Our Faculty
Jaydip Sen
(B.E. (Jadavpur University), M.Tech (ISI Kolkata) )
Jaydip’s research areas include Machine Learning and AI, security in wired and wireless networks, intrusion detection systems, secure routing protocols in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, privacy issues in ubiquitous and pervasive communication.
He has 165 publications, including 31 papers in international journals, 92 papers in refereed conference proceedings (IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Springer LNCS, and CCIS), 34 books chapters in books published by international publishing houses. He has also edited 13 volumes and 5 books.
Jaydip has delivered keynote lectures in international conferences and symposia. He is a Senior Member of ACM, USA; a Member IEEE, USA, and IEEE Computer Society, USA.
Before joining academics, Jaydip worked in organizations like ONGC, Oracle India Pvt. Ltd., Akamai Technology Pvt. Ltd, TCS Ltd, and NIST, India.
Subhasis Dasgupta
(B.Tech (NIT), MBA (IBS), Ph.D (RK University) )
Subhasis has been in academics for over 12 years, and delivered courses on Business Research Methods, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, NLP, Operations Management.
Subhasis has done his PhD in applied Text Mining processes in marketing contexts.
He has worked at IIM Ahmedabad as a Research Associate in the area of financial inclusion in India. His current areas of academic interest are Advanced Machine Learning, Text Mining and Deep Learning. Subhasis has published papers in International Journals and has also presented his works in various international conferences.
He is actively involved in corporate training and conducted training sessions in organizations like HPL, Abzooba, TCG, ICICI Bank and Infosys. Prior to joining academics, Subhasis worked for 4 years at HPCL where he was involved in Planning and Operations.
Prasenjit Das Purkayastha
(M.Sc (Jadavpur University), PGDM (GIM) )
Prasenjit has been one of the most prominent market researchers of the country in the last decade. He was the Associate Director and Branch Head of Nielsen‘s Customized Research setup in Kolkata and the Group Business Director of IMRB International. Prasenjit’s expertise lies in the research of consumers across product categories and services like Media, Personal Care, Cigarettes, Paints, Telecom, Banking and Finance. He consults and trains corporates in areas related to Marketing Research and Analytics. He also teaches courses in the areas of Marketing Research and Marketing Analytics at IIM Kolkata, GIM Goa, JU and CMI.
Sourav Saha
(B.Tech (CSE), PGDBA, Fellow (IIM C) )
Sourav Saha is a Machine Learning professional turned Educator in the Advanced Analytics domain with two decades of global experience around Data Driven insights in Business Consulting and R and D. Sourav is an FPM from IIM Calcutta in the area of Machine Learning heuristics, with applications in Computational Advertising. He is passionate about democratizing technology for the masses and applying AI for social good. Before joining Praxis Business School, he was the Chairperson for Data Science and Analytics programs at SVKM‘s NMIMS and was instrumental in launching several programs in applied analytics for undergraduate students and post-graduate executives.
Dr. Sayantani Roy Choudhury
(Ph.D, MPhil, M. Sc (Calcutta University), PGDBA, UGC-NET)
Sayantani has a PhD in Economics. She has a teaching experience of over 20 years. Sayantani is a visiting professor at IIM Udaipur and IIM Amritsar.
She did her MSc, MPhil and PhD from Calcutta University. Women labor force participation and women empowerment was her area of PhD research. Her published research includes 15 journal publications, 5 book chapters and 1 book; she has presented research papers in national and international conferences.
Sayantani did her PGDBA from SCDL and is on the editorial board of three international journals. She has been associated with academic institutions like Shri Shikshayatan College, Amity University, New York University, MDI, Unitedworld School of Business, GNIT and IIPM. She also provides consultancy on quantitative and qualitative research.
She is actively involved in research work in the social sciences field. She has received the ‘Best Data Science Faculty’ award in the women faculty category from AIM in 2021.
Dr. Prithwis Mukerjee
(B.Tech (IIT KGP), M.S & Ph.D (University of Texas at Dallas) )
Prithwis is an engineer by education, a teacher by profession, a programmer by passion and an imagineer by intention.
He loves to live at the creative edge where technology meets business and tinker with tomorrow's technology today. He has worked as a software engineer at Tata Steel and Tata IBM and as a technology consultant at PwC and IBM India. Subsequently, he was a tenured professor at IIT Kharagpur and is currently the Director at Praxis Business School.
Prithwis pioneered the use of Relational Database technology at Tata Steel and in PwC he created and led the eBusiness practice. In IBM he introduced the concept of 3D Virtual Worlds that has now become more well known as the Metaverse. At IIT Kharagpur he created new courses in data warehousing and data mining which later became the backbone of the Praxis Data Science program.
Prithwis is a prolific author having written books on Python and Deep Learning and two science fiction novels, Chronotantra, Chronoyantra. His personal motto is "Resources are Limited, Creativity is Unlimited''.
Kankana Mukhopadhyay
(B.Sc (Calcutta University), MCA (IGNOU), MBA & Ph.D (IIEST, Shibpur) )
Kankana is an educationist with a focus on Human Resource Management. With an experience of 21 years in Management Education and Research, she has worked with reputed academic institutions like IIEST ,Shibpur and IIPM, Bangalore. She has published articles in various National and International Journals, presenting papers in National and International Conferences. She has imparted training in Indian Oil, Allahabad Bank, FOSMI and SME sectors. NITTTR Kolkata invited her to train the faculty members of Govt. Institutions across India. She is a reviewer, member of the editorial board of management journals and the doctoral committee member of IIEST Shibpur.
Charanpreet Singh
(B.Tech (IIT K), MBA (University of Iowa) )
Charanpreet worked in the corporate world for 20 years, with industries like Cryogenics, Steel, International Trade, Consulting and IT in organizations such as British Oxygen, Tata Steel, PwC and Compaq-HP before deciding to pursue his first passion, education. He is a founding member of Praxis Business School. A winner of the Chevening Scholarship for Young Managers awarded by the British Government, Charanpreet has keen interest in the areas of Branding, IT, Analytics and Business Communication. He taught at the University of Iowa, and has been a visiting faculty at IIM Lucknow, IIM Raipur, IIM Shillong and IIM Udaipur.
Atanu Ghosh
(BE (Jadavpur University), PGDM (IIM B) )
Atanu Ghosh is the Promoter, Founder and CEO of Bluebeaks Solutions that runs Salt n Soap, a leading Online Grocery Retailer in India and Medinook, an Online Health Consultation Portal.
Atanu is an Angel Investor and serves in the Board of Directors of IT and ITeS start-ups globally. He is an Adjunct and Visiting Faculty with leading Business Schools in areas of Digital Business Management, Digital Marketing, Analytics and E-Commerce and also consults for leading Corporate and Government Departments. Atanu was an Associate Director with IBM and a Principal with PwC before his entrepreneurial stint.
Amit Parakh
(B. Com (Hons), ACA, CS, PGDM (IIM A) )
Amit has worked extensively in the banking and equity research areas, carrying out valuation and financial analysis assignments, building credit rating models and structuring transactions in organizations like ICICI Bank (Structured Products) and J. P. Morgan, before entering academics.He takes active interest in capital markets and likes to get involved in valuation assignments. He conducts workshops on corporate finance, assets valuation, risk management and offers study programs related to CFA, FRM and CA.