Leveraging Emerging Technologies and Analytics for Empowering Humanity, Vol. 1: International Conference Proceedings of LEAD-2024, IIM Shillong, . Proceedings in Business and Economics)

This book provides a platform for interdisciplinary discussions on leveraging emerging technologies and analytics to empower humanity, fostering collaboration between experts in AI and analytics, sustainability, different areas of management, and IT. As the world grapples with complex challenges, from climate change to economic inequality, this first volume of a two-volume proceedings series is a crucial resource for fostering collaboration and exploring untapped potential of emerging technologies. By harnessing the power of AI, blockchain, IoT, and big data, the chapters address critical global challenges towards improving quality of life and promoting inclusive and sustainable development, while keeping in mind ethical implications, and their impact on social justice. The volume will be of use to thought leaders, researchers, innovators, and policymakers from around the globe who are interested in knowing more on how cutting-edge technologies can be harnessed for the greater good of society.

D P Goyal is Professor and Director, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong. He carries over thirty-five years of rich experience in teaching, research, and various leadership roles in institutions such as MDI Gurgaon, IMT Ghaziabad, Punjabi University, and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. He has also been a visiting professor at Aarhus University, Denmark, for about a decade. Prof. Goyal has already supervised 15 PhD research scholars; published over 60 research papers in peer-reviewed and category journals, and has been a principal investigator of several sponsored research projects. He has published /authored more than a dozen books which include a highly used textbook on Management Information Systems. He has also been the editor of a couple of research journals and is on the editorial board of several national and international journals.

Suprateek Sarker (“Supra”) is a Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Commerce Professor (Information Technology) at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, USA. He teaches topics such as data management and business intelligence (BI), systems analysis and design, transformation of digital organizations, qualitative research approaches, and global immersion in India and the UAE. Prof. Sarker serves on the University-level Provost’s Promotion and Tenure Committee and has served on the college-level Undergraduate Policy Committee and the college-level Diversity Committee. He has been awarded the Whit Broome Award, 2023, by the McIntire School of Commerce. Prof. Sarker holds a visiting professorship at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an honorary professorship of Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney Business School, Sydney, Australia.

Somnath Mukhopadhyay is Professor in Marketing and Management Department at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA; and has published in numerous top journals—Decision Sciences, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Communications of the AIS, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Neural Networks, Neural Computation, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Forecasting, Computers and Industrial Engineering, and, Journal of World Business, among others. He obtained MS and PhD degrees in Management Science from Arizona State University, USA. He was a visiting research assistant in the parallel-distributed-processing group at Stanford University. He has over 15 years of industry experience in building and implementing mathematical models for American Airlines (pricing and revenue management), Delta Airlines (revenue management), and AG Communication Systems (quality software engineering of AT&T and GTE joint venture) among others. He is listed in Marquis 2011, 2012 Who’s Who in America. 

Basav Roychoudhury is Professor of Information Systems & Analytics, and Dean - Research at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong. Having more than two decades of experience in academics, he has been teaching at IIM Shillong since its very inception. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Tezpur University, India. His areas of interest include mobile computing—protocols and security, enterprise systems, and eGovernance, and he is passionate about business analytics and data modelling. He has been involved in consulting in the area of enterprise systems and eGovernance models and has also been collaborating with Government of India's Department of Electronics and IT (DeitY) and National Institute of Smart Governance (NISG) for manpower development. He had also been associated with SAP AG in their initiative under CSR to promote eGovernance in the Panchayats (local level government body in India serving a village or a group of villages). His research interests include data analytics, social media analytics, mobile computing—protocols and security. 

Parijat Upadhyay is Associate Professor of Information Systems & Analytics at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong. He has rich experience of teaching and research in the domain of information systems and supply chain management. An alumnus of Symbiosis and XLRI Jamshedpur, he was associated with reputed academic institutes in India like IMT Ghaziabad, IMT Nagpur, Globsyn Business School, International School of Business and Media, B.C. Roy Engineering College and Asansol Girls’ College. He has been teaching courses like management information systems, e-business, enterprise resource planning, and supply chain management. He served as the faculty-in-charge for International Accreditation process handling AACSB accreditation process (2018-2020) at IMT Nagpur.

Pradeep Kumar Dadabada is Assistant Professor in Information Systems and Analytics at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Shillong. He has more than eight years of teaching and R&D experience. Prior to joining the institute, he worked as Sr. Data Scientist at Innominds Pvt. Ltd. He has more than 20 publications in reputed journals and peer-reviewed conferences. A PhD in Computer Science from Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT), Hyderabad, under University of Hyderabad, India, his research interests include data science, financial analytics, sustainability, optimization, and time series prediction.