Prof. Arghya Ray

Dr. Arghya Ray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies at IIT Delhi. Dr. Ray has done his Ph.D. in Management Information Systems and Analytics from the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi) and was a silver medalist in the CSE Department during his B.Tech. from SRM University. Prior to joining IIT Delhi, he was an Assistant Professor at IMI Kolkata, FORE School of Management (FSM) and Adamas University. Overall Dr. Ray has over 5 years of academic experience. He has also taught various courses as a Visiting Faculty across different reputed institutes like Birla Global University, IIFT Delhi, IMI Delhi, IIM Ranchi, IIM Jammu, and IIM Vizag. He has also been a part of several workshops and invited talks as a resource person on topics like “Power BI”, “Social Media Analytics”, “SMART PLS for analysis”, etc. at St. Xaviers’ University Kolkata, MDI Gurgaon, IIM Vizag, and FORE School of Management New Delhi.

In addition to the academic experience, Dr. Ray also has an industrial experience of two years at TCS Limited where he was a part of the Business Intelligence team and worked in the BFSI segment. Dr. Ray has done consulting projects with Wordsmith Star and has been actively involved in various Faculty Development Programmes like “Tools and Techniques for High Impact Journal Publications (Part I, Part II, and Part III)”, “Advanced Research Methods in Marketing Application of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning”, etc. both as a Program Director and as a resource person. He has also been a part of several MDPs for well-known corporates, like Coal India, UBI, etc. in which he has conducted sessions on “Blockchain and Cyber-security”, “Data Analytics”, and “Healthcare Analytics”.

As a researcher, he has to his credit 35+ publications in ABDC, ABS and Scopus indexed journals like, International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Hospitality Management, Information Systems Frontier, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Behaviour and Information Technology, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Journal of Business Research, etc. He has also published few case studies and book chapters with reputed publishers like Sage, IGI Global and Springer. He has also presented papers in several reputed national and international conferences, like, ISDSI and INDAM. He has also served as a session chair in “International Conference on AI, Business Models, and the Future of Work” held at FSM New Delhi and “International conference on Sustainable Business Practices” held at IMI Kolkata. As a PI, he is also involved in a research consultancy project with Bradford University UK. His research mainly focuses on social media analytics, customer analytics, and technology adoption.

Dr. Ray is currently serving as the Associate Editor and Editorial Advisory Board in the Asia Pacific Journal of Business Administration. He is also serving as the Editorial Review Board Member in the International Journal of Electronic Government Research and Journal of Computer Information Systems. He has recently joined the Marketing Management Journal as a Senior Advisory Board Member. In the past, Dr. Ray has served as the Chairperson of the Bharat Blockchain Network Chapter at IMI Kolkata and as the Center Director of the Center of Applied Blockchain and Digital Transformation at IMI Kolkata.