Ajay KUMAR

Associate Professor

Postdoctoral Fellowship

Operations, Data & Artificial Intelligence

Bio

I am an Associate Professor of Information Systems & Business Analytics at emlyon business school. I have a passion for using data to drive business decisions and my expertise lies in helping companies leverage data science, machine learning, AI, and business analytics for competitive advantage and to understand how consumers, firms, industries, and societies are being reshaped by the AI & big-data analytics revolution.

My research papers are published in top-tier journals (FT50/UTD24/ABS-4* rated journals) such as Harvard Business Review, Production & Operations Management (POM), INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Decision Support Systems (DSS), British Journal of Management, European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR), International Journal of Operations & Production Management (IJOPM), IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Business Research, and Annals of Operations Research, etc.

2019: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • 2018: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University - Harvard Business School, USA
  • 2017: PhD in (Business Analytics & Information Systems) from Department of IT & Management Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
2019 - Now: Assistant Professor at emlyon business school
  • 2019 - 2019: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • 2019: Adjunct Faculty at Columbia University, New York