Dr. Sameer Kumar

Biography

Dr. Sameer has a PhD in Social Networking and is presently working as Senior Lecturer at Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. He has over 18 years of work experience in the industry and academia and also holds a PMP® (Project Management Professional) certification from PMI, USA. At Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) Dr. Sameer teaches  courses on K-Economy, Social and economic dimensions of Digital Economy and the History of Southeast Asia at the Masters level. He has been the Program co-ordinator for International Masters in Information Management (2014 - 2016) and is currently the Programme Co-ordinator for International Masters in ASEAN Studies program (2016 -). He is the founding Managing Editor of AEI Insights (an official AEI peer reviewed journal) since 2014. During 2015 he was the visiting scientist at Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany. The same year 2 of his papers were given "Hot Paper" status by ISI Web of Science. A note from ISI Web of Science: The 'hot paper' was published in the past two years and received enough citations in January/February 2015 to place it in the top 0.1% of papers in the academic field of Social Sciences, general. He is a regular reviewer of top ISI journals including JMIR, PlosOne, JASIST, Scienometrics, and several others. His current research and teaching interests are in the field of Social Networks, Academic networks and Research Collaborations, Information Management, Cybersecurity, Bigdata, Business and History of Southeast Asia, with biregional focus involving Asia and Europe, and ASEAN and EU in particular. Dr. Sameer has successfully completed 2 grant-based research projects (High Impact Research and UM Frontier Science Research) as Principal Investigator and 1 bilateral interational project (ETH- Switzerland funded). He has organised  international workshops and events and has chaired panels in international foras. He is the life member of Computer Society of India and member of several national and international research centers and associations. He has several papers published in ISI-Web of Science indexed journals (publishers include Springer, Emerald, Wiley, McMillan Palgrave, Elsevier and others) and supervises candidates at both Masters and PhD levels. 

Research Interest

Social Networks (Social Networking, Social Media, Informetrics, Scientometrics) International Relations (Asia-Europe Studies, History of Southeast Asia, ASEM, ASEAN, Asia-Europe Research Collaborations) Information and Management (Information Management, Project Management, Big Data, E-Commerce, Entrepreneurship, Business)