Mentors Profile
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Professor and Distin guished Chair of Business Analytics
Chairman of the Business Systems and Analytics Department La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141, USA
SIG:
Business Analytics
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Dr. Madjid Tavana is Professor and Lindback Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics at La Salle University, where he serves as Chairman of the Business Systems and Analytics Department. He also holds an Honorary Professorship in Business Information Systems at the University of Paderborn in Germany. Dr. Tavana is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Kennedy Space Center, the Johnson Space Center, the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. He was recently honored with the prestigious Space Act Award by NASA. He holds an MBA, PMIS, and PhD in Management Information Systems and received his Post-Doctoral Diploma in Strategic Information Systems from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published 12 books and over 250 research papers in international scholarly academic journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analytics, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, International Journal of Management and Decision Making, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining, International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences and International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems.
IRNet Mentor
Dean
School of Information Engineering and Automation Kunming University of Science and Technology ,China
SIG:
Information and Communication Technology
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Prof. Zhengtao Yu, Ph.D., is the dean of the Faculty of Information Engineering and Automation, the director of the Provincial Key Lab of Intelligent Information Processing, and the Chief Professor of KUST innovation team of Intelligent Information Processing.
He is graduated from Beijing Institute of Technology with Ph.D. on Computer Application Technologies in 2005. He visited Purdue University as a visiting scholar in 2009. He has over 100 publications in international journals and conferences, holds numerous patents and copyrights. He had won numerous awards including the first prize and the third prize of Yunnan Province Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of Yunnan Province Natural Science Award. Prof. Yu is specialized in Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, and Information Extraction. His research interests include: Chinese corpus and Southeast Asia minority languages corpus construction, linguistic information processing, question-answering system, cross-language information retrieval, multi-lingual machine translation, cross-language public opinion analysis.
IRNet Mentor
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Swiss Applied Science University - Canton Vaud
SIG:
Business Analytics
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Dr. Vincenzo Pallotta, is an experienced professional in ICT and Consumer Electronics. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL and after more than 25 years of research and development in private and public institutions such as IBM, Apple, EPFL, Stanford University, ICSI, UC Berkeley, he is now Professor of Innovation Management and Product Development at the Swiss Applied Science University of Canton Vaud (HEIG-VD) and Expert at InnoSuisse (Swiss federal agency for support of innovation) . He is the co-founder of interAnalytics, a startup active in the area of Semantic Technologies for Big Data and Customer Interaction Analytics. He contributes as a Lean Startup coach, mentor and trainer to initiatives such as Startup Weekend, UP-NEXT, SeedStars World, Lean Startup Machine and Stanford’s Technology Entrepreneurship online MOOC. He is also active in the civil society as a founding member and former chairman of the Switzerland chapter of the Internet Society and the ThinkServices think tank.
IRNet Mentor
Vice Dean
School of Information Engineering and Automation Kunming University of Science and Technology,Kunming,China.
SIG:
Intelligent Computing
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Prof. Dr. Tao Shen , is a doctoral supervisor in School of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology. He had received his master’s degree and Ph.D. from Illinois Institute of Technology in USA, bachelor degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He is an executive director and Deputy Secretary-General of Youth Committee of Chinese Materials Institute, a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE) and China Computer Federation(CCF). He is a peer-reviewer with National Natural Science Foundation of China, a high-caliber talent accredited by provincial government of Yunnan province. He participated in over 10 research projects, including projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Applied Basic Research Programs of Yunnan Province, and Science Foundation of Department of Education, Yunnan Province. He has published more than 40 papers indexed by SCI/EI, 2 monographs, and held numerous patents and copyrights. His main research fields including: Terahertz technologies and their applications, Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining and Smart Power Grids.
IRNet Mentor
Director
IIMT, Bhubaneswar
SIG:
Intelligent Computing
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Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999 and supervised 12 Ph. D. theses and more than 30 M. Tech theses in the area of Machine Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published more than 60 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and edited 12 books and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.. Dr. Patnaik was the Principal Investigator of TAPTEC project “Building Cognition for Intelligent Robot” sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi and Major Research Project “Machine Learning and Perception using Cognition Methods” sponsored by University Grant Commission. He is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and also Editors-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany.
