Abhijeet Ghoshal

Abhijeet Ghoshal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Illinois. He is affiliated with the Office of Risk Management and Insurance Research (ORMIR) and serves as a Faculty Fellow in Finance. His research focuses on data analytics, e-commerce, information systems, and security, with particular emphasis on transactional databases, consumer behavior, and platform optimization. He holds an editorial role at the Information Systems Research journal since 2020.

Key research areas include analyzing e-commerce product lifecycle strategies, optimizing customer lifetime value through clickstream data, and enhancing security in transactional systems. His work bridges operations management with data science, addressing challenges in privacy preservation, platform governance, and pricing strategies. Recent studies include identifying underperforming products on e-commerce platforms and designing algorithms to hide sensitive association rules in databases.

Collaborations span academia and industry, with publications in top journals like Production and Operations Management and Management Science. His contributions to healthcare analytics include predicting hospital readmission costs using machine learning. While no awards are explicitly listed, his impactful research has garnered significant readership (e.g., 52 Mendeley readers for his 2023 JMIS paper).

He advises on editorial boards and contributes to policy discussions on security education vs. enforcement mechanisms. His research frequently intersects with practical applications, such as mobile ad contract optimization and vendor pricing strategies.