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Prof. Bishakha Majumdar
Prof. Bhargab Chattopadhyay Prof. Majumdar was invited as a panellist for the
virtual panel discussion on ‘Preparing Your Work-
Prof. Chattopadhyay co-authored a research force for the New Normal’ organized by the State
paper titled Gini Index Estimation Within Bank Institute of Leadership, State Bank of India,on
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Pre-Specified Error Bound: Application to Indian 16 July 2020.The discussion focused on the role of
Household Survey Data which was published in the HR Leaders and the top management in prepar-
the Econometrics. His article titled Virtual Dimen- ing the workforce to deal with the strain of a pandem-
sionality of Hyperspectral Data: Use of Multiple ic-hit world. The role of the management in taking
Hypothesis Testing For Controlling Type I Error care of the well-being of the workers, the need for
received acceptance in the IEEE Journal of revising performance expectations, and the chal-
Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and lenges of workers in essential services were high-
Remote Sensing and will be published soon. He lighted during this discussion.She was an invited
co-authored two book chapters titled Introducing speaker for the Virtual Webinar on ‘Academic Moti-
Informal Inequality Measures (IIMs) Constructed vation and Career Preparation: Strategies to
from U-statistics of Degree Three or Higher in Ana- Enhance Students Success’, organised by the Rajiv
lyzing Economic Disparity and Gini’s Mean Differ- Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development,
ence Based Minimum Risk Point Estimator of Tamil Nadu, on 9 th June 2020.The discussion
Mean which will be published soon in a book by focused on best practices for the youth to build their
CRC press. His current international collabora- careers. She also co-directed a ‘One-day Training
tions are with University of Notre Dame, Loyola Program on Personnel Management’ at the National
University of Chicago, University of Texas at Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes & Narcotics,
Dallas, University of New Mexico, and Berlin Insti- Jaipur, and conducted two sessions on ‘Communi-
tute of Health, Institute of Biometry and Clinical cating Feedback Effectively’ and ‘Stress and Time
Epidemiology, Germany. He was one of the panel Management’ on 10 August 2020. She was a con-
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members in deciding the research article recom- sultant on the project ‘Psychometric Assessment of
mended for 16 Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Instrument on Signature Strengths’ with Inomi Learn-
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Analysis. He is also the associate editor of the ing, New Delhi.The project involved statistical analy-
Sequential Analysis Journal by Taylor & Francis. sis of prospective college applicants’ competency
He was the program director for the 1 FDP on data and validation of a scale measuring their “Sig-
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Analytics organized virtually by IIMV from 17 – nature Strengths.” The scope of the work centred
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21 August 2020. He was invited as a key around examination of reliability and validity of the
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resource person for the online FDP on Analytics existing Scale and generation of extending action-
organized by IIITV from 25 – 29 May 2020. able recommendations for the scale.
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