Prof. (Ms.) Usha Ananthakumar

Professor

Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Since Sep’ 2014

Associate Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Since Apr’ 2007

Assistant Professor, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Since Mar’ 2001

In Refereed Journals

• ›“An overlap sensitive neural network for class imbalanced data,” Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 35, 1654-1687 (2021) (with Shahee, S.A)
• ›“An effective distance based feature selection approach for imbalanced data,” Applied Intelligence, 1-29, Vol. 50, Issue 3, pp. 717-745 (2020) (with Shahee, S.A)
• ›“Synthetic sampling approach based on model-based clustering for imbalanced data,” International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Vol. 6, Issue 4, pp. 348-364 (2018) (with Shahee, S.A)
• ›“Understanding Tourist Preferences for Travel Packages : A Conjoint Analysis Approach,” Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Vol.22, Issue 12, pp.1238-1249 (2017) (with Pai, S)
• ›“Hedging in presence of crop yield, crop revenue and rainfall insurance,” Journal of Quantitative Economics, Vol.15, Issue 1, pp.151-171 (2017) (with Ranganathan, T)
• ›“Investigating the alternative paradigms of manufacturing competence: an empirical study,” Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol.27, Issue 6, pp.818-841 (2016) (with Jain, B.C and Adil, G.K)
• ›“A family of absolutely continuous bivariate distributions”, Journal of the Indian Statistical Association, Vol 53, pp. 195– 204 (2015) (with Subramanyam, A)
• ›“Development of questionnaire to assess manufacturing capability along different decision areas”, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 71, pp. 2091 – 2105 (2014) (with Jain, B.C and Adil, G.K)
• ›“Does Hedging in Futures Markets Benefit Indian Farmers?”, Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol. 31, Issue 3, pp. 291-308 (2014) (with Ranganathan, T)
• ›“Market Efficiency in Indian Soybean Futures Markets”, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Vol. 9, Issue 4, pp. 520-534 (2014) (with Ranganathan,T)
• ›“An Instrument to measure factors of stragetic manufacturing effectiveness based on Hayes and Wheelwright’s model”, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, Vol 24, 812 -829 (2013) (with Jain, B.C and Adil, G.K)
• ›“Configuration of Manufacturing Strategy Decision Areas in Line Production System: Five Case Studies”, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol. 64, pp. 459-474 (2013) (with Sanjay Choudhari and Adil, G.K.)
• ›“Exploratory Case Studies on Manufacturing Decision Areas in the Job Production System”, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, 32, pp. 1337-1361 (2012) (with Sanjay Choudhari and Adil, G.K.)
• ›“Choices in Manufacturing Stategy Decision Areas in Batch Production System – Six Case Studies”, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 50, pp. 3698-3717 (2012) (with Sanjay Choudhari and Adil, G.K.)
• ›“Congruence of Manufacturing Decision Areas in a Production System: A Research Framework”, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 48, pp. 5963-5989 (2010) (with Sanjay Choudhari and Adil, G.K.)
• ›“The Predictive Accuracy of Feed Forward Neural Networks and Multiple Regression in the Case of Heteroscedastic Data”, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 11, pp. 3859-3869 (2011) (with Mukta Paliwal)
• ›“Assessing the Contribution of Variables in Feed Forward Neural Network”, Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 11, pp. 3690-3696 (2011) (with Mukta Paliwal)
• ›“A Study of Academic Performance of Business School Graduates Using Neural Network and Statistical Techniques”, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 36, pp. 7865-7872 (2009) (with Mukta Paliwal)
• ›“Neural Networks and Statistical Techniques: A Review of Applications”, Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 36, pp. 2-17 (2009) (with Mukta Paliwal)

