Online MBA equivalent PGDM Program in Data Science and AI

Srabashi is an analytics expert and an academic administrator. She does extensive work in statistical applications in different areas like health analytics, complex data analytics, aviation industry, CRM etc. She has published research papers in many areas of statistics and is always eager to apply her skills in challenging areas including finance, retail, marketing and other areas. She also works as a Corporate Trainer in Business Analytics, Predictive Modeling, R and SAS and leverages her work experience to prepare business case studies. She has developed online course materials in Statistics, Business Analytics, R and SAS. She is involved in professional training and corporate coaching for more than a decade now. She is adept in developing course for short-term, long-term and regular classes as well as online learning. She is also an efficient academic administrator. Specialties: Big data analytics, Statistics, Marketing Research, Market Survey, Business Intelligence, R, SAS, Minitab, Professional training, Academic administration.

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Dr. Vishwanathan Iyer is a Senior Associate Professor in the area of Finance & Accounting, and the Director of Accreditation at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. Prior to this, he was the Academic Dean at TAPMI and had also held various leadership roles over the last ten years. He has an overall experience of 20+ years of teaching and research across top business schools in India and about three years of professional practice as a Chartered Accountant. His areas of teaching include Accounting, Fixed Income, Quantitative Asset Management, Corporate Finance and Financial Econometrics. His research interests are Risk Management, Earnings Management, and Psycholinguistics.

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Dr. Raj Krishnan prior to joining Great Lakes, was an associate professor of entrepreneurship at Nord University, Norway. He joined the academic world after over a decade of consulting and entrepreneurship experience. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at Nord University after receiving his doctorate from the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India. He holds a B.E. in Computer Science from Madras University and an MBA in finance from Symbiosis Institute of International Business. Prior to joining the doctoral program, Raj worked as a consultant with Deloitte Touché Tohmatsu and i-flex Consulting (now Oracle). His entrepreneurial endeavour (Ichiban Consultants) involved helping emerging enterprises achieve scale.

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With over 26 years of rich experience, Prof. Umashankar Venkatesh is an educational entrepreneur, who has helped launch many institutions of higher learning in his career. He has helped set-up five institutions of higher learning in India, both public and private, enacting key leadership roles in conceptualizing, designing, implementing and managing, innovative study programs - with many international partners viz. Lancaster Univ. UK; Oxford Brookes Univ. UK; Bradford Univ. UK; Greenwich Univ. UK etc. He was also offered Adjunct Professorship at the CUNY, USA in 2004. With a PHD in Management (Consumer Behavior), he holds Postgraduate qualifications in Management as well as Agricultural Economics. His areas of interest include – (International) Consumer Behavior, Marketing of Services, Rural Marketing, Strategic Marketing etc. He is on the Editorial Board of various research journals. He has authored a book on Services Management; has many research publications to his credit. Has designed & conducted training programs for – business managers, academicians, civil servants and NGO functionaries in the areas of customer centricity, service orientation, organizational design, ethics, institution building etc. He promotes research by being a PHD supervisor and examiner for many universities along with reviewer of reputed journals viz. Vikalpa (IIM-A); Global Business Review (Sage); Emerald Group Publishing, Journal of Services Research etc. He has also incubated on, a personal basis, numerous small and medium sized enterprises along with his students, and is currently still attached to some of them in an advisory capacity. Prior joining Great Lakes, he was with IMI (International Management Institute), Delhi as Professor and Area Chair of Marketing.

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Dr. Abhinanda Sarkar is a seasoned academician with B.Stat. and M.Stat. degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. He has held teaching positions at prestigious institutions such as MIT, Stanford, and the Indian Institute of Management. Dr. Sarkar's research focuses on business analytics, data mining, and risk management. His vast experience, including leadership roles at General Electric (GE) and IBM, ensures that you receive a robust education grounded in both theory and practical application in AI and data science.

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Dr. Mathew is a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), MBA – Marketing from BIT-Mesra, Ranchi, BA Economics from Lucknow University and brings with him 18 years of industry experience followed by 7 years of B-School academic experience.

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Prof. Mukesh Rao is an Adjunct Faculty at Great Lakes for Big Data and Machine Learning. Mukesh has over 20 years of industry experience in Market Research, Project Management, and Data Science. Mukesh has conducted over 100 corporate trainings. Data Science training covers all the stages of CRISP DM, tools and techniques used in each stage, machine learning algorithms and their application. Big Data training covers core Apache Hadoop technologies including HDFS, YARN, Map Reduce, PIG, HIVE, SQOOP, FLUME, SPARK and MongoDB.

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Dr. Sanchita holds a PhD (EFPM) from IIM Raipur, specialising in Information Systems, and a B.E. from NSIT. She has 16+ years of industry experience in Data Science and Analytics across various domains. During her industry stint, she has successfully delivered AI ML projects for Fortune 500 companies and designed various AI and ML-based upskilling initiatives. She was recognised in 2021 as ‘3AI Women to Watch Out in Analytics’ for her professional contributions. She aspires to leverage technical and research advancements to benefit learners and contribute to the research community through curriculum development and publications.

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