College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Ph.D., Information Systems (Operations Management), University of Texas at Arlington, 2007
Masters, International Business, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade at New Delhi, 1996
Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics, St. Stephens College at New Delhi, 1993

Sachdev, V. 2011. Motivations for Social Computing. IT Professional, 13: 18-23

Sachdev, V. 2009. Interactivity redefined for the Social Web. In Stylianos Hatzipanagos, Steven Warburton (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing.

Sikora, R., Sachdev, V. 2008. Learning bidding strategies with autonomous agents in environments with unstable equilibrium. Decision Support Systems, 101-114

List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students for Fall 2008, UIUC, 2008

I currently teach or have taught Database Design, System analysis and Design and Principles of Information systems.

I am interested in social networks and how the network paradigm can provide a new theoretical lens. As a related topic, I am also interested in the Web 2.0 phenomenon and the new business models that are developing based on collaborative content creation and consumption.