Dr. Ram has published articles in such journals as Communications of the ACM,
IEEE Expert, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Information
Systems, Information Systems Research, Management Science, and MIS Quarterly.
Dr. Ram's research deals with issues related to Enterprise Data Management.
Her research has been funded by organizations such as, IBM, Intel Corporation,
Raytheon, US ARMY, NIST, NSF, NASA , and Office of Research and Development
of the CIA. Specifically, her research deals with Interoperability among Heterogeneous
Database Systems, Semantic Modeling, BioInformatics and Spatio-Temporal Semantics,
Business Rules Modeling, Web services Discovery and Selection, and Automated
software tools for database design. Dr. Ram serves on editorial board for such
journals as, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal
of Information Technology and Management, and as associate editor for Information
Systems Research, Journal of Database Management, and the Journal of Systems
and Software, She has chaired several workshops and conferences supported by
ACM, IEEE, and AIS. She is a cofounder of the Workshop on Information Technology
and Systems (WITS) and serves on the steering committee of many workshops and
conferences including the Entity Relationship Conference (ER). Dr. Ram is a
member of ACM, IEEE Computer Society, INFORMS, and Association for Information
Systems (AIS). She is also the director of the Advanced Database Research Group
based at the University of Arizona.