in Information resources management Journal, International Journal of Accounting & Information Management, Journal of Information Privacy and Security, International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach. Prior to academia Niharika worked as a software development senior analyst at Dell International Services Pvt. Ltd, where she worked on several data warehouse projects.