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SHOVAN CHOWDHURY

SHOVAN CHOWDHURY

Professor
Quantitative Methods and Operations Management

+91-495 2809119

shovanc[at]iimk[dot]ac[dot]in

  • PhD in Statistics, University of Calcutta
  • MSc in Statistics, University of Calcutta
  • BSc (Hons.) Statistics, University of Calcutta

Teaching


Probability and Statistics

Data Analytics

Multivariate Data Analysis

Predictive Analytics

Stochastic modeling

Other Professional Appointments


Associate Editor, Journal of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, Springer

Academic Editor, PLOS ONE

Life Member, International Indian Statistical Association

Life Member, Indian Association of Productivity, Quality and Reliability

Life Member, Calcutta Statistical Association

Member, American Statistical Association

Member, INFORMS

Chairperson-Alumni Relations, IIMK (2020-22)

Chairperson-Placement, IIMK (2018-20)

Life Member, Analytics Society of India

Chairperson-Recreation, IIMK (2015-17)

Corporate / Public Sector Leadership


Program Director and Faculty, Executive Management Development Program in Data Science for Business Decisions

Program Director and Faculty, Executive Management Development Program in Healthcare Management and Analytics

Program Director and Faculty, Executive Management Development Program in Advanced Marketing Strategy and Analytics

Program Director and Faculty, Executive Management Development Program in Business Analytics

Program Director and Faculty, Senior Management Program in Healthcare Management

Coordinator and Faculty, Management Development Program on Predictive Analytics Using R

Coordinator and Faculty Faculty Development Program on Multivariate Data Analysis

Conferences, Seminars & Talks


International Conference on Maintenance and Intelligent Asset Management (ICMIAM2020), Bangalore, Jan 17-18, 2020

Seventeenth AIMS International Conference, IIMK, Jan 2-4, 2020

Innovations in Data and Statistical Sciences, IISA Mumbai, 26-30 Dec, 2019

Strategic Management, Decision Theory and Data Science, IAPQR , Kolkata, Jan 4-6, 2020

IEEE International Conference on  Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Bangkok, Thailand, Dec 16-19, 2018

ORSI-2017, Advancing Frontiers in Operational Research: Towards a Sustainable World, Kolkata, Dec 21 - 23

IISA-2017, STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE FOR BETTER LIFE, SOCIETY AND SCIENCE', Hyderabad, Dec 28-30

IEEE International Conference on  Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Bali, Indonesia, Dec 4-7, 2016

IISA-2015, Celebrating Statistical Innovation and Impact in a World of Big & Small Data organized by International Indian Statistical Association, Dec 20-24, 2015

ICSTC-2015, International Conference on Statistics for Twenty-First Century by Kerala University and American Statistical Association, December 17-19, 2015

International workshop on applied probability, Antalya, Turkey (invited), June, 16-19, 2014

3rd IIMA International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence, organized by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 13-14 April, 2013

International Workshop/Conference on Bayesian Theory and Applications (IWCBTA), Jan 6-10, 2013, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (accepted)

Statistics, Science, and Society: New Challenges and Opportunities: organized by International Indian Statistical Association, January 2-5, 2013, Chennai, India (Invited)

Eighth International Triennial Calcutta Symposium on Probability & Statistics, Kolkata, December 27-30, 2012

International Conference on Optimization, Computing & Business Analytics (ICOCBA),organized by ORSI, Kolkata, December 20-22, 2012 (accepted)

Seminar Presentation in Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, April 2012 (Invited)

XXXII Annual Convention of Indian Society for Probability and Statistics (ISPS) & International Conference on frontiers of Statistics and its Applications, Cochin, Kerala, 21-23 December, 2012

Workshop on Reliability Theory and Survival Analysis, Organized by Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Nov. 23-252011

Pan IIM World Management Conference, organized by MHRD, Gov. of India, Goa, May 30-June 1, 2013

Academic Positions


Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode

Assistant Professor, Army Institute of Management (Formerly, National Institute of Management), Kolkata

