Analytics India Magazine brings to you a compilation of 10 most prominent academicians in the analytics industry who are contributing immensely in building up the right talent pool that the industry demands. Education being the backbone of the entire ecosystem, we bring to you the ingenious minds who are shaping up the budding talent. With diverse experience across the industry and academia, here is the list of academicians across the analytics and related domains of various institutes across the country.
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1. Arindam Banerjee
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Arindam Banerjee joined the faculty at IIM Ahmedabad after working in the industry for over seven years. After securing his Ph.D., Arindam was associated with various consulting / market research firms in the United States. During his tenure in industry, he worked on business analytics problems in the Retail Financial Services, FMCG / Retail and the Consumer Durable sectors. He has consulted with GE Capital, Sears Roebuck, Bank One, Miller Brewing Company, Kraft Foods and Chase Manhattan Bank, among others.
In the past eighteen year at IIMA, he has taught courses on Customer Orientation in Organization, Marketing Research and Customer Analytics, Marketing & Strategy and Quantitative Models in Marketing at the postgraduate and doctoral level programs. He also studies issues related to incorporating Analytics in business decision making, specifically in the context of Indian organizations.
At IIMA, he has also worked on consulting and training assignments with large Indian and multinational companies based in India such as Hindustan Unilever Limited, the TATA Group, TVS Group, Eaton-Vickers Inc., Reliance Capital, Infosys and more. Along with developing marketing and business strategies for Indian companies coping up with global competitive environment, he has worked on building specific systems and internal processes to reinforce fact-based business decision-making in many organizations.
He has authored book titled “Management Essentials: A Recipe for Business Success” and is all set to come up with his next book titled “Weaving Analytics for Effective Decision Making” in August 2017.
2. Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay
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Currently serving as the Professor (Finance and Analytics) at the Great Lakes Institute, he is also a visiting professor at the University of Ulm, Germany. He has a rich experience in Academia and prior to Great Lakes, he has taught at Management Development Institute as an Associate Professor and as Assistant Professor at the Northern Institute for Integrated Learning in Management based out of Delhi.
With an expertise in applied economic theory, game theory, financial economics & development economics, analytics, statistics and econometrics, policy analytics, derivatives and financial risk management, survey design and execution, research design, he has been a visiting professor at Indian Statistical Institute (Delhi), Vienna School of Economics and Business Administration (Austria), S.P. Jain Centre for Management (Singapore and Dubai), IIM (Kolkata, Lucknow, Bangalore, Kozhikhode).
A fellow at India Development Foundation, he was awarded PhD in 2002 by ndian Statistical Institute, Delhi. He is M.A in Economics from Delhi School of Economics and graduated with Economics (major), Statistics and Mathematics from R. K. Mission Residential College, under University of Calcutta.
He has been the Managing Editor of Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Journal of Infrastructure and Development and the Editorial Advisory Board of the likes of International Research Journal of Finance and Economics and International Bulletin of Business Administration.
3. Chandrashekar Subramanyam
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Dr. Chandrashekar Subramanyam has 25+ years of academic work experience along with an experience in research institutes and corporate work experience. Prior to joining IFIM he has taught in premiere institutes like Fore School of Management, IIM Lucknow, Manchester Business School UK, Indore and National Insurance Academy.
A fellow member at Institution of Engineers, IETE, Life Member Computer Society of India and more, he has research interest in demand forecasting, risk management, supply chain optimization and customer lifetime value analysis.
An active speaker at various forums, he has several research papers published during his tenure. Recognizing his contribution in the academics, he has been awarded various accolades such as NASSCOM DEWANG Mehta award as best IT teacher, Higher Education Forum Contribution in IT Education and more.
4. Dipyaman Sanyal
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As Program Chair (Analytics) at Bridge School of Management, he leads all analytics programs for the institute including the flagship Predictive Business Analytics program (offered jointly with Northwestern University, Chicago). Prior to this, he was the Analytics Track Coordinator at Institute of Management Technology (IMT), Ghaziabad, where he led the development of the school’s analytics specialization for the PGDM program.
Along with teaching students, both at IMT and at Bridge SoM, he has taught multiple Management Development Programs in Analytics and Finance for companies including, Jubilant Food Works, Engineers India Limited, Luminous India and IFB Bosch. With nearly 15 years of experience, he has worked both in the industries such as financial services & investment firms and in academia.
He has been the VP of Quantitative Modeling at the hedge fund Sorin Capital, worked in research and analytics for The Blackstone Group, REIS and Dow Jones Indexes and most recently, he was the Head of Real Estate Analytics at Thomson Reuters.
A Chartered Financial Analyst and recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship (UK), Prof. Dipyaman Sanyal has a MS in Applied Economics from University of Texas, Dallas and a MA and BA in Economics from Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
5. Gaurav Vohra
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Gaurav Vohra, co-founder & CEO of Jigsaw Academy, has over 10 years of experience in the field of analytics and has worked across multiple verticals including financial services, retail, FMCG, telecom, pharmaceuticals, and leisure industries.
