I am a tenured Professor in the Decision Sciences area, with Joint appoinment with department of Finance and  Center of Public Policy at IIM Bangalore. I was an IIMB Chair Professor of Excellence. I did  serve in  the editorial boards of several top journals including the Journal of the American statistical Association, Journal of the Royal statistical Society (A) and Biometrics. I am a fellow of ABFER, academic fellow of Louhan Academy, and Programme co-Director ”Tech, Digital Markets and AI” for ABFER. 

My research focuses on  Fintech, Household finance, Development Finance and AI and has been published in Journals like Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Sciences, Science Advances, Journal of the American statistical Association, Biometrika among others. My research has also been cited  by World Bank, various departments of Government of India, Niti Aayog, Reserve Bank of India as well as in various industry reports.

Prior to joining IIMB, I was a faculty at Georgia State University, Emory University. I also had a short stint at the Novartis Pharmaceuticals as Director of Clinically advanced Statistical Solutions. I did my  schooling from Ballygunge Govt. high School, Calcutta; Bachelors and Masters from University of Calcutta, and  PhD  from Oakland University, MI, USA.