Vivek Singh, Ph.D.

Vivek Kumar Singh is an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Information Systems and Technology in the Ed G. Smith College of Business at University of Missouri–St. Louis. He received his Ph.D. from the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, in 2019. His research focuses on application of data mining techniques in security of cloud computing, healthcare analytics, and online learning. He has published articles in Decision Support Systems, California Management Review Insights, e-Service journal, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, Psychology and Marketing, and Psychological Studies, and in premier Information Systems conference outlets including ICIS, AMCIS, and HICSS.

Award and Recognitions

• Douglas E. Durand Award for Research Excellence, College of Business Administration, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO (2023)
• IST Department Research Award, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO (2020, 2023)
• Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) UMSL Chapter

Selected Publications

• Singh, V. K., & Joshi, K. (2025). Open Banking a Key to FinTech Innovations: An Interview with Prabhakar Bhogaraju, CXO Advisor, ALE Advisors, USA. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 1-4.
• Hazarika, B.,  Shrivastava, U.,  Singh, V.K. and Rea, A. (2025). Motivating mobile payment adoption during global pandemic: insights from protection motivation and theory of planned behavior, Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication , Vol. 74 No. 5/6, pp. 1547-1571. 
• Joshi, K., & Singh, V. K. (2023). The Future of Software Development Consulting: How AI Technologies Might Impact This Industry? An Interview with Srini Rajnikanth, Founder & CEO, Gemini Consulting and Services, St Louis, USA. Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 26(3), 254–260.
• Singh, V.K. Joshi, K. (2022). Integrating Fairness in Machine Learning Development Life Cycle: Fair CRISP-DM, e-Service Journal, Vol. 14, Number 2, pp. 1-24
• Singh, V. K., & Joshi, K. (2022). Automated Machine Learning (AutoML): an overview of opportunities for application and research. Journal of Information Technology Case and Application Research, 24(2), 75–85.
• Nishant, R., Singh, D., Singh, V. K., Austin, R. D. (2023). Computers as Creative Collaborators for Businesses? California Management Review Insights.
• Singh, V. K., Shivendu, S., and Dutta, K. (2022). Spot Instance Similarity and Substitution Effect in Cloud Spot Market, Decision Support Systems, 159, 113815.
• Singh, V. K., Shrivastava, U., Bouayad, L., Padmanabhan, B., Ialynytchev, A., & Schultz, S. K. (2018). Machine learning for psychiatric patient triaging: an investigation of cascading classifiers. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 25(11), 1481-1487. 
• Singh, V. K., Nishant, R., & Kitchen, P. J. (2016). Self or simulacra of online reviews: An empirical perspective. Psychology & Marketing, 33(12), 1112-1118.

U.S. Patents

• Singh, K., Dutta, K., Padmanabhan, B. and Sasidharan, S. (2021). System and method for a secured cloud file system. U.S. Patent 11,055,427.

Status of the patent: Active

• Padmanabhan, , Shrivastava, U. and Singh, V.K., (2021). Systems and methods for expert-assisted classification. U.S. Patent 11,138,473.

Status of the patent: Active