Professor Kai Easton, Professor of Literature & Visual Cultures, SIAS has published a visual essay titled Scenes from Dusklands: Archives & Afterlives in a special issue of the journal English in Africa, for the 50th anniversary of Nobel Prizewinning writer J M Coetzee’s first novel, following a transnational conference series in Cape Town and Adelaide in April & May 2024.
A research paper by Dr Vijaya C, Assistant Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB titled Can Smart Beta Funds outperform Human-managed Funds Across Market Phases? Evidence from India has been published in Springer’s Asia-Pacific Financial Markets journal.
Professor Sureshchandar G S, Adjunct Professor, Operations, IFMR GSB has been selected as a recipient of the prestigious Baldrige Foundation’s 2026 Award for Leadership Excellence in Education by The Foundation for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, Washington DC. This award recognises exceptional leadership in the promotion of performance excellence across the globe and is given to individuals who have contributed outstanding service on a sustained basis, or a single achievement of a magnitude worthy of this recognition.
Shraddha Paliwal, PhD Scholar, IFMR GSB recently presented a research paper at the 10th PAN IIM World Management Conference hosted by IIM Ranchi. The paper is titled ’Unravelling the Path to Career Success for Women in the Modern Workplace’ and co-authored with Dr Pallavi Pandey, Associate Professor, OB and HR, IFMR GSB.
Dr Shanti Pappu, Adjunct Professor, Archeology and History, SIAS was invited to Paris to participate in and present at the International Conference ‘Technological behaviours of Hominins over Eurasia?’, held on 19–20 November 2025 and organised by M H Moncel. Dr Pappu jointly presented a paper titled ‘Persistent Places, Differing Trajectories: Exploring Lower Palaeolithic Technological Diversity in South India.’
Sayantan Datta, Assistant Professor of Practice, Krea-CWP and Dr Vivek Tewary, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, SIAS presented at the Language Diversity and Mathematics Education conference at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh, on 26 November 2025. In their presentation, they demonstrated how they use reading strategies to enable students of mathematics and quantitative sciences to comprehend mathematical content more effectively in their flagship course titled “Writing in Mathematical and Quantitative Sciences”. Drawing upon samples of students’ writing, Vivek and Sayantan showed how strategies that draw attention to non-technical aspects of mathematical texts can actually help students comprehend technical aspects of mathematical texts. The presentation was well-appreciated and generated a lot of discussion.
Two Haiga by Dr Anannya Dasgupta, Associate Professor, Literature and Arts, SIAS and Director, Krea-CWP has been published in the Contemporary Haibun Online in the 21.3 edition of the Haiga Gallery.
Dr Chirag Dhara, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, SIAS has co-authored an op-ed piece based on the recently published paper in The Times of India. In the piece the authors argue that regionally tailored adaptation is the essential need of the hour, and therefore the importance of the “Global Goal on Adaptation” at COP 30.
Read the paper, here
Prajwal Parajuly, Assistant Professor of Practice, Creative Writing SIAS has penned a new piece for The Hindu titled Why Michelin thinks India has only 36 hotels worth a Key.
Parajuly discusses how Michelin’s first India Key list names just 36 hotels, including The Leela Palace Chennai, The Leela Delhi and The Imperial, while skipping heavyweights like The Oberoi in Delhi and Mumbai and how this mix of surprises and snubs has sparked instant debate.
A research paper by Dr Rakesh Sengupta, Assistant Professor, Psychology, SIAS titled Synchronization in Hybrid Feedforward-Recurrent Neural Networks with Stochastic Temporal Modulation, has been published in the proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent Communication Networks and Computational Techniques (ICICNCT). In this work, the researchers aim to bridge the gap between theoretical mathematics and practical neural network implementation. The study presents a comprehensive investigation into how hybrid feedforward-recurrent networks maintain stability and synchronization, even under stochastic modulation.
This research offers a deeper look into the temporal processing mechanisms that drive both artificial and biological neural systems.
