Anirban Ghatak

Anirban has done his PhD on Evolutionary Game Theory from the department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research at IIT Bombay. He worked at the Interdisciplinary Statistical Research Unit of Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata as a Visiting Scientist. Currently he is working as an Assistant Professor at the IIM Visakhapatnam. He also works as a Visiting Professor at IIM Indore for their IPM, PGPMX, and EPGP program. Anirban's teaching interests are Game Theory and various versions of it e.g. Behavioral Game Theory, Evolutionary Game Theory etc. His research interest lies in application of game theoretic modeling in human behavioral domain. He is also interested in statistical modeling of business scenarios using SPSS and Python.

Education

• PhD, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, IIT Bombay
• M.Tech, Industrial Engineering, NIT Trichy
• B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University

Research Areas

• Game Theory
• Human Behavior
• Networks

Teaching

• Game Theory - PGP
• Non-Cooperative Game Theory - PhD
• Managerial Economics - EPGP
• Industry Study - PGP-BL
• Statistics - Advanced Data Science for Managers

Conferences, Seminars & Talks

Ghatak, A., September 2018, 'Trust, Altruism, Reciprocity: A Solution to the Problem of Trust in Online Marketplace', Invited Talk, UKIERI International Workshop on Game Theory and Networks, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, India

Ghatak, A., Balamurali A R, Deepak Gujaranya, Satnam Singh, July 2017, 'A Game Theoretic Model of Cyber-Deception Process', Invited Talk, Mini Conference on Networks & Games, ISI Kolkata, India

Ghatak, A., Mukherjee, D., Ray, A., March 2016, 'The Interplay of Identity and Social Network - An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Model', Invited Talk, International Conclave on the Foundations of Decisions and Games, IGIDR, Mumbai, India

Ghatak, A., Mukherjee, D., Dec 2015, 'The Interplay of Identity and Social Network - A Methodological Study', Invited Talk, Networks and Games 2015, IIT Ropar, Ropar, India

Ghatak, A., Mukherjee, D., Rao, K. M., Dec 2014 'A Behavioral and Spatial Game Theoretic Analysis of Conflict and Identity', Invited Talk, Networks and Games 2014, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, India

Ghatak, A., Dec 2012, 'Bribery Games - Does Differential Treatment Help?', International Conference on Optimization, Computing and Business Analytics, Kolkata, India, Allied Publishers, pp. 120-123

Ghatak, A., Rao, K. M., July 2012, 'Spatial Games and Evolutionary Stability against Multple Mutations', ISDG Fifteenth International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, Bysice, Czech Republic

Ghatak, A. January 2012, 'Bribery - A Game Theoretic Approach', International Conference on Game Theory Operations Research and Applications, ISI Chennai, India

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Decision Sciences, IIM Visakhapatnam (2017-2020)
• Visiting Faculty, IIM Amritsar (2018-2019)
• Assistant Professor, Business Analytics, Welingkar Institute of Management, Mumbai (2015-2017)
• Visiting Faculty, IIM Indore (2016-2017)
• Visiting Scientist, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata (2014-2015)