This page lists former doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and other research associates who have worked in this group and have coauthored at least one research paper or case study.
The alumni directory is intended to document the academic and professional journeys of people associated with the SIGNAL Group and to help future students, collaborators, and alumni understand the range of research areas connected with the group.
If you are an alumnus of this group and want your information to be added/modified, please send an email to soudeeps.research.group@gmail.com.
PhD students
Anchal Soni
PhD, IIM Bangalore
Current Senior Consultant, WNS Global Services, India
SIGNAL Group publications
A wavelet-based methodology to compare the impact of pandemic versus Russia-Ukraine conflict on crude oil sector and its interconnectedness with other energy and non-energy markets
Energy Economics, 124, 106830
Published
Siddharth Rawat
PhD, IIM Bangalore
Current Postdoctoral Fellow, NIEHS, USA
SIGNAL Group publications
A spatio-temporal statistical model to analyze COVID-19 spread in the USA
Journal of Applied Statistics, 50(11-12), 2310-2329
PublishedA Bayesian approach to identify changepoints in spatio-temporal ordered categorical data: An application to COVID-19 data
arXiv
Under resubmission
Kapil Gupta
PhD, IIM Bangalore
Current Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode, India
SIGNAL Group publications
What elements of the opening set influence the outcome of a tennis match? An in-depth analysis of Wimbledon data
IIMB Management Review, 37(1), 100519
PublishedA divide-and-conquer approach for spatio-temporal analysis of large house price data from Greater London
Annals of Operations Research, 1-42
PublishedCPRI-Office: A new commercial property rental index for Indian cities using spatio-temporal modeling techniques
IIMB Working Paper No. 727/2025
Working paperA review and recommendations on variable selection methods in regression models for binary data
arXiv
Under resubmission
Archi Roy
PhD, IISER Pune (co-supervised)
Current Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode, India
SIGNAL Group publications
A nonparametric approach to understand multivariate quantile dynamics in financial time series
arXiv
Pre-printA data-driven approach to spatial zoning and anomaly detection in the dynamic real estate network
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 23998083251411954
PublishedImpact of COVID-19 on public social life and mental health: A statistical study of Google Trends data from the USA
Journal of Applied Statistics, 51(3), 581-605
PublishedNonparametric method of structural break detection in stochastic time series regression model
arXiv
Pre-printA wavelet-based methodology to compare the impact of pandemic versus Russia-Ukraine conflict on crude oil sector and its interconnectedness with other energy and non-energy markets
Energy Economics, 124, 106830
PublishedPostdoctoral fellows
Key research fellows
Shreyash S Deshmukh
Predoctoral Fellow
Current PhD Student, IIM Kozhikode, India
SIGNAL Group publications
A survey of statistical and machine learning methods of quantile regression in time series and their suitability in predicting dengue outbreaks
Japanese Journal of Statistics and Data Science, 8(1), 641-689
Published
Satyaki Basu Sarbadhikary
Research Associate
Current PhD Student, National University of Singapore
SIGNAL Group publications
A data-driven approach to spatial zoning and anomaly detection in the dynamic real estate network
Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 23998083251411954
Published
Other notable research assistants
- Mareeswaran M: Worked during 2021-23 as a research assistant, while he was a PhD student in the Finance & Accounting area at IIM Bangalore. Later joined Queens University Belfast, Gift City, as a faculty.
- Meghana Krishna: Worked during 2024-25 as a research assistant.
- Sreeranjini TM: Worked during 2023-25, later joined doctoral program at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.
- Anagh Chattopadhyay: Worked during 2021-23, later joined doctoral program at Johns Hopkins University.
- Manit Paul: Worked during 2021-22, later joined doctoral program at University of Pennsylvania.
- Anirban Nath: Worked during 2021-22, later joined doctoral program at Columbia University.
- Shubhajit Sen: Worked during 2020-23, later joined doctoral program at North Carolina State University.
- Divya Chakarwarti: Worked during 2021-22, later joined Google as Software Engineer.
- Siddhant Nahata: Worked during 2020-21, later joined McKinsey & Co as Business Analyst.