Dr Shweta Singh

Highlight:

• Winner: Inspiring 50 UK, 2025 In June 2025, I was honored as one of InspiringFifty UK's most influential women in technology, one of only two academics nationwide-recognized for her trailblazing work in ethical, inclusive, and socially responsible AI. 

• My Course Global Sourcing and Innovation  selected by the Financial Times in April 2025 as one of the top Business School Professors' Picks, spotlighting impactful and innovative teaching globally.

Research Interest:

Topics:  Artificial Intelligence (AI), Responsible AI, Sustainability, Societal Injustice, Chatbots, Explainable AI, Behavioral Data Science, Business Value of IT, Digital Platforms, Digital Innovation

Bio:

Shweta Singh is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Management at the Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. She has also been selected and appointed as a Fellow at the Warwick Institute for Global Sustainability Development (IGSD), where she strives to achieve UN's sustainability goals of reducing inequalities, advocating gender equality and promoting inclusive societies via Responsible Artificial Intelligence. Furthermore, she is a Behavioral Data Science researcher at The Alan Turing Institute, London, United Kingdom. She received her Ph.D. in Information and Decision Sciences from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, United States. In addition, she holds a Masters in Computer Science and a Masters in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA.

Further, she uses IT outsourcing, sharing economy platforms and digital platforms as contexts to understand business value of IT. Her research has appeared in Information Systems Research, International Conference on Information Systems, Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research and Workshop on Information Systems and Economics.

Her research has won the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and the McNamara fellowship from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. A Responsible AI Project led by her to Protect Children Online has been Shortlisted for the Prestigious Social Impact Project of the year 2023 across entire UK. She has been selected as the finalist for the 2023 Asian Women of Achievement in Science, 2019 British Indian Awards, Science and Technology Professional of the Year and also Shortlisted as one of the Top 5 Women in Tech for Good Award, 2022.

To center Inclusion in her Teaching, Shweta has been selected as Top 5 individuals across the University of Warwick for the Staff Social Inclusion Award 2024. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK and Shortlisted as the Top 10 individuals in the entire UK, for the Education & Academia, Rising Star Awards, 2022. Her course Global Sourcing and Innovation was selected by the Financial Times in April 2025 as one of the top Business School Professors' Picks, spotlighting impactful and innovative teaching globally.

For her Outstanding Service to Information Systems Society (ISS), she has won the 2023 INFORMS-ISS Cluster Best Session Chair Award. Next, she is Nominated for the 2022 Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence & 2023 Warwick Wonders Award.

In June 2025, Dr. Singh was honored as one of InspiringFifty UK's most influential women in technology, one of only two academics nationwide recognized for her trailblazing work in ethical, inclusive, and socially responsible AI.

She has been selected as UN Women UK Delegate for the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations 2024. She works with activists, advocates, experts, and governments from around the globe to drive change and create equal opportunities for women and girls. Her role involves driving change for equal opportunities for women in education. Read more here: WBS Academic selected as UN Delegate.

Next, she has been invited to contribute to the UK Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) brief on Artificial Intelligence. She is also on the Advisory Board of an Artificial Intelligence-based online retail company Love the Sales, London, United Kingdom. 

Honors & Awards 

• Winner: Inspiring 50 UK, 2025 In June 2025, I was honored as one of InspiringFifty UK's most influential women in technology, one of only two academics nationwide-recognized for her trailblazing work in ethical, inclusive, and socially responsible AI. 

• My Course Global Sourcing and Innovation  selected by the Financial Times in April 2025 as one of the top Business School Professors' Picks, spotlighting impactful and innovative teaching globally.

•  Selected as UN Women UK Delegate for the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations 2024 (also selected in 2025). 

•  Also on IGSD News 

•  On School for Cross Faculty Study 

• Featured on Warwick’s 2024  Social Inclusion Annual Report 

• Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA) (PR290698) June 6th, 2024 

• Selected as Top 5 individuals across the University of Warwick for the Staff Social Inclusion Award 2024 (To center Inclusion in Teaching and advocating for EDI). https://warwick.ac.uk/services/socialinclusion/projects/siaward/2024/ 

• Personal Journey and research profile got published in India Weekly (#1 British Asian Weekly Newspaper on International Women’s Day 2023 

• Nominated for Warwick Wonders 2023 

• INFORMS ISS Best Cluster Chair 2023 - ISS Cluster Best Session Chair Award - INFORMS 

• Evidence Team:UK Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST) brief on Artificial Intelligence, September 2023 

• Member of Evidence Committee (Physiological Society’s report on AI and health: From Black Box to Trusted Healthcare-Physiology and AI) presented in the UK House of Lords on Tuesday 27th June, 2023 

• Finalist ‘Science' category, Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2023 

• Responsible AI Project to Protect Children Online, Shortlisted for  the Prestigious Social Impact Project of the year 2023 across entire UK. o

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•  Shortlisted for Top 5 Tech for Good Women, Midlands Women in Tech Awards 

• Nominated for ‘TechWomen100’ Award, 2022 

• Shortlisted for Top 10 individuals for the Education & Academia category in the entire UK, WeAreTheCity Rising Star’ Award, 2022. 

• Nominated for Women in IT Awards, UK 2023 

• Nominated for ‘WeAreTheCity Rising Star’ Award, 2022 

• Nominated for Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE), 2022 

• Nominated for WBS Outstanding Contribution to Teaching (at all levels: Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Executive MBA), 2022 

• Nominated for WBS Pastoral Care Award, 2022 

• Keynote Speaker ‘WeAreTheCity Rising Star’ Knowledge Day, 2022 

• Winning Team at the WBS Teaching Academy, Cohort 6, 2022 

• Winner of Principal Development Fund, Queens University Canada, 2020 

• Finalist for the British Indian Awards, Science and Technology Professional of the Year, 2019