Research
Working Papers
Garg, Rajiv. “The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Higher Education: Disruption or Seamless Integration?” (ssrn) (Poets&Quants)
Krijestorac, Haris, Rajiv Garg, and Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. "Personality-Based Content Engineering for Rich Digital Media." (ssrn)
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan “Voice of Machines: The Role of Acoustic Vocal Characteristics in Consumer Decisions,” (ssrn)
Kim, Jeong Ho, Sung Kwan Lee, and Rajiv Garg. "The Price of Losing Trust: The Case of YouTube Creators." (ssrn)
Garg, Rajiv, Yuxin Zhang, Linda Golden, and Patrick Brockett. "Rapid Damage Estimation for Natural Disasters: An Iterative Learning Framework." (ssrn)
Garg, Rajiv, and Rahul Telang. “Impact of App Privacy Label Disclosure on Demand: An Empirical Analysis” (ssrn)
Srivastava, Chandra, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan; “To Respond or Not to Respond?: The Influence of Firestorm Dynamics and Top Management Team Composition on Firm Response to Social Media Firestorms.” (ssrn)
Bryan Stephens, Garg, Rajiv, and John Butler. "Specialization vs. Generalization: Analyzing Skill Transferability for Predicting Career Trajectories in High-Tech." (ssrn)
Garg, Rajiv, and Anitesh Barua. "The Like Economy: A Randomized Field Experiment to Assess the Value of Social Influence and Signaling." (ssrn, video)
Basu, Sriparna and Jain, Shilpi and Majumdar, Bishakha and Garg, Rajiv, "Design Thinking for Data-Driven Decisions in Learning: A Mindshift Approach" (ssrn)
Garg, Rajiv, Raj Raghunathan, and Frenkel Terhofstede. "Personality Matching for Improving Mobile In-App Advertising Effectiveness."
Publications
Zhang, Yuxin, Rajiv Garg, Linda Golden, and Patrick Brockett. "Segmenting Bitcoin Transactions for Price Movement Prediction." Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 2024; 17(3):128. (doi) (ssrn)
Garg, Rajiv. "AI Trust, Data and Privacy Policies." INFORMS ORMS Today (2023). (doi)
Hotkar, Parshuram, Rajiv Garg, Kristen Sussman. "Sequential Social Media Advertising: An Empirical Study of Micro Communities and Targeting." Production and Operations Management (2023). (ssrn)
Garg, Rajiv. "AI-Enabled Future of Work." INFORMS ORMS Today (2022). (doi)
Krijestorac, Haris, Rajiv Garg, and Prabhudev Konana. "Decisions Under the Illusion of Objectivity: Digital Embeddedness and B2B Purchasing." Production and Operations Management (2021). (ssrn)
Krijestorac, Haris, Rajiv Garg, and Vijay Mahajan. "Cross-Platform Spillover Effects in Consumption of Viral Content: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis Using Synthetic Controls." Information Systems Research (2020). (ssrn)
Butler, John Sibley, Rajiv Garg, and Bryan Stephens. "Social networks, funding, and regional advantages in technology entrepreneurship: an empirical analysis." Information Systems Research (2019). (ssrn)
Stephens, Bryan, John Sibley Butler, Rajiv Garg, and David V. Gibson. "Austin, Boston, Silicon Valley, and New York: Case studies in the location choices of entrepreneurs in maintaining the Technopolis." Technological Forecasting and Social Change 146 (2019): 267-280.
