Shubhabrata Das

Quantitative Methods and Information Systems area, IIMB

Prof. Das has been a faculty with IIMB since 1999. He has held visiting faculty positions at various institutes/universities of international repute, including ESSEC Business School, Indian Statistical Institute Calcutta, University of Nebraska etc.

His major research domain is in Statistical methods, Actuarial Mathematics and Operations Research. Specific topics of interests include Multivariate Statistics, Statistical analysis of fuzzy data, Sports Analytics, Business Forecasting, Measurement and Scaling and Discrete optimization problems. He has published several papers in the refereed journals of international repute. Prof. Das is a co-author of a book titled ‘Facing the Future: Indian Pension Systems’. He is also the co-author of the chapter on canonical correlations in the Encyclopaedia of Biostatistics. Besides these, he has published several technical reports and delivered seminars at various international conferences all over the world.

Prof. Das engages in training and other consultancy services in the domain of Business Statistics, Business analytics, Advanced Market Research, Business Forecasting and Insurance with various prominent companies in the country.

At IIMB, besides teaching the core courses on Statistics for the Post-graduate programs, doctoral programme and various executive education programs, he offers elective courses on Business Forecasting, Insurance analytics, Sports Analytics.

Prof. Das has been Research Chair Professor at IIMB. He was also a part of the IIMB faculty team that received IBM Faculty award. He also received best paper award in the 7th APRIA for work on Joint life Insurance Policy with differential benefit and premium. He is one of twenty faculty members spread across four continents and twelve academic institutions of international repute that is recipient of a big four-year (2013-16) grant facilitating collaborating research on Risk analysis, Ruin and Extremes, awarded by the European Commission.