Prof. Ranjit Singh
Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad
Prayagraj-211015
Uttar Pradesh, India
Prof. Ranjit Singh is a distinguished academic and researcher currently serving as a Professor in the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Allahabad, since March 2021. With a robust academic career spanning over more than two decades, he has held significant roles, including Associate Professor at IIIT Allahabad (2013-2021), Assistant Professor at Assam University (2008-2017), and Assistant Professor at Dibrugarh University (2003-2008). His administrative contributions include serving as Dean of Student Affairs (2022-2024), Chairman of the Council of Wardens (2022-2023), and Coordinator of Add-on Courses at IIIT Allahabad (2019-2023).
Prof. Singh holds a PhD and a Master's Degree from Dibrugarh University (2008) and is a Company Secretary. He is also an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His teaching and research interests encompass Behavioural Finance, Financial Management, Corporate Taxation, Islamic Finance, Entrepreneurship, and other related fields.
A prolific researcher, Prof. Singh has authored 21 books and published over 170 research papers in reputed high-impact-factor journals indexed in SSCI, SCOPUS and ABDC. Uniquely, he authored a bestselling English fiction novel, Presiding Babu (2015), alongside a Hindi poetry collection, मेरी पहचान अभी बाकी हैं (2021), making him a rare academic contributing to English literature, Hindi poetry, and management and scientific scholarship. He holds ten patents and one copyright.
Prof. Singh’s contributions to Behavioural Finance are profound, notably through initiating the Summer School on Behavioural Finance at IIIT Allahabad in 2018, which led to popularising this discipline. Its success has led to Behavioural Finance being integrated into curricula across numerous universities and business schools, with much credit attributed to Prof. Singh’s Summer School.
Prof. Singh has supervised 12 PhD theses and currently guides six scholars. He has delivered over 200 invited talks, chaired sessions at international conferences, and served as Chief Coordinator for multiple Summer Schools, Workshops and Management Development Programs. He has completed five funded projects so far. He has also been involved in creating educational content, with lectures available on YouTube covering a diverse range of management topics.
Recognised with awards like the FELLOW of the Indian Commerce Association, the Gangadhar Bajpei Samman (2024) and the Kailash Gautam Sahitya Shiksha Setu Samman (2023) for his contributions to Hindi literature. He is a life member of several professional bodies, including the Indian Commerce Association, Indian Productivity Council, Indian Accounting Association, North East India Commerce and Management Association, IIM Ahmedabad Alumni Association and Samanway CMSDU Alumni Association and serves on advisory boards of universities like VIT Bhopal, ICFAI University, Tripura, Nagaland University, Amity University and CHRIST University.
His multifaceted contributions to education, research, and societal impact reflect his commitment to advancing knowledge and fostering innovation in management studies.
Prof. Ranjit Singh maintains a prolific and high-impact research record spanning behavioural finance, digital financial services, fintech adoption, risk perception, mutual funds, bancassurance, and contemporary issues in banking and financial management.
He has authored or co-authored an impressive collection of 21 books. These include insightful research monographs such as Cases on Behavioural Finance (2025), The Retail Equity Investors (2024), Emerging Issues in Behavioural Finance (2023), and Emerging Issues in Banking and Finance (2023), along with foundational textbooks on Business Environment and the Indian Financial System published by leading houses, including Kalyani Publishers and Prentice Hall of India. He has also contributed two engaging works of creative writing, notably the best-selling novel Presiding Babu (2015).
His journal output is extensive, with more than 170 research papers. A substantial number appear in prestigious, high-quality outlets indexed in SCOPUS and Web of Science (SSCI/SCIE/ESCI), and are ranked on the ABDC list. Recent standout publications feature in the Journal of Economic Surveys (ABDC-A, SSCI, IF 7.1), Journal of Enterprise Information Management (ABDC-A, SSCI, IF 7.8), Technological Forecasting & Social Change (ABDC-A, SSCI, IF 13), Financial Innovation (SSCI, IF 6.9), Acta Psychologica, Journal of Service Theory and Practice, and Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research. The work addresses timely themes, including digital financial fraud, hierarchical risk assessment, fintech and cryptocurrency adoption, social media payment platforms, equity investment behaviour, customer experience in healthcare diagnostics, and social network analysis of investor attitudes.
Complementing this, he has published more than a dozen well-crafted teaching cases in journals such as the Journal of Cases in Management Studies and IMT Case Journal, contributed over a dozen thoughtful book chapters (including in Springer volumes), and presented papers at national and international conferences, several of which appear in IEEE Xplore and Springer proceedings.
His intellectual property portfolio is equally noteworthy, comprising 13 patents and design registrations covering innovative devices for equity risk analysis, peer-to-peer sentiment analysis, social media payment platforms, AI-driven fraud detection, and related applications, as well as one literary copyright.
He has successfully led or co-led multiple funded research and consultancy projects supported by the Department of Science & Technology, ICSSR, UNICEF, British Council, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, and industry partners. These projects, with cumulative funding running into several tens of lakhs of rupees, range from AI-based public-awareness tools and pension-scheme evaluation to customer-experience studies in diagnostic centres and behavioural-finance training programmes.
This substantial body of work reflects sustained scholarly excellence, theoretical depth, and practical relevance, with a particularly strong and growing contribution to digital finance and fraud-related research.
Prof. Ranjit Singh has maintained an active and influential presence in academic outreach through extensive conference presentations, invited lectures, keynote addresses, session chairing, and the organisation of high-impact capacity-building programmes.
He has delivered numerous research papers at national and international conferences. Recent presentations include work on fraud detection and data-driven price discrimination; AI-augmented frameworks for digital fraud detection; machine-learning approaches to non-disclosure in life insurance; sentiment analysis of contract farming; and studies on social-commerce behaviour, information-security awareness among Generation Z, and inhibitors of digital payment adoption. These papers have been presented at venues such as IEEE conferences, the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Data Science and Machine Learning, All India Commerce Conferences, and regional commerce associations across India and abroad.
Complementing his research presentations, he has delivered a wide range of invited talks, keynote addresses, and guest lectures. Topics span behavioural finance, entrepreneurship, intellectual property rights, research methodology, negotiation skills, growth mindset, financial planning in higher education, and the role of intangible assets in the modern economy. He has spoken at refresher courses organised by Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centres, national seminars, international conferences, and specialised programmes at institutions including the University of Allahabad, University of Mumbai, University of Hyderabad, and various engineering and management colleges. He has also frequently chaired technical sessions at major conferences, including the prestigious Manubhai M. Shah Memorial Research Award Session at the All India Commerce Conference.
A distinctive feature of his outreach is the sustained organisation of specialised academic events. As Chief Programme Coordinator or General Chair, he has successfully led multiple editions of the Summer School on Behavioural Finance (now in its ninth edition) at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, along with associated international conferences. He has also coordinated Management Development Programmes on behavioural finance for academic and industry participants, FDPs on innovation management, workshops on entrepreneurship, and orientation programmes for students.
In addition, he holds memberships in several professional and academic bodies, including the Indian Commerce Association, the Indian Accounting Association, the North East India Commerce and Management Association, and the Behavioural Research Foundation. He serves on multiple Boards of Studies, School Boards, and Research Advisory Boards of universities and institutes across India, contributing to curriculum development, research guidance, and institutional academic governance.
Collectively, these outreach activities reflect a consistent commitment to knowledge dissemination, capacity building, and collaborative academic engagement across finance, behavioural science, and digital transformation.
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