- Email:
- brad@iu.edu
- Department:
- Operations and Decision Technologies (ODT)
- Campus:
- IU, IU Bloomington
- Major:
- Information Systems
Bio
Dr. Brad Wheeler has served as a Professor of Information Systems at the IU Kelley School of Business since 1996. For 19 years, he held increasing responsibilities at IU including Vice President for IT & CIO for 14 years leading IU’s large-scale ($185M) IT services across all campuses with $25M per year in contracts and grants. He co-founded the OmniSOC (Security Operations Center) in 2018 that provides 24x7x365 cyber risk mitigation services to 30 colleges universities, and federal research facilities. Throughout his time as CIO, he co-led the creation of multiple organizations that continue to help universities leverage their IT scale through collaborations in open-source software (Kuali, Sakai), teaching and learning (Unizin), and libraries of digitized books (HathiTrust). His applied research was published in The EDUCAUSE Review and other practitioner journals to influence the effective practice of IT in higher education.
As CIO, his IT team included IU’s Networks group that operates the GlobalNOC and International Networks that have collectively received $100s of millions of dollars in federal grants and contracts with Internet2, many Regional Optical Networks, and Indiana’s I-Light fiber network. The Research Technologies group collaborated on many federal grants including the creation of the JetStream high performance computing platform.
In 2012, The Chronicle of Higher Education named him one of the “12 Tech Innovators Who Are Transforming Campuses” and Government Technology recognized him as one of the “Top 25 Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers in Public Sector Innovation.” He was honored with the EDUCAUSE Leadership Award in 2013 and the Indianapolis Business Journal’s inaugural CTO of the Year Award in 2015. The Indiana University President awarded him the President’s Medal for “Sustained excellence in service, achievement, and leadership” in 2021.
His research has been published in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and other leading journals. His work with executives on six continents through the e-Commerce boom led to the “Net-enabled Business Innovation Theory” paper in ISR that theorizes how complex organizations innovate with emerging technologies. He has served on and advised many for-profit and non-profit boards. He frequently teaches MBA and executive audiences.