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

Academic Positions

• 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 Management, Amritsar
• Guest Faculty, Calcutta University, Kolkata
• Visiting Researcher: Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai; IISER, Kolkata

Awards

• UGC-CSIR National Eligibility Test (NET) qualified
• Recipient of the Japanese Government Monbukagakusho (MEXT) scholarship, Kobe University, Japan
• National Scholar in Madhyamik and Higher Secondary Examinations

Conferences, Seminars & Talks

• 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

Corporate / Public Sector Leadership

• Coordinator and Faculty, Executive Management Development Program on Business Analytics
• Coordinator and Faculty, Management Development Program on Predictive Analytics Using R
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• Coordinator and Faculty Faculty Development Program on Multivariate Data Analysis

Current Projects

• Healthcare Analytics at BMH Pvt Ltd., 2018-
• IIMK MGRP on "Forecasting & Supply Chain Planning in an Indian Ethnic Wear Industry-A Case Study" (2016) (ongoing)
• IIMK SGRP on "Some New Lifetime Distributions and their Applications" (2014) (completed)

Other Professional Appointments

• Chairperson-Placement, IIMK (2018-
• Chairperson-Recreation, IIMK (2015-17)
• Member, American Statistical Association
• Member, INFORMS
• Life Member, Analytics Society of India
• Life Member, International Indian Statistical Association
• Life Member, Calcutta Statistical Association
• Life Member, Indian Association of Productivity, Quality and Reliability
• Referee: Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, Statistics and Probability Letters, Statistical Methodology, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Naval Research Logistics, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, National Academy of Science, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Recent Consulting / Other Assignments

• Consultant Statistician, ICRA Techno Analytics Ltd
• Consultant Statistician, Data Infocom Software Solutions Ltd.

Research Areas

• Reliability Theory and Applications
• Applied Statistics
• Predictive Analytics
• Statistical Quality Control

Significant Publications

• Optimum life test plan for Type-I hybrid censored Weibull distributed products sold under general rebate warranty (with J B Chakraborty and S Roy), 2019, International Journal of Production Research, Forthcoming,
• Key Performance Indicators for Factor Score based Ranking in ODI Cricket (with P. Nair and J.B.Chakrabarty), 2019, IIMB Management Review, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iimb.2019.07.008
• Ordering properties of the largest order statistics from Kumaraswamy-G models under random shocks (with A Kundu), 2019, Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, to appear
• Compounded Inverse Weibull Distributions: Properties, Inference and Applications (with J B Chakraborty), 2019, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Taylor & Francis), 48 (7), 2012-2033
• 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
• 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

Teaching

• Probability and Statistics
• Data Analytics
• Multivariate Data Analysis
• Predictive Analytics
• Stochastic modeling

Working Papers

1.   A PHASE-II NONPARAMETRIC CUSUM CHART WITH AN APPLICATION TO EXCHANGE RATES DATA
Mukherjee A, Marozzi M and Shovan Chowdhury    (2014)    Abstract

2.   Compounded Generalized Weibull Distributions - A Unified Approach
Shovan Chowdhury    (2014)    Abstract
3.   Distribution-free cusum control chart for joint monitoring of location and scale
Shovan Chowdhury,Amitava Mukherjee,Subha Chakraborti    (2014)    Abstract

4.   On a two-parameter discrete distribution and its applications
Shovan Chowdhury,Amitava Mukherjee,Asok K. Nanda    (2014)    Abstract

5.   Stochastic Comparisons of Parallel Systems of Heterogeneous Generalized Exponential Components
Amarjit Kundu, Shovan Chowdhury & Asok K Nanda    (2014)    Abstract

6.   Bayes Estimation with Bivariate Prior in M=M=1 Queues
Shovan Chowdhury    (2015)    Abstract