In Refereed Conferences

• ›“A study on the effects of response time on travel package attributes,” Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications, DATA 2021, pp. 79-87, July 6-8 (2021) (Online) (with Pai, S)
• ›“Inferring Colours in Paintings of M.F. Husain by Using Cluster Analysis,” 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, October 12-14, 2020, Poland. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 12416 LNAI, pp. 31-38 (Online) (with Gurjar, S)
• ›“Predicting Commercial Real Estate Rent: An Empirical Study,” 2019 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Dec’ 15 – Dec’ 18, 2019, Macau (with Sinha, R)
• ›An Adaptive Oversampling Technique for Imbalanced Datasets. In: Perner P. (eds) Advances in Data Mining. Applications and Theoretical Aspects. ICDM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10933, pp 1-16, Springer, Cham (2018) (with Shahee, S.A)
• ›Probability Based Cluster Expansion Oversampling Technique for Imbalanced Data,” 4th International Conference on Data Mining and Database Management Systems, Apr 28 – 29, 2018, Dubai, UAE (with Shahee, S.A)
• ›“Application of Logistic Regression in assessing Stock Performances,” 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing, 2017, Florida, USA (with Sarkar, R)
• ›“Application of Factor Analysis in Analyzing Sales of the Retail Stores,” 2016 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, Dec 15-17, 2016, Chennai, India (with Mridha, A)
• ›“Application of Extreme Value Theory in Commodity Markets”, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Dec’ 10 – 13 2013, Thailand (with Ashwin Durga)
• ›“Price discovery in Commodity Futures Markets: An Integrated Framework”, 3rd International Conference on Managing Inclusive Growth: The bottom-up Approach for Harmonious Development held at IBA, Greater Noida (2013), (with Ranganathan, T)
• ›“A case study on four stage model assessing strategic role of manufacturing”, International Conference on Advances in Supply Chain and Manufacturing Management, Dec 16-18, 2011, IIT Kharagpur, India (with Jain, B.C and Adil, G.K)
• ›“Comparison of Neural Network and Regression Techniques for Nonlinear Prediction Problems”, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Dec 6 – 9, 2011, Singapore (with Mukta Paliwal)
• ›“Comparative Analysis of SOM Neural Network with K-Means Clustering Algorithm”, IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, June 2-5, 2010, Singapore (with Yuvnish Dhamija)
• ›“Correspondence between Manufacturing Strategy Paradigms and Wheelwright and Hayes Model: Two Case Studies”, IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, June 2-5, 2010, Singapore (with Jain, B.C and Adil, G.K)
• ›“Unit Root Tests: Give it a Break!”, International Symposium of Forecasting, June 20-23, 2010, SanDiego, USA (with Ranganathan, T)
• ›“A Study on the Contribution of Explanatory Variables in Artificial Neural Networks”, International Conference on Decision Sciences in Global Enterprise Management, Jan 3-5, 2009, IIT Bombay, Mumbai (with Mukta Paliwal)
• ›“Congruence between Competitive Priorities and Manufacturing Decisions: An Exploratory Study”, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Dec 8-11, 2008, Singapore (with Sanjay Choudhari and Adil, G.K)
• ›“The Predictive Accuracy of Feed Forward Neural Networks and Multiple Regression in the Case of Heteroscedastic Data”, IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Dec 8-11, 2008, Singapore (with Mukta Paliwal) (Shortlisted for Outstanding Paper Award)
• ›“A Comparative Study of Neural Networks and Regression Technique Using Simulation” AIB-India and CIMER International Conference on Globalization and Emerging Economies, Aug 11-13, 2008, IIM Indore (with Mukta Paliwal)
• ›“Factor analysis to identify latent constructs across management schools at a business school”, 2007 IEEE/INFORMS International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, Aug 27 – 29, 2007, Philadelphia, USA (with Manandeep Singh)
• ›“Extreme value analysis of Exchange rates”, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics and Informatics, August 10-12, 2005, Beijing, China (with Rahul Gupta)

• Coordinator of the CEP Programme “Analytics for Management” for five batches, a CEP spanning four months (2014 – 2019)
• Coordinator of two batches of the CEP Program “Advanced Certificate Programme in Business Analytics”, a CEP spanning 10 months (2010-2011) and (2011-2012)
• Taught in various CEP and MDP programmes at SJMSOM, IIT Bombay