Sudha Ram is McClelland Professor, Management Information Systems in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona. She received a B.S. degree in mathematics, physics and chemistry from the University of Madras in 1979, PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in 1981 and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1985.

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.