Pulak Ghosh

Professor Pulak Ghosh is a distinguished faculty member in the Decision Sciences Area at IIM Bangalore, specializing in the intersection of Big Data, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence with applications in Economics, Finance, Policy, and Social Value Creation. His academic excellence has been recognized through multiple prestigious awards, including the Young Scientist Award (2011) from the International Indian Statistical Association, the CR Rao Award (2015) from the Government of India, and the Mahalanobis Award (2016) from the Econometric Society. Before joining IIMB, Ghosh held significant positions as Associate Director at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, USA, and faculty roles at Georgia State University and Emory University. His academic influence extends to serving on the editorial boards of prestigious journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and Biometrics, while also contributing to national policy-making through his involvement with NITI Aayog and the National Statistical Commission, making him a key figure in shaping India's data science and AI landscape