India's premier management institute, the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM-C) has got new director in Dr Saibal Chattopadhyay, a senior faculty member in the Operation Management Group with more than 30 years of rich academic experience in India and abroad.
Dr Chattopadhyay took charge of the Director’s office this week from the outgoing director Dr Shekhar Chaudhuri who led the institute for 11 years beginning November 2002.
Dr Saibal Chattopadhyay has done his Ph.D in Statistics from University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A and MS (Statistics) from the same institution after his M Sc (Statistics) from University of Calcutta.
Dr Chattopadhyay has more than 30 years of academic experience in India and abroad including over 15 years with IIM Calcutta. Since 2001, he has been working as Professor in the Operations Management Group at the institute.
He joined the top B-school as Associate Professor, Operations Management Group in the year 1997. Prior to this, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics, Presidency College, Calcutta where he started his career as Lecturer in 1983.
He has also been visiting Professor at Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, U.S.A; Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut at Stamford, U.S.A.; and Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, U.S.A.
His research interests include ‘Sequential methods in estimation and in selection and ranking problems’, ‘Multistage sampling methods in environmental health and in clinical studies’; and ‘Quantitative techniques in advanced marketing research’.
Dr Chattopadhyay has also provided consultancy to various projects across different sectors in public and private domain.
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