Uttam Kumar Sarkar

Dr. Uttam Kumar Sarkar serves as the Dean of New Initiatives and External Relations at IIM Calcutta. Shri Sarkar worked as a senior member at a multinational design automation company, as a faculty member at IIT Delhi, as a Visiting faculty member at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA. He is a faculty member at the Management Information System group at IIM Calcutta since 1997. He has been the Chairman of Fellow Programme and Research, Chairman of Consultancy and Management Development Programme. He is an Shareholder Director at Union Bank of India since June 27, 2015. His publications appear in several international journals of repute such as Journal of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Theoretical Computer Science, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been involved in several consultancy projects sponsored by the Government of India including those from the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Fruit Processing Industry, the Tea Board and the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Shri Sarkar completed his B.Tech, M.Tech and PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Academic Background:

Ph. D. (1994), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

M. Tech. (1989), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

B. Tech. (1987), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Higher Secondary (1983), Ramakrishna Mission Residential College Narendrapur under West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education

Experience

Consulting Interests:

• Mid-term Appraisal of Macro Management Schemes in Eastern and Northeastern states, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India.
• Evaluation of Centrally Funded Projects in the Eastern States, Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Government of India
• Monitoring and Supervision of Sarba Shikshya Abhiyan (SSA) in West Bengal and A&N Islands, Ministry of HRD, Government of India
• External Evaluation of Post Literacy Programme (PLP) in Khurda, Orissa, Ministry of HRD, Government of India
• External Evaluation of Total Literacy Programme (TLP) in Cachar, Assam, Ministry of HRD, Government of India
• Computerization at the Tea Board

*Work Experience: *

[2008 – Present] Professor, Management Information Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

[6 April 2015 - 6 April 2018] Dean, New Initiatives and External Relations, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

[2006-2008] Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, USA

[2005 – 2006] Professor, Management Information Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

[2002 - 2005] Associate Professor, Management Information Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

[2000-2002] Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida 33146, USA

[1997-2000] Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

[1996 - 1997] Assistant Professor, Department of Management studies, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

[1995 - 1996] Senior Member (Technical), Cadence Design Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd, NEPZ, UP, India

[1990 - 1995] Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

*Current Projects: *

Graduate level Teaching in Academic Session 2018-19:

• Business Data Mining
• Social Network Analytics
• Quantitative Research Methods

Journal Publications:

[Agam Gupta, Vinu C T, Arqum Mateen, Divya Sharma, Uttam K Sarkar] Combating incumbency advantage of network effects: The role of entrant's decisions & consumer preferences, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, [forthcoming, 2019]

[Debabrata Ghosh, Peeyush Mehta, Balram Avittathur and Uttam K Sarkar] Unlocking the potential of India’s high-tech start-ups, Supply Chain Management Review, March/April 2018 issue, pp 8-10.

[Agam Gupta, Biswatosh Saha, Uttam K Sarkar] Emergent heterogeneity in keyword valuation in sponsored search markets - A closer-to-practice perspective, Computational Economics, Springer, Vol 8, No 4, 2016, DOI:10.1007/s10614-016-9637-5.

[Agam Gupta, Biswatosh Saha, Uttam K Sarkar] Systemic Concentration in Sponsored Search Markets: The Role of Time Window in Click-Through-Rate Computation, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), Volume 7, Issue 2, August 2016.

[Ram Babu Roy and Uttam K Sarkar] A social network approach to change detection in the interdependence structure of global stock markets, Social Network Analysis and Mining, Springer, Vol. 3, Number 3, September 2013, pp 269-283. DOI 10.1007/s13278-012-0063-y.

[Dilip Sarkar, Uttam K Sarkar, G Peng] Bandwidth Requirement of Links in a Hierarchical Caching Network: A Graph Based Formulation, an Algorithm, and its Performance Evaluation, International Journal of Computers and Applications, Acta Press, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2007.

[Dilip Sarkar, Uttam K Sarkar, Wei Zhou] Bandwidth estimation of multiplexed videos using multinomial model, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol 30, Issue 2, 2007, pp 269-279.

[U. K. Sarkar, S. Ramakrishnan, D. Sarkar]. Study of Long-Duration MPEG Trace Segmentation Methods for Developing Frame-Size Based Traffic Models, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Vol. 44, No. 2, 2004, pp. 177-188

[U. K. Sarkar, S. Ramakrishnan, and D. Sarkar] Modeling Full-Length Video Using Markov-Modulated Gamma-Based Framework, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol 11, No 4, pp. 638-649, 2003.

[U. K. Sarkar] On the Uniqueness of Solution to the Multi-peg Towers of Hanoi, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, Gordon and Breach Pub., Vol 78, No. 1, 2001, pp 57-72.

[U. K. Sarkar] On The Design of A Constructive Algorithm to Solve the Multi-peg Towers of Hanoi Problem, Theoretical Computer Science, Elsevier, Vol 237, Issue 1-2, pp 407-421, 2000.

[U.K.Sarkar, P.P.Chakrabarti, S.Ghose, S.C.DeSarkar] Improving Greedy Algorithms By Lookahead Search, Journal of Algorithms, Academic Press, Vol 16, 1994, pp 1-23.

[U.K.Sarkar, P.P.Chakrabarti, S.Ghose, S.C.DeSarkar] Effective Use of Memory in Iterative Deepening Search, Information Processing Letters, North Holland, Vol 42, 1992, pp 47-52.

[U.K.Sarkar, P.P.Chakrabarti, S.Ghose, S.C.DeSarkar] A Simple 0.5 Bounded Greedy Algorithm for 0/1 Knapsack Problem, Information Processing Letters, North Holland, Vol 42, 1992, 173-177.

[U.K.Sarkar, P.P.Chakrabarti, S.Ghose, S.C.DeSarkar] Reducing Reexpansions in Iterative Deepening Search By Controlling Cutoff Bounds, Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, Vol 51, 1991, pp 207-221.

[U.K.Sarkar, P.P.Chakrabarti, S.Ghose, S.C.DeSarkar] Multiple Stack Branch and Bound, Information Processing Letters, North Holland, Vol 37, 1991, pp 43-48.