Expertise

Ajay is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics at EMLYON Business School, France. Ajay’s research examines how users engage with online social platforms and AI systems to better understand the influence of these technologies on user behavior and human–AI interaction. His work broadly addresses behavioral and psychological issues related to IS at both individual and organizational levels. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in prestigious academic journals (FT-50/UTD-24/ABS-4*/AIS Senior Scholars' List of Premier Journals) such as Production & Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Information Technology, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, California Management Review, and Decision Sciences.

Ajay currently serves as an Associate Editor for several prestigious journals, including Management Science (UTD24), INFORMS Journal on Computing (UTD24), Information Systems Journal (ABS/AJG-4), and Decision Sciences (ABS/AJG-3*). Previously, he has also held guest associate editor role for special issues in journals, including INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Management Information Systems, and Decision Support Systems.

Engagements

Research

Honors

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), Harvard Business School
Adjunct Faculty Appointment
Columbia University (United States, New York) - CU, 2019
Visiting scholar
Awarded, New York University, 2016
Visiting Researcher
University of Oxford (United Kingdom, Oxford), 2023
Visiting Senior Fellow
London School of Economics and Political Science (United Kingdom, London) - LSE, 2024
Postdoctoral fellowship
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States, Cambridge) - MIT

Organizational Affiliations

QUANT - Quantitative Methods in Business, emlyon business school

Associate Professor, Department of Operations, Data & Artificial Intelligence, emlyon business school

Education

2019, Postdoctoral Fellowship

MIT Sloan School of Management, USA

2018, Postdoctoral Fellowship

Harvard University - Harvard Business School, USA

Business Analytics
2017, PhD

Department of IT & Management Science, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India