Nakul Gupta

Associate Professor
Chairperson PGDM - (Business Analytics) & Chairperson - Alumni

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Profile

Nakul Gupta is an Associate Professor in the Information Management Area at the Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon, India. His work focuses on high-performance informatics, particularly in spatial business analytics and, more recently, HPC- and spatial AI–driven cancer data extraction-transformation-loading (ETL).

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication from MDU Rohtak, India; an M.S. in CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (USA), where he earned a 4.0/4.0 GPA; and a Fellow of Management (Doctoral Programme) from MDI Gurgaon, specializing in Information Management. Prior to joining MDI Gurgaon, he served as Assistant Professor and Chairperson (International Relations) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kashipur, under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

Among his accolades are a Teaching Excellence Award for the 2022–23 academic year; a U.S. National Committee (USNC) travel grant (National Science Foundation); an International Cartographic Association (ICA) Scholarship to present research at the 2023 ICC in Cape Town, South Africa; an IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Travel Grant; recognition as the Brightest Young Climate Leader (Hindustan Times and Arctic Holdings); and the title of International Climate Champion 2009 (awarded by Low Carbon Futures, British Council, and TERI, India). He also served as a core member of the AICTE committee that formulated the model curriculum for BBA and BMS at the undergraduate level.

In addition to his peer-reviewed publications—including journal articles, conference proceedings and teaching cases—he consults on technology and policy for government ministries and international agencies such as the Asian Development Bank, World Bank–funded projects, and various state-level organizations. His recent consulting engagements include AI-based policy making and reporting for the Competition Commission of India and a GeoAI-based forecasting and optimization project with a multinational heavy engineering company. His key projects span enterprise resource planning implementations, technology procurement RFPs and contracts, data-driven policy evaluations, and analytics-based monitoring and evaluation initiatives.

He teaches courses on:

  • Data Preparation and Visualization
  • Locational AI, Mapping, and Geospatial Business
  • Socio-Tech Entrepreneurship
  • Management Information Systems (MIS)

He is actively involved in training and Management Development Programs (MDPs) for corporate and public sector organizations, covering:

  • Location Analytics for Business
  • AI and Its Applications in Business
  • Data Preparation for Business (using Tableau Prep and low-code Python)
  • Data Visualization and Dashboards (using Tableau, Power BI, or KNIME)
  • Creating Data Products

He has attended and convened several conferences of international repute. His areas of interest include - spatial analytics, information science, knowledge management and technological innovations.

Some of his key publications include:

  • Gupta, N (2024). Energy-Efficient HPC in Spatial Finance: Evaluating the Energy Consumption of LSTM and GNN-based Nowcasting Models for Regional Stock Exchanges, Doctoral Colloquium and International Conference on "Energy Transition: Prospects and Barriers” at MDI Gurgaon, India held from February 13th to 16th, 2024
  • Gupta, N (2024). Integrating Climate Signals in Financial Risk Forecasting: An Information-Theoretic Approach Using Spatial Kernel Density Estimation, Doctoral Colloquium and International Conference on "Energy Transition: Prospects and Barriers” at MDI Gurgaon, India held from February 13th to 16th, 2024
  • Gupta, N.: Automating conversion of remote sensing images to human readable map images using generative AI, Abstr. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 6, 82, https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-6-82-2023, 2023.
  • Gupta, N. (2023). “Studying the Effects of Investor Sentiment and City-Level Weather on The Stock Prices of Dual-Listed Companies Through Spatial Analysis” accepted for poster presentation in IGARSS 2023
  • Gupta, N. (2024) AI-generated spatial data: Bibliometric literature synthesis and future research directions, Abstracts of Indian Academy of Management Conference, https://indam2024.gim.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BOOK-OF-ABSTRACTSedited-draft-1.pdf
  • Shawl, S., Nayak, K. M., & Gupta, N. (2023). Cello Plastotech: adopting the triple bottom line as a sustainability strategy. Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, 13(1), 1-18.
  • Singla, Ashish, Nakul Gupta, Prageet Aeron, Anshul Jain, Ruchi Garg, Divya Sharma, Brij B. Gupta, and Varsha Arya. "Building the Metaverse: Design Considerations, Socio-Technical Elements, and Future Research Directions of Metaverse." Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM) 31, no. 2 (2022): 1-28.
  • Singla, A., Gupta, N., Aeron, P., Jain, A., Sharma, D., & Bharadwaj, S. S. (2022). Decentralized Identity Management Using Blockchain: Cube Framework for Secure Usage of IS Resources. Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM), 31(2), 1-24.
  • Singh N & Gupta, N (2018). Comparative Analysis of Data Mining Models for Classification for Small Data Set. In IEEE 12TH International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies (AICT2018) held in Kazakhstan, Almaty, 17-19 October 2018.
  • Singh N & Gupta, N (2018) Infosys: The Buyout Strategy for Vision 2020, Ivey Publishing, Product Number - 9B18M032.
  • Bhatnagar, J. & Gupta, N. "Should You Rehire Someone Who Left for a Competitor?" Harvard Business Review (Dec, 2016) 
  • Gupta, N., P. Jaiswal, M. & Sharma, R. (2017). Qualitative Network Analysis of Emergence of Innovations: How does knowledge ‘dispersed in time’ gets converted into IT innovation?. In 2017 ISPIM Innovation Forum at Toronto, Canada.
  • Gupta, N., P. Jaiswal, M., Sharma, R., & Uniyal, D. (2014). Emergence of Digital Enterprises: A mixed methods research on exploration of transmutation of knowledge into IT innovations by individual innovators. In 2014 CODE BIT Conference-Workshop at Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Gupta, N., & Goyal, S. (2013). Effective use of cloud computing in education: Education as a service. International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, 11(3), 297-309. Scopus Indexed.
  • Gupta, N., Bhatnagar, A., & Bhatnagar, J. (2013). Cyberpreneur's wake-up call: cyber security and millennial talent crises. Harvard Business Publishing, Product Number - W13439-PDF-ENG.
  • Gupta, N., & Shah Bharadwaj, S. (2013). Agility in business school education through richness and reach: a conceptual model. Education+ Training, 55(4/5), 370-384. Scopus and Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Indexed.