Thank you for this opportunity. I'm originally from the city called Kolkata, which is on the east coast of India and I spent the first eighteen years of my life there before moving to college to another city, which is about two hours from Kolkata and my first job after my undergrad was in city called Bangalore, in the south of India, which is also referred to as the Silicon Valley of India. At that time it was days of the internet, so it was easy to find an information technology related job anywhere in the word and my undergrad was in computer science and at that time I loved to do two things which were programming and traveling. So I worked for one year in Bangalore but then I moved to Singapore for work, for about year in Singapore, then I moved to the United Kingdom for work, to Manchester in the United Kingdom before moving to the US and my first destination in the US was Minneapolis, Minnesota where I worked for few years in target headquarters in Minneapolis, target corporation headquarters in their IT services. Around that time I came across some people at the University of Minnesota, so after some years, I decided to quit my job at target and join the PhD program at Minnesota and then after completing the PhD program in Minnesota I moved to Virginia where I have been since. In terms of what are the other things I do, I am very interested in sports, I used to play a lot of sports, I used to play in leagues, cricket league, soccer league and I used to play tennis. I still play some sports like soccer and badminton and ping-pong but now with the kids, I mostly play with them and so I don't play anything competitively anymore. In addition to sports, I don't watch too many movies, I rarely watch movies except maybe to keep my wife company but I binge watch tv shows from time to time, for example now I am binge watching Curb your enthusiasm and the HBO show, but in terms of books, I used to read alot of novels and fiction but now I don't read fictions, almost not at all but I read books on social psychology and how people learn, how our brains works, I am very interested in that topic. So I read a lot of more like popular social psychology books, like stumbling on happiness by Dan Gilbert and the shallows by Nicholas Carr and Pinker Steven, Pinker Steven has lots of books on how we learn languages and other things, so that's a long answer.

So our undergrad program, the undergrad program that I am teaching is MIS, management of information systems and in that we have the traditional iMIS courses such as programming system analysis designs, databases, information security, networking and now over the last several years we have added a bunch of courses on analytics and data mining. So our students major in MIS and they find jobs, I think the most popular job title is systems analyst defined job, systems analyst, business analyst and security analyst interested in security data analysts and we also have added a minor in data analytics, so many of our students will do minor and find jobs in the analytics and we also, well it hasn't started yet but it will start within the year major in business analytics. That is said at the undergraduate level and at the graduate level we have several graduate programs, we do not have a full-time MBA program but part-time MBA program only, it's going pretty strong and in addition to MBA, we have a second Exec. MBA and in fact I just finished teaching an executive MBA program, which is the international residency to South Africa and in addition to MBA we also have a management of technology, a graduate program for seasoned professional in IT industry and we also have MSM program, which is kind of like business graduate program for non business majors....sorry go ahead.... I was going to say that since most of these programs are for working professionals, so management of technology, the masters of management of technology, the exec. MBA, the MBA, all these are part-time programs for working professionals, so we don't have a lot of data on whether they are switching jobs after their graduation. So I don't have a good answer to your question about what jobs they're getting after finishing the graduation.

The students, I think since we have a very good engineering department also, engineering department also has obviously courses on some of these topics like databases and programming and security. The students often have these questions whether should I take these courses at the engineering school from the computer science department or from information systems department in the business school and I often say that it what's interests you and people who want to do certificates or masters in analytics related programs also had similar question that is, should I do a masters in data analytics or business analytics or data science, maybe masters in statistics. So I think these IT question or information system question, analytics question are kind of similar in the sense that, I ask what do you want to do, what do you want to build career on to, do you want to built a career where you are developing applications, you are programming, you're coding, you're developing applications or you are kind of between the business side of the house and the technology side of the house. And some people love that because they want to be in touch with business, they want to know something about some specific business applications and they also know the importance of technology, so sometimes they like that. I don't I don't know if you agree but I see some hesitation in students in embracing the information systems field as opposed to say the computer science, because I think people have a better idea or at least students coming out of high school have a better idea of what computer science major is but not such a good idea about what information systems major is, what kind of job they can get after of finishing college? So that's the challenge that we have to educate these students even before they join our program, that information system is really interesting and thriving area and that has a very very bright future especially with the popularity and increasing significance of security and analytics.