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Brief Profile
Apratim Guha is a Professor of Production, Operations and Decision Sciences Area in XLRI, Xavier School of Management since February 2019.
Academic Experience
- Associate Professor, Production and Quantitative Methods Area, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad (2012-2019)
- Lecturer, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, UK (2008-2012)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore (2005-2008)
Achievements and Research Interest/Area of Research Interests
Interest (Research and Teaching)
- Time Series Analysis:
- Analysis and modelling of hybrid time series data
- Analysis and modelling of categorical time series data
- Information theory
- Analysis of medical data
- Meta-analysis
- Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) curve analysis
- Forecasting
Faculty Development Programs Attended
- I completed an extensive teaching training programme called the “Professional Development Programme – Teaching” offered by the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning, National University of Singapore, in 2006.
- I attended the “Induction Course for Lecturers New to Teaching Mathematics & Statistics in UKHE” in September 2008 at the University of Birmingham.
- I attended courses on “Course Design”, “Introduction to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education for Staff” and “Problem and Enquiry Based Learning” organised by the Academic Practice and Organisation Development, University of Birmingham in November 2009.
Courses Taught
- Teaching at XLRI:
Executive Education at XLRI
- Taught in training programmes for IOCL, Coal India, WBSEDCL, WBPDCL, Tata Steel Foundation
- Taught in several Virtual Integrated Learning programs
- Taught in MDPs for CHROs
Other teaching
- BM1: Quantitative Techniques I, 2019–20 onwards
- BM2: Demand and Business Forecasting, 2018–19 onwards
- Weekend BM: Quantitative Techniques for Managerial Decisions (2019), Demand and Business Forecasting (2021)
- EFPM: Basic Statistical Techniques (2020, 2021, 2023)
- VIL: Quantitative Methods for Decision Making: PGCBM 36
- Demand Analysis and Forecasting: eLSCM 05
- Business Forecasting: PGCBA 03
- XoL: Quantitative Methods for Finance
Teaching at IIM Ahmedabad
- PGP1: PSII (Statistical Inference), PSIII (Regression), DMII (Decision Analysis Under Uncertainty), QM1A (Probability Theory), QMII (Decision Analysis)
- PGP2: Econometrics, Forecasting Techniques for Practitioners
- Post Graduate Programme for Executives (PGPX): Making Decisions (decision making using linear programming and decision trees), Analysis of Data (probability and statistics)
- Doctoral Programme (FPM): Statistics (compulsory course), elective courses: Time Series Analysis, Applied Statistical Inference, Advanced Topics in Quantitative Methods
- Faculty Development Programme (FDP): Decision Making
- ePGP: PSI (core probability theory), Business Analytics (elective)
Executive Education/In-Company Teaching at IIMA
- 3TP – Emerging Leaders Programme: Coordinator during 2018; taught sessions on decision making under uncertainty
- Armed Forces Programme: Taught Basic Research Methodology (2012–2016)
- L&T: Taught Decision Making Under Uncertainty (2015–2018)
- OEP: Programme on Data Analysis for Healthcare Management (2015–2018)
- OEP: Programme on Managerial Excellence in Healthcare Sector (2015)
- CEP: Strategic Management and Leadership Programme (2014)
- EPABA: Predictive Modelling (2017–2018)
Teaching at other IIMs
- IIM Nagpur: Basic Statistics Course for PGP1 (2015 & 2016)
- IIM Shillong: Course on Graph Theory for FPM, co-taught with Diptesh Ghosh (2016)
Teaching at School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham
- MSM1Db (Applicable Mathematics): Introductory statistics course covering distributions, asymptotic theory, estimation, hypothesis testing; taken by ~250 students
- MSM2O2 (Statistics II): Second/third-year course on univariate and multivariate distributions, estimation, inference; taught 2008–2012
- MSM4S07a (Research Frontiers in Statistics): Advanced course for 4th-year undergraduates and PhD students covering time series concepts, correlation, modelling, frequency analysis
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore
- ST5201 (Basic Statistical Theory): Probability and statistics for master’s students; taught three times; targeted at students with non-statistical background
- ST3233 (Applied Time Series Analysis): Time series modelling for 3rd-year undergraduates; topics included stationary processes, ARIMA models, estimation, forecasting; taught twice
- ST2131 (Probability): Introductory probability course for 2nd-year mathematics/statistics students; taken by ~400 students
Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
During my Ph.D., I served as a teaching assistant for courses ranging from introductory undergraduate statistics (Statistics 2) to advanced graduate time series (Statistics 248). Duties included occasional lecturing, office hours, tutorial sessions, and grading.
