Following are the current members of SIGNAL Group, who are working in different capacities.
Principal Investigator
Soudeep Deb
Associate Professor, IIM Bangalore
Statistical inference · Time series · Spatio-temporal modelling · Analytics · Learning
Postdoctoral fellows
Madhab Barman
Working since 2025
Machine learning · Extreme value theory · Environmental research · Applied mathematics
Shamriddha De
Working since 2026
Real estate · Bayesian methods · Mixture model · Forecasting
PhD students
Kunal Rai
PhD student, IIM Bangalore (thesis submitted)
Time series · Nonparametrics · Financial data · Physics-informed neural network
SIGNAL Group publications
A nonparametric approach to understand multivariate quantile dynamics in financial time series
Rai, K., Roy, A., Dattner, I., Deb, S. · 2026
arXiv
Pre-print
Multiperiod volatility forecasting with optimization-based model selection: Evidence from NIFTY-50 Banks
Rai, K., Anand, A., Deb, S. · 2026
SSRN
Working paper
Chinmay Divekar
PhD student, IIM Bangalore (co-supervised, thesis submitted)
Bayesian methods · Sports analytics · Quantitative finance · Markov models
SIGNAL Group publications
Real-time forecasting within soccer matches through a Bayesian lens
Divekar, C., Deb, S., Roy, R. · 2024
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 187(2), 513-540
Published
Amrutha Seshagiri
PhD student, IIM Bangalore (exp 2028)
Econometrics · Tourism analytics · Bayesian methods · Time series
Lizan Meryl Pereira
PhD student, IIM Bangalore (exp 2029)
Spatio-temporal modeling · Environmental research · Bayesian methods · Extreme value
Shagun Srivastava
PhD student, IIM Bangalore (exp 2029)
Spatio-temporal modeling · Real estate · Bayesian methods
SIGNAL Group publications
CPRI-Office: A new commercial property rental index for Indian cities using spatio-temporal modeling techniques
Gupta, K., Srivastava, S., Deb, S., Panchapagesan, V. · 2025
IIMB Working Paper No. 727/2025
Working paper
Shobhit Gupta
PhD student, IIM Bangalore (exp 2030)
Machine learning · Sports analytics · Ensemble learning
Other members
Thaha Uwaise
PhD student, VIT, working since 2026
Bayesian methods · Machine learning · Sports analytics
Anitha Pathlavath
Research Associate, working since 2025
Financial data · Deep learning · Time series
Muskan Kumari
BS-MS Student, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, working since 2026
Financial data · Deep learning · Time series
Ashish Yadav
MS Student, IISER Mohali, working since 2026
Financial data · Deep learning · Time series
