Faculty & Research

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Biography

Samrat Gupta is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems area at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He specializes in network analytics, social media-induced polarization, and digitalization. He received his doctoral fellowship from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and a bachelor’s degree from Punjab Engineering College Chandigarh.

Samrat's work has appeared in leading journals, such as Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Information Sciences, and Data & Knowledge Engineering, amongst others. He has also been a recipient of a SPARC research grant by the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

He is serving or has served as an Associate Editor for various tracks at the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) and European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), guest editor at the Information Systems Journal, track chair at the Indian Academy of Management conference, the IFIP working group conference on transfer and diffusion of IT, and the IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, amongst other such assignments. 

Area

Primary Area : Information Systems

Contact

Email : samratg@iima.ac.in

Phone : +91-79-7152 4957

Secretary : Archana Premkumar

Phone : +91-79-7152 7976

Website : Personal Website

Education

Doctoral program in Information Technology & Systems, Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, 2018

Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, 2009

Teaching

Doctoral:

  • Advances in Network Theoretic Modelling of Complex Systems (ANTMCS)
  • Database Management Systems (DBMS)

Postgraduate:

  • Managerial Computing (MGRCMP)
  • Internet Enabled Businesses (IEB)

Other Programs:

  • Privacy & Data Governance

Research Area

Methodological developments for modelling and analysis of complex networks

Causes, symptoms, and consequences of social media induced polarization

Role of digitalization in business and governance outcomes

Academic Experience

Associate Professor (Information Systems), IIM Ahmedabad, August, 2023 - Present

Assistant Professor (Information Systems), IIM Ahmedabad, March, 2018 - August, 2023

Professional Experience

Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) India

Wipro Technologies

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)

Consulting

Awards & Honors

2019 - SPARC (MoE, GoI) Research Grant

2019 - Best Paper Award at ALLDATA held at Valencia, Spain

2018 - Student Travel Grant (USD 1000) for Conference on Business Analytics in Finance and Industry held at Santiago, Chile

2017 - Best Paper award at Ph.D. Consortium, SJMSOM, IIT Bombay

2016 - Ranked 3rd at the Sixth IDRBT Doctoral Colloquium, Hyderabad

2015 - Highly Commended Paper Award at 3rd International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence held at IIM Bangalore.

In the Media

Academic Experience

Associate Professor (Information Systems), IIM Ahmedabad, August, 2023 - Present

Assistant Professor (Information Systems), IIM Ahmedabad, March, 2018 - August, 2023

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