Riyaz Sikora holds a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Osmania University, India and a Ph.D. in Information Systems (IS) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Prof. Sikora's current research interests are in the area of data mining, evolutionary computation, information sharing in supply chain management, and distributed AI. His publications have appeared in several journals including Management Science, Information Systems Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Expert, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Computers & IE. He has taught courses in programming languages, database management systems, and expert and decision support systems. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Database Management and Journal of Information Systems and e-Business Management, co-chairs the Association of Information Systems SIG on Agent-based Information Systems, and chairs the special interest group on Enterprise Integration in the INFORMS College on Artificial Intelligence. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the IEEE Computer Society, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI).