Ajay Kumar

I am an Assistant Professor at the AIM research center on artificial intelligence in value creation, emlyon business school. My expertise lies in helping companies leverage data-science, machine learning, AI and business analytics for competitive advantage and to understand of how consumers, firms, industries and societies are being reshaped by the big-data and business analytics revolution. My research and teaching interests are in data and text mining, decision support systems, machine learning, business intelligence, deep learning and enterprise modeling.

Research topics

1. Data Science
2. Predictive Analytics
3. Big data pre-processing
4. Artificial Intelligence
5. Machine Learning
6. Data Governance
7. Digital Advertising and Marketing

Education

• Postdoctoral Fellowship Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019 — 2019)
• Postdoctoral Fellowship Harvard University (2018 — 2018)
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2012 — 2017)
• Master’s Degree Delhi College of Engineering (2009 — 2011)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Business Analytics & Information Systems emlyon business school (2019)
• Visiting Researcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019)
• Postdoctoral Scientist in Business Analytics & Data Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2019 — 2019)
• Postdoctoral Researcher in Business Analytics & Data Science Harvard Business School (2018 — 2019)
• PhD Research Scholar Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2012 — 2017)
• Visiting Research Scholar New York University (2016 — 2016)
• Summer Research Intern Accenture (2015 — 2015)
• Summer Analyst Goldman Sachs (2015 — 2015)
• PhD Research Intern IBM (2013 — 2013)