Faculty
Prof. Somnath Bhattacharya
Assistant Professor
Alliance School of Business
Prof. Somnath Bhattacharya is pursuing Ph.D. from IIT Kanpur in the domain of Marketing and Information Systems. His thesis work is focused on understanding and applying consumer-focused approach for extracting information and evaluating algorithms. Evaluating news recommender systems and analyzing online customer reviews are two key domains in his thesis work. He completed his MBA from IIT Kanpur and B.Tech. in Information Technology. He also comes with industry experience in IT and Financial Sales.
During both his industrial and academic experience, Prof. Bhattacharya has been appreciated by his peers. He has presented his work at several national conferences. His thesis proposal was nominated for Best Dissertation proposal in WITSCONF 2020. His current research interest includes working in areas related to designing and experimental evaluation of news recommender systems and performing different grains of sentiment analysis on online reviews.
- Aspect based Sentiment Analysis of Online Consumer Reviews Somnath Bhattacharya, Shankar Prawesh, Jayanta Chatterjee Presented on 2020, IIM Kozhikode, 4th international conference on marketing technology and society Short paper, nominated for best paper
- A Survey of News Recommender Systems – Issues and Methods Somnath Bhattacharya, Shankar Prawesh Accepted for 8th PANIIM world management conference 2021 IIM Kozhikode
- Consumer Centric Design of Recommender Systems Dissertation proposal chosen for presentation at WITSCONF 2020 Nominated for best dissertation proposal
