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Salma Karray

Salma Karray
PhD

Professor, Research Excellence Chair in Marketing Analytics and Decision Models,

Alumni

Marketing Analytics and Decision Models

Faculty of Business and Information Technology

Contact information

Business and Information Technology Building - Room 2022
North Oshawa
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON L1G 0C5

905.721.8668 ext. 2832

salma.karray@ontariotechu.ca


Research topics

  • marketing analytics and decision models
  • applications of AI in business
  • operations research/Marketing interface
  • Digital advertising
  • Distribution Channels
  • Loyalty Program management
  • CRM
  • E-commerce

Background

Dr. Salma Karray is a Professor of Marketing at Ontario Tech University. She previously held the Research Excellence Chair in Marketing Analytics and Decision Models. Her research applies optimization, game theory, data analytics, and AI techniques to help organizations enhance performance in competitive environments. Dr. Karray collaborates across disciplines with industry partners as well as students and researchers in the Business Analytics and AI lab , the Modeling and Computational Science program (C.L.A.I.M lab), the Computer Science program at the Faculty of Science and students and colleagues at other universities. She has been recognized as one of the 2% cited researchers globally in Operations Research, and received the Research Excellence Award (Senior Research category) at Ontario Tech.

Dr. Karray is active in the academic and business communities as a consultant, speaker, reviewer, editor and conference organizer. She previously served as Marketing Program Director and Associate Dean, Research. She continues to contribute to initiatives such as the Women in Research Council at Ontario Tech and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada Research Council.

 

Education

  • PhD in Marketing HEC Montreal, Canada
  • Master of Science (MSc) in Marketing HEC Montreal, Canada, (Honours Roll)
  • Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (IHEC), Tunisia