Lecturer, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan

Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Palakkad; Indian Institute of Management, Amritsar

Guest Faculty, Calcutta University, Kolkata

Visiting Researcher: IIT Chennai; IISER Kolkata

Significant Publications


Control Monitoring Schemes for Percentiles of Generalized Exponential Distribution with Hybrid Censoring (with A. Kundu & B. Modok), Revstat-Statistical Journal (2024), Forthcoming

A new bivariate distribution with uniform marginals (with A.K. Nanda, S, Gayen & S.Bhattacharjee), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (2024), Forthcoming

Airbnb on MARS: A Pricing Odyssey (with S, Guha Niyogi), The Case Centre (August, 2023)

Ordering properties of the smallest order statistic from Weibull-G random variables (with Kundu, A., & Mishra, S. K), Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 2023, 52 (18), 6525–6541

On comparison of two parallel systems having Log-Lindley distributed components (with Kundu, A. & Mishra, S. K.), Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, ,2023, 52 (1), 121–140

Ordering properties of the smallest order statistic from Weibull-G random variables (with  Kundu, A., & Mishra, S. K), .Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 2023, 52 (18), 6525–654

Ordering properties of the smallest and largest lifetimes in Gompertz-Makeham model (with Kundu, A. & Balakrishnan, N), Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 2023, 52 (3), 643–669

Bootstrap beta control chart for monitoring proportion data (with A Kundu and B Modok), International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management, 2022, 39 (10), 2354-2377

Comparisons of Order Statistics from Heterogeneous Poisson and Geometric Distributions (with A Kundu and S K Mishra), Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 73 (2), 94-105, 2021

Charaka Hospital Outpatient Department: Challenges for private specialty hospital in India (with S Mitra), Aug 2022, The Case Center

Optimum reliability acceptance sampling plan using Type-I generalized hybrid censoring scheme for products under warranty (with J B Chakrabarty and S Roy), International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 38 (3), 780-799, 2021

Shannon's Entropy and Its Generalisations Towards Statistical Inference in Last Seven Decades (with A K Nanda), International Statistical Review, 89 (1), 2021, 167-185

Is There a Method to Madness? Predicting Success of Bollywood Movies.(with Sumod S D, Premkumar P, Jeesha K), The Journal of Prediction Markets, 15(2), 2021

Errors Due to Departure from Independence in Exponential Series System (with A Nanda and S Gayen), Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 51(2), 2022, 4162-4178

Optimum life test plan for Type-I hybrid censored Weibull distributed products sold under general rebate warranty (with J B Chakraborty and S Roy), International Journal of Production Research, 58 (18), 5693-5706, 2020

Ordering properties of the largest order statistics from Kumaraswamy-G models under random shocks (with A Kundu), Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 50 (6), 2021, 1502-1514

On stochastic comparisons of series systems with heterogeneous dependent and independent location-scale family distributed components (with A Kundu), Operations Research Letters, 48(1), 40-47, 2020

An index of Teaching performance based on students’ feedback (with M Marozzi), Monte Carlo Methods and Applications, 26 (2), 83-91, 2020

Compounded generalized Weibull distributions - A unified approach (with J.B. Chakraborty), Journal of Statistics and Management Systems), 23 (5), 887-913, 2020

David P. Doane, Lori E. Seward, Shovan Chowdhury (2020): Applied Statistics in Business and Economics | Sixth Edition | SIE, McGrawHill

Key Performance Indicators for Factor Score based Ranking in ODI Cricket (with P. Nair and J.B.Chakrabarty), IIMB Management Review, 32 (1), 85-95, 2020

Barry Keating, J. Holton Wilson, Shovan Chowdhury (2020): Forecasting and Predictive Analytics | 7th Edition (SIE), McGraw Hill

Compounded Inverse Weibull Distributions: Properties, Inference and Applications (with J B Chakraborty), Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Taylor & Francis), 48 (7), 2012-2033, 2019

