Management
Prof. Amarpreet Singh Ghura
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow | IIM Calcutta
Research Interests: Corporate Entrepreneurship, Family managed business, Strategy
Prof. Dinesh Shenoy
PhD - Industrial Engineering | IIT - Kharagpur
Research Interests: Project Management, Library Operations, Lean Manufacturing
Prof. Gitesh Chavan
PhD - Marketing | NITIE - Mumbai
Research Interests: B2B Marketing, Consumer Buying Behavior, Branding, Marketing Strategy, Industrial Buying Behavior
Prof. Jaslene Bawa
FPM - Finance & Accounting | IIM - Raipur
Research Interests: Banking, EMH, ESG, Equity Stock market, Mutual Funds, NBFCs, Fin Tech
Prof. Smita Chaudhry
FPM - Organizational Behavior | IIM – Calcutta
Research Interests: Employee Engagement/Experience, Personality, Generation Z, Positive Psychology, Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
Prof. Preetha Menon
PhD – Management | IIT- Madras
Research Interests: Health behaviours, Consumer and Technology, Sonic Branding
Prof. Frederick Jacobus Herbst
PhD - Marketing Management | University of Pretoria, South Africa
Research Interests: Marketing strategy, Services Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Wine Business
Prof. Devendra Jain
PhD - Finance | The University of the South Pacific - Suva, Fiji
Research Interests: Financial Markets, Macro-financial risks, Climate Risk Financing, Ethical Strategies in Finance, Sustainable Finance
Prof. Neha Yadav
Fellow - Marketing | NITIE - Mumbai
Research Interests: Conversational AI Systems, Travel and Tourism, Sustainable Consumption, Technology Adoption
Economics
Prof. Barun Kumar Thakur
FPM – Environmental Economics | NITIE - Mumbai
Research Interests: Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Management, Development Economics, Water Resource Economics
Prof. Debasis Rooj
PhD – Economics | Northern Illinois University - USA
Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Financial Economics, Development Economics
Prof. Joyita Roy Chowdhury
PhD - Economics | University of Utah - USA
Research Interests: Development Economics and Policy, Experiments in Economics, Gender and Disaster Risk Reduction
Prof. Reshmi Sengupta
PhD - Economics | Northern Illinois University - USA
Research Interests: Development Economics (particularly focusing on health), Health Economics, Econometrics - Health Financing, Child Health, Maternal Health, Food Security, The Economics of Aging, Mental Health, Agricultural Economics
Prof. Sunil Rajpal
PhD – Economics | Central University - Gujarat
Research Interests: Health Economics, Healthcare Financing, Public Health Policies, Maternal and Child Nutrition, Ageing, Poverty
Prof. Yashobanta Parida
PhD – Economics | Centre for International Trade & Development, JNU, - New Delhi
Research Interests: Political Economy of Natural Disasters, Applied International Trade, Firm Productivity, and Economics of Tourism
Prof. Yugank Goyal
PhD – Law and Economics | Erasmus University Rotterdam - Netherlands
Research Interests: Institutional Economics, Governance, Public Policy, Culture, Regulation, Higher Education, District development
Psychology
Prof. Aparna Shankar
PhD - Psychosocial Predictors of Maintenance of Health Behaviours | University of Leeds – UK
Research Interests: Ageing, Social relationships, Loneliness, Health behaviours, Health inequalities, Caregiving
(Not accepting candidates for the July 2023 cycle.)
Prof. Gayatri Kotbagi
PhD – Clinical Psychology | Université Paris Nanterre
Research Interests: Behavioral addictions, Exercise Psychology, Community mental health interventions
Prof. Ketoki Mazumdar
PhD – Social Sciences (Psychology) | TISS, Mumbai
Research Interests: Gender and mental health, Maternal mental health, Mothering practices across cultures, Cross-cultural Psychology, Well-being, Meaning in life, Self-compassion, Qualitative explorations of psychological constructs.
