Abhishek Samantray

Research Interests

Contemporary Socio-Economic Topics, Business & Industry Analytics, Applied Data Science (statistics, causal inference, networks, big data analytics)

BioSketch

Educational Details

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Lucca, Italy)

2020

Ph.D., Economics, Management and Data Science

Toulouse School of Economics (Toulouse, France)

2016

Master in Economics, (Economic Theory and Econometrics)

National Institute of Science Education and Research (Bhubaneswar, India)

2014

Master of Science (5-year Integrated Programme), Mathematics

Professional Background

Faculty Member

28 Apr 2021 - Present

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee

Joint Faculty Member

07 Jun 2021 - Present

Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Research

Publications

Peer influence of production and consumption behaviour in an online social network of collective learning

2020

Abhishek Samantray, Massimo Riccaboni | (Elsevier)

Journal: Online Social Networks and Media

Credibility of climate change denial in social media

2019

Abhishek Samantray, Paolo Pin | (Nature Research)

Journal: Palgrave Communications

Books

Collective behaviour in digital societies

Year: 2020 ,

Abhishek Samantray | IMT Lucca PhD Thesis

Contribution: Peer Influence in Large Dynamic Network: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Scratch (In: Complex Networks and Their Applications VII)

Year: 2019 ,

Abhishek Samantray, Massimo Riccaboni | (Springer, Cham)

Pages: 300-313 ,

Collaborations

Economics of Networks, Social Networks, Experiments

Paolo Pin (University of Siena, BIDSA Bocconi University)

Honors And Awards

Honors

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

2019

Frontier Proposal Fellowship (2019-20)

IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

2016

PhD Scholarship (2016-19)

Toulouse School of Economics

2015

TSE Master Scholarship

DST, Government of India

2009

INSPIRE Scholarship (2009-14)

Teaching Engagements

Big Data Analytics ( AID-571 )

Autumn

Mathematics for Data Science ( AID-521 )

Autumn

Basic Statistics ( HSN-106 )

Spring

Advanced Statistics ( HSN-201 )

Autumn

Computer Programming for Economists ( HSN-103 )

Autumn

Economics ( HSS-01 )

Spring

Students

SuperVisions

Applied Economics

24 Jul 2021 - Present

Other Supervisors: None, Scholar: Tapan Kumar Sahoo (Ph.D. Economics)

Anti-spoofing in Face Recognition

01 Jan 2022 - Present

Other Supervisors: None, Scholar: Sumanth H S (M.Tech Data Science)

Recommendation Systems

01 Jan 2022 - Present

Other Supervisors: None, Scholar: Ronak Pandya (M.Tech Data Science)

GARCH-Copula Model and its Application in Portfolio Optimization

01 Nov 2021 - 31 May 2022

Other Supervisors: None, Scholar: Svatantra Kumar Vishwakarma (M.Sc. Economics)

Firm’s performance forecasting and impact of financial crisis 2008

01 Nov 2021 - 31 May 2022

Other Supervisors: None, Scholar: Sahil Kumar (M.Sc. Economics)

Value at Risk for Portfolio (in R)

01 Nov 2021 - 31 May 2022

Other Supervisors: None, Scholar: Aastha Bhalla (M.Sc. Economics)

Miscellaneous

Visits

Bocconi University (Milan, Italy)

2019-11-01

Visiting Student (Nov 2019 - Feb 2020, due to COVID)

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (New Delhi, India)

2013-05-16

Summer Project on Financial Econometrics

Administrative Positions

Prof. In Charge System/Computer Lab

08 Jul 2021 - Present

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee

Faculty Representative, Department Website Management Committee

02 Aug 2021 - Present

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee

Faculty Advisor (2nd Year, BS-MS Economics)

01 Jul 2022 - Present

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee

Member, School Academic Program Committee (ScAPC)

01 Jul 2021 - Present

Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, IIT Roorkee

Member, Department Academic Program Committee (DAPC)

06 May 2021 - Present

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee