Veena Bansal
Associate Professor,
Department of Management Sciences,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kanpur - 208016, 
Uttar Pradesh, India

Telephone : 0512-2597743

Email:      veena at iitk.ac.in

 


Research Interests

Information Techology Adoption, Appplied Machine Learning

Teaching Interests 

ERP Systems, Applied Machine Learning, Data Structures and Algorithms, Universal Human Values and Ethics


Education

1. Ph.D., IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India

   (Department of Computer Science and Engineering )

   Thesis topic: Integrating Knowledge Sources in Devanagari Text Recognition

2. M.S., University of Connecticut, USA

3. B.E., Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College, University of Allahabad, UP


Books Published

  1. Computing for Management,  Prentice Hall of India, 2005

    Cover Page
    Preface

  2. Enterprise Resource Planning: A managerial perspective,  Pearson Education, 2013

    Book Website


Research Publications

  1. Pathak, A., and Bansal, V. (2024). AI as decision aid or delegated agent: The effects of trust dimensions on the adoption of AI digital agents. Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 2(2),

  2. Aman Pathak and Veena Bansal, TECHNOLOGY OR ORGANIZATION: WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ADOPTION, to appear in Tehnički glasnik, 2024

  3. Umrao, M., Bansal, V. A machine learning based personalized Yoga Asanas Recommendation Engine. Multimed Tools Appl (2024), 1-16.

  4. Aman Pathak and Veena Bansal, 2023. Factors Influencing the Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Indian Insurance Organizations. IFIP Advances in Information and Commuinication Technology, IFIP WG 8.6 Conference 2023, Transfer, Diffusion and Adoption of Next-Generation Digital Technologies, 43-55.

  5. Shivam Tyagi, Veena Bansal, Deepak Saxena, 2023. Big Data Analytics Adoption Framework and its Verification Using a Case Study. IFIP Advances in Information and Commuinication Technology, IFIP WG 8.6 Conference 2023, Transfer, Diffusion and Adoption of Next-Generation Digital Technologies, 259-270.

  6. Veena Bansal and Anjali Kulkarni, Trust: In Indian Knowledge System and its Modern Interpretation, in conference proceedings of International Conclave on Globalizing Indian Thought: Reimagining India, Shaping Worldview, 2023, IIM Kozhikode. 174-176.

  7. Veena, B. and Dhiraj, S., 2022. A Personalized and Scalable Machine Learning-Based File Management System, Tehnički glasnik , 16(2), pp.288-292.

  8. Bansal, V. and Shukla, S., 2021. Exploring Big Data Analytics Adoption using Affordance Theory. In ICEIS(2) pp. 131-138.

  9. Saxena, D., Lamest, M. and Bansal, V., 2021. Responsible machine learning for ethical artificial intelligence in business and industry. In Handbook of Research on Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence in Business and Industry, pp. 639-653. IGI global.

  10. Aman Agarwal and Veena Bansal, Exploring Sentiments of Voters through Social Media Content: A case study of 2017 assembly elections of three states in India, 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, May 5-7, 2020, Prague, Czech.

  11. Veena Bansal and Karan Ramchandani, Integrating Information Quality into Technology Acceptance Model: A Case Study of Acceptance of Yoga Websites, presented at ABR 2019 conference held at Las Vegas, Oct 14-16, 2019.

  12. Veena Bansal, A Poddar and R Ghosh-Roy, Identifying a Medical Department based on Unstructured Data- A Big Data Application in Healthcare, Information, 10(1), p.25, 2019.

  13. Veena Bansal, A Poddar and R Ghosh-Roy, Identifying a Medical Department based on Unstructured Data - A Big Data Application in Healthcare, In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Volume 2: ICEIS, 475-482, 2018, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal

  14. Neeraj Gangwal and Veena Bansal, Application of Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour for M-commerce Adoption in India, ICEIS 2016, 25-28 April, 2016, Rome, Italy.

