Decision Science in Action

I had heard during my  childhood period that science has no boundaries now I am experiencing it. One of my friend from IITK finished his BE and M Tech in Mechanical and now pursuing PhD from Biology department in one of the best University of USA. Another friend completed his graduation in Electronics and now pursuing PhD in pharmacology. By this blog I would like to share some information on studies and research in Interdisciplinary field being carried out in India especially in IITs. IITs offers many PhD and M Tech programs in  interdisciplinary field. What is interdisciplinary Program. - Interdisciplinary Program can be defined in two ways 1. Any program which is offered jointly by two or more engineering/science departments. It means faculties from different field collaborate and undertake research jointly with common objective. For example in IOER program at IIT Bombay faculties from Electrical, Mechanical,Mathematics and Business School jointly undertake ...

Data science is one of the  most promising field for bright future.  Various Gartner reports state that most of the organisations are going to invest more strategically to use the power of analytics to drive their business decisions.  Top banks and retailers have been using the data analytics for acquiring new customers, promotional initiatives, product pricing  etc  by setting up centre of excellence in analytics in India. In last 5 years analytics profession has caught lot of attractions in the job market.  Number of institutions in India and outside India have launched academic programs including online and on campus certificate programs. Question is which program is best? I do not know but I can definitely argue that M Tech in IME at IIT Kanpur is an excellent launchpad for career in data science or analytics.There is also another M Tech program at IITB which is among top programs for data science. These are two top programs which are producing tal...