Hands On Program on Text and Social Sentimental Analytics

Regarded as one of the top Analytics professors in the country today, he was the Chair Professor (July 1998 – Feb 2013) & officiating Director (April 2009 to Jan 2010) at FORE School of Management,New Delhi. He joined FORE School in 1988 as Senior Professor.There he also headed the software development function that saw the building of prototypes of products in areas of Business Intelligence, Risk Management and Customer Relations
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He holds a PhD from the University of Georgia, USA, Masters & Bachelors from IIT Kanpur and has a vast experience of more than 34 years in R&D, Academic & Industry in the area of Quantitative Techniques & IT. He teaches courses in the area of IT, Quantitative Techniques, Text Mining and Sentiment Analysis, and Advanced Market Research. He worked as Professor and Area Chair of Quantitative and Information systems group at IIM Lucknow for about ten years. He was the Member Secretary to IIM Lucknow Board for about three years. He was also a visiting Professor at Manchester Business School for about a year under Euro India exchange program.
Dr Chandrashekar has published in several International and National Journals and presented papers and chaired sessions at National and International forums. He has patents to his credit having filed a patent jointly with IFIM. He is working on his next patents in the area of Text Mining and Financial Analytics.