Research Areas

I am interested in Welfare Economics, in particular measurement of Poverty and
Deprivation on which I wrote my PhD thesis. My principal collaborators being Satya
R. Chakravarty, Ravi Kanbur and Zakir Husain. My students Saswati Das, Angan
Sengupta worked in areas related to Child work and Health economics
respectively and Arpita Kundu is currently working.

I am also interested in mathematical models for pricing financial contracts and
empirical validation thereof. My students Sudip Chandra, Suranjana Joarder and
current student Sourojyoti Barick are active in this area. Other collaborators being
Mrinal K. Ghosh, Gopal K. Basak and Indranil Sengupta.

Analysis of Social and Economic Networks particularly fascinates me and I have
been working with students (Abhishek Ray), collaborators (Surajit Borkotokey) and
post-docs (Anirban Ghatak, Loyimee Gogoi) in this area for some time now. See our
website.

Other research interests include application of statistics in Census evaluation (my
student Kiranmoy Chatterjee wrote his thesis in this area and Joseph D. Engmark is
currently working) and qualitative surveys (ex post doc Sunil Kumar and student
Ankita Dey are working in the area of Latent class analysis and Abhijit Sarkar in the
area of market viability of heavy trucks, Bikram Mahapatra is working in the area of
Social Statistics).
I also work in Sports analytics (collaboration with Dibyojyoti Bhattacharya, Hemanta
Saikia, Rhitankar Bandopadhyay and several ex MStat students).

I often mentor BStat or MStat students (ISI) for year long projects or internships in
any of the above topics.