VGSOM - Faculty

Brief Bio : Prof. Abhijeet Chandra has more than 7-yr post-PhD experience. He offers graduate and post-graduate level courses in Corporate Finance, Cost & Management Accounting, and Investment Management. Prof. Chandra has research interests in the areas of Behavioral & Personal Finance, Financial Markets and Asset Pricing.

Area of Interest : Behavioral and Personal Finance, Corporate Finance, Cost and Management Accounting, Behavioral and Personal Finance, Corporate Finance, Cost and Management Accounting

Email : abhijeet@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Dr. Ajay Kumar Mishra has more than four years of teaching and research experience in the Finance area. He received his Ph.D. in finance from IBS Hyderabad in 2014. He was a visiting research scholar in the Fogelman College of Business and Economics (FCBE) at the University of Memphis during 2011-2012. Prior to joining PhD program, he was a research fellow at Space Application Centre (ISRO), Ahmedabad India. He teaches Financial Management, Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management courses at PG level and Market microstructure course at the doctoral level.

Area of Interest : Information Asymmetry, Stock Liquidity, Algorithmic Trading, Mutual Fund Investment, Short Selling, Banking Regulation

Email : akmishra@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Anupam Ghosh has more than 14 years of teaching experience in areas of Supply Chain Management and Marketing. He has offered courses at the post-graduate and doctoral level in Supply Chain Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Warehousing and Materials Management, and International Marketing. He was a Visiting Scholar to Bentley University, Waltham, MA, USA during 2004-05. He has worked on research projects on Information visibility in supply chain, fare fixation for public transportation system etc.

Area of Interest : Supply Chain Analytics, Supply Chain Management Warehousing Management

Email : anupam@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : "Dr. Aradhna Malik has been serving the Indian Institute of Technology as Faculty since 2008. She teaches organizational communication, business ethics, human resource management and organizational behavior to Undergraduate, Masters and Doctoral level students. She has served in a diversity of roles both in India and abroad.Dr. Malik has also developed a number of courses for the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) on some of the areas mentioned above. Dr. Malik has been serving as the Associate Copy Editor of Asian English as a Foreign Language Journal (AEFL Journal) since 2009, and has recently been nominated as the National Representative (India) of the International Study Association of Teachers & Teaching (ISATT)."" "

Area of Interest : Business Communication, Business Ethics, Business Innovation, Corporate Social Responsibility, Developing Leadership, Competencies, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement, Human Resource Management, Intercultural Communication, Management of Social Welfare

Email : amalik@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : After completing PhD, Prof. Arun Kumar Misra has worked in Banking Sector for about 7 years and then joined VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur. Prof. Misras areas of research include banking, capital market, corporate finance and market microstructure. Prof. Misra derives his competencies from the work experience in banks where he supervised risk management, ALM and Basel guidelines implementations.

Area of Interest : Business Analytics, Commercial Banking, Power Trading , Project Finance, Financial Statements Analysis

Email : arunmisra@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Barnali Nag did her post-doctoral research from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. Prior to that, she was a Business Research Fellow at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. Prof. Nag has also worked in RIS, New Delhi, Ministry of External Affairs, GoI, an advanced Institute for actionable research. Before joining VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur, she was a faculty in Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. Her research interests pertain to Public Policy, Competition Policy and Competitiveness, Economics of Climate Change, Policy and planning in the infrastructure sector and Energy security issues of India.

Area of Interest : Global Economics and Macroeconomic Environment, Managerial Economics, Introduction to Strategy, Energy Policy

Email : barnali@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Biplab Datta’s research interests include organisational leadership, marketing management, service quality management and customer relationship management. Prof. Datta earned ISO 9000 Lead Auditor Certificate from NBA, U. K. Prof. Datta has published papers in national and international journals.

Area of Interest : Customer Relationship Management Developing Leadership Competencies Marketing Management Business Strategy

Email : bd@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof.Biswarup Ghosh teaches Marketing Management, International Marketing & Strategic Marketing courses at VGSOM. He has more than 30+ years Healthcare Industry experience & worked as Head of Healthcare at Linde India Ltd (Part of Linde Group, Germany), Director South East Asia at STERIS India Ltd (a wholly owned subsidiary of STERIS Corporation USA) , General Manager -Marketing at Datex-Ohmeda (Part of GE Healthcare USA), Zonal Business Head at BOC India Ltd (Part of BOC Plc. UK). He has extensive industry experience on General Management, Establishing Indian entity of large US MNC, Managing P & L of large Healthcare Business of India & Indian Subcontinent, International Marketing exposure in Singapore, Thailand & Malaysia markets. He did his PhD in Plasma Physics & MBA from VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur.

