Dr. Gaurav Kumar is an Assistant Professor on School of Management & Entrepreneurship in Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Jodhpur. He has done his postdoc in the area of financial data analytics from University College Dublin (UCD). He has obtained PhD degree in the area of Market Microstructure from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and MBA degree from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi and B Tech from MNNIT, Allahabad. He has studied liquidity of midcap stocks as an area of research for his doctoral thesis. He has industry experience in SAP ERP consulting while working for Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He has received many awards and grants including UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF). His research work is presented at various International conferences at American Economic Association (USA), ICMA centre (London), Corvinus University (Hungary), La Trobe University (Melbourne), IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, and IIT Kanpur