Ramasubramanian Suresh

Expertise

Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing
Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing
Web-Based Interviewing

Biography

Ramasubramanian Suresh, Director of the Center for Survey Technology in the Research Computing Division, is an expert at systems for personal, telephone, and Web-based interviewing, including CAPI, ACASI, CATI, and Web-based studies. He has directed development of instruments, laptop applications, field data management components, centralized data capture, monitoring or control systems, data management, and file delivery. He was the chief architect of RTI's CATI Case Management System (CATI-CMS), pioneered the Computer Audio-Recorded Interview (CARI) technology, was one of the senior designers of RTI's Integrated Field Case Management System (IFMS), led the effort to develop RTI's Document Management (DocMan) system for field studies so that CAPI data collection could be effectively paperless, and played a lead role in transitioning the CATI and IFMS systems to be FIPS-moderate compliant using RTI's Enhanced Security Network (ESN). Currently, he is leading the development of RTI's Hatteras system, which is Web-based computer-assisted interviewing software.

Education

MS, Computer Science, North Carolina State University; MS, Applied Mathematics, North Carolina State University; BS, Mathematics, Madurai-Kamaraj University.

Selected Publications

Suresh, R. (2005). Web-Based CATI Case Management System. Presented at the International Field Directors and Technologies Conference, Miami Beach, FL, May 2005.

Suresh, R. (2005). Web-Based Computer Audio Recorded Interview (Web CARI). Presented at the International Field Directors and Technologies Conference, Miami Beach, FL, May 2005.

Evans, B., Burke, B., & Suresh, R. (2004 May 16). An Assessment of HIPAA-Compliant Methods for Achieving High Cooperation Rates from Medical Providers on a Medical Record Abstraction Program Evaluation. American Association for Public Opinion Research 59th Annual Conference.

Suresh, R. (2004). CATI case management system. Presented at the FedCASIC 2004 Conference, Washington, DC, March 2-4, 2004.

Burke, B., Evans, B., & Suresh, R. (2003). Anthrax program evaluation. Presented at the RTI Fellows Symposium: Homeland and Health Security: Understanding Today's Necessities, Tomorrow's Needs, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2003.

Biemer, P.P., Dowd, K.L., Kinsey, S.H., Siebenaler, K., Mierzwa, F., Byron, M.Z., Suresh, R., & Wallace, I.F. (2002). Methodological lessons from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being: The first three years of the USA's first national probability study of children and families investigated for abuse and neglect. Children and Youth Services Review, 24:513-543.

Edwards, T.P., Suresh, R., & Weeks, M.F. (1998). Automated call scheduling: current systems and practices. In Couper, M.P., R.P. Baker, J. Bethlehem, C.Z. Clark, J. Martin, W.L. Nicholls, & J.M. O'Reilly (Ed.), Computer Assisted Survey Information Collection (pp. 285-306). New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.

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