Data Science
Prof. Kaushik Gopalan
PhD - Electrical Engineering (Satellite Remote Sensing) | University of Central Florida, USA
Research Interests: Remote Sensing, Image Processing, Data Science, Machine Learning
Prof. Swapnajit Chakraborti
FPM - Information Systems | Indian Institute of Management - Indore
Research Interests: Predictive Analytics, Text Mining, Data Mining, E-commerce, Marketing Analytics, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing
Prof. Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay
PhD - Computer Science | Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Research Interests: Image Processing, Computer Vision, Augmented And Virtual Reality, Applied Machine Learning, Computational Studies On Images, Computational Studies On Migration
(Not accepting candidates for the July 2023 cycle.)
Prof. Renu Dhadwal
PhD - Industrial Mathematics | Technical University of Kaiserslautern - Germany
Research Interests: Physics Informed Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Differential Equations, Numerical simulations of ODEs and PDEs, Polymer processes modelling
Prof. Balaji Kalluri
PhD - Building Sciences | National University of Singapore, Singapore
Research Interests: Design-thinking and Innovation Management in Complex Socio-Technical Systems (e.g. Smart Building, Smart Cities, e-Governance)
Prof. Ajith Abraham
Ph.D. – Artificial Intelligence | Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, Data science; Approximate reasoning; Function approximation; Optimization; Complex systems
Environmental Studies
Prof. Andrea Phillott
PhD | Central Queensland University - Australia
Research Interests: Wildlife conservation, Human-wildlife interactions, Marine megafauna, Sea Turtles
Prof. Juhi Huda
PhD – Environmental Studies | University of Colorado - USA
Research Interests: Environmental Policy, Environmental Governance, Environmental Communication
(Not accepting candidates for the July 2023 cycle.)
Prof. Prasad Pathak
PhD – Geography | University of North Carolina - USA
Research Interests: Environmental Issues (GIS applications for wildlife conservation, human-animal conflict, corridor mapping and development), Urban Studies (urban heat island and action plan, urban - social justice/injustice), Remote Sensing Image Processing - AI/ML, Cellular Automata, Walkability Studies Using AI/ML
Prof. Anuradha Batabyal
Ph.D. – Ecology | IISc, Bangalore
Research Interests: Stress; Ecology; Behaviour; Environment; Cognition; Memory; Physiology
Prof. Chaitanya Giri
PhD - Astrochemistry | University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Space, Oceans & Global Commons Policy; Strategy Analyses of Emerging Technologies for use in Environmental Applications; Science and Technology Diplomacy
Humanities
Prof. Maya Dodd
PhD - Modern Thought & Literature | Stanford University - USA
Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Digital Archives, Digital Cultures, Food Studies
Prof. Pankaj Jain
PhD in Religious Studies | The University of Iowa - USA
Research Interests: Environmental Studies, India Studies, Religious Studies, Film Studies, Jain Studies, Hindu Studies
Sociology
Prof. Sreeparna Chattopadhyay
PhD – Cultural and Medical Anthropology | Brown University
Research Interests: Gender, Health, Public Health, Medical Anthropology, Law, Climate Change
(Not accepting candidates for the July 2023 cycle.)
Prof. Tannistha Samanta
PhD - Sociology | University of Maryland - USA
Research Interests: Aging Studies/Social Gerontology, Demographic Research, Sociology Of Health, Family Sociology, Quantitative Methods In Social Sciences, Reproductive Health, Longitudinal Ageing Study In India (LASI)/ India Human Development Survey (IHDS) And Cross-National Comparisons With Harmonious Datasets.
Prof. Mayurakshi Chaudhuri
PhD - Global and Sociocultural Studies | Florida International University, USA
Research Interests: Gender And Migration/Mobilities, Visual Sociology, Sociological Perspectives Of Digital Spaces, Historical Sociology, Technology And Society, Digital Humanities
Prof. Shamsher Singh
PhD – Sociology | Indian Statistical Institute - University of Calcutta – Kolkata
Research Interests: Rural and agrarian society, Rural development, Poverty, Migration, Labour, Housing, Social stratification, Caste and Class, Social welfare, Sanitation, Political sociology