Garg, Rajiv, and Rahul Telang. "To be or not to be linked: Online social networks and job search by unemployed workforce." Management Science 64, no. 8 (2018): 3926-3941. (ssrn, video)
Garg, Rajiv, and Rahul Telang. "Inferring app demand from publicly available data." MIS Quarterly (2013): 1253-1264 (ssrn, wiki)
Garg, Rajiv, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang. "Measuring information diffusion in an online community." Journal of Management Information Systems 28, no. 2 (2011): 11-38. (ssrn)
Publications (Peer-Reviewed Proceedings and Others)
Yonah Byarugaba, Binyang Wang, Rajiv Garg. "Snack and Snap: A Novel Recipe for Yelp Reviews with Explainable AI" HICSS 2025 (forthcoming)
Lekha Challappa, Jenevieve Zhang, Rajiv Garg. "Domain Anchorage in GPT-4: A Computational Linguistic Analysis of Lexicographic Profiling and Its Implications for Unintended Information Dissemination" HICSS 2025 (forthcoming)
Binyang Wang, Yili Liu, Rajiv Garg. "From Panic to Provisions: Unraveling Consumer Emotions Amidst the Food Delivery Rush During COVID-19 Community Lockdown" HICSS 2025 (forthcoming)
Fišar, M., Greiner, B., Huber, C., Katok, E., Ozkes, A., and the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration. "Reproducibility in Management Science" Management Science (2023) (doi)
Note: Rajiv Garg is a member of the Management Science Reproducibility Collaboration
Chandra Srivastava, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan; “To Respond or Not to Respond? Managing Brand Crises in the Digital World.” 2022 AMA Summer Academic Conference Proceedings.
Krijestorac, Haris, Rajiv Garg, and Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. "Personality-Based Content Engineering for Rich Digital Media." BLED 2019 Proceedings. 13 (2019).
Krijestorac, Haris, Rajiv Garg, and Maytal Saar-Tsechansky. "The Role of Personality in the Diffusion of Digital Media." International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (2018)
Garg, Rajiv, Patrick Brockett, Linda L. Golden, and Yuxin Zhang. "Rapid Assessment of Customer Marketplace in Disaster Settings through Machine Learning, Geospatial Information, and Social Media Text Mining: An Abstract." In Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress, pp. 479-480. Springer, Cham, 2018.
Golden, Linda L., Marco Bravo, Patrick Brocket, Christopher Emrich, Alex Gamble, Rajiv Garg, Colleen Jones et al. "Special Session: An Abstract on “Marketing Techniques to Assist Public Sectors in Engaging Customers to Meet Societal and Individual Disasters Crisis Need and Beyond”." In Academy of Marketing Science World Marketing Congress, pp. 475-476. Springer, Cham, 2018.
Krijestorac, Haris, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan, and Frenkel ter Hofstede. "Understanding Spillover Effects in Consumption of Rich Digital Media." International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (2017).
Krijestorac, Haris, Rajiv Garg, and Prabhudev Konana. "Digital embeddedness and its effect on organizational decision-making." International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (2017).
Garg, Rajiv, and Rahul Telang. "Role of online social networks in job search by unemployed individuals." International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) (2012).
Garg, Rajiv, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang. "Discovery of music through peers in an online community." In 2011 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 1-10. IEEE, 2011.
Hespanha, Joao P., Margaret McLaughlin, Gaurav S. Sukhatme, Minoo Akbarian, Rajiv Garg, and Weirong Zhu. "Haptic collaboration over the internet." In Fifth Phantom Users Group Workshop. 2000. (html)
Garg, Rajiv, Ankita Agarwal, and J.P. Tiwari. "Intelligent System for Hospital Organizations." In Proceedings of National Conference on Intelligent Computing and Software, Varanasi, India (2000).
Garg, Rajiv, Shilpi Joshi, and J.P. Tiwari. "An Expert System For Motion Control of Robotic Manipulator." In Proceedings of National Conference on Intelligent Computing and Software, Varanasi, India (2000).
Dutt, V.K., and Rajiv Garg. "Strategy for Introduction of Linear Induction Motor (LIM) Based Urban Transport System in India – An Economic Analysis." In Proceedings of International IEEE Workshop on Linear Induction Motor (LIM) Systems, Varanasi, India (Nov’1999).
