Research Interests
Contemporary Socio-Economic Topics (e.g., digital markets & society, sustainable health & development, finance & society, etc.), Business & Industry Analytics, Applied Data Science (statistics, causal inference, networks, big data analytics)
BioSketch
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
Joint Faculty Member
07 Jun 2021 - Present
Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Faculty Member
28 Apr 2021 - Present
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee
Research
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
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 ,
Economics of Networks, Social Networks, Experiments
Paolo Pin (University of Siena, BIDSA Bocconi University)
Honors And Awards
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
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
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
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