  15. Veena Bansal and Ankit Agarwal, Enterprise Resource Planning: Identifying Relationships among Critical Success Factors, Business Process Management Journal, 21(6), 1337-1352, 2015.

  16. Veena Bansal, Identifying Critical Success Factors for ERP in SMEs through a Case Study, International Journal of Future Computer and Communication, 2(5), 471-475, 2013.

  17. Tripti Negi and Veena Bansal, A Methodology to Bridge Information Gap in ERP Implementation Life Cycle, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, 9(2), 70-82, 2013.

  18. Veena Bansal and A K Mittal, Mining Patent Database to Build Technology Roadmap, Proceedings of International Conference on Management of Technology- Step to Sustainable Production, June 8-10, Croatia, 1-10, 2011.

  19. Tripti Negi and Veena Bansal, Integrating Process and Data Model to Aid Configuration of ERP Packages, Proceedings of Business Information Systems: BIS2009, April 27-29, 2009, Poznan, Poland,228-239, Springer.

  20. Tripti Negi and Veena Bansal, A data modeling technique to aid configuration of ERP packages, 2nd International conference on Decision Sciences in Global Enterprise Management, IIT Bombay, India, 3-5 January 2009.

  21. Tripti Negi and Veena Bansal, Analysis of business process modeling techniques to model informational process perspective, 12th Annual International Conference of SOM, IIT Kanpur, India, 19-21 December 2009

  22. Tripti Negi and Veena Bansal, Addressing the gap between requirements engineering and configuration in ERP systems, 6th International Conference in Information Science, Technology and Management (CISTM 2008), IIT Delhi, 31st July-2nd August 2008. (ISBN: 978-1-935160-02-1).

  23. Veena Bansal and Tripti Negi, A Metric for ERP Complexity , Business Information Systems, Springer Brelin Heidelberg, 2008

  24. Smriti Sharma and Veena Bansal, Evaluating Effectiveness of Computing Facilities in Academic Institutes, In Proceedings of International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Portugal, Sep 11-14, 2006.

  25. Veena Bansal and Vivek Pandey, A Decision-Making Framework for IT Outsourcing using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics South Stockholm University, Sweden, 2006.

  26. Veena Bansal and A K Mittal, Mining the Patent Database, Directions, Indian Institute of Technology, vol 7, no 3, pp 62-69, Feb 2006.

  27. Tripti Negi and Veena Bansal, Time Series:Similarity Search and its Applications, in Proceedings- International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: ICSCI-04, Pentagram Research Centre Pvt. Ltd., Jan 7-9, Hyderabad, India, 528-533, 2005.

  28. Avinash Tiwari and Veena Bansal, PATSEEK: Content Based Image Retrieval System For Patent Database, in Proceedings- International Conference on Electronic Business-04, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec 5-8, 2004.

  29. Vivek Pandey and Veena Bansal, A Decision-Making Framework for IT Outsourcing using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, in Proceedings - International Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics: ICSCI-04, Pentagram Research Centre Pvt. Ltd., Feb 12-15, Hyderabad, India,  528-533, 2004.

  30. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Partitioning and Searching Dictionary for Correction of Optically-Read Devanagari Character Strings, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, 4(4), 269-280, July 2002.

  31. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Segmentation of touching and fused Devanagari characters, Pattern Recognition, 875-893, (35) 2002.

  32. Veena Bansal and R. M. K. Sinha, A Complete OCR for Printed Hindi Text in Devanagari Script, Sixth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IEEE publication, Seatle, USA, 2001.

  33. Veena Bansal and RMK Sinha, A Devanagari OCR and A Brief Overview of OCR Research for Indian Scripts in Proceedings of STRANS01, held at IIT Kanpur, 2001.

  34. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Integrating Knowledge Sources in Devanagari Text Recognition, IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 30(4), 2000.

  35. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, On how to describe shapes of Devanagari characters and use them for recognition, in Proceedings - Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IEEE publication, Bangalore from Sep 21-23, 1999.