IRNet Mentor
Professor and Dean (Research)
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow
SIG:
Disruptive Human Resource Management
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Prof. (Dr.) Shailendra Singh is a distinguished academician, visionary institution builder and illustrious management guru. He has more than 35 years of vast and varied experience in research, teaching, training, administration and consultancy post his Ph.D.Currently, he is serving as a Professor (HAG) and Dean (Research) at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.Recently, Prof. Singh completed a 5-year tenure as the Director of the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (2017-2022).Prior to that, he was a Professor (HAG) in the area of Human Resource Management and Dean (Research) at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. Previously, he has served as the National Convener of CAT, Chairman of crucial departments like Admissions, Fellow Programme in Management, and Financial Aid & International Linkages at Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. He was elected as the President (2013-14) and as a Fellow (2018) of National Academy of Psychology India.
His Ph.D. Dissertation titled "Executives under Stress: Explorations in the Structure and Dynamics" won the Indian Council of Social Science Research Publication Grant Award.Prof. Singh has delivered various lectures, presentations and keynote addresses at premier universities, institutes and business schools around the world which include IITs, IIMs, IIITs, NITs, NLUs, Banaras Hindu University, University of Delhi, University of Cambridge (UK), Aston Business School (UK), University of Kelaniya (Sri Lanka) to name a few.
IRNet Mentor
Professor of General Management
Department of Marketing, Operations and General Management ISCTE Business School, LISBON, Portugal
SIG:
Disruptive Human Resource Management
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Holding two PhD degrees, in Management and in African Studies, Renato Pereira is Professor at the Department of Marketing, Operations and General Management, Researcher at the Business Research Unit (BRU-Iscte) and at the Center of International Studies (CEI-Iscte) and he teaches in programs from Iscte Business School and from the School of Sociology and Public Policy.Specialized in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, International Business Management, and in Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Former resident-student at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the private foundation in charge of managing the international campus of the French capital city, elected by a college representing 5,000+ voters from 150+ nationalities.He has worked for different companies of the ICT cluster, including Outsystems, one of the initial Portuguese unicorns.
As Director of Inteli - Innovation Center, he has integrated the coordination structure of the Mobi.E consortium, responsible for the development of the 1st nation-wide network in the world for electric vehicle charging, and the board of directors of SGORME, the network operations management company.
For thirteen consecutive years, he was member of the Supervisory Board of Taguspark, the managing company of one of the biggest and most relevant science and technology facilities in Portugal.He was Advisor to the Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Communications of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Portuguese Constitutional Governments.He has directed the Executive Master in Innovation Management at Iscte Executive Education and several master-level subjects at Iscte Business School and at the Master of African Studies.
As Associate Professor of UniversidadeAutónoma de Lisboa, he directed: the PhD program in Business Economics, the Geoeconomics Seminar of the PhD program in International Relations, the MSc program in Business Management, and the BSc program in Management, as well as several subjects from all three levels.
His paper Entrepreneurship role on dynamic capabilities: A longitudinal study on Brazilian and Portuguese firms, written in co-authorship, was short-listed for Best Paper Prize at the Special Conference of the Strategic Management Society, in 2011. His paper Resilient employees are creative employees, when the workplace forces them to be, published in co-authorship, was awarded with the Tudor Rickards and Susan Moger Creativity and Innovation Management Best Paper Award, reported to the year 2019.
He has supervised 5 post-docs, 17 doctorates and 168 master's.He has a long and extensive international academic experience, having taken visiting positions in universities from Angola, Brazil, France, Hungary, India, Mozambique, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.
IRNet Mentor
Chair Professor of JRD Tata Foundation
Business Ethics XLRI - Xavier School of Management Jamshedpur - 831035, India
SIG:
Disruptive Human Resource Management
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Prof. (Dr) Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ (born 1957), Chair Professor of JRD Tata Foundation for Business Ethics at XLRI, Jamshedpur and was Professor of Physics, Philosophy and Religion at Jnana Deepa , Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune, India, since 1996. He has three Masters’ Degrees in Physics and Philosophy and two Doctorates in Philosophy and Theology to his credit. He has been actively involved in science-religion dialogue; transhumanism; viable human life-style and philosophical anthropology. Author/Editor of more than 45 books and 210 academic articles, Pandikattu is a Jesuit priest belonging to Dumka-Raiganj Province, India. He has been involved in organizing more than 25 national and international conferences on science-religion dialogue. He has visited more than 15 countries and attended more than 100 conferences on Philosophy, Theology and Science-Religion Dialogue. He had been on the editorial board of five philosophical/religious journals. His main topics of research are: Business Ethics, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Anthropology, Eschatology and Transhumanism.
