- AIS Impact Award 2023 for information systems research with proven impact on practice in business and society. “Dr. Ramesh’s research has impacted organizations throughout the world on how to use process knowledge to improve the quality of information systems development. It pioneered the use of artificial intelligence and requirements traceability and impacted commercial solutions like Siemens Product Lifecycle Management that is used by more than 5000 organizations throughout the world”
- In a recent Stanford University study on the career impact of 8 million researchers across 174 fields, I was included in the Top 1.2% among 16,581 global researchers in the field of Information Systems (broadly defined to include not only IS but also many applied areas of computer science such as software engineering, database management, distributed computing etc.) for career impact. The study uses a total of six citation-related criteria which are compiled into a single measure, the “composite citation index” in an effort to develop a more transparent, comparable, and less error-prone approach to citation metrics. This index accounts for biases such as self-citations and reflects the scholars’ career-long citation impact. [See Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLoS Biol 18(10): e3000918. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000918 ]
- In an update of the above study published in 2023, I am ranked among the Top 1.2% of 17,784 global researchers in the field of Information Systems for career impact [See Ioannidis, John P.A. (2023), “October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Elsevier Data Repository, V6, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.6]
- Received about $ 16 Million in funding from external sources, including about $ 5.5 million as principal investigator.
- Co-Principal Investigator on a $ 10 Million grant (over 5 years) for establishing a Center of Excellence in Advanced Software from the U.S. Department of Defense in 2023. It is the largest grant ever to GSU from the Department of Defense and the largest research grant from any source to the Robinson College of Business.
- Principal Investigator on a $ 3.92 Million grant (Cybersecurity workforce development in the age of Artificial Intelligence) from the National Science Foundation in 2022. It is the 4th largest regular research grant ever to Georgia State University (excluding three infrastructure grants) from the NSF and the second largest research grant from any source to the Robinson College of Business.
- Co-Principal Investigator on $ 600,000 grant on GenAI tutor for equitable student success (in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology) from Axim Collaborative in 2023.
- Regents' Teaching Excellence Award / University System of Georgia Regents' Faculty Hall of Fame Awad, 2009 for "contributions to outstanding teaching in Georgia", 2009. University System of Georgia's top faculty award.
- Top Professor Award, Master of Science in Information Systems Program, August 2014.
- Top Professor Award, Master of Science in Information Systems Program, December 2014.
- Top Professor Award, Master of Science in Information Systems Program, 2015.
- Top Professor Award, Master of Science in Information Systems Program, 2016.
- Top Professor Award, Master of Science in Information Systems Program, 2018.
- Top Professor Award, Master of Science in Information Systems Audit and Control Program, 2018.
- Faculty Recognition Award for Service, 2011. Top annual award in the Robinson College of Business for service
- Distinguished Alumni Award for Academic Excellence, 2009. National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India
- Robinson College of Business Board of Advisors Excellence Award for Research, 2007 for "outstanding research and publications record during the past three to five years"
- Myron T. Greene Outstanding Teaching Award, 2002, 2007.
- Robinson College of Business Board of Advisors Excellence Award for Teaching, 2006 for "outstanding teaching performance during the past three to five years"
- Faculty Recognition Award for Research, 2006. Top annual award in the Robinson College of Business for research
- Faculty Recognition Award for Teaching, 2004, 2013. Top annual award in the Robinson College of Business for teaching
- Outstanding Faculty Achievement Award, 2002, Top faculty award at Georgia State University for "extraordinary achievements in teaching, research and service"
- Outstanding Instructional Achievement Award, 1996, Top award in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School for teaching
- Outstanding Research Achievement Award, 1995, Top award in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, Naval Postgraduate School for research
- Paper on Requirements Traceability published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2001) is ranked # 39 among nearly 70,000 papers published in the field of software engineering in the 50-year history of the field. It is also the third most cited paper on Requirements Engineering and the most cited paper on Traceability. It is one of the only two articles authored by an Information Systems faculty member that are featured in the Top 100. Google scholar citations: 1330 (09/21/2022) [See Vahid Garousi , Joao M. Fernandes , “Highly-cited papers in software engineering: The top-100”, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 71, 2016. pp 108-128].
- A recent conference on “Grand Challenges of Traceability: The Next Ten Years” notes that my ‘seminal work’ has been critical in laying the foundation for a “flurry of research that has continued until this day”.[See Giuliano Antoniol, Jane Cleland-Huang, Jane Huffman Hayes, Michael Vierhauser, Grand Challenges of Traceability: The Next Ten Years, https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03129]
- Traceability reference models and mechanisms developed in my research have been incorporated in several leading commercial system and software engineering tools. They are at the center of requirements management capability and traceability in the SLATE system engineering tool from TD Technologies / Texas Instruments. TeamCenter, a Product Lifecycle Management tool from Siemens which has its roots in SLATE has the highest worldwide market share (over 25%) and is used by nearly 4,700 organizations worldwide in a wide variety of industries including computer software, aviation, and manufacturing.
- The REMAP model for managing design rationale developed in my research has been used extensively in large commercial and government system engineering organizations such as Raytheon, MCI, and Westinghouse to manage design rationale in large, complex, mission-critical projects.
- REMAP is a primary component in the Knowledge Based Software Assistant tools Concept Demo and ADM created by Arthur Andersen / Andersen Consulting on behalf of the U.S. Air Force. It has also been integrated into several commercial tools such as Rapid Object Application Development (ROAD) environment, Requirements Elicitation Capture and Analysis System (RECAS), TraceNet, and Knowledge Based Software Assistant /ADM.