Dr Soumen Kumar Manna earned his Master's and PhD degrees both from IIT Bombay in the field of ‘Applied Statistics and Informatics'. He has 16+ years of academic and industry experience. Before joining GIM, he taught prestigious institutes like IIT Bombay, Mumbai University, Ramaiah University and VJTI Mumbai. He has also worked with companies like INSOFE, Cytel, Bisleri, etc.  His areas of interest lies in Machine Learning, NLP (Text Analytics),   Statistics, UAV route Optimization, Design of choice experiments, etc. He enjoys his spare time with novels, football, new cuisines and travelling to new places. His other interests lie in Cosmology and Space exploration.

Courses taught: NLP (Text Analytics),  AI for Managers, Statistics, Foundation for Data Analytics, Multivariate Data Analytics, Choice experiments.

Also Teaches:IIT Bombay, Mumbai University, Ramaiah University, VJTI Mumbai.

Publications:

• Soumen Manna,  Ashish Das, F-S Chai, Optimal two-level choice designs for estimating specified interaction effects, Statistics and Applications, 2026.
• Soumen Manna, Ashish Das, Optimal two-level choice designs for estimating main plus up to three-factor interaction, Communications in Statistics- Theory and Methods, 2025.
• Soumen Manna, Ashish Das, Optimal choice designs for the main effects plus specified two-factor interaction effects model for binary attribute, Statistics & Probability Letters, 2024.
• Soumen Manna, Small Sample Estimation of Classification metrics, IEEE, 2022.
• Soumen Manna, Anand Narasimhamurthy, A route planning strategy for commercial deliveries using drones, I-DAD 2020.
• F-S Chai, Ashish Das, Soumen Manna, Characterization and Optimal Designs for Discrete Choice Experiments, Statist. and Applications, 17, 2019.
• Soumen Manna, Ashish Das, Optimal two-level designs for partial profile choice experiments, Statistics & Probability Letters, 116:80-87, 2016.
   

Books:

• Soumen Manna, Gayatri Mahapatra, Ananya K, Elements of ICMR JRF Life Sciences, Viva Books Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2020 (in press).
• Soumen Manna, Sumit Mukherjee, Kartik Guchhait, Subhankar Metya, Elements of GATE Biotechnology, Viva Books Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, 2020 (in press).
   

Conferences:

• Talk title: Decision making using partial profile choice experiments, INDAM, IIFT Kolkata, 2025.
• Participated in UCREL NLP Summer School, Lancaster University, UK, 2024.
• Talk title: In search minimal prototype optimal choice designs, EMCB, Nelson Mandela University, George, South Africa, 2023.
• Talk title: Design of choice models, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2023.
• Participated in ACDL: 6th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning, Tuscany, Italy, 2023.
• Talk title: Design of Discrete Choice Experiments, CMFRI2023 Winter School , Kochi, 2023.
• Talk title: Estimating maximum number of factorial effects from an optimal binary choice design with 2α choice sets, ISDSI Global Conference, JAGSOM, Bengaluru, 2023.
• Talk title: Small Sample Estimation of Classification Metrics, IEEE Conference Interdisciplinary Research in Technology & Management (IRTM), Kolkata, India, 2022.
• Talk title: Machine Learning, IEEE EMBS invited talk, IIT Kharagpur, India, 2021.
• Talk title: A route planning strategy for commercial deliveries using drones, , 4th International Conference on Innovative Design, Analysis and Development Practices in Aerospace and Automotive Engineering, Chennai, India, 2020.
• Talk : Partial profile choice experiments, 18th annual national conference of society of statistics, computer and applications. Jammu, India (2016).
• Talk : Choice experiments for decision making on multi-attribute product profiles, 23rd international conference on multiple criteria decision making, Hamburg, Germany (2015).
• Talk : On choice experiments, 16th annual national conference of society of statistics, computer and applications. Haryana, India (2014).
   

• Assistant Professor at Goa Institute of Management, Goa (Aug, 2020 - Present).
• Assistant Professor at Ramaiah University of Applied Science, Bangalore (May, 2020 - Jul, 2020). 
• Sr. Data Scientist at INSOFE, Bangalore (Feb, 2017 - Jan, 2020).
• Research Associate at Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay (Aug, 2016 - Jan, 2017).
• Research Assistant at School of Management, IIT Bombay (Jul, 2009 - May, 2010).
• Statistician at Cytel Statistical Software Company, Pune (Jun, 2008 - Jun, 2010).