Research Students Supervised
- Advisory committee member for FPM student Gaurav Kumar Singh at IIMA; doctoral thesis titled “Essays on Inflation Expectations” (2020)
- Joint supervisor for M.Tech student Jutharath Voraprateep on “Effect of Symmetry on Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test” (2010–12)
- Supervisor for master’s student Jia Junfei (NUS); thesis titled “The Test of Long-Memory Explanation of the Deaton Paradox…” (2007)
- Supervised four honours’ projects at the University of Birmingham
- Supervised multiple honours’ projects at the National University of Singapore
Intellectual Contributions (Publications)
Journal Articles-Refereed
- A Model of Insolvency Resolution: When is Bankruptcy Inefficient? (With Rajesh Kumar Acha, Sumit Sarkar and Kanagaraj Ayyalusamy) American Business Review: Vol. 27, No. 2, Article 7, 2024. DOI: 10.37625/abr.27.2.549-572. Available at: https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/americanbusinessreview/vol27/iss2/7
- Attaining herd immunity to a new infectious disease through multi-stage policies incentivising voluntary vaccination (With Saransh Kejriwal, Sarjan Sheth, P. S. Silpa and Sumit Sarkar) Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Volume 154, 2022, 111710. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2021.111710
- Application of pooled testing in estimating the prevalence of COVID-19 (With Pritha Guha and Tathagata Bandyopadhyay) Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, August 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10742-021-00258-4 Older version: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.26.20113696v1.full-text
- Economic production lot sizing under imperfect quality, on-line inspection, and inspection errors: Full vs. sampling inspection (With Dipankar Bose). Computers & Industrial Engineering, July 2021, 107565. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2021.107565
- Gravity and depth of social media networks (With Pritha Guha, Avijit Bansal and Anindya S. Chakrabarti) Journal of Complex Networks, Volume 9, Issue 2, April 2021, cnab016. https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnab016
- A non-parametric two-sample test using a general φ-divergence based mutual information (With Atanu Biswas and Abhik Ghosh) Statistica Neerlandica, Volume 75, Issue 2, May 2021, pp. 180–202. https://doi.org/10.1111/stan.12232
- Measuring Complexity in Financial Data (With Gaurang Singh Yadav and Anindya S. Chakrabarti) Frontiers in Physics, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2020.00339
- A note on “Economic production quantity in batch manufacturing with imperfect quality, imperfect inspection, and destructive and non-destructive acceptance sampling in a two-tier market” (With Dipankar Bose) Computers & Industrial Engineering, Article 106609, Vol. 146, 2020. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360835220303430
- Analysing the impact of music on the perception of red wine via temporal dominance of sensations (With Qian Janice Wang, Bruno Mesz, Pablo Riera, Marcos Trevisan, Mariano Sigman and Charles Spence) Multisensory Research, Vol. 32 (4–5), 2019.
- Time series characterization of gaming workload for runtime power management (With B. Dietrich, D. Goswami, S. Chakraborty and M. Gries) IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 64(1), pp. 260–273, 2015.
- Assessing the dependence structure of the components of hybrid processes using mutual information. Sankhya Series B, Vol. 77(2), pp. 256–292, 2015.
- A mutual information-based k-sample test for discrete distributions (With R. Drake) Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 41(9), pp. 2011–2027, 2014.
- Auto-association measures for stationary time series of categorical data (With A. Biswas and M. C. Pardo) TEST, Vol. 23(3), pp. 487–514, 2014.
- Meta-analysis of test accuracy studies with multiple and missing thresholds: a multivariate-normal model (With R. D. Riley, Y. Takwoingi, T. Trikalinos, A. Biswas, J. Ensor, R. K. Morris and J. J. Deeks) Journal of Biometrics & Biostatistics 5:196, 2014.
- Modelling and coherent forecasting of zero-inflated count time series (With R. Maii, A. Biswas and S. H. Ong) Statistical Modelling: An International Journal, Vol. 14(5), pp. 375–398, 2014.
- A two-sample test based on mutual information (With T. Chothia) Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol. 66 (261–262), pp. 39–54, 2014.
- Some analyses of the interaction among local field potentials and neuronal discharges in a mouse using mutual information. Journal of the Indian Society of Agricultural Statistics, Vol. 68(2), pp. 117–129, 2014.
- Time series analysis of hybrid neurophysiological data and application of mutual information (With A. Biswas) Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Vol. 29, pp. 35–47, 2010.