Conference Presentations
2024
Anandhi Bharadwaj, Sundar Bharadwaj, and Rajiv Garg (2024) “Assessing the Dichotomy of Educational Technologies: Impacts on Student Proficiency in Pandemic-Era Virtual Learning,” Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Bangkok, Thailand
Ram Chellappa, and Rajiv Garg (2024) “Impact of Cryptocurrency Regulations on its Adoption: An Empirical Analysis of Global Cryptocurrency Policies,” Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Bangkok, Thailand
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan (2024) “To Be or Not to Be Samuel L. Jackson? Voice Analytics to Personalize Smart Devices for Consumer Engagement,” Conference on Information Systems (CIST), Seattle
Sriparna Basu, Rajiv Garg, and Shilpi Jain (2024) “Unveiling the Dynamics of Disinformation Spread: A Field Experiment Investigating the Diffusion of Fake and Deepfake Media,” Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR), Lisbon, Portugal
Lekha Challappa, Jenevieve Zhang, and Rajiv Garg (2024) “Statistical Dissection of Lexicographic Encoding in GPT-4 Neural Networks and its Implications for Unintended Information,” Production and Operations Management (POM) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Rajiv Garg, Debjit Roy, Anuj Kumar (2024) “Accounting for Human Behavioral Changes in an AI-Enabled Driving Assistance System,” Production and Operations Management (POM) Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2023
Rajiv Garg, and Rahul Telang (2023); “Impact of App Privacy Label Disclosure on Demand: An Empirical Analysis,” 21st ZEW Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, Mannheim, Germany
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan (2023) “To Be or Not to Be Samuel L. Jackson? Voice Analytics to Personalize Smart Devices for Consumer Engagement,” Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR), Bogota, Columbia
Ping Tang, Rajiv Garg, Amit Mehra, Anuj Kumar (2023) “Retail Analytics: A Comprehensive Framework to Identify (Non)-Digital Products,” Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR), Bogota, Columbia
Rajiv Garg, and Rahul Telang (2023); “Impact of App Privacy Label Disclosure on Demand: An Empirical Analysis,” Statistical Challenges in E-Commerce Research (SCECR), Bogota, Columbia
2022
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan (2022) “Machine-Based Voice Personalization: The Role of Acoustic Vocal Characteristics in Consumer Decisions,” Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Copenhagen, Denmark
Ping Tang, Rajiv Garg, Amit Mehra, Anuj Kumar (2022) “Store Assortment 2.0: A Comprehensive Retail Analytics Framework to Identify (Non)-Digital Products,” Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS), Copenhagen, Denmark
Rajiv Garg, and Rahul Telang (2022); “Impact of App Privacy Label Disclosure on Demand: An Empirical Analysis,” Workshop on the Economics of Information Security, Tulsa, OK
Eric Holshouser, Corey Rodrigo, Peter Sprague, and Rajiv Garg (2022); “Application of Machine Learning to NFL Injury Prediction,” Combined Sections Meeting (CSM), San Antonio, TX
2021
Rajiv Garg, and Rahul Telang (2021) “Impact of App Privacy Label Disclosure on Demand: An Empirical Analysis,” Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Austin, TX
Ping Tang, Rajiv Garg, Amit Mehra, Anuj Kumar (2021) “Redesigning Stores After COVID: Using Machine Learning to Determine Store Assortment,” Workshop on Information Systems Economics (WISE), Austin, TX
2020
Rajiv Garg, Parshuram Hotkar, Kristen Sussman (2020) “Sequential Social Media Advertising,” Marketing Science Conference, Duke University
2019
Rajiv Garg, and Parshuram Hotkar (2019) Sequential Social Media Advertising, Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE@MIT), Boston, MA
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky (2019) Personality-Based Content Engineering for Rich Digital Media, INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Seattle,WA
Rajiv Garg, Pat Brockett, Linda Golden, Yuxin Zhang (2019); Predicting Cryptocurrency Movement:Analysis of Blockchain Transaction Graph, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
Rajiv Garg, Pat Brockett, Linda Golden, Yuxin Zhang (2019); Predicting Cryptocurrency Movement:Analysis of Blockchain Transaction Graph,Statistical Challenges in E-commerce Research (SCECR), Hong Kong
