With a BTech from IIT Kharagpur, MS and PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas, he has two decades of experience in IT, software and management consultancy businesses. He has worked with the likes of Tata Steel, Tata IBM and PwC. He has also been a full-time tenured professor at the Vinod Gupta School of Management. He pioneered the skills of RDBMS in Tata Steel, eBusiness and web-based technology at PwC, 3D virtual worlds at IBM and others.
Noteworthy achievements by Dr Prithwis Mukerjee:
- Current Academic Position: Program Director for the Business Analytics Programs at Praxis Business School
- Prominent Credentials: He has designed a unique curriculum for Praxis which stands on the three pillars of data science — maths, statistics and machine learning. It revolves around areas like R, Python, big data, NoSQL and functional domains such as marketing, finance and telecom. He also writes for a monthly technology-oriented column in Swarajya.
- Teaching Experience: He has more than 12 years of teaching experience
- PhD: PhD from The University of Texas at Dallas