Michael Rappa is the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Analytics and a member of the faculty in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University. As head of the Institute, he leads the nation's first Master of Science in Analytics.
Dr. Rappa has over 25 years of experience working across academic disciplines at the nexus between management and computing. Rappa created Managing the Digital Enterprise, an award-winning website devoted to the study of management in the digital world – a precursor to massive open online courses (or MOOCs). In 2010, Rappa presided as General Co-chair at the 19th International World Wide Web Conference. He co-chaired TechAmerica Foundation's Big Data Commission in 2013, and was elected to the Board of Directors of the Digital Analytics Association in 2014. He is a member of the Analytics Curriculum Advisory Group for The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International).
Rappa is a recipient of the Award for Graduate Teaching Excellence, the Outstanding Extension Service Award, and the Gertrude Cox Award for Innovative Excellence in Teaching and Learning with Technology. He is also winner of the MERLOT Award for Exemplary Online Learning; a four-time recipient of IBM Faculty Research Awards; and was twice named a finalist for the Epton Prize by the editors of R&D Management.