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky (2019) Personality-Based Content Engineeringfor Rich Digital Media, 32nd Bled eConference (Humanizing Technology for a Sustainable Society), Slovenia
Preeti Chopra, and Rajiv Garg (2019) Determining the Relationship between Personality and Depression using MIDUS Data, 27th Annual Meeting ”Prevention Science in a Big Data World, San Francisco, CA
2018
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky (2018) Predicting Popularity of Rich Digital Media Using Content Features, INFORMS Data Science Conference, Phoenix, AZ
Rajiv Garg, Pat Brockett, Linda Golden, Yuxin Zhang (2018); Understanding the Customer Market-place through Machine Learning, Geospatial Information and Social Media Text Mining, AMS World Marketing Congress, Porto, Portugal
Rajiv Garg, John Butler, and Bryan Stephens (2018); Which Way I Ought to Go? Career Trajectories of Entrepreneurs, Executives, and Senior Managers in High-Tech,Statistical Challenges in E-commerceResearch (SCECR), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rajiv Garg, Raj Raghunathan, Frenkel Terhofstede (2018); Personality Matching for Improving Mobile In-App Advertising Effectiveness,Statistical Challenges in E-commerce Research (SCECR), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan, and Frenkel Terhofstede (2018); Cross-Platform Spillover Effects in Consumption of Rich Digital Media: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis Using Synthetic Controls, Statistical Challenges in E-commerce Research (SCECR), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg (2018); Predicting Popularity of Rich Digital Media Using Content Features,Statistical Challenges in E-commerce Research (SCECR), Rotterdam, Netherlands
Rajiv Garg, Pat Brockett, Linda Golden, Yuxin Zhang (2018); Rapid Estimation of Disaster Relief Fund Distribution: Iterative Learning with Diverse Data Inputs, Production and Operations Management Annual Conference (POMS), Houston, TX
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg (2018); Predicting Popularity of Rich Digital Media Using Content Features, Production and Operations Management Annual Conference (POMS), Houston, TX
2017
Parshuram Hotkar, and Rajiv Garg (2017) Sequencing Social Media Advertising Campaigns,DSI Con-ference, India
Pat Brockett, Rajiv Garg, Linda Golden, Yuxin Zhang (2017), Rapid Estimation of Disaster Relief Fund Distribution: Iterative Learning with Diverse Data Inputs,Advances in Predictive Analytics Conference, University of Waterloo, Canada (invited keynote)
Rajiv Garg, Raj Raghunathan, Frenkel Terhofstede; (2017) Mobile In-App Advertising Strategies forImproved CTR and Ad-Retention,Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Seoul, S. Korea
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan, and Frenkel Terhofstede (2017) Cross-Platform Spillover Effects in Consumption of Rich Digital Media,Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Houston, TX
Parshuram Hotkar and Rajiv Garg (2017) Sequencing Social Media Advertising Campaigns, INFORMS Annual Meeting (Social Media Analytics), Houston, TX (best student paper award)
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Vijay Mahajan, and Frenkel Terhofstede (2017) Cross-Platform Spillover Effects in Consumption of Rich Digital Media,Marketing Science Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Rajiv Garg, Raj Raghunathan, Frenkel Terhofstede; (2017) Personality Matching for Improving Mobile In-App Advertising Effectiveness,Marketing Science Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Parshuram Hotkar and Rajiv Garg (2017) Sequencing Social Media Advertising Campaigns, POMS Conference, Seattle, WA
2016
Parshuram Hotkar and Rajiv Garg (2016) Sequencing Social Media Advertising Campaigns, Conferenceon Digital Economy (CODE), Hyderabad, India
Rajiv Garg, and Anitesh Barua (2016) The Like Economy: A Randomized Field Experiment to Assess the Value of Social Influence and Signaling,Statistical Challenges in E-commerce Research (SCECR), Naxos, Greece
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Prabhudev Konana (2016); Impact of Digital Embeddedness on Organizational Purchase Behaviors,POMS Annual Conference, Orlando, FL
2015
