Pranjal Chandrakar

Dr. Pranjal Chandrakar is a faculty of data science at MUSOM. He completed his Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Before his Ph.D., he worked as a research associate in the Computational Life Sciences Laboratory at TCS Innovation Labs. Dr. Chandrakar has published in many peer-reviewed journals and holds a patent granted by the European Union. His research and teaching interests are in data science, statistics, machine learning and sports analytics.

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• Ph.D. in Decision Science from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (May 2016 – April 2021)

• B.Tech. in Biological Sciences and Bio-engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (July 2010 – June 2014)

In Press

• Chandrakar P., Das S., Measuring the Values of Cricket Players, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics (In Press)
• Chandrakar P., Das S., Bhalla M., Lease Auctions with Retention Options, Journal of Quantitative Economics (In Press).
• Kuntal, B.K., Chandrakar, P., Sadhu, S. et al. ‘NetShift’: a methodology for understanding ‘driver microbes’ from healthy and disease microbiome datasets. ISME J 13, 442–454 (2019).

Patent

• Patent: SS Mande, P Chandrakar, BK Kuntal, Method and system for identification of key driver organisms from microbiome/metagenomics studies.
  • Status in European Union: Granted.
  • Status in United States: Pending.

• Assistant Professor, Mahindra University School of Management (July 2021 – Present)
• Research Associate (Systems Engineer), Computational Life Sciences Laboratory at TCS Innovation Labs (July 2014 – May 2016)

• Data Science
• Machine Learning
• Sports Analytics