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Dr. Reema Khurana

Professor (Information Management and Data Science) and Dean (International Programs)

Ph. D (Computer Science and Information Management) from SNDT University, Mumbai, India

Email: dean-ip@imt.ac.ae

Ext: 103

Overview

Prof. Reema Khurana has completed PhD in Computer Science and Information Management from SNDT University, Mumbai. She has a Masters in Software Systems from BITS Pilani and another Masters in Computer Applications from IMT, Ghaziabad.  She is graduate in Mathematics from Hansraj College, University of Delhi.  She has been trained and certified by elite institutions like MIT, Boston, USA; Columbia Business School, NYC, USA and NUS, Singapore. Dr. Khurana has been in design and delivery of courses in higher education for more than thirty-one years. She has published in several leading refereed journals and case repositories, she has also presented papers at several national and international conferences.

She has been a visiting faculty to Business and Economics department of Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland through the faculty exchange programme at IMT, Ghaziabad.

She has been on board of several private and public Indian universities as a post graduate and Ph.D level examiner.

Reema is a devoted researcher and avid trainer. Her research interests have evolved with technology and range from Information Integrity Systems, Learning Integrity, Information Technology Service Outsourcing and Vendor Management, Systems Management, Design Thinking and Innovation, Artificial Intelligence applications, Robot Process Automation and more recently Virtual Influencers. She has been publishing regularly since 1997 and has published in several prestigious journals ranked and cited highly.

Research and publications
  • Gupta, R., Khurana, R., & Prashaant, A. (2023). Open banking on the horizon: a scientometric analysis and research agenda. Electronic Commerce Research, 1-28.
  • Khurana, R. (2022). Artificial Intelligence as a Vehicle for Innovation: Literature Review and Bibliometric Study. Asia Pacific Journal of Information Systems, 32(4), 916-944.
  • Routray Susmi, Khurana Reema (2023) , Radius Synergies International Pvt Ltd: Prepaid Smart Metering in India, Ivey Publishing, https://www.iveypublishing.ca/s/product/radius-synergies-international-pvt-ltd-prepaid-smart-metering-in-india/01t5c00000DMU51AAH
  • Reema Khurana (2021) Jio Fiber: disrupting the digital market in India, Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 23:2, 115-138, DOI: 10.1080/15228053.2021.1889742
Teaching Interests
  • Management Information Systems
  • Design Thinking and Innovation
  • Artificial Intelligence and Business Models
  • Information Technology Service Outsourcing and Vendor Management
  • Spreadsheet Modelling for Businesses
Conference and Seminars
  • Reema Khurana, Vijay Mandke, Pankaj Khurana, S. Kanwar, ““Cost Benefit Analysis of Learning Integrity in Smart Systems”, Clute Institute Conference at Dublin, Ireland, June 2-6, 2019.
  • S Routray, Reema Khurana, “Google Project Loons – Internet of Skies: An Innovative Solution to Internet Infrastructure Woes in India”, presented in Open User and Innovation Conference at Harvard Business School in July 2016.
  • Jain Mathur Daisy, Khurana Reema, “Pricing Models in Information Technology Service Outsourcing Industry in Indian Context”, presented in Tokyo International Conference on Social Science Tokyo, Japan during Dec 17-19, 2014.
  • Jain Mathur Daisy, Mishra S, Khurana Reema, “Impact of Pricing and Outsourcing models in Information Technology Service Outsourcing” Presented at International Conference on Social Media, Organized by IIM Raipur, on Jan 10 and 11, 2014
  • Jain Mathur Daisy, Agarwal R, Khurana Reema,” A framework to study Vendors’ contribution in a Client Vendor Relationship in Information Technology Service Outsourcing in India” Presented at International Conference on Social Media, Organized by IIM Raipur, on Jan 10 and 11, 2014.
  • Mehrotra P, Khurana Reema, Khurana P, “Indian practitioner’s view on cloud-based   business opportunities” presented in International Technology Education and Development Conference in Valencia, Spain held on 4th, 5th and 6th March 2013.
Other Activities
  • Authorized signatory at IMT, Ghaziabad from March 2022 till July 31, 2023
  • Co-Chairing the Indian accreditation committee at IMT, Ghaziabad from March 2020 till July 31, 2023
  • Chaired the Corporate Engagement Committee at IMT, Ghaziabad from March 2021 till March 2022
  • Chaired the Alumni Relations Committee at IMT, Ghaziabad, during 2020-21
  • Program Chair for PGDM year programs in Full Time, Marketing, Finance and Dual Country at IMT, Ghaziabad during 2016 -2019
  • Convocation coordinator for the batch of 2017-2019.
  • Lead the project of ERP vendor identification, requirements elicitation and vendor selection for IMT, Dubai in 2018-19
  • Lead the project of ERP vendor identification, requirements elicitation and product implementation at IMT, Ghaziabad in 2014-16
  • Also part of the Branding and Ranking team at IMT, Ghaziabad during 2015-16
  • Member of Central Admissions Team of Group IMT in 2010-2014
  • Program Director of NIIT Imperia MDP in 2013-14
  • Chaired the Student Affairs and Welfare Committee in IMT, Ghaziabad between2012-14
  • Was Committee coordinator for submitting the report of AMDISA -South Asian Quality System. An Asian accreditation for B-schools. IMT, Ghaziabad finally received the accreditation in September 2011.
  • Chaired PGDM(FT/FIN/IB/IT/HR) courses in IMT, Ghaziabad in 2011
  • Chaired PGDM(Executive) and PGDM(Part time) courses in IMT, Ghaziabad in 2010
  • Programme Director of ONGC PSU Management Development Programme held on IMT campus in 2005
  • Programme Chairperson of PGDCA and PGDBM(IT) courses in IMT, Ghaziabad in 2004-06