Directors
Dr, Jay Ramanathan and Dr. Rajiv Ramnath are the co-directors of CETI. The CETI Co-directors bring over forty years of academic and industry experience to research, practice, and education.
Dr. Rajiv Ramnath 
(Ph.D. from The Ohio State University 1988) is the Director of Practice at the Collaborative for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation (CETI) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, at The Ohio State University (OSU). He was formerly a Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Concentus Technology Corp. and involved in government-funded R&D programs such as the National Information Infrastructure Integration Protocols (NIIIP) project. He is currently engaged in industry-facing programs of applied R&D, education, technology transfer and practice. Dr. Ramnath's expertise and research interests range from wireless sensor network and pervasive computing applications in the enterprise, to the alignment of business strategy and processes with information technology, enterprise architecture, technology management and integration and software engineering, e-Government, collaborative environments, configurable enterprise systems, workflow, and work-management systems. He teaches graduate and under-graduate research, technology strategy and software engineering courses at the Ohio State University.
ramnath@cse.ohio-state.edu
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Dr. Jay Ramanathan
(Ph.D. from Rice University in 1977) is currently the Director of Research at the Center for Enterprise Transformation and Innovation within the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at The Ohio State University. Previously she was the CEO and Founder of Concentus Technology Corporation. Jay’s twenty-five years of technology research, development, and commercialization experience had been focused on deploying workflow management and enterprise integration solutions for early adopters. Jay has also been the program manager for DARPA and industry funded programs for the integration of complex systems at the enterprise level. Based on experience, with over a hundred companies, she has developed service-oriented architecture patterns that have been successfully applied to develop strategic and innovative solutions. She has also received awards such as the Tibbet’s award for creating and licensing technology. Jay has written numerous papers in the field and supervised eighteen masters and doctoral students while a tenured faculty at The Ohio State University.
jayram@cse.ohio-state.edu
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