Dr. Raghu Raman
Chairman
School of Business
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre
India
Biography
Dr. Raghu Raman is Chairman for Amrita School of Business at Coimbatore. His main research focus is in the areas of Diffusion of ICT Innovations in socio-technical systems, eGovernance, Big Data Analytics in Education and Health, Social Network Analysis and Virtual Interactive learning environments. Dr. Raman established the Center for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education (CREATE), an affordable and accessible educational technology initiative pioneered by Amrita, with over $4.6m in research funding and over 45 publications. As an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at NEC Research Labs, he raised over $16.5m in VC funding for an Intelligent Video surveillance startup. As Executive Director at Informix/IBM, he provided leadership for product development group in the area of Massively Parallel Database systems. For over five years, as CEO of Amrita Technologies, a high technology healthcare start up, Dr. Raman provided leadership that lead to a patented and CCHIT certified Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system with a global customer base.
Research Interest
Diffusion of Innovations, Big Data Analytics, eGovernance, Social Network Analysis, Virtual Interactive Learning
Publications
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P. Prof. Nedungadi, Malini, P., and Raghu Raman, “Inquiry Based Learning Pedagogy for Chemistry Practical Experiments Using OLabsâ€, in Advances in Intelligent Informatics, Springer, 2015, pp. 633–642.
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A. Jayakumar, Babu, G. S., Raghu Raman, and Prof. Nedungadi, P., “Integrating Writing Direction and Handwriting Letter Recognition in Touch-Enabled Devicesâ€, in Integrating Writing Direction and Handwriting Letter Recognition in Touch-Enabled Devices, vol. 380, New Delhi: Springer India, 2016, pp. 393–400.
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P. Prof. Nedungadi, Raghu Raman, Menon, R., and Mulki, K., “AmritaRITE: A Holistic Model for Inclusive Education in Rural Indiaâ€, in Children and Sustainable Development: Ecological Education in a Globalized World, A. M. Battro, Léna, P., Sorondo, M. Sánchez, and von Braun, J. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017, pp. 171–184.
