Technology, Operations and Decisions Sciences

Professor Abhinandan Sinha has a Bachelor’s in Science with Honors in Statistics from Calcutta University, and a Masters in Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata (lSI). After briefly working as a researcher at Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) India, on Multidimensional Poverty Indices, he went on to earn a PhD in Quantitative Economics from his alma mater, the Indian Statistical Institute, to pursue his interest in social science. His research interest lies in the political economy of development, with mathematical modelling of game theoretical applications. He also devotes time for research and policy-based startups and writes occasional columns on relevant issues.

• Abhirup Sarkar and Abhinandan Sinha, 2018.‘Clientelism and Violence: The Politics of Informal Economy’, (Revised and Resubmitted to Economic Modelling, 2021) Link- https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110445/
• Subhra Mazumdar, Prabal Banerjee, Abhinandan Sinha, Susmita Ruj and Bimal Kumar Roy, 2021. ‘Strategic Analysis and Countermeasure of Griefing Attack in Lightning Network’, (Submitted).
• Abhinandan Sinha, 2021. ‘Political Economy of Lockdown in Epidemics’ (Working Paper).
• Abhinandan Sinha, 2020. ‘Identity versus Economics’ (Working Paper).
• Abhirup Sarkar and Abhinandan Sinha, 2019. ‘Investments and Democracy’ (Working Paper).
• Abhirup Sarkar and Abhinandan Sinha, 2017. ‘Land, Protest and Civil Society’ (Working Paper).

Past Research

• Abhinandan Sinha, 2014. “Employment Vulnerability Index: A New Approach” (Awarded Second Prize in Best Paper Competition, Data Dissemination Workshop by U.N.D.P. and Census Directorate of India).
• Basudeb Chaudhuri and Abhinandan Sinha, 2015. ‘How civil and political movements influence the development of urbanization?’ (Working Paper).
• Diganta Mukherjee and Abhinandan Sinha, 2013. ‘Politics of Violence: Identity, Isolation and Strategy in Insurgency Areas of India’ (Working Paper).
   

Conference/Symposium: 

• European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting 2021 (Online), April--2021, University of Lille, France.
• ‘Research Scholars' Workshop’ (Online), March--2021, University of Calcutta, India.
• ‘Delhi Political Economy Workshop’, February--2020, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
• ‘2nd Development Economics Conference’, June--2019, University of Lincoln, UK.
• ‘ICADABAI-2019’, April--2019, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• ‘Research Scholars' Workshop’, March--2019, Visva Bharati University, India.
• ‘National Conference On Public Finance, Public Economics and Public Policy’, February--2018, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India. 
• ‘International Conference on Public Finance, Public Economics and Public Policy’, December -- 2014, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India.
• ‘Delhi School of Economics Winter School 2014’, December -- 2014, India.
• ‘XXIVth Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics’, December -- 2014, Jadavpur University, India.
• ‘Census Data Dissemination Workshop’, December--2014, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
• ‘12th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare’, June -- 2014, Boston College, USA. 
   

Courses taught in Undergraduate Programme: Microeconomics (Indian Statistical Institute)
Courses taught in Post Graduate Programme: Introductory Economics (Indian Statistical Institute), Probability Theory (Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute).