Ashwani Kumar

Dr Ashwani Kumar is a Professor, Business Analytics and Information Systems at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow. He has over seventeen years of academic work-experience (14 years at IIM Lucknow & 3 years at IIITM, Gwalior). Prior to joining academics, he has also worked in the industry for about four years.

Ashwani has designed and developed new courses/ programs in Business Analytics/ Data Mining in collaboration with SAS and in ERP/ Enterprise Systems in collaboration with Microsoft. His articles have been published in globally reputed international journals, primarily in the areas of Machine Learning/ Data Mining and its applications in CRM, Marketing and Finance.

Research

• Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
• Data Science for Business
• Data Mining and its applications in business, specially CRM and Finance
• Machine Learning Algorithms for Data Mining
• Customer and Business Analytics
• Big Data and Social Media Analytics
• Digital Transformation
• People and HR Analytics

Teaching

• Predictive Analytics and Data Mining
• Business Intelligence and Data Mining
• Customer and Business Analytics
• Data Science for Business
• ERP/ Enterprise Systems
• Management Information Systems
• Information Systems for Business

Education

• PhD: Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior
• MS: NUS Business School, National University of Singapore MS International Student Exchange Programme: McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, Austin
• MBA: Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne, Australia MBA International Student Exchange Programme: Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
• B. Tech (EE) : Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur