Center for Information Technology and Management

Naveen Jindal School of Management building at sunrise

The Center is the focal point for industry engagement for all areas related to Information Technology and Management.

We work with local DFW companies and non-profits, as well as multinationals who have a major DFW presence. Companies work with us to sponsor both undergraduate and graduate student projects and competitions. They also fund internships and work with graduate students and faculty on cutting-edge research problems.

Mission

The Center acts a focal point of engagement between DFW industry and UT Dallas faculty/students in the Information Systems area, based on five pillars:

Internships

  • At corporate location

We encourage companies to contact the Center for interns in the Information Systems area (both undergraduate and graduate).

Invited Lectures

  • Lectures

Companies are invited to talk on current and important business topics upon invitation by the Center.

Industry-funded Projects

  • Proof of concept and prototype

The project sponsor provides a use case and relevant data for a 1-2 semester project, done on campus by 2-4 person student teams with part-time faculty supervision. The sponsor test-drives a project that cannot be done in-house because of resource or expertise constraints and observes students for future hiring. We have worked on funded research projects for telecommunications, financial services and travel industry clients.

Classroom Activities

  • Graduate and undergraduate capstones – Companies provide use cases and datasets and the projects are executed by teams of 4-5 students. There is no cost for these activities.
  • Co-teaching with UTD faculty
  • Guest lectures

Case Study Competitions

  • Prizes
  • Use cases

Companies provide use cases and prize money. Student teams present results to the company judges for evaluation.

Advisory Board

The Industry Advisory Board helps the Center with executing its mission and drives its connection to the DFW business community. The Board meets on the UTD campus once each semester, with conference calls as needed. The current members of the Board are:

Name Title Company Focus area
Anoop Agrawal Director Verizon Edge computing and Software Defined Networks
Mark Bunn Senior VP Nokia SaaS
Carolyn Carlson Head of Enterprise Sales Google Cloud Cloud
Sara Eaton Managing Director Slalom Business consulting
Randy Hanna Executive VP and CTO GM Financial IT leadership
Tan Moorthy Executive VP Infosys Global leadership
Tushar Mutreja VP Salesforce CRM partner enablement
Toby Pennycuff Executive VP and CIO Hilltop Holdings Cybersecurity
Moyez Thanawalla CEO and founder t.digital Technology leadership
Josh Weatherly Managing Director, Public Sector Amazon Web Services Cloud
David Woody Director American Heart Association Non-profit leadership

Industry Interactions

CITM’s participants represent a wide range of the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s top corporations. Recent companies include:

  • Verizon
  • Google
  • Qualtrics
  • Hilltop Holdings
  • iLink Digital
  • Infosys
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Salesforce
  • Slalom Consulting LLC

Contact

Kannan Srikanth

Kannan Srikanth

Associate Professor of Practice, Information Systems

kxs018700@utdallas.edu | JSOM 2.703