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Arpan Kumar Kar

Also known as: A.K. Kar

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak, XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business and Human Resources, Jadavpur University Faculty of Engineering and Technology

ORCID iD 0000-0003-4186-4887
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Prof. Arpan Kar is full Professor in Information Systems in Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Inside IIT Delhi, he has held senior positions and chairs in different administrative capacities. He works on the design, governance, adoption, appropriation, user experience and impacts of emerging ICTs, often using computationally intensive machine learning methods. As of August 2026, he has authored over 250 publications and edited 14 indexed books with 40,000 citations and H index of 75. Over 100 publications are in the ABDC A and ABS 3 level journals, and many are in ABDC A* ranked journals.

He is the Editor of Analytics Section of Applied Operations and Analytics, published by Taylor and Francis. He is also Associate Editor for ABDC A ranked journals like Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Computer Information Systems and Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. He has held roles like Editor in Chief, Senior Editor, Associate Editor, Guest Editor, in multiple reputed journals like IJIM Data Insights, IJIM, DSS, JAIS, IMM, ISF, TFSC, etc in the past.

He has undertaken over 25 sponsored research and 30 training projects with revenue generated exceeding 50 crores. In total, he has recieved over 20 awards including best paper awards from globally reputed organizations like International Federation for Information Processing, Association for Computing Machinery, BK Birla Foundation, Tata Consultancy Services, Elsevier, IIT Delhi, IIM Rohtak, Springer Nature, Clarivate Web of Science, Career 360, Association for Information Systems, etc.

Employment

  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Full Professor / Chair Professor
    2022 - Present
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Associate Professor
    2018 - 2022
  • Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Assistant Professor
    2014 - 2018
  • Indian Institute of Management Rohtak Assistant Professor
    2012 - 2014
  • Cognizant Technology Solutions Consultant
    2011 - 2012
  • IBM India Research Laboratory
    2008 - 2008

Education

  • XLRI Jamshedpur School of Business and Human Resources Fellow in Management (MBA & PhD)
    2006 - 2011
  • Jadavpur University Faculty of Engineering and Technology Bachelors in Engineering

Projects & Funding

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Publications (242)