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Dr. Imon Chakraborty

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (2023) — Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & The University of Queensland Australia
M.Eng. (2019) — Jadavpur University, Kolkata
imon[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in +91-44-2257 4590 Office: DoMS 409

Areas of Interest

Research

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Digital Transformation
  • Information Systems in Healthcare
  • Tech. Entrepreneurship & Policy

Teaching

MBA Courses

  • Agentic AI in Management
  • Digital Transformation with AI
  • Digital Technologies in Business
  • Business Research Methodology
  • Management Information Systems
  • Venture Creation Strategy

EMBA Courses

  • Information Systems and Business Transformation
  • Organizational and Inter-Organizational Systems

Academic Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, IIT Madras (June 2024 – Present).
  • Assistant Professor, School of Management, Bennett University (July 2023 – May 2024).

Journal Publications

  • Chakraborty, I., & Kumar, N. (2026). Trust as institutional infrastructure: Balancing isomorphism and legitimacy in the governance of GenAI for healthcare. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 226, 124615.
  • Chakraborty, I., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2025). What helps age-tech startups scale-up? Some insights. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 21(1), 70.
  • Chakraborty, I., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2025). What characteristics define the success of early-stage health-tech startups?. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 39(8), 1647-1664.
  • Chakraborty, I., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2024). Factors of front-end innovation in fem-tech startups: An empirical study. Technology in Society.
  • Chakraborty, I., Edirippulige, S., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2023). The role of telehealth startups in healthcare service delivery: A systematic review. International Journal of Medical Informatics.
  • Chakraborty, I., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2023). Critical Success Factors of Startups in the e-health domain. Health Policy and Technology.
  • Chakraborty, I., Edirippulige, S., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2023). What is coming next in health technology startups? Some insights and practice guidelines. Digital Health.
  • Chakraborty, I., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2021). Health-tech startups in healthcare service delivery: A scoping review. Social Science & Medicine.
  • Chakraborty, I., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2021). COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Telehealth Growth in India: Some Insights. Journal of the International Society for Telemedicine and E-Health.

Conference Proceedings

  • Kumar, N., & Chakraborty, I. (2026) Prescribing Partnership: Operationalizing Trust and Control in Human-AI Delegation. UKAIS at The University of Sheffield UK, In Proceedings of UKAIS, AIS eLibrary.
  • Kushwaha, H. K., & Chakraborty, I. (2026). How informal micro-businesses perceive government’s role in e-Rupee adoption: An institutional theory perspective. 19th IFIP Working Group 9.4 Conference on Reorienting the Digital: Ethics, Ontology, and Sustainable Futures, Kathmandu, Nepal.
  • Kumar, N., Ganapathy, V., Khanna, H., & Chakraborty, I. (2026) Agentic product managers: A multi-agent computational framework for human–AI product management. Paper presented at SPM Summit India 2026, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, India.
  • Kushwaha, H. K., Kumar, N., Gupta, A. K., & Chakraborty, I. (2026). Who Gets Erased? Measuring Biasness in Large Language Models. 2nd India Conference on Information Systems (InCIS 2026), Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India.
  • Gupta, A. K., & Chakraborty, I. (2026). Responsible AI in Indian Fem-Tech entrepreneurship: A venture process perspective. 19th IFIP Working Group 9.4 Conference on Reorienting the Digital: Ethics, Ontology, and Sustainable Futures, Kathmandu, Nepal.  
  • Gupta, A. K., & Chakraborty, I. (2026). Understanding the Cognitive Consequences of AI-Based Delegation: An Exploratory Research. ICT4SD 2026, Goa, India. In Springer Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems (LNNS), ISSN 2367-3370.
  • Chakraborty, I. & Kumar, N. (2025) Regulatory Framework of Generative-AI in Healthcare: Insights from a Scoping Review, at Digital Transformation Society, Paris School of Business. In the book: Human-Machine Synergy and the Digital Future – Exploring Collaboration and Competition, Vol 2
  • Chakraborty, I., Nandhini, K., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2023). What drives front-end innovation in fem-tech startups? IEEE International Conference on Digital Health.
  • Chakraborty, I., Verma, R.K., Joshi, M.H., Ilavarasan, P.V. (2022). Customers’ Willingness to Use New OTT Media Platforms in India. ICT Systems and Sustainability, Springer.
  • Chakraborty, I., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2022). E-Health Startups’ Framework for Value Creation and Capture: Some Insights from Systematic Review. International Conference on Cognitive and Intelligent Computing.
  • Chakraborty, I., Edirippulige, S., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2022). Digital health startups in the time of COVID-19 crisis: Adaptation or Malfunction? 22nd Successes and Failures in Telehealth Conference.
  • Chakraborty, I., Ilavarasan, P. V., & Edirippulige, S. (2021). What is a successful health information technology startup? MICA’s 7th International Communication Management Conference.
  • Chakraborty, I., Kapoor, U., & Ilavarasan, P. V. (2020). There Is Nothing Real! A Study of Nonuse of TikTok in India. International Working Conference on Transfer and Diffusion of IT.

Projects & Consultancy

  • Evaluating the Business Case for Setting up Public Charging Stations: A Financial Viability Analysis and Business Model Framework for the Indian EV Ecosystem. Sponsored by Hyundai (PI, Ongoing)
  • From Margins to Mainstream: A Mixed Methods evaluation of co-designed Financial Inclusion models for Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) In Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Sponsored by Indian Council of Social Science Research (Co-PI, Ongoing)
  • From Farm Waste to Food Trays: Can India and Australia Solve the Plastic Crisis Together? Sponsored by Uni. of Adelaide & IITM (PI, Ongoing)
  • AI-Enabled Frugal Innovation for Inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems Investigators. Sponsored by the Uni. of Birmingham and IITM (PI, Ongoing)
  • Unlocking Digital Futures: Sustainable Transitions in India’s Informal Logistics Ecosystem Sponsored by FedEx SMART Center. (PI, Ongoing)
  • Responsible Entrepreneurship in Fem-Tech: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective. Sponsored by ERP, ICSR. (PI, Ongoing)
  • Exploring e-Rupee’s Potential in the Unorganized Sector. (Co-PI, Completed)
  • Leveraging Emerging AI applications to improve healthcare Service Delivery, sponsored by IITM. (PI, Completed)

Awards and Honours

  • Researcher Development Award at The University of Queensland Australia in 2022 and 2023.
  • ‘People’s Choice Award’ in Digital Health Week 2023 Conference by the Faculty of Medicine and Health, Research Networks at The University of Sydney.