Teaching:

 

Chairperson of Executive Education Programmes on:

i) Advanced Analytics in Management

ii) Cutting Edge Analytics

iii) Advanced Quality Management

iv) Data Analysis for Healthcare Management

v) Risk : Modeling and Management 

vi) Online 6-month Executive Programme of Advanced Business Analytics 

 

 

Area of Current Research Interests:

• Statistical Process Control
• Change Point Problems
• Analysis of Directional Data
• Robust Statistics
• Analysis of Rank Data
• Functional Data Anaysis
• Commodities Market Models
• Data Analytics in Marketing 
• Branching Processes with Applications

 

Received the BEST PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR award for teaching at IIM-A in the year 2006.

Featured as one of India's best business school professors by Business Today magazine in its edition dated July 16, 2006

Featured as a leading business school professor by Business India magazine in its edition dates November 25, 2012. 

Named as one of the "10 Most Prominent Analytics Academicians in India" by Analytics India Magazine in its edition dated August 29, 2014. 

 

Publications/Articles/Cases:

Publications :

1. Laha, A. K., Dutta, S. and Roy, V.  : A novel sandwich algorithm for empirical Bayes analysis of rank data (to appear in Statistics and its Interfaces) 

 

3. Laha, A. K., Raja, P. and Mahesh, K. C. (2016) : SB-robust estimation of mean direction for some new circular distributions, Statistical Papers.

 

 

Best paper awards in Conferences:

1. The paper "Change Point Problems for the Mean Direction of the Circular Normal Distribution" was selected for the Best Paper award in the Young Researcher's Competition held as part of the International Conference on Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education (sponsored by ASA, IMS and IISA), Hyderabad (2004).
2. The paper "Valuation of Apparent Temperature based Weather Derivatives" (co-author Mr. S. Kohli) was awarded the First Prize in the Faculty category in the National Conference on Forecasting Financial Markets in India 2008 held at IIT, Kharagpur (2008).

 

Conference Papers:

1.  "SB-Robust estimation of mean direction for Kato-Jones distribution", invited paper presented in Platinum Jubillee International conference on Applications of Statistics, University of Calcutta, December 2016 

 

26. "Valuation of Apparent Temperature based Weather Derivatives" invited paper presented in the National Conference on Forecasting Financial Markets in India, December 2008, IIT-Kharagpur, India

27. "Bayesian Analysis of Rank Data with Covariates" invited paper presented in the 4th World Conference of the IASC and 6th Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the IASC on Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (IASC 2008), November 2008, Yokohama, Japan.

28. "Model Based Clustering with Circular Data" invited paper presented in the International Conference on Statistical Paradigms: Recent Advances and Reconciliations in January, 2008, ISI, Kolkata.

29. "Bayesian Analysis of Rank Data" invited paper presented in the International Conference on Multivariate Statistical Methods in the 21st century: The Legacy of S. N. Roy, in December 2006, Kolkata, India.

30. "Analysis of Regime Switching Behaviour of Indian Stock Markets" presented in the 12th International Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance in June, 2006 at Limassol, Cyprus.

31. "Statistics in Finance", Key note speech in the national conference on "Contemporary Issues in Finance", Saurashtra University, Rajkot (2006).

32. "A new likelihood integrated method for change-point problems with skewed circular distributions" invited paper presented in the international conference on "Statistics in the Technological Age" organized by University of Malaya held at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2005)

33. "Artificial Neural Network Models for Forecasting Stock Price Index in Bombay Stock Exchange" paper presented in the 2nd Conference of the Asia Pacific Association of Derivatives, Bangalore (2005)

34. "Detection of Multiple Change Points - An application to detection of volatility changes in the Indian stock market" paper presented at the national conference of Operational Research Society of India, Ahmedabad (2005)

35. "A Bayesian Analysis of the Change Point Problem for Directional Data" paper presented at the International Workshop/Conference on Bayesian Statistical Analysis, Varanasi (2005)

36. "Robustness of tests for Change Point with Directional Data" invited paper presented in the International Conference on Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education, Hyderabad. (2004)

37. "Process Capability Indices for Angular Data" paper presented in the International conference on Statistics in Industry and Business, Cochin, 2003.

38. "Social Mobility in India and Future Indian Societies" invited paper presented in the National Conference on Statistical Computing, Bhagalpur, 2002

39. "Quality in Management Education - A meta-analysis of recent B-School surveys" paper presented at the National conference on Quality of Life, Santiniketan, 2002.

40. "Inference on the true rank under transposition errors with applications to Market Research" paper presented in the International Conference on Ranking and Selection, Multiple Comparisons and Reliability , Chennai, 2002.

41. "Genetic Algorithms for Maximizing Likelihoods" paper presented at the International Conference in Operations Research, Kolkata, 2001.

42. "Control Charts for Angular Observations" paper presented at the International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics and related areas, Mumbai, 2000

43. "On Slippage and Change point problems for the Circular Normal Distribution" paper presented at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Statistics and Probability, Kolkata, 1997.

44. "Change Point Problem for the Mean Direction of the Circular Normal Distribution" paper presented in the 2nd International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability and Statistics, Kolkata, 1995.

45. "Change Point Problem for the Mean Direction of the Circular Normal Distribution" paper presented at the 82nd session of the Indian Science Congress Association, Jaipur, 1995.

Working Papers:

1. "Travel Time Prediction for GPS Taxi Data Streams", Working Paper No. 2017-03-03, IIM Ahmedabad (with Sayan Putatunda)

2. "Real Time Location Prediction with Taxi-GPS Data Streams", Working Paper No. 2017-03-02, IIM Ahmedabad (with Sayan Putatunda)

 

 

8. Bayesian Analysis of Rank Data using SIR, IIM-A Working Paper No. 2005-09-06 (with Sourabh Dongaonkar)

9. Artificial Neural Network Models for Forecasting Stock Price Index in Bombay Stock Exchange,IIM-A Working Paper No. 2005-10-01 (with Neeraj Mohan, Pankaj Jha and Goutam Dutta)

10. Performance of Nonparametric Control Charts, IIM-A Working Paper No. 2005-10-04, (with Divesh Gupta and Anant Choubey)

11. Portfolio Allocation with Heavy-tailed Returns, IIM-A Working Paper No. 2005-11-02 (with Divyajyoti Bhoumick and Bharathy Subramaniam)

12. A Likelihood Integrated Method for Exploratory Graphical Analysis of Change Point Problem with Direction Data, IIM-A Working Paper No. 2006-05-04 (with Ashis SenGupta)

13. Pseudo-Scientific Jargons and Advertising Persuasiveness,(August 2005), Social Science Research Network, http://ssrn.com/abstract=784904 (with Himadri Roy Choudhuri)

 

Technical Notes:

1. "A Note on Randomized Response Surveys", QM-248, IIM, Ahmedabad, 2005.
2. "A Note on Tests of Normality", QM-249, IIM, Ahmedabad, 2005.
3. "Probability Models for Non-Life Insurance Applications", QM-252, IIM, Ahmedabad-2006

 

Case:

1. "Statistical Process Control at Landis+Gyr Limited: Implementation of Control Charts", QM-250, IIM, Ahmedabad, 2006.
2. "Disha - Career @ Analytics", P&IR0203, IIM, Ahmedabad, 2008 (coauthor: M Sumitra Das)
3. "Towards the Deming Prize – The Case of Tata Steel (A)", IIM Ahmedabad, 2014 (coauthor: Goutam Dutta) 
4. "Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital-Delivering Excellence in
    Healthcare", IIM Ahmedabad, 2016 (Coauthor : Priyanka Roy)

 

 

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