Research

My primary research interest lies in Game Theoretic modeling. Especially when there is a human element involved. I concentrate on human behavior and their strategic perspective. That helps me navigate a wide array of domains including marketing decisions, business strategies, conflicts, policy considerations, politics, and many more. 

Apart from Game Theory, I am interested in working with data. Everything that brings data to me is interesting. Data doesn't only provide information and insights by its own voluminous and various characteristic, but also bring history with it. Data, in order to maintain the sacrosanct image that it has developed as democratic and unbiased, invariably carries the systemic biases within itself, and my fascination lies there.

Some of my publications are listed here, but they may not be the greatest representative of what I want to do, rather they are something that I could manage to do.

 

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Publication in Journals

 

  • Ghatak, A. et. al., 2022, ‘A Generalized Epidemiological Model with Dynamic and Asymptomatic Population’, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, vol 31 (11), pp 2137-2163
  • Ghatak, A., May 2022, ‘How to Stop Collusion in Peer Review Exercises: Evidence from the Classroom’, Resonance: Journal of Science Education, vol. 27, no. 5: Springer Nature, pp. 867-875 
  • Ghatak, A., Mukherjee D., Rao, K. M., April 2017, ‘A Spatial Game Theoretic Analysis of Conflict and Identity’, Computational Economics, vol. 52, issue 2: Springer US, pp. 493-519
  • Ghatak, A., Iyengar, S., June 2014, ‘Corruption Breeds Corruption’, Studies in Microeconomics vol. 2: Sage India, pp.121-132 Click to view
  • Ghatak, A., Rao, K. M., Shaiju, A., Dec 2012, ‘Evolutionary stability against multiple mutations’, Dynamic Games and Applications, vol. 2, issue 4: Birkh ̈auser Boston, pp. 376-384 
  • Dhanalakshmi, R., Parthiban, P., Ghatak, A., Jan 2010, ‘A heuristic to generate input sequence for simulated annealing to solve VRP’, International Journal of Enterprise Network Management, vol. 4, issue 1: pp.26-38

 

 

Conference Presentations

  • Ghatak, A., Mukherjee, D., Ray, A., March 2016, ‘The Interplay of Identity and Social Network - An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Model’, Invited Talk, International Conclave on the Foundations of Decisions and Games, IGIDR, Mumbai, India
  • Ghatak, A., Mukherjee, D., Dec 2015, ‘The Interplay of Identity and Social Network - A Methodological Study’, Invited Talk, Networks and Games 2015, IIT Ropar, Ropar, India
  • Ghatak, A., Mukherjee, D., Rao, K. M., Dec 2014 ‘A Behavioral and Spatial Game Theoretic Analysis of Conflict and Identity’, Invited Talk, Networks and Games 2014, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, India
  • Ghatak, A., Dec 2012, ‘Bribery Games - Does Differential Treatment Help?’, International Conference on Optimization, Computing and Business Analytics, Kolkata, India, Allied Publishers, pp. 120-123
  • Ghatak, A., Rao, K. M., July 2012, ‘Spatial Games and Evolutionary Stability against Multple Mutations’, ISDG Fifteenth International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications, Bysice, Czech Republic
  • Ghatak, A. January 2012, ‘Bribery - A Game Theoretic Approach’, International Conference on Game Theory Operations Research and Applications, ISI Chennai, India

 

Ongoing Works

  • “The Interplay of Identity and Social Network - an Evolutionary Game Theoretic Model” with Diganta Mukherjee (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata) - Forever under development
  • “Population Crafting: Education, Employment, Corruption and Caste in India” with Malabika Biswas (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) - Ambitious much
  • “Politicization and Polarization Concerning Science in Global South: Evidence from News Coverage of COVID-19 in India” with S. Rajan & K. Gangopadhyay, R&R at International Journal of Public Opinion Research
  • “To Blame or Not to Blame: the Vanishing Samaritans Curse” with R. Sil & Thiagu R., Under review at Economics & Philosophy
  • “Estate Division Problem: The Core and The Godly Interference” with K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao. 
  • “Think it, dont overthink it: Learning from a children’s puzzle” with K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao.
  • “T-Metric: a New Citation Metric for Time-Dependent Impact Measurement” with Sarvani Chevuru. 
  • “A Game-Theoretic Modeling of Deception-based Security System with Strategic Signaling” with Balamurali A R, Deepak Gujaranya, & Satnam Singh (Acalvio Technologies India). 
  • “Prediction and Control of COVID-19 in India.”