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Research & Publications
Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya, India.
SIG:
Disruptive Human Resource Management
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Dr. Aviral Kumar Tiwari is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya (IIMBG) in the Department of Economics and Business Environment. Prof. Tiwari is a C-EENRG fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Research Fellows, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prior to joining IIMBG, he worked as Associate Professor at Rajagiri Business School (RBS), India and Montpellier Business School (MBS), Montpellier, France from where he received his post-doc as well. After graduating with a degree in Economics from Lucknow University, Lucknow, India, he received his M.Phil. (in Labour Economics) and Ph.D. (in Energy and Environment) from ICFAI University Tripura. He is basically an applied economist with broad empirical interests with a focus on but not limited to emerging economies in particular Asia. His research interests focus on various issues concerning energy, environment, tourism, macroeconomy and growth & development etc. He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals and contributed more than 100 ABDC-A &A* research papers so far. He is the only Economist included from India in the career ranking of World’s top 2% scientists list of 2021 published by Stanford University Study. He is ranked at first position in India as a researcher by IDEAS. He is one of the Highly Cited Researcher 2020 by Clarivate™ of Web of Science™. He is one of the recipients of M J Manohar Rao Award (for young econometrician) for 2014 from The Indian Econometric Society, 2015. He is Life member, Indian Economic Association, India and member at several other international associations such as International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), USA, Association for Comparative Economic Studies, USA, Western Economic Association International, USA etc. He holds different editorial positions at more than 10 journals of international repute (ABDC, Scopus and ABS indexed journals).
IRNet Mentor
Assistant Professor
Information Technology and Systems Indian Institute of Management Raipur
SIG:
Supply Chain Management
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His Research interest area is on Technology Adoption, Mobile Commerce and Electronic Commerce, Virtual Communities, Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management. He had received awards as Accredited Management Teacher, All India Management Association, New Delhi, 2010, NUS President Graduate Fellowship, 2005 and NUS Research Scholarship, Singapore, 2002 - 2006.
IRNet Mentor
Faculty
Business Administration, National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, India.
SIG:
Disruptive Human Resource Management
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Dr. Neeraj Kaushik has been a visiting Faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak for Session Sept-Dec 2010, Oct-Dec 2011. Guest Faculty at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (Noida Campus) for Sessions: Sept-Dec 2010, Oct-Dec 2011 & Sept-Dec 2012.Regular Guest Faculty in Academic Staff College, BPS Uni, Khanpur; Academic Staff College, GJU Hisar; Academic Staff College, Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra etc. He has supervised Various MBA Students for Final Dissertations and Summer Training Reports in Marketing Specialization
IRNet Mentor
HoD, Depts of APS & HSS
National Institute of Technology, Farmagudi, Ponda.
SIG:
Disruptive Human Resource Management
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Dr. Sarani Ghosal Mondal, is an Assistant Professor of English in the Department of Humanities and Sciences and Dean-Inter-Institutional Relations and Alumni Affairs at National Institute of Technology, Goa. She is the author of a pioneering book entitled Poetry and Poetics of Walt Whitman and Sri Aurobindo. She has also edited another book entitled Indian Responses to Shakespeare. Her areas of interest include Comparative Literature, Comparative Mysticism, Applied Linguistics, Eco-Ethics and Creative Writing. She has presented papers on Comparative Literature and Applied Linguistics at different universities of abroad and India. Sarani Ghosal has also collaborated in a UGC funded project under the scheme of e-Pathshala. She is also a lifetime member of EFSLE, an International Organization working in the field of Ecocriticism. She has been appointed as a Coordinator of EFSLE for its Goa Region.