Mentoring Doctoral Research

Ph.D. Thesis Guided

1. Arvind Upreti. (Current) Analysis of the automation of tasks in the profession of Information Technology (IT) and its impact on the occupation of the IT services industry. IIIT-B (Ph.D. Thesis Supervisor).
2. Nandakishore. K.N. (Current) Defining and verifying Service Quality metrics in Digital Platforms. International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore. IIIT-B. (M.S. Thesis Supervisor).
3. Hari Bhaskar Sankaranarayanan. (Current). Reference architecture for Airline passenger satisfaction in changing Big Data paradigm. IIIT-B. (PhD Thesis Committee Co-Member).
4. Jain, Shilpi. (2013). Analysis of factors that influence adoption of Software as as Service (SaaS) in enterprises. Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India (Thesis committee member).
5. Kapur, Kavita. (2013). Team Member Attributes and Learning in Team Projects in Virtual Environment. Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India (Thesis committee member).
6. Yadav, Vanita. (2009). Flexible Global Software Development: Factors Affecting Success in the Requirements Analysis Phase. Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India (Thesis Supervisor).
7. Malik, Amit. (2009). Effectiveness of Virtual Teams in Requirements Analysis Phase of Off-Shored Software Projects. Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India (Thesis committee member).
8. Thomas, Joffy. (2007). Effects of Customer Trust on Word of Mouth and Purchase Intentions. Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, India (Thesis committee member).
9. Jain, Piyush. (2005). Techno-Economic Modeling of Basic Telecommunication Services in India: A System Dynamics Approach. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India (Thesis Supervisor).

Examiner of Doctoral Dissertations

Mikko V. J. Heikkinen. Techno-Economic Analysis of Mobile Peer-to-Peer Systems and Services. (2011). Ph.D. Thesis. School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.

The Impact of Globally Distributed Virtual Organizing on the Flexibility of Software Development Teams. (2009). FPM Thesis. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.

Agent Models for Product Recommendation and Automated Negotiation in E-Commerce. (2009). FPM Thesis. Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India.

Evaluating e-Government Projects: An Empirical Study. (2007). FPM Thesis. Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India.

Srikumar, K. (2004). An Agent Based Personalized Recommender System for E-Commerce. (2004). Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India. (also a member of thesis advisory committee).

Garg, S.K. (2004). Web Usage Mining: Model(s) for effectiveness and Utility Studies. Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India.