Hello! I am an Associate Professor at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. I graduated from University of Texas at Dallas with a PhD in MIS.
My affiliations:
Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
My research interests span the following topics.
Algorithm/System Design: I focus on designing more efficient algorithms to tackle the computational challenges faced by businesses. Currently, my work centers on information privacy and security, where I develop algorithms to protect confidential data before it’s shared with business partners, applying both traditional optimization techniques and Quantum algorithms. I’ve also worked on crafting recommender system algorithms based on association rules. Additionally, I’m interested in designing recommendation systems that reduce biases and enhance the fairness of their suggestions.
Economic Modeling: Leveraging game-theoretic models, I examine issues surrounding recommender systems, software support, and cybersecurity. Currently, I am involved in multiple projects that explore topics such as the strategic disclosure of breach information, the training and implementation of cybersecurity best practices within organizations, security concerns during software version updates, and the influence of artificial intelligence on cybersecurity. Additionally, I have analyzed the pricing strategies and data-sharing behaviors of organizations offering recommendations to their customers.
Empirical research: I am interested in studying the impact of cybersecurity incidents on supply chain partners of organizations.
Quantum Computing: Recently, I have been interested in exploring how quantum algorithms can be used for business decision making. Although a nascent, yet promising, technology today, quantum computers are likely to impact everything that use business analytics, machine learning, optimization, and AI. My interest specifically lies in optimization and machine learning dependent problems that managers and business processes need to solve. I have extended my information privacy research to quantum algorithms by showing how underlying structures of the problem learned using traditional operations research techniques can be utilized to design effective quantum algorithm based heuristics.
Education
Ph.D., Jindal School of Management, University of Texas Dallas
Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India
Contact
Room: 4072 Wymer Hall
Gies College of Business,
University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign.
Mail:
350, Wohlers Hall,
1206, S. Sixth Street.
Champaign, IL, 61820.
Phone: 217-300-8838
Email: abhi@illinois.edu
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