Category: Faculty & Staff Spotlight

Dr Debankur Saha, Assistant Professor, Marketing, IFMR GSB, participated in the Pulicat Bird Atlas, a three-day bird count survey organized by IISER Tirupati. The event witnessed the participation of bird enthusiasts from across India, including students from Krea University. The survey took place in the ecologically rich areas of Pulicat Lake and Sri City, where the team had the opportunity to observe over 150 bird species.

Dr Rangachary Kommanduri, Visiting Professor of Data Science, SIAS presented a paper titled, ‘Enhanced Semantic-Driven Anomaly Detection: A Multi-Class Strategy for Video Data’ at the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP 2024) held at IIITDM Kancheepuram from 19 – 21 December 2024.

The article is co-authored with Dr Mrinmoy Ghorai (Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City) and proposes the Squeeze-Attentive Encoder Network (SAE-Net), a novel architecture integrating semantic-driven analysis and channel wise feature recalibrated attention for precise multi-class anomaly detection in videos.

Dr Vijaya C, Assistant Professor, Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB recently presented a case study titled, ‘Sovereign Gold Bonds: To be or not to be’, at the IIM Nagpur IVEY Case Conference held at IIM Nagpur in December 2024. 

In November 2024, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was in a dilemma whether to continue or stop the issue of Sovereign Gold Bond (SGB). In November 2015, RBI, in consultation with the Government of India, had introduced the SGB scheme to reduce the widening current account deficit primarily due to the import of physical gold. It also enabled investors to divert their savings to digital gold which had the advantages of safety, low risk, regular interest income and tax benefits. With stable gold prices in the past, the Government had looked at SGB as a cheaper source of financing compared to traditional bonds. However, the COVID-19 pandemic had upset the SGB cart as the significant surge in gold prices meant redemption costs much higher than what the Government had estimated. There were no issues of SGB in the financial year 2024-25 and speculation was rife among investors and analysts as to whether RBI had decided to stop any more issues of SGB. The onus was now on RBI to take the correct decision on the future of SGB and propose the same to the Government with a detailed analysis. The question remained about SGB – to be or not to be!

Dr Srajana Kaikini, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, SIAS was invited by Asia Theories Network (ATN) to present at their ‘2024 Critical Humanities Workshop on 6G: Genesis, Generativity, Gender, Genetics, Genealogy, Genocide’ held at National Taiwan University, Taipei. She presented her paper ‘Nature’s Face’ at this forum – the third articulation of her philosophical work on the face, as part of a panel on Images : [Un]natural and Supplementary. ATN is a global scholarly network functioning as a platform for exchanges and collaborations among humanities and interpretive social science scholars in Asia and other parts of the world.

Dr Suchika Chopra, Assistant Professor of Economics, SIAS presented her research paper, titled ‘Understanding the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany: Asset Value vs. Asset Ownership’ at the Winter School 2024, organised by the Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University on 11 December 2024.

Dr Sairam Moturi, Assistant Professor of Finance, Accounting and Quantitative Finance, IFMR GSB presented his paper titled ‘Auditor Familiarity and Audit Quality in Business Groups’, co-authored with Professors Vijaya Bhaskar Marisetty and Sanjay Kallapur, at India Management Research Conference 2024. The conference was organised by the Centre for Sustainability and Corporate Governance Research at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and took place from 7 to 9 December 2024.

A new publication by Professor Madhuri Saripalle, Professor, Economics and Chairperson – MBA Programme, IFMR GSB has been published in the Asian Journal of Technology Innovation. Titled, Driving productivity: a comparison of the Indian automobile manufacturers and component suppliers, the study analyses the factors influencing productivity within the Indian automobile industry, specifically examining the component manufacturers and the original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
AJTI is the official journal of the Korean Society for Innovation Management and Economics (KOSIME), the Asia Association of Learning, Innovation and Coevolution Studies (ASIALICS) and the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI). 

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