Dr. Dhar has a Ph.D. in Business Administration on Information Systems from Aligarh Muslim University, M.Stat. from Indian Statistical Institute and B.Sc. (Math Hons) from Presidency College Kolkata. She has 24 years experience in the IT industry managing development of state-of-the-art IT solutions for a global clientele, contributing to business growth and organizational competency development.

She has been instrumental in architecting IT solutions of national importance, such as unified payment infrastructure (UPI). She served as the Chief Data Scientist for the integrated fraud management system development project for NPCI. She has been a guest faculty for IIM Calcutta and developed a number of case studies for the case research center at IIM Calcutta. She is deeply involved in information systems research. Her work has been published in internationally reputed journals. She has presented her work at prestigious international conferences.