  36. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Partitioning and Searching Dictionary for Correction of Optically-Read Devanagari Character Strings, in Proceedings - Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, IEEE publication,  Bangalore from Sep 21-23, 1999.

  37. Veena Bansal, Introduction to Information Technology, in Lecture Notes of 6th SERC School on Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineer, IIT Kanpur, Padmini Printers. 1999.

  38. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Segmentation of Touching characters in Devanagari, Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing (ICVGIP'98), 371 - 376, December 21-23, New Delhi, 1998.

  39. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, On Integrating Diverse Knowledge Sources in Optical Reading of Devanagari Script, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis (ISAS-96), USA, 1996.

  40. Veena Bansal and R.M.K. Sinha, Designing a front end OCR system for Indian scripts for Machine Translation- A case study for Devanagari, Symposium on Machine Aids for Translation and Communication (SMATAC-96), New Delhi, India, 1996.

  41. R.M.K. Sinha and Veena Bansal, On Devanagari Document Processing, IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Vancouver, Canada, 1995.

 


 

Consultancy and Sponsored Projects

  • Research Consultant at Nucleus Software, May - July, 2009.

  • Introducing Radically Simple IT Methodology of Shinsei Bank, Japan, Sponsored

by two Indian software companies and Shinsei bank, April 2009.

  • Consulted ITCIT, India in July 2005 to build a model for selecting an activity to outsource from a pool of activities. ITCIT uses this model to help their clients pick activities to outsource to ICTIT, India

  • Conducted workshop for ICFAI faculty on SAP in Dec 2005

  • Conducted a SAP workshop for faculty of various academic institutes like NITIE, Symbiosis in Jan 2007 on SAP with Prof. Gopal Nayak from XIMB

  • Change management strategy for RCI, DRDO, Hyderabad for their SAP implementation, June 2007

  • Completed: Development of Text and Image Based Tools for Technology Mapping from Patents Literature with a Specific Application to Language Technology, CRM And Molecular Structure, MCIT sponsered project, 2005-2007

  • Completed: Post Processing for Devanagari OCR, DST project, 2000-2002.




Workshops and Courses Organized

  • Short -Term Course on Big Data, from Aug 7-11, 2017, 50 Faculty members from various colleges and institutes attended the course.

  • Short-Term Course on Software Project management, from July 1 - 7, 2005. 28 Faculty members from various colleges and institutes attended the course. Dr. Keshav Nori, Prof. H Karnick, Prof. TV Prabhakar, Prof. Jayanta Chaterjee and Prof. Y N Singh supported the course through their teaching. 

  • Short-Term course on ERP systems for Faculty and Practicing Managers, 1-31 March 2008

  • Organized a two day workshop on Role of patent literature in technology development, at IIT Kanpur, Dec 1-2, 2005, sponsored by MCIT


Courses Taught 
 

Department of Management Sciences, IIT Kanpur

  1. Applied Machine Learning- IME673

  2. Universal Human Values and Ethics- MBA618

  3. Research Methodology- IME700

  4. e-Commerce- MBA649

  5. Big Data for Management- MBA748

  6. Enterprise Integration with IT- MBA646

  7. Management information systems- MBA645

  8. Computing for management- MBA641

  9. Introduction to computing- IME603

  10. Managing Software Projects- IME671

  11. Mathematical Statistics- BSO209 (Tutorial)

  12. Computer Aided Decision Systems- IME624

IIT Bhilai

  1. Machine Learning

  2. Introduction to Data Structures

AIT, Thailand

e-Commerce

IIIT Delhi

  1. Data Structures and Algorithms

  2. Critical Reading

Tribhuvan University, Nepal

Managing Software Projects

IIM Lucknow

Introduction to Information Technology

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, HBTI Kanpur

Compilers
Computer Organization
Operations Research
Data Structures
Simulation
Numerical Methods
Formal Languages: Fortran,    Pascal, C, PL/I, Cobol, Basic

