
Dr. Varun Rijhwani
Assistant Professor
varun.rijhwani@sbm.nmims.edu
Academic and Professional Qualification
- Fellow Programme in Management – Communications, MICA Ahmedabad, 2022
- MBA Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, 2013.
- MA in English, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), 2017.
- Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, 2011
CERTIFICATES AND COURSES
- ISB Executive Education: Digital Marketing and Analytics (2021)
- CELTA – Certificate in Teaching English To Speakers of Other Languages, University of Cambridge (2017)
Courses Taught:
- Business Communication, Public Relations and Corporate Communications, English Language and Literature, Personality Development and Soft Skills, Communication skills and Organizational Behaviour
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS AND SCHOLARSHIP
- Visiting Research Scholar at School of Communication, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI, USA (01/2020 - 04/2020)
Teaching Experience:
- Doctoral Scholar, MICA, Ahmedabad,
06/2018 - 2022
- Faculty Member, Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore,
07/2016 - 05/2018
- Academic Associate, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore,
01/2015 - 05/2015
- Visiting Faculty, Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore
01/2014 - 12/2014
Ph.D. Topic:
- Living with voice assistants: Investigating the user adoption of voice assistants in everyday life
Research Interest
- Human-Machine Communication
- Human-Robot interaction
- Artificial intelligence
Recent Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
- Bryan Abendschein, Chad Edwards, Autumn Edwards, Varun Rijhwani, Jasmine Stahl, (2021), Human-Robot Teaming Configurations: A Study of Interpersonal Communication
Perceptions and Affective Learning in Higher Education, Journal of Communication Pedagogy, Vol.4, 123 – 132, ISSN: 2578-2568
Case Studies Published
- Bharti Malukani, Varun Rijhwani and Pankhuri Jain, (2020), Stick or Twist: Challenges of Startup Digital Academy, The Case Centre. Reference no. 320-0346-1, casecent.re/p/173312.
Conference Proceedings
- Chad Edwards, Autumn Edwards and Varun Rijhwani, (2020), Rate My Robot: The effect of Word-of-Mouth (WOM) on perceptions of a social robot’s teaching performance, 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp.1063-1068
- Varun Rijhwani, Saurabh Rijhwani, (2018), Young, Talented, Successful yet Lonely: Millennials at Workplace, 12th International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Good Governance for Global Leadership, pp. 375-383, organised by Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore
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