Dr Venkatesh Mahadevan is currently lecturering in Information Systems (IS) and eBusiness  the Faculty of Higher Education at Lilydale campus of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He has extensive research experience in the different phases of the usability design lifecycle, from user research, requirement specifications and conceptual design through to usability attributes testing of a Telecollaboration (TC) business system. Previously Venkatesh was attached to the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) as Senior Research Associate/Lecturer working for a CSIRO-led CeNTIE (Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy) TC project. He has a PhD from UTS in which he built a models and application framework for a Telecollaboration business system from the ground up in an agile collaborative environment that would enhance the virtually enabled collaborative practices of industry. This contemporary research from several perspectives (such as business process, knowledge, service, application and cognition) has met the necessity of addressing many of the theoretical, practical and methodological issues surrounding research on eBusiness/IT interface generally, and more specifically, research into the value-added Human Computer Interaction (HCI). In particular, he has researched how to integrate models from various domains into an integrated cognitive system without leveraging the usability attributes of a TC business system.

Venkatesh has presented his research findings at several Australian and international conferences and workshops. He has previously taught in India, Malaysia, and New Zealand. During his stay at UTS he was also actively involved in teaching and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students.  His personal pedagogy improved greatly with a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning conducted by Institute for Interactive Media and Learning at UTS. Since then designing, developing, implementing and publishing new pedagogic techniques are his favorite academic activities.