Name: Amit Das
Appointment
Associate Professor, Information Technology & Operations Management
Contact
- e-mail: click
- phone: (65) 6790-6248
- location: S3-B2c-86
- web: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/aadas
Education
- Ph.D. (Information Systems): University
of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 1994
- Post-Graduate Diploma in Management: Indian Institute
of Management, Calcutta, 1986
- B.Tech. (Electronics): Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, 1984
Teaching
- Undergraduate: Information
Security, Introduction
to Information Technology
- MBA: Statistics and Research Methods, Technology Scanning
- Doctoral Seminar: Decision-Making (behavioral and
cognitive approaches to individual, group, and organizational decision
processes - sample papers)
Research
- Computer support for professional / technical work: pursues the elusive nature of
knowledge that underlies professional and technical work. An emphasis on
knowledgeable action rather than disembodied knowledge suggests directions
for the design of tools and artifacts that support professional work.
- Microprocessor performance from a social
constructionist perspective:
challenges the status of benchmarks as reporting performance, suggesting
instead that benchmarks enact performance. Evidence suggests that
benchmarks are arbitrary, strategic and contested - the hallmarks of
socially constructed phenomena.
- Investor decision-making with financial instruments: strives to demonstrate that
investors do not accurately perceive the risk associated with structured
products, even when they are assisted by sensitivity analyses,
back-testing results, and the like.
Consulting
- Facilitating critical thinking and evidence-based
decision making in organizations in the private, public and people
sectors.
- Design and measurement of organizational processes (manufacturing lines, management
reporting processes, help desks) using a combination of quantitative and
qualitative data and analyses. Clients include (semiconductor) wafer fabs,
computer manufacturers, IT service providers, telcos, media companies, and
non-profit / charitable organizations. Recent work has focused on the
quality of products / services and processes.
- ICT Technology scanning using a combination of technical
and economic analyses. Clients include government and media companies.
Administration
Co-ordinator of the Bachelor of Business (Information Technology) undergraduate program in Nanyang Business School
Other interests
- Playing with my son, Arun.
- Classic rock: Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin ..., anything from the Allman Brothers to ZZTop, with a little emphasis on "J" as in Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Jim Morrison, Joan Baez, ... Some evenings call for the blues,
though ... current favorites are John Mayall and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
- Computer hardware: processors, motherboards, graphics
cards. Favorite haunts in
- Linux distros: Thanks to Distrowatch.com, I've
tested about 25 recent distributions - some general-purpose, others
specific to security. I've remastered Slax to match my hardware (nVidia video, ACX111 Wi-Fi)
with modules for OpenOffice,
the VLC Media
Player, and the R
statistical computing environment; cached completely in RAM, it runs quick
and stable. Among credit-card CDs (50MB), Austrumi
1.2, using the Enlightenment
window manager, looks good. For security work, I'm looking into BackTrack,
it lists nmap, nessus, ethereal, kismet, RainbowCrack, and quite a few
more tools as ready to use from a liveCD boot.
Page maintained by Amit Das, updated
June 2006. I own my own words.