Areas of Current Research Interest:

• Behavioural Finance with special reference to Investments and financial Markets.
• Application of Machine Learning and AI in Financial Markets.

Contributions to Teaching:

• Conference Coordinator for the National Conference on Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Opportunities and Challenges held on 21 & 22 February 2019 organized by the Department of Management Studies, Kannur University.
• Conference Coordinator for the National Conference on Digital India: Opportunities and Challenges held on 22 March 2018 organized by the Department of Management Studies, Kannur University.
• Question Paper Setter for MBA courses of Mangalore University, M.G University, Kerala University & Calicut University.
• Member PG Board of Studies in Management, Kannur University.

Publications:

Manjula K. A. &Karthikeyan.P., Gold Price Prediction Using Ensemble based Machine Learning Techniques, IEEE Xplore - 2019 3rd International Conference on Trends in Electronics and Informatics (ICOEI), 2019, DOI: 10.1109/ICOEI.2019.8862557.

Karthikeyan. P., Anish Kumar K P&Manjula. K. A., Venture Capital in Indian Entrepreneurial Ecosystem, Journal of Management Research and Analysis, Vol. 6 (2), 2019, pp 24 – 30. ISSN: 2394-2770.

Karthikeyan. P & Santhosh V A., A Study on Influence of Information and Investor Biases on Trading Behaviour of Individual Investors in Kerala, International Journal of Management Technology and Engineering, Vol.8 (10), 2018, pp 3526- 3535. ISSN No. 2249-7455.

Karthikeyan. P & Santhosh V A., A Study on Investor Biases and its Implication on Financial Advisors, MES Journal of Technology and Management, Vol. 6 (1), 2017, pp 16 – 24. ISSN: 0976-3724.

Karthikeyan. P & Santhosh V A., A Study on the Importance of Investor Biases for Financial Advisors, International Journal of Economic and Business Review, Vol.4 (10), 2016, pp 153 – 159. ISSN (P): 2349-0187, ISSN (O): 2347-9671.

Manjula K. A. &Karthikeyan.P., Swarm Intelligence and its Applications in Investment Management. GADL Journal of Invention in Computer Science and Communication Technology, Vol. 2 (2), 2016, pp 25-29. ISSN: 2455-5738.

Manjula K. A. &Karthikeyan.P. Cloud Computing – A Paradigm Shift. Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Vol 10 (6), 2010. pp 68-72. Online ISSN: 0975-4172, Print ISSN: 0975-4350

Manjula, K. A. &Karthikeyan, P. Distributed Computing Approaches for Scalability and High Performance. International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, Vol. 2(6), 2010, pp 2328-2336. ISSN: 0975-5462.

Karthikeyan, P. Modelling Indian Natural Rubber Market: A Case for Combining Hard OR with Soft OR. Proceedings of 43rd Annual ORSNZ Conference, Nov 24-25, 2008, Wellington, New Zealand, pp 240-249. ISSN 0114-6602.

S. Rajendran, P. Karthikeyan, & P. Seralathan. Heavy Minerals and Geochemical Studies of Lower Bharathapuzha Sediments, Kerala. Journal of Geological Society of India, Vol 48, Sept. 1996, pp 319-324.

Book Published:

Understanding Database Management System, (Co- Author), published by ACME Learning Private Limited, New Delhi, 2011. ISBN: 978-93-80408-62-0.

Karthikeyan. P., Behavioral Finance and its Significance for Financial Advisors, chapter in ‘Business Management: Emerging Issues and Challenges’, edited by S. Govindarajan, published by GRABS Educational Charitable Trust, Chennai, 2018, pp 76 – 82. ISBN: 978-81-936929-0-5.

Manjula, K. A. &Karthikeyan, P., Role of Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education, chapter in ‘Digital Education’, edited by Ajithkumar. C., published by A P H Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 2018, pp 82 – 90. ISBN: 978-93-88316-08-8.