Area of Interest : Competitive Strategy & Organizational Integration, International Business, Marketing Management, New Product Development, Product Life Cycle Analysis , Marketing to Bottom of Pyramid Customers, Sales & Distribution Management, Managing Luxury Product Business

Email : biswarup@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. CS Mishras areas of interest are Financial Reporting & Analysis, Business Valuation, and Mergers & Acquisitions.

Area of Interest : Cost and Management Accounting, Mergers & Acquisitions, Project Finance, Financial Statements Analysis

Email : csmishra@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. M. Vimala Rani obtained her Ph. D. degree in Operations Management from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. She also received her M. E. degree in Software Engineering and B. E. degree in Computer Science Engineering from Anna University and Madurai Kamaraj University respectively. After her PhD, she has worked as “IISc Research Associate” at the Department of Management Studies, IISc. She also worked as an Assistant Professor at Amrita School of Business, Bangalore. She teaches Operations Management and Supply Chain Management to Masters Students. Her research interest is on developing the mathematical and heuristic algorithms for the problems related to Industrial Engineering and Management.

Area of Interest : Operations Research, Scheduling

Email : vimala@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Parama Barai has six years teaching experience in finance related subjects, specifically in the areas of investment management, financial analytics, financial risk modeling, derivatives, capital budgeting, and corporate finance. Prof. Barai also conducts research in these areas.

Area of Interest : Business Analytics, Business Statistics, Investment Management, Project Finance

Email : parama@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Prabina Rajib has more than one decade of academic experience. Prof. Rajib has authored two books i.e., 1) Commodity Derivatives & Risk Management, 2) Stock Exchanges, Investments & Derivatives: Straight Answer to 250 Nagging Questions. Prof. Rajibs teaching & research interests include Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Financial Markets, Risk Management using Financial & Commodity Derivatives. Prof. Rajib is also a Fulbright Scholar.

Area of Interest : Financial & Commodity Price Risk Management, Power Trading Project Finance, Understanding Financial Statements

Email : prabina@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Rudra P Pradhan has more than a decade of teaching and research experience. His research interests include infrastructure finance, foreign direct investments and econometric modelling. Prof. Pradhan has published several research papers in various national and international refereed journals.

Area of Interest : Infrastructure and Project Finance, Business Analytics, Financial Economics, Transport Economics

Email : rudrap@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Saini Das has served as a faculty member at IIM Indore for three years before joining IIT Kharagpur. She also worked as a software engineer at Infosys Technologies Ltd. prior to her PhD. Her major teaching interests and competencies are in the areas of business analytics, information security risk management in networks, management information systems (MIS), e-commerce technology & applications, data privacy and digital piracy. Prof. Das has taught in many management development programs across industries. She has authored papers in many national and international journals of repute.

Area of Interest : Business Analytics Customer Relationship Management

Email : saini@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Sangeet Sahney has served as a faculty member at U.P Technical University and IIT Roorkee, before joining IIT Kharagpur. With a specialization in Marketing, Prof. Sahney also teaches Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management. Prof. Sahney research interests include studies in consumer behavior, organizational behavior and quality management in education. Prof. Sahney has been seconded by MHRD to teach at AIT, Bangkok twice, in 2009 and 2016. Prof. Sahney has authored a book on Consumer Behaviour published by Oxford University Press. Prof. Sahney has authored several papers in peer reviewed national and international journals.

Area of Interest : Consumer Behavior, Customer Relationship Management, Developing Leadership Competencies, Emotional Intelligence Employee Engagement, Marketing Management, Performance Management System, Principles of HRM, Services Marketing, Services Management

Email : sahney@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Sanjib Chowdhury is currently a full-time Visiting Professor at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur in the areas of 1. Strategic Management, and 2. Operations Management. He has 40 years of work experience including 6 years in academics and 34 years in two major oil companies in India and Kuwait in the cross-functional areas of: Strategic and Corporate Planning, Business Performance Improvement, Optimization of operations and processes, Project Management, and HR and General Management. He is the recipient of "Kuwait Gulf Oil Company's Ideal Employee Award", "ONGC Chairman's Award", "ONGC Director's Award" to mention a few, and had held several responsible positions in these organizations. Based on his work experience, he has solely authored a book titled "Optimization and Business Improvement studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry", published by John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, USA, Aug 2016. He holds B. Tech. (Hons.), M. Tech., and Ph. D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and published several technical papers in journals of repute.

