Ravi Kiran is a professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Former Professor in Charge of Alumni Affairs at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala, Punjab, India. Her areas of research are behavioral and business economics, industrial management, data analytics and business modeling, entrepreneurship and IPRs, and e-commerce. She has a Ph.D. in Industrial Management. She has 33 years of teaching experience. She has traveled across the globe for research collaborations and to present research papers and keynote addresses. She has 165 publications in SSCI/SCI/ABDC and Scopus journals and 75 in conferences. She has completed eight sponsored research projects funded by UGC/ICSSR/AICTE/DST. She has 10 years of administrative experience.