Faculty

Dr. Abhishek Narain Singh

Assistant Professor, Information Management

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Dr. Abhishek Narain Singh is Assistant Professor in Information Management area. He is working at IMT Nagpur since June 2014. Dr. Singh holds a PhD (from Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India) in the area of Information Security Management. Research interests of Dr. Singh include Information Security Management, Cyber Security, E-Governance, and New Media Platforms. Currently, he teaches subjects like E-Commerce, MIS, Emerging Tech. and Business Opportunities, and Data Analysis and Business Modeling. Dr. Singh has been a fellow of Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) and has worked as a Visiting Scholar in Ludwig-Maximilians-University at Munich in Germany. His research work has been published in various international/national research journals.

Academic Biography

Ph.D (Information Security Management) in 2009-2014, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India.
Fellow of Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) a.k.a. German Academic Exchange Service
M. Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering), in 2007-2009, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
B. Tech. (Computer Science & Engineering), in 2003-2007, Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, India.

Experience

Work Experience

Assistant Professor - Information Technology, Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur since June, 2014.
Teaching Assistant and Research Scholar at Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (Jan 2011-Dec 2013)

Professional Experience

Programs Organized

Member of organizing team of the 'Management Development Program' for grade-A administrative and department heads of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, May-October, 2010 and February, 2011.
Member of organizing team of the 'International Conference on Tourism & Technology (ICTT) - 2011' organized by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, July 07 - 09, 2011.

Professional Attachment

Member of 'Global Institute of Flexible Systems Management (GIFT)' society
Member of 'International Congress of E-Government (ICEG)'

Participated in Faculty Development Programs

Two days short-term course on "Advanced Data Analysis in Management", December 24-25, 2011, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Three days "National Program on Knowledge Sharing", February 21-23, 2011, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India.
Winter school on "Recent Advances in Mobile Computing and Communications", December 2008 to January 2009, National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India.
Seminar on "Technological Issues in Computing & Communication", October 2007, National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India.

Academic Unit

Research Interests

Cyber Security, Information Security Management, E-Governance, Social Media - Usage, Adoption, and Privacy Concerns

Research and Publications

JOURNALS:

Abhishek Narain Singh, Arnold Picot, Johann Kranz, M. P. Gupta and Amitabh Ojha (2013). "Information Security Management (ISM) Practices: Lessons from Select Cases from India and Germany," Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Vol. 14 No. 4, pp. 225-239.
Abhishek Narain Singh, M. P. Gupta and Amitabh Ojha (2014). "Identifying Critical Infrastructure Sectors and their Dependencies: An Indian scenario," International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 71-85.
Abhishek Narain Singh, M. P. Gupta and Amitabh Ojha (2014). "Identifying Factors of Organizational Information Security Management," Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol. 27 No. 5, pp. 644-667.
Manmohan Chaturvedi, Abhishek Narain Singh, M. P. Gupta and Jaijit Bhattacharya (2014). "Analyses of Issues of Information Security in Indian Context," Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, Vol. 8 No. 3, pp. 374-397.
Harsh Kumar Verma, Abhishek Narain Singh and Raman Kumar (2009). "Robustness of the Digital Image Watermarking Techniques against Brightness and Rotation Attack," International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 36-40.
Abhishek Narain Singh, Aman Kwatra and M. P. Gupta "Security Issues in Government Portals: An Indian Scenario", International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation, Vol. 6 No. 2, pp. 112-128.

CASE:

Abhishek N. Singh (2016). "Janta Choupal: An App for Social Governance". Published by The Case Centre (Ref. No. 916-0014-1) Teaching Note (Ref. No. 916-0014-8).

INTERNATIONAL / NATIONAL CONFERENCES:

Singh, A. N., Gupta, M. P. and Ojha, A. (2014). "Information Security Management: A Framework and Assessment Instrument for Organizations," 2014 International Business Conference, June 8-12, Eden Hotel Wolff, Munich, Germany.
Singh, A. N., Kwatra, A. and Gupta, M. P. (2014). "Security Issues in Government Portals: An Indian Scenario," National Conference on Social Media and E-Marketing, March 1, Jaypee Business School, Noida (U.P.), India.
Singh, A. N., Kranz, J., Picot, A. and Gupta, M. P. (2013). "Information Security in Practice: Two Case Studies from Germany," 5th Annual Doctoral Conference (IMRDC'13), December 13-14, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India.
Singh, A. N., Gupta, M. P. and Ojha, A. (2013). "Information Security Management: SAP-LAP Analysis of Cases from India," In: Proceedings of the 13th Global Conference on Flexible Systems Management, pp. 351-367, December 13-15, Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India (ISBN: 978-93-83893-00-3).
Singh, A. N., Gupta, M. P. and Ojha, A. (2013). "Information Security: A Management Framework for Organizations," TRYST-2013, March 1-4, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Singh, A. N., Gupta, M. P. and Ojha, A. (2012). "Identification of Critical Infrastructure Sectors of India and their Interdependency," In: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on E-Governance, pp. 81-95, December 29-30, School of Communication and Management Studies, Cochin, Kerala, India.
Singh, A. N., Gupta, M. P. and Ojha, A. (2011). "e-Samadhan: A Successful Grievance Handling Project," In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on E-Governance, pp. 251-258, October 14-15, Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India (ISBN: 978-93-81361-42-9).
Singh, A. N. and Gupta, M. P. (2010). "The Impact of ICT on e-Governance Adoption and Acceptance," 2nd Excellence in Research and Education Conference (EREC-2010), May 14-17, Indian Institute of Management Indore, India.
Singh, A. N. and Gupta, M. P. (2010). "Identifying Thrust Areas of e-Governance in India: An Option-Profiling Approach," 7th International Conference on E-Governance (ICEG-2010), April 22-24, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India.

PROJECTS

Ranking and Evaluation of Indian Government Websites (A project of Department of Electronics and Information Technology, Govt. of India)
Evaluation of Indian E-Governance Projects (A project of CSI-Nihilent e-Governance awards)

Achievements and Awards

Fellow of Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) a.k.a. German Academic Exchange Service as a visiting scholar at Institute for Information, Organization and Management, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) at Munich in Germany.
Best Paper Award for paper presented at TRYST-2013, an annual science and technology fest organized by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Third Prize in research paper competition in Indo-Japan Collaborative Seminar 2009, held at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, October 29, 2009.
Received Doctoral Scholarship by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during PhD.
Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) in 2007 (subject - Information Technology)

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