Tripti Mahara received the B.E. (CSE) degree from Sardar Patel University, in 1999, and the M. Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from IIT Kanpur, in 2004 and 2010, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor of research and business analytics specialization with the Prin. L.N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Bangalore. Before that she was with Christ University, Bangalore, for three years, and with IIT Roorkee, for six years, as an Assistant Professor. She has successfully guided four Ph.D. scholars. She is involved in industry consultancy and training assignments. Over all she is an enthusiast trying to explore and learn new avenues. She has more than 30 research publications in WOS and Scopus-Indexed peer-reviewed journals and many book chapters to her credit. Her research interests include applications of machine learning and text analytics to solve business problems, and recommender systems and time series analysis. She received many best paper awards for the paper presentation in various international conferences of repute. She is actively involved as a reviewer in many journals.