Dr Usha Ananthakumar is the Dean, Educational Outreach at IIT Bombay. She is a Professor in the area of Decision Sciences & Quantitative Methods at Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, IIT Bombay. Her areas of research include Applied Statistics, Classification under Imbalance, Statistical Learning and Predictive Modeling.
Her publications have appeared in International journals like Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production and Operations Management, etc., Her teaching interests include Statistical Methods, Multivariate Data Analysis and Predictive Analytics. She also conducts short term programs for executives in the field of Analytics.
She is the Co-PI of the Malaria group of the National Disease Modeling Consortium (NDMC) anchored at IIT Bombay.
Education:
Ph.D (Statistics), Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (1995)
M.Phil (Statistics), University of Madras (1991)
M.Sc (Statistics), University of Madras (1990)
B.Sc (Statistics), University of Madras (1988)
Positions Held:
Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
(Since Sep’ 2014)
Associate Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay (Since Apr’ 2007)
Assistant Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay (Since Mar’ 2001)
Associate Faculty of CMInDS, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (since the inception
of the centre)
Associate Faculty of KCDH, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (since the inception of
the centre)
Significant Awards:
Professor S.P.Sukhatme Excellence in Teaching Award: Given in 2022 by IIT Bombay
Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching: Given in 2018 by IIT Bombay
Best Teacher in Management Award: Given in 2012 and 2008 by SJMSOM, IIT Bombay
Recent Project:
Co-PI of Malaria Disease group of National Disease Modeling Consortium (NDMC) anchored at IIT
Bombay (BMGF funded)
Contributed in various Institute level committees and Departmental level committees.
Contributed in various honorary work including faculty selection committee meetings, Board of
Studies member of a few Institutes, Ph.D Thesis Examiner of various Institutes, Conference PC
member and Reviewer of journal papers.
Research Interests
Research Interests
Applied Statistics, Classification under Imbalance, Statistical Learning, Predictive Modelling
Teaching
Statistical Methods, Multivariate Data Analysis, Predictive Analytics *Also taught the course “Data Modeling and Decisions” for Executive MBA jointly offered by SJMSOM and Olin School of Business for seven batches (2016 – 2024)