Anurag Agarwal is a faculty member in the College of Business at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee. He has a PhD in information systems from The Ohio State University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin. His teaching interests lie broadly in the field of analytics, data mining, and information systems. Dr. Agarwal has taught courses on big data analytics, business analytics, business statistics, operations management, information systems in organizations, systems analysis and design, database systems, programming languages, and decision support systems. His primary research interests are in predictive and prescriptive analytics. He has published in ­journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Omega: The International Journal of Management Science, Computers and Operations Research, Annals of Operations Research, Information Systems Horizons, and Information Technology and Management. Dr. Agarwal serves on the editorial board of Information Technology and Management and Enterprise Information Systems. He can be reached at ­agarwala@sar.usf.edu.