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 Prof. Gajendra Gajendra Kathmandu University, Nepal |
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Gajendra Sharma has completed his doctoral degree in Management Science and Engineering (Management Information Systems) from Harbin Institute of Technology, China in 2011. During his Ph.D. research, he was visiting scholar of Arizona State University, USA. He received the degree of Masters of Engineering in Electronics and Communication in 1997 from Moscow Technical University of Telecommunication and Informatics, Russia. During the following years, he was employed in different IT companies and corporate organizations in Nepal as a professional engineer. He had also worked in a managerial and academic position in different companies and engineering institutions. He also served as a chief of engineering campus in Nepal for three years from 2005 to 2008. Besides managerial and technical work experience, he has been engaged in academic activities for more than ten years. His research and teaching interest is focused on information systems, e-commerce (including e-business), strategic management of information technology (IT), IT adoption, design and evaluation of IT infrastructure, strategic management of IT as well as e-governance and ethics. Moreover, he has research interest on public administration, conflict management as well as disaster and emergency management. He published research papers in some of the top tier information systems and IT journals such as Information Systems Frontiers, Internet Research, Information Technology and People, Telecommunications Policy, International Journal of Web Based Communities and Electronic Commerce Research. He is a reviewer and technical editor of a number of peer review journals relating to information systems and IT. Dr. Sharma is listed in 'Marquis Who's Who in the World, 29th Pearl Edition (2012)’. In the meantime, He has been working in Liaoning Technical University, China at the department of Information Systems as an Associate Professor and Research Scientist since September 2011. He completed postdoctoral research in December 2014 on technology management and ethics (e-governance) from Dalian University of Technology, China coordinating with Delft University of Technology, Netherlands.
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