Professional Activities

Ashish Gupta is Globe Life Professor of Analytics within the department of Business Analytics & Information Systems in Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at Auburn University with a courtesy appointment within the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Samuel Gin College of Eng. at Auburn University. Prior to this, he served as the (founding) director of the Analytics Research Center and an Associate Professor of Analytics & IS in the College of Business at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. He has been a Visiting Research Scientist at the Mayo Clinic Rochester, Visiting Professor in Biomedical Informatics at the Arizona State University, and a research affiliate with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis. He has a Ph.D. in MSIS from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University. At Auburn University, he has established and presently manages a data science cluster (Barracuda) and a state-of-art Business analytics lab, which are part of the new Business Computing initiative. 

His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, healthcare informatics, IoT, sports analytics, and organizational and individual performance. His recent articles have appeared in journals such as MIT Sloan Management Review, European Journal of Information Systems, Decision Sciences Journal, European Journal of Operations Research, Risk Analysis, Journal of American Medical Informatics Association, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, IEEE Transactions, Information Systems Journal, Decision Support Systems, Information Systems Frontiers, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, etc.  He has published 5 edited research books. Professor Gupta’s research has been supported by various grant agencies and several private organizations and has received numerous awards. His efforts have led to grants exceeding 4 Million Dollars.

He serves on the editorial boards of journals such as Decision Support System, Journal of Business Analytics, Information Systems Frontiers, JMWAIS (Associate Editor), IJDSST, and IJITSA, and guest-edited special issues of journals such as Decision Support Systems (healthcare Analytics), Annals of IS (Advances in Healthcare Informatics & Analytics). Dr. Gupta has been the President of MWAIS and served on its executive board. He was president of SIGDSA (Decision Support & Analytics) and is currently serving as AVP for AIS AMCIS Conference systems. He will be serving as Program co-chair for AMCIS 2025 in Montreal, Canada

He has served on several review panels and has co-chaired several national and international conferences such as Pre-ICIS SIG Decision Support & Analytics 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020; Business Analytics Congress 2015 (Fort Worth, TX), Big data & Analytics for Business conference (BDAB 2014 & 2016), Midwest Association for Information Systems (MWAIS) annual meeting, Symposium on Healthcare & Analytics in Research & Practice (SHARP 1.0, 2.0, 3.0), EOMAS 2011 (London), EOMAS 2013 (Valencia, Spain) and organized various tracks and mini-tracks at DSI, AMCIS, HICSS, and INFORMS. He initiated the SHARP conference. He has served on the organizing committee of ICIS and AMCIS.