Business Intelligence and Data Analytics

Dr. Abhishek Verma is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. Before joining BITS Pilani, he was with the Indian Institute of Management Rohtak for over four years, where he worked in the Management Information Systems area. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His research focuses on data analytics, particularly analyzing large-scale textual and categorical data using data mining and machine learning techniques. Dr. Verma has published extensively in reputed international journals, including Safety Science, Enterprise Information Systems, Computers & Industrial Engineering, International Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion, and Process Safety and Environmental Protection. Justin Zhang teaches courses of Information Systems and Business Analytics in the Department of Management at University of North Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration on Management Science and Information Systems from Pennsylvania State University, University Park. His research interests include economics of information systems, knowledge management, electronic business, business process management, information security, and social networking. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Global Information Management, an ABET program evaluator, and an IEEE senior member. His areas of Expertise are Business Analytics, Economics of Information Systems, Information Security, Knowledge Management, Social Media. Dr. Avinash Chandra Pandey is currently serving as an assistant professor in the Discipline of Computer Science & Engineering of PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design, and Manufacturing, Jabalpur (IIITDM), India. He did his Ph.D. in the field of data analytics under the supervision of Dr. Dharmveer Singh Rajpoot. His research areas include machine learning, text mining, and nature-inspired computing. He has over 9 years of research and teaching experience at UG and PG levels. He has published more than 40 research papers in international peer-reviewed journals of repute, national, and international conferences in India and abroad, and 02 patents. He has also guided many Ph.D. (Ongoing 01), M.Tech. (Awarded 02, Ongoing 01), and B.Tech. (Project: Awarded 30) students. He is a reviewer for various government-funded projects and leading international journals of repute.