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Academic Background:

Fellow in Management - Doctoral Programme of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; B.Tech - University of Calcutta

Courses Taught:

Information Technology and Systems, Information and Network Industries, Business Modeling using Spreadsheets

Experience

Work Experience:

Sep, 2018 - present: Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
2015 - Sep, 2018: Associate Professor, XLRI Xavier School of Management
2009 - 2015: Assistant Professor, XLRI Xavier School of Management

Research

Journal Publications:

• Ghosh, S., Chakraborty, S., Gupta, N. and Basu, S. 2022. What ails physician review websites? A study of information needs of patients. Decision Support Systems. Forthcoming. 
   
• Sharma, M., Basu, S., Chakraborty, S., and Bose, I. 2022. Determining the optimal release time of movies: A study of movie and market characteristics. Decision Support Systems. Forthcoming. 
   
• Chakraborty, S., Basu, S., Ray, S., and Sharma, M. 2021. Advertisement revenue management: Determining the optimal mix of skippable and non-skippable ads for online video sharing platforms. European Journal of Operational Research, 292(1), pp. 213-229, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.10.012. 
   
• Anup, K Sen and Amitava, Bagchi and Soumyakanti, Chakraborty. 2020. Designing information feedback for bidders in multi-item multi-unit combinatorial auctions. Decision Support Systems. Vol. 130 
   
• Bose and Dipankar and and Soumyakanti, Chakraborty. 2019. Managing In-play Run Chases in Limited Overs Cricket Using Optimized CUSUM Charts. Journal of Sports Analytics. (Forthcoming) 
   
• Sarkar, Sumit and Chakraborty, Soumyakanti. "Stakeholder Fairness under an Induced ‘Veil of Ignorance". International Journal of Strategic Decision Sciences. Vol 10 (1). 2019 
   
• Sarkar, Sumit. and Chakraborty, Soumyakanti. “Pitch Actions That Distinguish High Scoring Teams - Findings from Five European Football Leagues in 2015-16”, Journal of Sports Analytics, 4(1). 2018 
   
• Basu, Sumanta, Chakraborty, Soumyakanti and Sharma, Megha. “Pricing and cloud services-the impact of broadband quality”, OMEGA-The International Journal of Management Science, 50, 96 – 114, 2015. 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Sen, Anup K and Bagchi, Amitava. “Addressing the valuation problem in multi-round combinatorial auctions”, Information Systems Frontiers, 17 (5), 1145-1160, 2014. 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Basu, Sumanta and Sharma, Megha. “Pricing Infrastructure-as-a-Service for online two-sided platform providers”, Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, 13(3), 199 - 223, 2014. 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Sen, Anup K and Bagchi, Amitava. “Experimenting with Proxy Agents in Online Combinatorial Auctions”, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, 10 (2), 2014. 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Sen, Anup K and Bagchi, Amitava. “Combinatorial Auctions for Player Selection in the Indian Premier League (IPL)”, Journal of Sports Economics, 16 (1), 86-107, 2015 (Online First - December 27, 2012).

Conferences:

• Ghosh, S., Chakraborty, S., Gupta, N. and Basu, S. 2021. Information gap in physician review websites: A comparative study of patient expectations and available information. International Conference on Information Systems 2021 Proceedings. 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Sen, Anup K and Bagchi, Amitava. Revaluation of Bundles by Bidders in Combinatorial Auctions, In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2009), 2009, Hawaii, USA 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Sen, Anup K and Bagchi, Amitava. Designing Proxy Bidders for Online Combinatorial Auctions, In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2009), 2009, Hawaii, USA 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Sen, Anup K and Bagchi, Amitava. Reducing Operational Overheads of Seller and Bidder in Online Combinatorial Auctions, In Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS 2008), 2008, Paris, France 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Sen, Anup K and Bagchi, Amitava. Bidder Valuation of Bundles in Combinatorial Auctions. In Proceedings of the 41st Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2008), 2008, Hawaii, USA 
  
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti and Sarkar Sumit. Towards a Performance Measure for Player Combinations in Team Games. Presented in the 28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO – INFORMS joint international meeting) in Poznan, Poland, 2016. 
   
• Sarkar, Sumit and Chakraborty, Soumyakanti. Determinants of Non-penalty Goals Scored per Game by Teams in Europe’s Elite Football Leagues. Presented in the 28th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO – INFORMS joint international meeting) in Poznan, Poland, 2016. 
   
• Sharma, Megha, Basu, Sumanta, and Chakraborty, Soumyakanti. Pricing and Revenue Management in Sequential Distribution Channel: An Application to the Hindi Movie Industry, Presented in 20th IFORS conference in Barcelona, Spain, 2014 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Basu, Sumanta and Sharma, Megha. Optimizing Skippable and Non-Skippable Advertisements for Video Sharing Websites, Presented in 26th Euro Conference on Operational Research in Rome, Italy, 2013 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Basu, Sumanta and Sharma, Megha. Designing Pricing Policies for Cloud Service Providers, Presented in Informs Annual Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, 2012 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Basu, Sumanta and Sharma, Megha. Pricing Strategies for Gaming On-Demand, Presented in 25th Euro Conference on Operational Research in Lithuania, 2012 
   
• Sharma, Megha, Basu, Sumanta, and Chakraborty, Soumyakanti. Revenue Management in Sequential Distribution: An Application to the Hindi Movie Industry, Presented in 25th Euro Conference on Operational Research in Lithuania, 2012 
   
• Chakraborty, Soumyakanti, Basu, Sumanta and Sharma, Megha. Pricing infrastructure-as-a-service for online two- sided platform providers, Presented in XV Annual Conference of the Society of Operations Management, December, 2011

Research Interests:

• Economics of Information Technology 
   
• Pricing of Information Goods and Services 
   
• Healthcare IT