Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay Editor

Avik Sarkar is a Faculty at the Indian School of Business, working in the areas of Data, Emerging Technology and Public Policy. At ISB, Sarkar has headed the development of the India Data Portal, a one-stop portal for analyzing and visualizing government data and working on the societal & policy aspects related to emerging technologies like artificial intelligence trustworthiness, ethics, data privacy, e-commerce policy, etc. Sarkar was the former Head of the Data Analytics Cell and Officer on Special Duty (OSD) at NITI Aayog (National Institution for Transforming India Aayog), the premier policy think-tank of the Government of India. At NITI Aayog, Sarkar helped in developing India's first AI Strategy and roadmap for the use of data, analytics and artificial intelligence for Governance and policymaking across various sectors for India's inclusive growth and led efforts towards setting up the first High-Performance Computing based Data Analytics Lab and Energy Modeling Unit at NITI Aayog. Sarkar is a multiple TEDx speaker and was nominated among the "Top 10 Data Scientists in India" in 2017 by Analytics India Magazine and nominated as "LinkedIn Influencer" in the Technology space in 2015 for contribution and engaging discussions on the LinkedIn platform.

Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay is currently a Professor in Economics and Finance at the Great Lakes Institute of Management and a visiting professor at the University of Ulm. Germany. He is also the Managing Editor of Journal of Infrastructure and Development apart from serving on the editorial boards of many peer reviewed journals. Director of the Business Analytics Program at Great Lakes Institute. He has been voted among the top ten Analytics Academician in India for the last few years and also featured among top 75 Academic data leaders globally. Mukhopadhyay obtained his PhD from Indian Statistical Institute in 2002 and has been a prolific researcher in Development Economics, Policy implementations, and Applied Machine Learning.