A new lifetime distribution with applications in inventory and insurance (with A. Nanda), 2018, International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 35 (2), 527-544

Ordering properties of sample minimum from Kumaraswamy-G random variables (with A. Kundu), 2018, Statistics-Journal of Theoretical and Applied Statistics (Taylor & Francis), 52 (1), 133-146

Stochastic Comparison of Parallel Systems with Log-Lindley Distributed Components (with A. Kundu), 2017, Operations Research Letters (Elsevier), Vol 45 (3), 199-205

On Compounded Geometric Distributions and Their Applications (with A. Mukherjee and A. Nanda), Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 2017, 46 (3), 1715-1734

Ordering Properties of Order Statistics from Heterogeneous Exponentiated Weibull Models (with A. Kundu), 2016, Statistics and Probability Letters (Elsevier), Vol 114, pp 119-127

Some Results on Majorization and Their Applications (with A. Kundu, A.K. Nanda and N. Hazra), 2016, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Elsevier), Vol 301, pp 161-177

Bayes Estimation in M/M/1 Queues with Bivariate Prior (with S. P. Mukherjee), 2016, Journal of Statistics & Management Systems (Taylor and Francis), vol 19 (5), pp 681-699

Acceptance sampling plans based on truncated life test for the generalized Weibull model, (IEEM), 2016 IEEE International Conference on, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org, 2016

A model-based approach of flexibility and its impact on organization and employee welfare in lean environment (with P.Basu and P.A.Alam), 2015, Decision, Volume 42, Issue 3, pp 269-277

Distribution-free Phase II CUSUM Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Location and Scale (with S. Chakraborty and A. Mukherjee), 2015, Quality and Reliability Engineering International (John Wiley), Vol. 31 (1), 135-151

Bayesian Estimation of Traffic Intensity in an M/Er/1 Queueing Model (with S S Maiti), Proceedings of IWCBTA and ISBA Regional Meeting, IIT, BHU, Research and Reviews- Journal of Statistics, 2014

A New Distribution-free Control Chart for Joint Monitoring of Location and Scale Parameters of Continuous Distribution (with S. Chakraborty and A. Mukherjee), 2014, Quality and Reliability Engineering International (John Wiley), Vol. 30 (2), pp 191-204

Estimation of traffic intensity based on queue length in a single M/M/1 queue (with S. P. Mukherjee), 2013, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Taylor & Francis), Vol. 42, Issue 13, pp 2376-2390

Estimation of waiting time distribution in an M/M/1 queue (with S.P.Mukherjee), OPSEARCH, 2011, 48, issue 4, 306-317 (Springer)

Bayes Estimation of Measures of effectiveness in an M/M/1 Queueing Model (with S. P. Mukherjee), Calcutta Statistical Association Bulletin, 2010, 62, 97-108

Maximum Likelihood and Bayes Estimation in M/M/1 Queue (with S. P. Mukherjee), Stochastic Modeling and Applications, 2005, Vol.8, 47-55

Bayesian Estimation of Traffic Intensity (with S. P. Mukherjee), IAPQR Transactions, 2005, Vol. 30, 89-100

Data Analytics in Sample to Order Conversion – Case of Ratna Saree (2024), IIMK Case Series

Use of Markov Chain in Revenue Estimation – Case of Indian B-School (2024), IIMK Case Series

Does Your Model Call a Spade a Spade? -Lead Conversion at WSES (with S. Guha Niyogi & U, Dinesh Kumar), 2023, IIMK Case Series

The Art of Story-Telling through Data Visualization – Perspective from Personal Wellbeing (with K. Rahul), 2023, IIMK Case Series

Farmer’s Dilemma – A Bayesian Perspective (2023), IIMK Case Sewries

Forecast driven Inventory Management at BHT Pharmaceuticals Pvt Ltd (2023), IIMK Case Series

Forecasting, Planning and Distribution of an Indian Ethnic Wear Manufacturer (with A. Sarkar), 2021, IIMK Case Series

COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATE MEDICINE PRACTICE – EXPLORING THE PARADIGM DEVELOPMENT USING BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS (with K. Rahul), 2024, IIMK Working Ppaer Series

Trends and Patterns in Telemedical Patient Satisfaction: A Bibliometric Review using Co-Word Analysis (with M. Simon), 2023, IIMK Case Series

Stochastic Comparisons of Random Extremes from Non-Identical Random Variables (with A. Kundu & B.Modok), 2024, ArXiv.org Cornell University arXiv:2402.09174v2

Control Chart for Generalized Weibull Quantiles under Hybrid Censoring (with A. Kundu & B. MOdok), 2023, ArXiv.org Cornell University arXiv:2309.11776v1

Monitoring Percentiles of Proportion Data - An Application in Healthcare (2021), IIMK Working Paper Series

Selection between Exponential and Lindley distributions (2019), IIMK Working Paper Series

On the Estimation of Performance Measures in a Single M/Ek/1 Queue (2019). IIMK Working Paper Series

Time Truncated Acceptance Sampling Plans for Fréchet Model (2018). IIMK Working Paper Series

Stochastic Comparisons of Lifetimes of Two Series and Parallel Systems with Location-Scale Family Distributed Components having Archimedean Copulas (2017), IIMK Working Paper Series

Type I Censored Acceptance Sampling Plan for the Generalized Weibull Model (2016). IIMK Working Paper Series

Stochastic Comparison of Parallel Systems with Finite Range Distributed Components (2016). IIMK Working Paper Series

A special class of distorted premium principle based on an extension of the exponential-geometric distribution (2015). IIMK Working Paper Series

A PHASE-II NONPARAMETRIC CUSUM CHART WITH AN APPLICATION TO EXCHANGE RATES DATA (2014). IIMK Working Paper Series

On a two-parameter discrete distribution and its applications (with A. Nanda and A. Mukherjee), 2014, IIMK working paper

Distribution-Free Cusum control chart for joint monitoring of location and scale (with S. Chakraborty and A. Mukherjee), 2014, IIMK working paper

A PHASE-II NONPARAMETRIC CUSUM CHART WITH AN APPLICATION TO EXCHANGE RATES DATA , Working Paper, 2014

Bayes Estimation with Bivariate Prior in M=M=1 Queues , Working Paper, 2015

Compounded Generalized Weibull Distributions - A Unified Approach , Working Paper, 2014

Distribution-free cusum control chart for joint monitoring of location and scale , Working Paper, 2014

On a two-parameter discrete distribution and its applications , Working Paper, 2014

Stochastic Comparisons of Parallel Systems of Heterogeneous Generalized Exponential Components , Working Paper, 2014

Awards


National Scholar in Madhyamik and Higher Secondary Examinations

UGC-CSIR National Eligibility Test (NET) qualified

Recipient of the Japanese Government Monbukagakusho (MEXT) scholarship, Kobe University, Japan

Research Areas


Reliability Theory and application ; Statistical Quality Control ; Stochastic ordering and Majorization 

Healthcare Management and Analytics, Marketing Analytics

Composite indicator ; Inference in queueing models

Recent Consulting / Other Assignments


Consultant Statistician, ICRA Techno Analytics Ltd

Consultant Statistician, Data Infocom Software Solutions Ltd.

Current Projects


IIMK SGRP on "Active Redundancy Allocation Strategy at Component or System Level", 2024- (ongoing)

IIMK SGRP on "Predictive Modelling of Package Pricing for Surgical Procedures in Private Hospitals", 2022- 24 (completed)

Healthcare management and Analytics Project at BMH Pvt Ltd., 2018-20 (Completed)

IIMK MGRP on 'Forecasting & Supply Chain Planning in an Indian Ethnic Wear Industry-A Case Study', 2016-19 (Completed)

IIMK SGRP on 'Some New Lifetime Distributions and their Applications, 2014-16, (Completed)

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