Prof. Arpan Kumar Kar

Prof. Arpan Kar is Professor and holds an Endowed Chair in Information Systems in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. He has a joint appointment in the Department of Management Studies and School of Artificial Intelligence. Administratively he chairs the Information Systems group, and advisor of Corporate Affairs and is member of multiple administrative committees. He also supports multiple ministries and universities in advisory boards, project assessment and faculty selection committees.

He works on the adoption, user experiences and impacts of emerging ICTs like artificial intelligence, social media, digital platforms, mobile apps, etc, often using machine learning methods. He has authored over 220 papers and edited 14 books, of which over 90 are ABDC A, ABS 3 and WoS Q1 level journals, and 16 are ABDC A* level publications. He uses mixed research methods for his studies, often using computational theory building approaches.

He received the Research Excellence Award by Clarivate Analytics for highest WoS citations from 2015-2020. He received the BK Birla Distinguished Researcher Award for the count of ABDC A* publications over 5 years. He is the recipient of the Best Seller Award from Ivey / Harvard Cases in 2020. He has received over 20 other awards like 3 IFIP Best Papers, ACM ICEGOV Best Paper, Careers 360 Outstanding Researcher Award, Tata Consultancy Services Gold Medal, Project Management Institute Research Award, AIMS Best Researcher, IIT Delhi Teaching Excellence, many reviewing awards (I&M, IJIM, GIQ, JRCS, LUP, JOCS, ESWA), etc.