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA

Pascal


Students

PhD

Abhishek Khaparde, Managing Digital Transformation, In progress

Aman Pathak, AI adoption in Indian Industry: Issues and Challenges, In progress

Niti Shekhar, Analysing Motivation And Entrepreneurial Learning Of The High-Technology Entrepreneur Of The Pharmaceutical And Biotechnology Sector In India

Tripti Negi, Bridging the Information Gap between Requirements Engineering and Configuration Phases in an ERP Implementation, 2009


MTech

  1. Aditya Yadav, Integrating the Sign Language Gesture Recognition System for a Big Dataset with Large Language Model, 2024

  2. Rajan S Bangar, A Real-Time Dynamic Gesture Recognition and Conversation System based on Deep Learning, 2023

  3. Reeshabh Anand, Binary and Multi Class Textile Fiber Classification : Using MobileViT, 2023

  4. Mayank Umrao, A Machine Learning-based Personalized Yoga Asanas Recommendation Engine, 2022

  5. Saurabh Sachan, Classifying Cotton and Blended Fiber Fabrics using Deep Convolutional Network, 2022

  6. Sunil Kushwaha, Predicting Elcetricity Demand in Metro Cities, 2021 progress

  7. Shubham Shukla, Exploring Big Data Analytics Adoption using Affordance Theory, 2020

  8. Shivam Tyagi, Exploring Big Data Analytics adoption process using TOE framework, 2020

  9. Abhishek Poddar, Identifying a medical department based on unstructured data, 2017

  10. Neeraj K Singh, Fog in Northern India and Indian Railways: An exploration, 2017

  11. Neeraj Gangwal, Application of Decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour for M-commerce Adoption, July 2015

  12. Ankit Agarwal, Enterprise Resource Planning: Identifying Relationships among Critical Success Factors, May 2014

  13. Naveen Kumar Jha, Identification of factors responsible for the growth of T-shirt market and a decline in the shirts market and consumer perception, May 2014

  14. Devesh Kumar Sharma, Prioritising organisational applications to move on cloud using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP), May 2014

  15. Y R Krishna, A prototype ATM for Secure Financial Transactions with Intermittent Network Connectivity, June 2012, jointly with Prof. R Moona, CSE Deptt.

  16. Jasweer Kumar, Technology Driven Re-Engineering of Indian Postal Service and Its Acceptance, May 2008

  17. Insia Fatima, Automated classification of E-mails, June 2007

  18. Abir Mukherjee, IT Outsourcing Decision Making Defying AHP Limits and Underlying Assumptions, May 2006

  19. Smriti Sharma, Measuring Effectiveness of Computing Facilities in Academic Institutes, May 2005

  20. Tripti Negi, Time Series: Similarity Search and its applications, June 2004

  21. Vivek Pandey, A Decision-Making Framework for IT Outsourcing using the Analytic Hierarchy Process, May 2003

  22. Mayank, Evaluation, Rating and Certification of Web Documents, March 2003

  23. Himanshu Sadana, IT Scenario in IIT Kanpur, Feb 2003

  24. Himanshu Kumar Mishra, COCOMO Model: A study and web enabled data collection, Feb 2002

  25. S. V. Rao, An Enhanced Analogy based Model for the Effort Estimation of Software Projects, March 2002

  26. Punit Kumar Mishra, Efficient Mining of Association Rules in Large Database, March 2001


Association with other Institutes

  • Visiting Faculty at IIT Bhilai

  • Visiting Faculty at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

  • Visting Faculty at Defence Engineering College, Ethiopia

  • Visting Faculty at I K Gujral Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar

  • Adjunct Faculty at IIM Lucknow

  • Visiting Faculty at Tribhuvan University

  • Visiting Faculty and Faculty-in-Charge, Students Affairs at IIIT-DELHI

  • Research Assistant at University of Connecticut, USA

  • Research Assistant at University of Virginia, USA