Prof. P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan

Professor

(Ph.D., IIT/K)

Biography

P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan (PhD – IIT Kanpur) is Abdulaziz Alsagar Chair Professor at the Dept. of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is also Professor-in-Charge of University of Queensland & IIT Delhi Research Academy which has more than 100 PhD students.

Prof Ilavarasan researches and teaches about the interaction of information and communication technologies (ICTs), society & and business. He is one of the top 2% cited scholars in the world in 2022, 2023 as per the Elsevier & Stanford study. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the United Nations University (Macau), Curtin University, and the University of Queensland. He is a recipient of the Outstanding Young Faculty Fellowship Award at IIT Delhi, and Prof. M.N. Srinivas Memorial Prize of the Indian Sociological Society. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at LIRNEasia, a leading regional ICT policy and regulation think tank. He has received large research grants from Dept of Science & Technology (Govt of India), ICSSR (India), IDRC (Canada), Oxford Analytica (UK), IPTS (European Commission), CIPPEC (Argentina), Ford Foundation, and others. He is currently a Section Editor of Society & Politics, Heliyon (Elsevier & Cell Press). His research has appeared in all the leading international journals and conferences of repute.

Further details are at: https://web.iitd.ac.in/~vignes/ 

 

Teaching

Information Systems Management; Digital Transformation Management; Social Media & Business Practices; eCommerce; Research Methods; ICTs, Development & Business.

 

Research

Development Informatics / Information and communication technologies & Development (ICTD); Social Media & Business Practices; Digital Transformation of Small Businesses; Digital Influencer Management; Health-tech Startups; Agri-tech Startups; Sharing Economy

 

Projects/Training Programs

Digital technologies & Development; Impact assessment studies; Business / Research Methods; Survey research; Digital Transformation; CTO Programme; Small data analytics; Qualitative data analysis.

 

Contact

Dr. P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan
Professor
Area: Digital Technologies, Business & Society; Information Systems
Phone No.: 9910230407
Email Id: vignes@iitd.ac.in; evignesh@gmail.com