Biography

Dr Karnak Roy is an Assistant Professor at the Administrative Staff College of India. He holds a PhD degree in Business Management. He did his MBA in Operations and Systems Management and B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering.

He has been working with the Administrative Staff College of India since July 2014. Prior to joining ASCI, he worked as an Assistant Professor of MBA in an Engineering and Management College in Calcutta and at IBM as an Application Developer prior to joining the education field.

At ASCI, he worked on important science policy and evaluation studies sponsored by the Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Steel, Department of Posts, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and many. Findings of one recent study where he actively took part as a consultant have been used in the formulation of the “Scientific Research Infrastructure Sharing Maintenance and Network (SRIMAN) Policy”.

Apart from innovation, his current areas of interest are- AI, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence, Strategic Management and Start-ups. At ASCI, each year he conducts Management Development Programmes for the senior managers of corporate and the PSUs like IOCL, GAIL, ONGC, Canara Bank, and Bank of Baroda (to name a few) on themes related to Data-Driven Decision Making, AI/ML Application and Implementation, Business Analytics and Business Intelligence. He was the co-programme director of a high-profile programme on Artificial Intelligence that ASCI organized in association with the University of California (UCLA) Extension.

Some examples of prominent consultancy projects in which he played a pivotal role, either as a project leader or a valued team member:

• -Evaluation of Steel Development Fund (SDF) scheme
• -Evaluation of Ministry of Steel Chair Professor Scheme
• -Innovation in Large Manufacturing Firms in India
• -Study on Identification of Constraints to Growth of Technology based Start-ups in India
• -Design of Digital Dashboard for the Government of Telangana
• -Third Party Evaluation of Umbrella Scheme Department of Posts - “Postal Operations”:
• -National Scientific Infrastructure in India: A Pilot Study
• -Evaluation Capacity and Analytics Support to GOAP and other governments
• -Evaluation of Population Research Centre
• -Evaluation of R&D scheme
• -Evaluation of CLCSS scheme
• -Evaluation of CGTMSE scheme
• -Demand Projection and 10 years Master-Plan for IOCL-TNSO
• -Independent Verification Agency (IVA) for Rebuild Kerala Initiative
• -Impact Evaluation of Kalinga Institute of Social Science (KISS)
• -Roadmap for Achieving Excellence for NIRDPR
• -Development of Vision Statement for Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL)
• -Factors Affecting R&D Investment of Biotechnology Industry

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