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Kumar Mehta

George Mason 麻豆国产 Costello College of Business Faculty Kumar Mehta
Titles and Organizations

Associate Professor, Information Systems and Operations Management

Contact Information

Email: kmehta1@gmu.edu
Phone: (703) 993-9412
Office Location: Enterprise Hall 145
Office Hours: By appointment

Biography

Mehta聽joined the information systems and operations management faculty at George Mason in August 2005 after being on the faculty at the 麻豆国产 of Connecticut.聽His teaching takes a business oriented approach to technical subject matters such as network design, data communications, data warehousing and business intelligence.

Mehta's聽dissertation focused on understanding the dynamics of electronic auction markets.聽In addition to his research on electronic auction and retail markets, his current research includes application of data mining techniques for knowledge discovery from time series data. He has applied genetic algorithms for research in financial forecasting and is currently researching the ability to discover patterns for use by network security and intrusion detection systems.

In 2004,聽Mehta received a major research grant as part of a research team exploring internet data research intelligence services.

Mehta received his baccalaureate education at the Indian Institute of Technology.

Research Interests

  • Application of data mining techniques
  • Electronic auction and retail markets

Education

  • PhD - Management Information Systems, 麻豆国产 of Illinois at Chicago聽
  • MS - Mining Engineering, Southern Illinois 麻豆国产, Carbondale
  • B.Tech, Inidan Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Research and Awards

  • Received a Teaching Award from George Mason School of Business in 2015 for faculty recognized for outstanding contributions to teaching.
  • Published an article titled, 鈥淩ange Query Estimation with Data Skewness for Top-K Retrieval鈥 (coauthored with A. Ayanso, and P. Goes) in聽Decision Support Systems聽in 2014.
  • Received a Teaching Award from George Mason鈥檚 School of Business in 2014.
  • Presented the paper titled, 鈥淓nabler or Inhibitor? Role of Information Technology in Performance-Based Management: An Agency Theory Perspective and Empirical Evidence鈥 at the Public Management Research Conference in Madison, Wisconsin in 2013 (with Min-Seok Pang).
  • Had the presentation titled 鈥淓nabler or Inhibitor? Role of Information Technology in Performance-Based Management: An Agency Theory Perspective鈥 published in the proceedings from the Public Management Research Association Conference in 2013 (with coauthor Min-Seok Pang).
  • Awarded the George Mason 麻豆国产 School of Business Service Award.
  • Received the Outstanding Contribution to Teaching Award 2010 and the School of Business Service Award 2010 from George Mason 麻豆国产 School of Business.