Karthikeyan Umapathy is currently working as Associate Professor at the School of Computing, University of North Florida. He received his PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from the Pennsylvania State University. He is a Florida Campus Compact STEM Fellow, Florida Campus Compact STEM Certified Scholar, and UNF Community Scholar. He uses service learning as a means to help students understand that it takes more than technical expertise to be a good professional and excel in the job. His research interests are system interoperability, data interoperability, web services, patterns, design and development of complex software and integrated systems, and IT standardization. His research works are published in various journals such as IEEE Computer, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, Information Systems e-Business Management, and Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering. He serves as an editorial board member for Information Systems Education Journal. He served as publicity chair for 2009, 2010, and 2011 Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology conference. He won best conference paper award at the 2012 Conference on Information Systems Applied Research.