Area of Interest : Strategic and Corporate Planning Business Performance Improvement Optimization

Email : sanjib @vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Dr. Srabanti Mukherjee has special interest in Consumer Behaviour, Marketing Research, Brand Management, Management of Services, Managing customers expectations and marketing to the bottom of the pyramid. Prior to VGSOM, Prof. Mukherjee has worked in premiere management Institutes including IIM Indore and IIEST Shibpur. Prof. Mukherjee has conducted and taught in several management development programmes across industries. Prof. Mukherjee has authored a book on Consumer Behaviour from Cengage Learning and published cases in Ivey Publishing. Prof. Mukherjee has authored papers in many peer reviewed journals and presented papers in topmost conferences in Marketing domain.

Area of Interest : Brand Management, Customer Relationship Management, Introduction to Marketing, Management of Services, Managing customers expectations, Marketing Research

Email : srabanti@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharyas area of interest is business analytics. Prof. Bhattacharya is proficient in R and Python software. Prof. Bhattacharya can handle complex business analytics problems with varied applications.

Area of Interest : Business Analytics

Email : sujoybtc@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Mookherjees experience includes 15 yrs of industrial research , manufacturing , Operations , Joint Venture set up in the field of metal cutting tool and powder metallurgy. Post his industrial stint , he migrated to SAP project implementation and management , Business consulting , IT Outsourcing , Program management and IT Service sales for global clients. During this period of 18 years,he worked with Pricewaterhouse Coopers and IBM India

Area of Interest : Futurism , Future of Work, IT Programme Management , BPR., Developing and increasing acceptability of IT enabled education tools for students

Email : surojit@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Sushil Punia researches and teaches Operations Management and Business Analytics at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Management from IIT Delhi and an M.Tech degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from IIT Kanpur. He is also a visiting researcher at Forecasting Laboratory (ForLab), UK. His areas of expertise include operations and supply chain management, forecasting and predictive analytics, and data-driven optimization. Prof. Sushil uses his expertise to design advanced decision models and policy frameworks for efficient, effective, and equitable resource allocation and services delivery in healthcare and urban logistics sectors. His research has been published in highly reputed research journals like EJOR, IJPR, DSS, CAIE, and others. His recent work on pandemics, supply chain disruptions, and governmental policy decisions is among most cited and downloaded papers in the EJOR journal. He has received several awards and fellowships such as a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Cambridge (UK), the Springer Nature's Best Paper Award, the MoUD research fellowship, and Emerald Literati Award 2018.

Area of Interest : Operations and Supply Chain Management; Business Forecasting; Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics; Healthcare; Logistics and Urban Mobility; Smart Manufacturing.

Email : spunia@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Susmita Mukhopadhyay has interest in organizational behaviour, leadership, competition and cooperation, relationship management, retirement management, team building, competency management, HR analytics, professional excellence, HRM, business ethics, CSR, self-development and effective habits. Prof. Mukhopadhyay has conducted short term courses, MDPs and in company programmes for several Institutes and companies across industries.

Area of Interest : Customer Relationship Management, Developing Leadership Competencies, Emotional Intelligence, Employee Engagement, HR Analytics, Performance Management System, Principles of HRM, Professional excellence

Email : susmita@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Prof. Tutan Ahmed, with engineering background from Jadavpur University, pursued his doctoral in Public Policy from IIM Calcutta. His interest in policy making led him to work with the World Bank, United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE), India. With MSDE, he led a consultation of 36 different Union Ministries/ Departments. At UNDP, he initiated data analytics projects for job forecasting. At the World Bank, he worked on different state and national level projects. With World Bank,he has been working on the online labor-market project for Pakistan. His research interest is in the application of technology in Public Policy. His teaching interest lies in Econometrics; Technology & Future of Public Policy

Area of Interest : Data & Public Policy, Technology in Public Policy, Econometrics, Economics, Business and Government, Education, Labor Economics

Email : tutan@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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Brief Bio : Vinay has worked as an Assistant Professor at IIM Jammu, Visakhapatnam and Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at Technical University of Denmark prior to joining IIT Kharagpur. He earned his masters and a doctoral degree from IIT Bombay, Mumbai; and Bachelors degree from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. His expertise includes optimization under uncertainty, interval analysis based operations research techniques, and environmental management.

Area of Interest : Plastics pollution and environmental sustainability; Mathematical models for solid waste management; and Environmental management.

Email : vinay@vgsom.iitkgp.ac.in

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