Faculty Details
Faculty

Umar Bashir Mir  

Specialization
:
Information Management
Designation
:
Assistant Professor
Email
:
umar.mir@imi.edu

Umar Bashir Mir  

PhD (DMS, IIT Delhi)

Umar Bashir Mir  

Dr. Umar Bashir Mir holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Management Studies,  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, where his doctoral research focused on the phenomena of Global Digital Identity Systems. He holds a Master of Technology degree in Information Security and Management from Uttarakhand Technical University. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked with University of Kashmir as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Following his Ph.D, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management Delhi.

His research interests include Digital Identity Systems, Technology Adoption, e-Governance and ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development), and the implications of Artificial Intelligence and Social Media. His research utilizes a mixed-methods approach, combining qualitative and quantitative techniques to address complex technology challenges.

His research has been published in various highly regarded ABDC and ABS category journals like Government Information Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Enterprise Management, Aslib Journal of Information Management and international conference proceedings. He actively serves the academic community as a peer reviewer for several reputed Information Systems journals.

He has also presented his research work at national and international conferences. Dr. Mir’s teaching interests include Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Technology Management, and e-Governance.

Umar Bashir Mir  

  1. Sirohi, R. and Mir, U.B. (2025), “Factors Affecting the Acceptance of Self-Service Technologies in the Indian Banking Sector”, Journal of Commerce and Accounting Research, Vol 14 No 2, https://doi.org/10.21863/jcar/2025.14.2.007
  2. Mir, U.B. and Shardeo, V. (2024), "Demystifying resistance: factors influencing users’ reluctance to share images on social media", Aslib Journal of Information Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-06-2024-0497
  3. Sarkar, B.D., Shardeo, V., Mir, U.B. and Negi, H. (2024), "Harvesting success: Metaverse adoption in agriculture sector as a sustainable business strategy", Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Vol 37 No. 6, pp. 1858-1884. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEIM-10-2023-0536
  4. V. Shardeo, B. D. Sarkar, U. B. Mir and P. Kaushik (2024), Adoption of Metaverse in Healthcare Sector: An Empirical Analysis of its Enablers. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2024.3400401
  5. Mir, U., Kar, A. K., & Gupta, M. P. (2021). AI-enabled digital identity – inputs for stakeholders and policymakers. Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management, ahead-of-p(ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1108/JSTPM-09-2020-0134
  6. Sharma, S, Mir, U. B., Kar, A. K., & Gupta, M. P. (2021). A Case of Affordances: Collaborative Governance Using Smartphones. International Journal of Electronic Government Research (IJEGR)
  7. Mir, U. B., Kar, A. K., Dwivedi, Y. K., Gupta, M. P., & Sharma, R. S. (2020). Realizing digital identity in government: Prioritizing design and implementation objectives for Aadhaar in India. Government Information Quarterly, 37(2), 101442.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.giq.2019.101442
  8. Mir, U. B., Sharma, S., Kar, A. K., & Gupta, M. P. (2020). Critical success factors for integrating artificial intelligence and robotics. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, (March). https://doi.org/10.1108/DPRG-03-2020-0032
  9. Mohd, M., Javeed, S., Wani, M. A., Khanday, H. A., Wani, A. H., Mir, U. B., & Nasrullah, S. (2023). poliWeet—Election prediction tool using tweets. Software Impacts, 17, 100542.
  10. Mohd, M., Wani, M. A., Khanday, H. A., Mir, U. B., Nasrullah, S., Maqbool, Z., & Wani, A. H. (2023). Semantic-Summarizer: Semantics-based text summarizer for English language text. Software Impacts, 18, 100582.

Umar Bashir Mir  

  1. Mir U. B and Gupta H., (2025) Stock News Sentiment Analysis and Stock Sentiment Prediction in Fintech Innovation & Digital Financial Practices: A Way Towards Sustainable Development that was held at Department of Management Studies, MNIT Jaipur
  2. Sharma S, Mir U.B, Vagrani A. (2025) Towards Empowerment: Factors Influencing the Design and Development of Empowering M- Government Applications. In Indian Conference on Information Systems (InCIS) held at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
  3. Kaur H., Mir U. B., (2024) Leveraging Sustainability Metrics for Operational Efficiency and Carbon Emission Reduction in Tech Industry. In XXVII Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management (SOM 2024).
  4. Kumar S., Mir U. B., (2023) Understanding Blue Collar Employee Attrition: An In-depth Analysis of Influencing Factors. In Innovations and transformations impacting economy and business in the digital era.
  5. Mir U.B., Kar A.K., Gupta M.P. (2020) Digital Identity Evaluation Framework for Social Welfare. In: Sharma S.K., Dwivedi Y.K., Metri B., Rana N.P. (eds) Re-imagining Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology and Systems: A Continuing Conversation. TDIT 2020. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 617. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64849-7_36
  6. Mir U.B., Kar A.K., Gupta M.P., Sharma R.S. (2019) Prioritizing Digital Identity Goals – The Case Study of Aadhaar in India. In: Pappas I.O., Mikalef P., Dwivedi Y.K., Jaccheri L., Krogstie J., Mäntymäki M. (eds) Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Society in the 21st Century. I3E 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11701. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29374-1_40
  7. Mir, U. B., Sharma, S., Kar, A. K., & Gupta, M. P. (2019, July). Factors Influencing Integration of AI and Robotics. In Academy for Global Business Advancement’s 16thWorld Congress, New Delhi [Best Paper Award]
  8. Mir, U. B., Kar, A. K., & Gupta, M. P. (2018, December). Decoding India’s Digital Identity Programme –Aadhaar: Stakeholder Perspectives. In FORE International Conference on Digital Innovation, New Delhi
  9. Mir, U.B., Mohd, M., & Hussain, M. (2018) "Handling Cold-Start in News Recommender system" Conference on Software Engineering & Data Sciences(COSEDS)
  10. Mir, U.B., Mohd, M., & Nazir, M. (2015, October) A Novel approach for modeling latent signals as user ratings. 11th JK Science Congress. ISBN : 978-93-82288-87-9
  11. Mohd, M., Hashmy, H., Nasrullah, S., & Mir, U.B. (2015, October) Forecasting Natural Disasters Using Social Networks. 11th JK Science Congress. ISBN : 978-93-82288-87-9
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