Administrative Experience

Select External Engagements and Committees

  • Selection committee for CXO position, Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation, Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India (October 2025)
  • Member of Executive Committee, DRDO Reforms Implementation Committee (Recruitment and Promotions), Defence Research and Development Organisation, Ministry of Defense, Govt of India. (September 2025).
  • Steering Committee for the implementation and skill development for Data Analytics for DISCOMs, Ministry of Power, Government of India (September 2025 onwards)
  • Expert Committee Member of All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) for the design of the Hybrid Post Graduate Certificate Programmes (August 2025 onwards) for the upskilling of all faculty members in AICTE approved universities in different IIMs / IITs.
  • Committee Member, Doctoral Programme Improvement Committee, for a major rehaul of the FPM programme to the PhD ptogramme in Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (July 2025)
  • Chairman for development of norms for sponsored projects, consultancy and professional activities for 20+ institutes under Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India (March 2024)
  • Jury Member for the Aegis Graham Bell Award in collaboration with Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology for Deep Tech innovations (2022, 2023, 2025)
  • Jury Member for Economic Times DigiTech Awards 2023 and 2024.
  • Research Advisory Council, Fore School of Management, New Delhi, India (2024 onwards)
  • Reviewer for Swiss National Science Foundation, Major Research Projects (Jan 2024 – 2025)
  • Expert Committee Member, Innovation and Research working group, The Commonwealth, UK (2023 August onwards)
  • Board of Studies, ICFAI University, 2023-2026.
  • Board of Studies, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Deemed University, 2023 – 2026.
  • Research Advisory Board member, XLRI Jamshedpur (September 2023 onwards)
  • Reviewer for Academic Research Fund, Ministry of Education, Singapore, for Tier 3 Projects involving Substantial Research Awards (of value between 20 Million – 5 million Dollars), Sept 2022 – Aug, 2024.
  • Research Advisory Board Member, Symbiosis International University (2022 onwards)
  • Faculty Improvement Review Committee, National Council for Cooperative Training, Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India (Feb, 2021 onwards)
  • Expert Committee of the Cloud Auditing Group, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India (December 2021 – November 2023)
  • Technology Committee Member, Future Skills Prime Programme, Ministry of Electronics and IT (May 2020 onwards)
  • Advisory Committee, Vigyan Prasaar, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (September 2019 – August 2024)
  • Board of Studies, MBA Analytics, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India (2022).
  • Member of Board of Studies, Management/Vocational Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (July 2017-June, 2019)

Select Faculty/Staff Selection Committees

  • Faculty selection committee, Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur, September 2025.
  • Faculty Selection Committee, FORE School of Management, New Delhi, February, 2025.
  • Faculty Improvement Review Committee member for Faculty Members across 20+ institutes under Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India.
  • Faculty selection committee, Indian Institute of Management Shillong (April 2023)
  • Faculty Evaluation Committee for Internal Promotions, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Feb 2025.
  • Staff Selection Committee, Scientist D and Scientist E, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India (2023 onwards)
  • Faculty Selection Committee, International Management Institute, New Delhi, February, 2023.
  • Faculty Selection Committee, Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, New Delhi, 2022 onwards.
  • Faculty Selection Committee, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta), Jun 2021.
  • Faculty Selection Committee, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad (ISM Dhanbad), April 2021.

Work Experience

IIT Delhi

Joint Appointment: Department of Management Studies and School of Artificial Intelligence

  • Assistant Professor (June 2014 – July 2018)
  • Associate Professor (August 2018 – March 2023)
  • Professor (March 2023 onwards)
  • Amar S Gupta Chair Professor (January 2022 onwards)

Selective administrative positions held:

