Vandana  Ramachandran
  • Professor (Lecturer), Ois Operations & Info Systems

Current Courses

Spring 2025

  • IS 3596-084
    IT Certifications
  • IS 3596-090
    IT Certifications
  • IS 3596-301
    IT Certifications
  • IS 4430-084
    Systems Analysis & Des
  • IS 4430-301
    Systems Analysis & Des

Fall 2024

Summer 2024

Professional Organizations

  • INFORMS. 01/2008 - 12/2023. Position : Member.
  • Association for Information Systems. 01/2008 - 12/2023. Position : Member.

Student Projects

  • Presidential Prediction Models: Using down ballot election results. Ryan McBride. 07/20/2022 - 04/15/2023
  • Understanding AI biases. Emily Barrett. 07/18/2021 - 04/29/2022
  • Online health communities and chronic disease patients. Alexa Maciel. 06/15/2020 - 04/27/2021
  • Independent Study: Python Models for Analyzing Twitter Sentiment, Spring 2019. Swati Singh. 02/01/2019 - 04/30/2019
  • Honors thesis: Recommender Systems. Shane Rayhill. 01/08/2019 - 12/18/2019
  • Honors thesis: Healthcare IT. Cole Stevenson. 08/15/2018 - 12/31/2018
  • MSIS capstone: Anti Tampering Tape Control System for NuSkin. Derek Stout, Tyler Burgi, Tracy McKellar, Meghna Sathe, Dimitrios Mumulidisz. 08/08/2018 - 04/30/2019
  • MSIS Capstone: AI Chatbot for Younique . Ben Lacusta, Ritu Soni, Brian Reed. 01/10/2018 - 07/31/2018
  • Honors thesis: DACA and Immigration through the lens of Google Trends. Francisco Juarez-Cardenas. 10/30/2017 - 05/15/2018
  • MSIS Capstone: Data Mining Analytics to Identify Shipment Cost Inconsistencies. Bendetta Renso, Parminder Gill, Harish Ramesh, Srinidhi Siddagangaiah. 10/2017 - 05/2018
  • MSIS Capstone: Data Mining and Analytics to Track Donations to the Athletics Department. Ian Ritchie, Akanksha Joshi, Christopher Eberhart. 10/2017 - 05/2018
  • Honors thesis: Empirical Analysis Of The Participation Behaviors Of Investors On Crowdfunding Platforms. Sergio Juarez. 12/01/2016 - 09/01/2017
  • Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program UROP - Crowdlending models . Kenneth Cobabe. 12/01/2016 - 05/15/2017
  • Analytics dashboard for JD Analytics LLC. Aman Kaushal, Niharika Rajwada. 05/2016 - 08/2016
  • MSIS Capstone: Art or Science (in collaboration with Leonardo Museum, Salt Lake City). Christopher Romero, Aarthy Barathy. 12/15/2015 - 05/20/2016
  • MBA field study: Improving Wayfinding at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort. Jeff Ehlers, Ike Hinckley, Kevin Johnson, Kelsey Schaufler. 08/15/2012 - 12/15/2012
  • MBA field study: Internet Search Strategies for Marriott Library Digital and Special Collections. Ayuma Sangale, Jennifer Kuhn, Keun Ho Chung, Evengelia Katsanevas, Ashley Freeman, Patrick Metzger. 01/2012 - 05/2012
  • Honors Thesis: Data Models and Data Ownership in the 21st Century. Kent Johnson. 11/01/2011 - 05/01/2012
  • Honors Thesis: Mobile application development using the Android platform. Hongnhung Pham. 08/01/2011 - 05/01/2012
  • Honors thesis: When does crowd knowledge outweigh expert knowledge? Richard Kimball. 08/2010 - 05/2011
  • Chair - Independent Project. Chris, Ward. 2009 - 2009

Teaching Interest

Information Systems - Systems Analysis, Process Analysis, Database Design
Information Systems- Data structures and algorithms

Statistics, Econometrics, Research Methods