Vohra holds an MBA from the prestigious IIM Bangalore, and started his career in analytics with Capital One and over the last decade has worked with clients such as JC Penney, Gap, Walmart, IRI, 7-11, IMS health, and ICICI Lombard.
With his firm belief in the power of analytics for business growth, Gaurav founded Jigsaw Academy in 2011 as an avenue to meet the growing demand for talent in the field of analytics by providing industry-relevant training and education to develop business-ready professionals.
6. Gopalakrishnan Srinivasaraghavan
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Professor at IIIT-Bangalore, he heads the CISL (Computational Intelligence and Systems that Learn) Lab at IIIT-B. He obtained his PhD and M.Tech from IIT Kanpur and B.Tech from IIT Madras. He has spent several years in the industry with companies like TISL, Infosys, Peritus Software Services (then a Boston based startup), CTO with Aztecsoft, including running his own niche consulting firm.
He currently teaches a series of courses on Machine Learning and Large Scale Data Analytics at IIITB besides guiding several doctoral and master’s students. He has been driving the machine learning research and teaching at IIIT-Bangalore for the last 5 years, as well as consulting several companies.
A regular speaker at various forums, he is one of the primary instructor in the Post-Graduate Diploma in data analysis being offered jointly by IIIT-B and UpGrad, which is currently one the best online programs in Data Analytics. This unique program tries to achieve the sort of scale that is seen only in MOOCs while ensuring the kind of completion rates rarely seen outside conventional classroom-based full-time courses.
With several research publications to his credits, Prof. Srinivasaraghavan is as hands-on as he is grounded in the underlying theory. This makes his lectures particularly insightful.
7. Karthik Sriram
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An alumnus of Indian Statistical Institute (B.Stat and M.Stat) and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (FPM), Prof. Karthik Sriram has long long and diverse experience across industry and academia. Prior to joining IIM-A, he worked with General Electric (GE) company in their Reinsurance and Commercial Finance businesses from 2001 to 2009.
He has been involved with teaching in the analytics program at IIM-A for several years. His areas of research include statistical areas such as Bayesian methods, Quantile regression, Model mis-specification across application areas such as insurance, commercial, consumer finance, marketing. He has various research paper published in various publications.
8. P. K. Viswanathan
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With a rich and varied experience across academia, research, industry, training and consulting, Dr. P.K Viswanathan currently serves as Professor Analytics at Great Lakes. He teaches business statistics, operations research, business analytics, predictive analytics and spreadsheet modelling to the students. He is also involved as a Key Faculty in the Management Development Programs conducted by Great Lakes.
In his industrial tenure spanning 15+ years, he has held senior management positions in Ballarpur Industries (BILT) of the Thapar Group and the J.K. Industries of the J.K. Organization. Apart from executing corporate consultancy assignments, Dr. P.K.Viswanathan has also designed and conducted training programs for many leading organizations in India.
Holding degrees in MSc(Madras), MBA(FMS, Delhi), MS(Manitoba, Canada), PhD(Madras), he has authored four book—two on Business Statistics published by Pearson Education, and one on Marketing Research published by the British Open University Business School, U.K. As a prolific writer, he has published research articles in reputed national and international journals and also presented papers in national and international conferences.
9. Prithwis Mukerjee
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Dr. Prithwis Mukerjee, an engineer from IIT Kharagpur, has done his master’s and PhD in Management Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining academia, he has been Assistant Divisional Manager at Tata Steels, where he introduced RDMS technology. He has also been a part of Tata Information Systems, PricewaterhouseCoopers Ltd, Director at IBM Global Services.
He has been Professor at IIT Kharapgpur before joining Praxis. While at the Vinod Gupta School of Management at IIT, Kharagpur, Dr. Mukerjee had been actively engaged with the administration of the school, in addition to his teaching assignment, including Admissions, MDP programs and Placement Activity. He delivered 100% placement in the two years that he was Chairman, Placements.
At Praxis he has designed a cutting edge syllabus for the Business Analytics program based on his paper on Data Science published in the Communications of the CSI, July 2014.
10. Soumyakanti Chakraborty
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A fellow of IIM Calcutta, Dr. Soumyakanti Chakraborty joined XLRI Information Systems Area in 2009. His primary teaching interests include Business Modeling, Strategies of Information and Network Industries.
He has a diverse research experience and his interests include economics of information industries, cloud pricing, two sided platform businesses, combinatorial auctions, and algorithms. He has provided corporate training for reputed organizations in both the private sector and the public sector and includes organizations such as Viacom18, Madura Fabrics Limited, NHPC, NADP, WBSEDCL and other corporates.
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