Yair Babad

Professor Emeritus Department of Information and Decision Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 2403 University Hall 601 South Morgan Street, MC 294 Chicago, IL 60607-7124 Phone: (312) 996-8094 Email: ybabad@uic.edu

Education: PhD, Cornell University, 1973

Professor Yair Babad was born in Israel in 1941, served in the Israeli army, and received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and a Diploma in Actuary from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. After working as a pension fund and life insurance actuary for three years, he went to Cornell University in 1969 to pursue a PhD in Mangement Science. In 1973 he joined the faculty of University of Chicago in the Graduate School of Business. In 1977 he joined Arthur Anderson & Co.

Since 1981, he has been aProfessor of Information Systems in the College of Business at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also the founding Director the Center for Research in Information Management (CRIM). From 1995 through January 1997 he established an actuarial consulting practice in Israel. In mid-1995 Professor Babad became a Visiting Professor and Director of the Erhard Insurance Reserach Center at the Recanatti Graduate School of Management of Tel-Aviv University.

Professor Babad has published many articles in leading journals, and is active as a teacher and consultant in information systems and strategic planning, information security, EDP auditing, accounting systems, and actuarial practice and mathematics. Professor Babad is also an active member of several professional organizations in the following areas; information systems, management science, and actuarial and accounting areas.

Current Research:
Quality and productivity of information technology.

Areas of Interest:
Management Information Systems, including databases, security and systems analysis. Quality and Productivity of Information Technology. Insurance. Accounting Information Systems.

Home Page: http://www.uic.edu/~ybabad