  • Professorial Committee Member, Department of Management Studies, School of Artificial Intelligence,  Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management, for Faculty Appraisals, Selection and Promotions   (2023 onwards).
  • Department Research Committee member, Department of Management Studies and Bharti School of Telecom Technology and Management.  (2017 onwards)
  • Central Policy Committee for Curriculum Review and Minor Area Specialization for B. Tech students. (2024-2026)
  • Advisory Committee to the Overall Curriculum Development Cell, IIT Delhi. (2023-2026)
  • Chairman, Information Systems Group, Department of Management Studies.  (2024 onwards)
  • Chairman / Advisor – Corporate Relations in DMS and School of Artificial Intelligence (2014 onwards)
  • Member – Board of Academic Programme (2021-2023)
  • Coordinator – Doctoral Colloquium (2019)
  • Member – Institute of Eminence  committee of IITD (2018-2021)
  • Convenor/Member – Academic & Global Linkages, DMS (2017-2018)
  • Chairman – Automation and IT, DMS
  • Member, Smart Campus Committee, IIT Delhi (2015-2017)
  • Convenor, Smart Cards Committee, IIT Delhi (2015-2017)
  • Member/Coordinator, Case Study and Case Research Center (2016-2018)
  • Coordinator, Faculty and Post Doctoral Fellow Recruitment, in DMS and ScAI
  • Member, Committee for Priority Area Identification, in DMS (2015, 2018)
  • Member for Committee for organizing Industry Day (2020-2022).
  • Member, Committee for Policy & Vision, in DMS
  • Member of Convocation Committee (2014 – 2018).
  • Member of Open House Committee (2014-2018)
  • Member of Proctorial Committee (2014 – 2019)

IIM Rohtak

Visiting Assistant Professor (June 2012 – June 2014)

Selective administrative positions held:

  • Chair, Research Publications (Responsibilities: promoting/facilitating research publications)
  • Chair Sponsored Research Committee (Responsibilities: Developing and adminstrating norms for externally sponsored projects)
  • Member, Placement Committee for Post Graduate Programme in Management participants.
  • Member, Admissions Committee, for Post Graduate Programme in Management through CAT
  • Member, PGP Executive Committee & PGP Committee, for the Post Graduate Programmes.
  • Chair, Student Affairs. Chair for organizing 4 business summits and conferences to facilitate corporate relations and academia-industry interaction.
  • Chair for Committee for reviewing and approving content for public domain.
  • Selection Committee Member/Chair for key administrative positions, like Chief Corporate Relations Officer; Chief Administrative Officer, Secretary to Director, and many other important portfolios.

Corporate Experience

  • Consultant in Cognizant Business Consulting (Jan 2011 to June 2012)
  • Associate Consultant in Cognizant Business Consulting (August 2011 to December 2012)
  • Managed the commercialization of the 8 solutions in MDM-in-a-Box, a portfolio of advisory solutions initiated with $3 million in Master Data Management with a revenue potential of $150 million. (Part of Cognizant’s 2015 Strategic Initiatives for Non-Linear Growth).
  • Strategizing the Marketing of Sliver projects including identifying marketing channels like webinars, events, websites, magazines; development of leads from multiple channels and networks; tracking and generating leads in SFDC; exploring existing accounts and coordinating pre-sales activities.
  • Development of pricing models including development of the IP licensing fee, Software as a Service pricing and Business Process as a Service pricing models for the Sliver solutions portfolio.
    Protection of IP for MDM Sliver (through Trademarks, Patents and Copyrights)
  • Solutioning offerings on Cognizant’s Enterprise Entity Master for Retail and Supply Chain verticals
  • Identification of problems which may be addressed using MDM, and creating solution roadmaps and authoring whitepapers for futuristic needs.

IBM Research – India Research Laboratory (2008 – 2009)

  • In 1st engagement, focused on the commercialization of 4 research products / solutions, involving Real time Email Analytics, Telecom Social Network Analytics, Audio Auto-Encryption Solution and Mobile Dynamic Workforce Management Solution.
  • Pricing of products/solutions with a gross valuation over 4 million USD for engagements with major clients like HDFC Bank, Bharti Airtel, Verint & DNA Telecommunications.
  • Project focused on estimating impact value to client in engagements, understanding technology adoption factors, pricing, competitive analysis and market entry strategies of the research products.
  • In 2nd engagement, commercialization of a portfolio of Speech Technology Assets at 69.1 million USD in 2009 to 214.5 million USD in 2012.
  • Also worked on the market entry, adoption and future capability enhancement strategies for the portfolio of Speech Technology Assets.