Dr. Avant Kumar is an Assistant Professor in the area of IT and Computational Systems at Indian Institute of Management Amritsar, India. He earned his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. Before joining IIM Amritsar, he was an Assistant Professor at T. A. Pai Management Institute, Manipal Academy of Higher Education. Prior to his academic career, he worked in machine learning and artificial intelligence at Optum Global Solutions (India) Private Limited.

His research interests include affordances, routine use of technology, privacy, data analytics, and artificial intelligence. He has published in Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, International Journal of Business Information Systems, and the International Conference on Information Systems. His teaching interests include Management Information Systems (IT for Business), IT Consulting and Business Analysis, Digital Product and Project Management, and IT Risk Management and Cybersecurity.