Vijay K. Vaishnavi is Professor Emeritus of Computer Information Systems, as well as former Board of Advisors Professor of Computer Information Systems and Professor of Computer Science, at Georgia State University. He holds a PhD from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and has conducted postdoctoral work at McMaster University, Canada. His research interests cover several areas including innovation design, social innovation design, design science research methods, information integration and web mining, software development, and data structures/algorithms.