Dr. Amit Kumar BiswasSQC&OR UnitIndian Statistical InstituteChennai Center110, Nelson Manickam RoadAminjikarai, Chennai 600 029Phone : 94440 32648e-mail: amit biswas@hotmail.com

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy, ISI 2000

Thesis Title : Stability and Largeness of the Core of Cooperative Games.

• Diploma in SQC & OR ISI 1982

• Master of Statistics (Statistical Quality Control & Operations Research) 1982

• Bachelor of Statistics(Honours) ISI 1981

Dr.Amit K Biswas is an Associate Professor in the Indian Statistical Institute in it’sStatistical Quality Control and Operations Research(SQC&OR) Unit in Chennai. Hejoined the Institute at an early age of 16 after his Higher Secondary from the West Ben-gal Board of Secondary Education and did B.Stat(Hons), M.Stat and Ph.D. and joinedthe Institute as a faculty. He has a rich experience of more than 30 years in the fieldof teaching, training, consulting and research in Statistics, Optimisation and QualityManagement.

His research area has been Game Theory as well as Applied Data Analysis. He has au-thored a book in Game Theory as well as a text book in statistics for sophomore studentsand has more than a dozen publication in national and international journals.

He has taught Graduate and Undergraduate courses in Universities in India and the USand also visited Netherlands, Germany, Belgium etc for research and conference relatedpurposes. He has trained technocrats and guided them in Quality Control and Optimi-sation activities in their companies.

In recent years he is specialising in Analytics area by organising Training Program, Con-ferences as well as collaborating with Industries in solving their problems. He has aspecial interest in Government Sector projects and training. Currently working withGoTN in several projects, Development of Cleanliness Index, and control and monitor-ing of food prices to name a few. National Centre for Sustainable Coastal Managementunder the Department of Environment, Forest Climate Change, Government of India isanother important collaborating Institution for his research.

Dr.Biswas also teaches in a few Colleges in Chennai city and a few MBA schools indifferent parts of the country.

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LIST OF PUBLICATIONS :

1. BOOKS

(a) Cooperative Games and Their Solutions, Their definition constructionand properties by Lambert Academic Publishing (2011) ISBN-13:978-3-8454-

0036-5, ISBN-10:3845400366, EAN:9783845400365

(b) Introduction to Statistics an adaptive learning e-book on the net publishedwith Cogbooks.com for use of students in the Universities in the US (2017).

2. PAPERS

(a) (with P.Krishnan & others)Impact of long-term seaweed farming on water qual-ity: a case study from Palk Bay, India Journal of Coastal Conservation,https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11852-018-00678-4 published on-line 11th January 2019

(b) (with Jinu Merlin Koshy & others)Prevalence of Postural Problems among theNurses in Chennai Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development9(7):48 (July 2018)

(c) (with P.Krishnan & others)Framework for mapping the drivers of coastal vul-nerability and spatial decision making for climate-change adaptation: A casestudy from Maharashtra, India Ambio, The Royal Swidish Academy of Sciences,http://doi.org/10.107/s13280-018-1061-8 (31 May, 2018).

(d) Largeness of the Core of k-convex Symmetric Games International Game TheoryReview, vol. 15, no 04( 2013), pp 1340023-1-1340023-5

(e) Decision Support System in a Publishing Company Proceedings of the Interna-tional Congress on Productivity, Quality, Reliability, Optimisation and Mod-elling, Vol II(2011), pp815-822.

(f) (with Manna D.K.) Sampling Procedure for Sieve Analysis of NPK:17-17-17fertilizers, IAPQR Transactions, Vol33, No.1(2008).pp43-60.

(g) (with V.Thangaraj and A. Sugumaran) On Bargaining based point solution tocooperative TU games,International Game Theory Review Vol.9, No.2(2007).pp361-374.

(h) (with J.A.M.Potters and Hans Reijnierse) The nucleolus of balanced simple flownetworks, Games and Economic Behaviour 54, (2006) pp205-225.

(i) (with Bhattacharya A.) Stability of the core in a class of NTU games: A charac-terisation. International Game Theory Review Vol.4, No.2(2002).pp165-172.

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(j) (with Ravindran G. and Parthasarathy T.) Stability and Largeness of the CoreGames and Economic Behaviour 34, (2001) pp227-237.

(k) (with Ravindran G. and Parthasarathy T.) Stability and largeness of core forsymmetric games International Journal of Game Theory, 29, pp11-22 (2000).

(l) (with Parthasarathy T, Voorneveld M and Potters J.A.M.) Large Core andExactness Games and Economic Behaviour 28, pp1-12, (1999).

(m) (with Murthy G.S.R.) A Chain Condition for Qo Matrices Game TheoreticalApplication to Economics and OR, 149-152 (1997) Kluwer Academic Publish-ers.

(n) (with Rath.S)Control Scheme for some Non-Normal Quality Characteristics Qual-ity & Reliability, IV, 2, (1993).

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3. PAPERS PRESENTED IN SEMINAR/CONFERENCE1 :

(a) (with Sakshi Bansal) Road to Normality of Sum of Several Categorical Variables— A simulation study, Presented at National Conference on emerging trends instatistical research issues and challenges at University of Pondicherry (2015)

(b) (with Adrija Banerjee, Ananya Nath and Purba Mondal) An assessment ofSchool Drop-outs, the latent factors, Presented at National conference on Ap-plied Mathematics and Technology by the Queen Mary’s College, Chennai(2014).

(c) (With Pabitra Shahoo, M.Shanavaz) Revisiting Validity and Reliability of Med-ical Instruments, Presented at International Conference on Role of Statistics inthe Advancement of Science and Technology On the Occasion of Diamond Ju-bilee Year of the Department of Statistics & The International Year of Statis-tics at Department of Statistics University of Pune(2013)

(d) (with T.S.Subha and A Gnaanamani) Effect of Carbohydrates on Candida albi-cans biofilms on denture acrylic, Presented at National Conference in Statisticsin Life Sciences by SDNB Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai, January2012.

(e) (with T.S.Subha, A Gnaanamani and G.Sekaran) Candida Biofilms : Develop-ment, Architecture and Perfusion of Anti-fungal Agents, Presented at the Inter-national conference on Biosciences? trends in Molecular Medicine, February2012.

(f) (with Bhattacharya A.) Stability of the core in a class of NTU games: A Charac-terisation International Conference on Operations Research and Game TheoryChennai, 2000.

(g) (with Parthasarathy T.) Necessary and Sufficient Condition for Large core of TUgames Annual conference on Economic Theory and Policy JNU, New Delhi,1998.

(h) (with Ravindran G. and Parthasarathy T.) Stability and largeness of core forsymmetric games Game Theory Festival, SUNY, Stony Brook, 1997.

(i) (with Murthy G.S.R.) A note on Efo ∩ Qo-Matrices International Conference

on Game Theory Bangalore, 1996.

(j) (with Arthanari T.S. and Manna D.K.) A Decision Support System for SiloSizing and Mixing to Improve Outgoing Quality of Fertilizer,2 IFORS Conference,Portugal, 1993.

1Some are published with minor/major modification. Some are based on project reports.2OPSEARCH (Vol.30, No.4) reports “Honourable mention was made to this paper in IFORS’93”.

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