Manish Argawal
Associate Professor
Manish Agrawal teaches courses in business data communications, computer networks, information systems, the development of web applications and information. An associate professor in the Information Systems Decision Sciences Department, Agrawal was the recipient of USF’s university-wide award recognizing teaching excellence in 2006.
An expert in the areas of software quality, offshoring and outsourcing, and e-commerce, his research interests include electronic intermediaries and the development of agent-based systems for negotiations and fraud detection. An avid researcher, his work has been published in numerous academic journals, including Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Management Information Systems, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Decision Support Systems and the Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce. His research and teaching have been funded by the US National Science Foundation, the US Department of Justice, the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and Sun Microsystems.
Agrawal earned a PhD in information systems at SUNY Buffalo, and studied at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, India.
Vita (pdf)
room: CIS 2071 | phone: 813.974.6716 | fax: 813.974.6749 | magrawal@usf.edu
Teaching
- ISM 6323/4323: Information Security and Risk Management
- ISM 4220 - Business Data Communications
- ISM 6930 - Web Application Development
- ISM 7911 - Seminar on Technical IT Research
Current Research
My research focuses on software engineering, agent based systems, and information security. An important theme in this research is its grounding in practice. I have received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum for some of these projects. Results from the research have been published in journals including Management Science, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Journal of Management Information Systems and Decision Support Systems.
Research Tools
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Service
- 2011–date: USF General Education Council
- 2011–date: USF Research Council
- 2009–2012: College of Business representative, USF Faculty Senate
- 2009–2010: Member, USF Task Force for Student Success, reporting to USF Provost
- 2010–date: Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for India Studies, USF
