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Business Information Systems Staff Listing

Dr Babu Veeresh Thummadi

B.Tech., PhD

 
researcher
 

Biography

Dr. Babu Veeresh Thummadi (popularly known as "Veeresh") is a Lecturer in Business Information Systems (BIS) department at the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics in University of Galway and a member of  Lero , The Science Foundation Ireland Research Center for software. His research is primarily focused on issues in information systems, open source and agile methods. Specifically, he is interested in understanding how emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and big data shape business and software processes.In his research he has studied how information systems software development work practices are shaped by the use of design methods such as agile and waterfall. Till now, he has published several articles or forthcoming in prestigious outlets such as Journal of Association of Information Systems (JAIS), Academy of Management Discoveries (AMD), International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) (including ICIS Best Paper Award Overall), American Conference of Information Systems (AMCIS), Academy of Management (AOM), Design Science Research in Information Systems (DESRIST), Agile Conference. He has several promising research projects that are under pipeline. In addition, his work has received national media attention in the Irish Times, Silicon Republic.

Research Interests

open source, artificial intelligence, software development, sequence analytics, routines

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2022) 'Presence of Location-Based Agglomeration Effects in Open Source Communities: An Empirical Test on GitHub'
Babu Veeresh Thummadi and Srikanth Paruchuri (2022) 'Presence of Location-Based Agglomeration Effects in Open Source Communities: An Empirical Test on GitHub'. Academy of Management Discoveries, [Details]
(2020) 'How Much Method-in-Use Matters? A Case Study of Agile and Waterfall Software Projects and their Design Routine Variation'
Thummadi, Babu Veeresh and Lyytinen, Kalle (2020) 'How Much Method-in-Use Matters? A Case Study of Agile and Waterfall Software Projects and their Design Routine Variation'. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2011 Best paper award overall AIS

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
Association of Information Systems (AIS) Associate Vice President for Global Expansion of Student Chapters Program /

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
1/2023 MS414
1/2023 MS216

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