Rajiv Garg, John Butler, and Bryan Stephens (2015) Social Networks and Regional Advantages in Technology Entrepreneurship,Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Dallas, TX
Rajiv Garg, and Anitesh Barua (2015) The Like Economy: A Randomized Field Experiment, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Dallas, TX
Haris Krijestorac, Rajiv Garg, Prabhudev Konana (2015); Impact of Digital Embeddedness on Organizational Purchase Behaviors, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
2014
Rajiv Garg, and Anitesh Barua (2014) The Like Economy,INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco,CA
2013
Rajiv Garg, and Rahul Telang (2013) Mobile App Demand and Price Elasticity,INFORMS AnnualMeeting, Minneapolis, MN
Rajiv Garg, and Rahul Telang (2013) App Economy: Estimating Demand and Cost Structure, The NBER Economics of IT and Digitization Workshop, Boston, MA
2012
Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang (2012) Estimating the Cost and Demand Structure of Investment in App Innovation, Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Orlando, FL
·Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang (2012) Deep Dive on LinkedIn: Maximizing the Job Search Outcomes from Online Social Networks,INFORMS Annual Meeting (invited), Phoenix, AZ
Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang (2012) To Be or Not to Be Linked on LinkedIn: Online Social Networks and Job Search,The NBER Economics of IT and Digitization Workshop, Boston, MA
Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang (2012) Linking on LinkedIn: An Empirical Analysis of Job Search using Online Social Networks,The ZEW Conference on Information and Communication Technologies,Mannheim, Germany
Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang (2012) Me, My Online Friends, and My Job Search: An Empirical Analysis Measuring the Role of Online Social Connections,Statistical Challenges in e-Commerce Research (SCECR), Montreal, Canada
Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang (2012) Do Social Connections Help in Finding a New Job? The XVIII Organization Science Winter Conference (OSWC) (pre), Steamboat Springs, CO
2011
Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang (2011) Do Online Social Ties Help in Job Search?,Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), Shanghai, China
Rajiv Garg and Rahul Telang (2011) Linking on LinkedIn.com: An Empirical Analysis of Job Searchon Online Social Networks,Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, Salt Lake City, UT
2010
Rajiv Garg, David Krackhardt, Mike Smith, and Rahul Telang (2010) Estimating Diffusion of Music on an Online Social Network,Winter Conference on Business Intelligence, Salt Lake City, UT
2009
Rajiv Garg, David Krackhardt, Mike Smith, and Rahul Telang (2009) Peer Influence and Information Diffusion in Online Networks: An Empirical Analysis,Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), San Diego, CA
Rajiv Garg, David Krackhardt, Mike Smith, and Rahul Telang (2009) Peer Influence and Information Diffusion in Online Networks,Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR), Pittsburgh, PA
2002, 2001
Rajiv Garg, Wei-Min Shen (2002) 3D Docking in Metamorphic Robots (poster), National Conference on Robotics, Naval Research Lab, Washington DC
2001·Rajiv Garg, Minoo Akbarian, Joo P. Hespanha, Margaret McLaughlin, Gaurav S. Sukhatme (2001)Haptic Rendering of Earthquake Maps,Integrated Media Systems Center Annual Conference, Los An-geles, CA·
Rajiv Garg, Minoo Akbarian, Weirong Zhu, Joo P. Hespanha, Margaret McLaughlin, Gaurav S. Sukhatme (2001) Interaction of Heterogeneous Haptic Devices Over the WWW, Integrated Media Systems Center Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Whitepapers & Articles
Rajiv Garg, Mike Smith, Rahul Telang, "The Role of Peer Influence in Marketing on Online Social Networks" International Association of Business Communicators (2009)
Rajiv Garg. "Agile Software Development – NI Software Engineering Process" National Instruments (2005)
Rajiv Garg. "Data Acquisition in Microsoft .NET and Measurement Studio" National Instruments (2004)
Rajiv Garg. "Transition from Traditional NI-DAQ to NI-DAQmx in LabWindows/CVI" National Instruments (2004)
Rajiv Garg. "e-Video Learning: Low Cost HR Consulting Solutions" TTG Consultants (2003)
Rajiv Garg. "Search Engines: Architecture to Optimization" TTG Consultants (2003)