- Time series analysis of categorical data using auto-mutual information (With A. Biswas) Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 139, pp. 3076–3087, 2009.
- An overview of modeling techniques for hybrid brain data (With A. Biswas) Statistica Sinica, Vol. 137, pp. 1311–1340, 2008.
- Deterministic neural dynamics transmitted through neural networks (With Yoshiyuki Asai and Alessandro E. P. Villa) Neural Networks, Vol. 21, pp. 799–809, 2008.
- Mutual information in the frequency domain (With David Brillinger) Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol. 17, pp. 1076–114, 2007.
- Analysis of scoring rate in a limited over cricket match. Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, Vol. 5, pp. 249–259, 2003.
Chapters in Scholarly Books
- Statistical measurement of information leakage. (With K. Chatzikokolakis and T. Chothia.) Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 6015. Springer. Pg. 390-404. 2010.
- Time series of categorical data using auto-mutual information with application of fitting an AR(2) model. (With A. Biswas.) Advances in Multivariate Statistical Methods, Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research, Vol. 4, pg. 421-435, 2009.
Working Paper
- Calculation of Probabilistic Anonymity from Sampled Data. (With K. Chatzikokolakis and T. Chothia.) University of Birmingham Technical Report, 2009, CSR-09-10.
- On Estimation of Number of Species and Biodiversity. (With A. Biswas.) IIMA Working paper 2013, WP2013-05-03.
- Modelling and Analysis of Multivariate Ordinal Categorical Data in Longitudinal Set up. (With A. Biswas.) IIMA Working paper, 2013, WP2013-05-04.
- ROC Curve Analysis for Randomly Selected Patients. (With T. Bandyopadhyay and S. Adhya.) IIMA Working paper, 2015, WP2015-07-02.
- Application of pooled testing in screening and estimating the prevalence of Covid-19. (With P. Guha and T. Bandyopadhyay) medRxiv (2020).doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.26.20113696
Cases Developed for Teaching Purpose
- Anar Chemicals and Adulteration of Auto Fuels. Registration No: XLCDC1901. XLRI Case Development Centre (XLCDC) (2019) [Jointly with Prof. Tathagata Bandyopadhyay]. Expanded and registered with Sage Business Cases in 2020.
Other Professional Activities
Co-Ordinating/Organizing Workshop/Conferences /MDPS
He was part of the 4th Pan-IIM World Management Conference organisation committee at IIMA in 2018.
Contribution Towards Institution Building/ Development/ Services such as Chairperson (Placement) Etc.
- Committee involvement
- Paper setting for various entrance examinations for leading management schools in India, 2016–23 (CAT + XAT)
- Convenor of the advisory committee for XLRI rankings, 2019 onwards
- Member of the admission committee for XLRI, 2019 onwards
- Member of the international relations committee for XLRI, 2019–20
- Participated in admission interviews for XLRI programmes since 2019
- Member of the disciplinary committee for XLRI, 2020–21
- Member of the IT committee for XLRI, 2020–22
- Mention your involvement in institutional committees, task forces, or councils
- Advisory Role (if any)
- IIMA PGPX admission chair during 2018–19
- IIMA PGP admission chair during 2016–18
- Member of the IIMA PGPX committee during 2018–19
- Member of the IIMA library committee during 2018–19
- Member of the PGP admissions committee at IIMA during 2014–18
- Member of the PGP admission interview panels at IIMA during 2013–18
- Member of the doctoral admission interview panels at IIMA in 2013 and 2017
- Member of the PGPX admission interview panels at IIMA in 2014 and 2015
- Member of the AA recruitment interview panels (Communication area, 2013; P&QM area, 2014)
- Organised Statistics seminars at the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham (2008–12)
- Library officer, School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham (2009–12)
- Deputy director of the 3rd year B.Sc. programme, University of Birmingham (2010–12)
- India Liaison Officer, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore (2007–08)
Research Project Undertaken
- Titled ‘Employing Mutual Information in Multivariate Time Series Analysis and Model Fitting’, sponsored by National University of Singapore Academic Research Fund (2005).
- Titled ‘Analysis of Categorical and Clustered Time Series Data’ sponsored by Ministry of Education (Singapore) Academic Research Fund (2007).
- Two grants to host visitors at the University of Birmingham, sponsored by the London Mathematical Society (2009, 2011).
- Grant to host a visitor at the University of Birmingham, sponsored by the India Travel Fund of the University of Birmingham (2011).