Dr. Niharika Dayyala Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Business Information Systems

Accounting

Office

SFHB State Farm Hall Of Business

Office Hours

Office hours on Zoom by appointment

Office Phone

(309) 438-7651office
phone

ndayyal@ilstu.eduemail

Website

https://business.illinoisstate.edu/... website

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Biography

Dr. Niharika Dayyala is an Associate Professor at Illinois State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration with a specialization in Information Systems from The University of Texas at El Paso.

Her teaching interests encompass data analytics, database management, information systems security, business application programming, and statistics. Her research focuses on the diffusion of technologies, software development, software project management, and applications of big data analytics.

Dr. Dayyala's scholarly work has been featured in prominent journals, including the Information Resources Management Journal, International Journal of Accounting & Information Management, Journal of Information Privacy and Security, and the International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach. She is also the author of the book Machine Learning in Transportation Engineering, published by De Gruyter.

Before transitioning to academia, Dr. Dayyala served as a Senior Analyst in software development at Dell International Services Pvt. Ltd., where she contributed to several data warehouse projects.

Current Courses

471.001Advanced Business Analytics

471.002Advanced Business Analytics

366.001Advanced Business Data Management

Teaching Interests & Areas

Data analytics, database management, information systems security, business application programming and statistics.

Research Interests & Areas

Diffusion of Technologies, Software development, Software project management, Applications of Big Data Analytics

PhD Business Administration

The University of Texas at El Paso

El Paso

Wilma Jean Alexander Technology Faculty Innovation Award

Illinois State University

2021

Wisdoms Torch Teaching and Learning Award

Illinois State University

2020

New Faculty Research Support Grant

Illinois State University

2017

Best Application Paper

Western Decision Sciences Institute

2016

Striker@Dell

Dell

2010

Individual Contributor

Dell

2009

Book, Authored

Dayyala, N., Kottayi, N. M., & Mallick, R. B. (2024). Machine Learning in Transportation: Applications with Examples and Codes. Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG.

Book, Chapter

Dayyala, N., Bagchi, K., & Mandal, P. Software development productivity in different sourcing arrangements. Entrepreneurship in technology for ASEAN. Springer Singapore (2017): 111-125.

Conference Proceeding

Inti, S., Dayyala, N., & Tempestini, L. Lightweight Cellular Concrete (LCC) for Stormwater Management in Parking Lots: A Design Optimization Approach. In Construction Research Congress 2024 (pp. 448-458).

Diederich, J., Wang, X., Dayyala, N., Inti, S., & Luo, Y. USB Linux: An IT Lab Instruction Tool During COVID-19. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (2020): 273--278.

Dayyala, N., Arslan, F., Gemoets, L., Gonzales, M., & Barulina, M. MARKET VALUE APPROACH: REDEFINING THE INTANGIBLE ASSETS. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute Proceedings. https://decisionsciences.org/ (2013)

Journal Article

Sundeep Inti, Ryan Gearman, Niharika Dayyala, Elsey Erica; DECISION-MAKING IN LOW-INCOME HOME RENOVATION THROUGH OPTIMIZATION BY BALANCING SUSTAINABILITY AND AFFORDABILITY. Journal of Green Building 1 May 2025; 20 (2): 137–160. doi: https://doi.org/10.3992/jgb.20.2.137

Dayyala, Niharika,et al. "Factors Impacting Defect Density in Software Development Projects." IJITSA vol.15, no.1 2022: pp.1-23. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJITSA.304813

Dayyala, N., Walstrom, K. A., & Bagchi, K. K. (2021). Team Characteristics Moderating Effect on Software Project Completion Time. International Journal of Information Technologies and Systems Approach (IJITSA), 14(1), 174-191. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJITSA.2021010110

Dayyala, N., Arslan, F., Walstrom, K. A., & Bagchi, K. K. (2020). Co-Diffusion Effects in Software Sourcing Arrangements. Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ), 33(4), 33-52.

Dayyala, N., Zaidi, S.K.R. and Bagchi, K. (2020), "Diffusion of IFRS using innovation diffusion models", International Journal of Accounting & Information Management

Presentations

Diederich, J., Wang, X., Dayyala, N., Inti, S., Luo Y., USB Linux: An IT Lab Instruction Tool During COVID-19. SIGITE '20: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education October 2020 Pages 273–278. https://doi.org/10.1145/3368308.3415372

Dayyala, N., Inti, S., Khan, S. (2019) “Is Big Data Analytics Half Embraced by Construction Industry?” Proceedings of Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Conference at New Orleans. https://decisionsciences.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DSI-2019-Proceedings.pdf

The Technological Determinants of Quality and Effort of Software Development Projects. Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA). (2016)

http://wdsinet.org/Annual_Meetings/2016_Proceedings/papers/Paper92.pdf

Co-Diffusion of Software Programming Languages. Graduate Student Expo. (2015)