Career Profile
About Kaushik
Kaushik is a distinguished professional hailing from Uttarpara, Hooghly, West Bengal, India. With nearly a decade of experience in the Defence Production Sector, he has worked with leading global arms and defence equipment manufacturers.
Professional Experience
Kaushik has held key positions at the Government, Industry and Academia, including Assistant Professor (Visiting) at International Institute of Management Sciences, Kolkata, Junior Works Manager at The Ordnance Factory Board and Directorate of Ordnance (Coordination & Services), Ministry of Defence, Government of India.
Academic Background
Kaushik holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology from the School of Information Technology, West Bengal University of Technology (formerly Indian Institute of Information Technology Calcutta). He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, one of Asia’s premier business schools. Currently, he is a Doctoral Fellow at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), another esteemed institution in India and Asia.
Research and Publications
Kaushik is the author of the book “Five Shades of Emerging Business Cases” published by Eliva Press, and his research papers have been published in various international journals and book series, including the International Journal of Law and Management by Emerald publishing (ABDC and Scopus indexed journal; Scopus Q1, ABDC-C) and Lecture Notes on Networks and Systems (Scopus indexed book series). His papers have been featured in journals published by renowned international business schools. He has been recognized as one of the top 10% of authors on SSRN by total new downloads on multiple occasions.
Certifications and Memberships
Kaushik holds certifications in multiple domains, from technology to business. He is an active Professional Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and served as a Subject Expert in Finance at Chegg.com. He is also a peer reviewer for esteemed journals, including Cogent Business & Management, International Journal of Law and Management, Australian Journal of Asian Law, and Academy of Management Annual Meetings.
Expertise
Kaushik’s expertise spans multiple areas, including Cybersecurity, Cyber-risk quantification, Web 3.0 & Blockchain, CBDC, Cloud computing, Data Science, Macroeconomics, Mathematical/Statistical/Quantitative Modelling, Public Policy, and Cyber-economics. He is proficient in various coding languages and contributes to coding platforms.
Book Publication
His book “Five Shades of Emerging Business Cases: A collection of 15 case studies on emerging topics for management graduates” is available on Amazon and Elivapress.
Education
- In the area of FinTech (Digital Currency) and Quantitative Techniques.
- Kaushik completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA, General) with a majority of the papers in the domain Finance and Marketing.
- Kaushik submitted a dissertation on Cyber-risk quantification which is in the area of Cyber-economics.
- The MBA programme nututured Kaushik’s skills and abilities. The programme transformed him from a Manager to an independent researcher with higher degree of research skills and aptitude.
- Finalist in National Level Valuation Competition Mulyankan, and the flagship event of the Purvodaya, 2019 (Business festival of VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur).
- Co-founder of the Digital Industry Interaction Platform and student co-ordinator for industry interaction for VGSoM Executive MBA.
- Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology from erstwhile Indian Institute of Information Technology, Calcutta
- A dissertation of information security management using cryptograhic and steganographic technique.
- West Bengal State Level Eligibility Test (SET) 2022.
- Common Aptitude Test (CAT) 2013.
- Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2010.
- West Bengal Civil Service (WBCS) 2013, 2014, 2017.
Experiences
- PHP/MySql Developer on WAMP Server
- Project Trainee on Java
Job particulars
- e-procurement Administration
- Govt. of India’s Tender portal Administration
- Central Public Procurement Portal Administration
- NIC E-Mail Administration
- In house web application development
- OFB COMNET (intranet of DoDP,MoD) System and LAN Administration
- Promoted through Limited Departmental Competitive Examination held in 2016
Job particulars
- Managing/conducting - Information/cyber security audit as per extant rules and guidelines
- Formulating policies, frameworks and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on information/cyber security in the organisation
- Managing/conducting - sessions, seminars and training on information/cyber security and other IT training
- Managing/conducting audit/investigation - on incidents pertaining to information/cyber security breach
Job particulars
- Managing/conducting - Information/cyber security audit as per extant rules and guidelines
- Formulating policies, frameworks and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on information/cyber security in the organisation
- Managing/conducting - sessions, seminars and training on information/cyber security and other IT training
- Managing/conducting audit/investigation - on incidents pertaining to information/cyber security breach
- Marketing and Innovation
- Finance
- Member number 8912100
- Five Shades of Emerging Business Cases: A collection of 15 case studies on emerging topics for management graduates
- Central bank digital currencies – a bibliometric analysis on research themes in pursuit of research trends
- Reviewing scholarly papers of Business, Technology and Economics on rgular basis
Projects
Project assigned to Kaushik at Indian Ordnance Factories ~
2015 - Indian Cyber Crisis Exercise/Cyber Security Mock Drill conducted by CERT-In.
2017-21 - Planning and organising the annual internal and third party Cyber Security Audit respectively by internal and CERT-In empanelled auditors.
2017-21 - Formulating the Cyber Security Policies, Framework, Crisis Management Plans, Standard Operating Procedures and Cyber Security Training Programmes.
- Kaushik played a pivotal role in the above projects and successfully completed his part. All projects witnessed grand success. e-procurement commissioned maintaining the timeline. Cyber Security Mock Drill culminated in Indian Ordnance Factories top performence in the same. The internal and third party Cyber Security Audit made the entire organisation more compliant on Cyber Security norms.
Publications
Kaushik’s portfolio of publications is very diversified. His published papers and areas of work encompass Computation, AI/ML, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Cyber Security, and Business Law. Many of his papers have been published on international journals, including journals published by highly reputed international Business Schools. One of his papers has been published by International Journal of Law and Management (Scopus Q1, ABDC C) another one in Journal of Insurance and Financial Management. He authored a book chapter on Springer Lecture Notes in Network and System Series (Scopus indexed). He also wrote a paper on computational mathematics wherein he has postulated some theories on computational geometry is a part of NASA Astrophysics Data System managed by the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He has been conferred the status of top 10% of Authors on SSRN by total new downloads on several occasions by Social Science Research Network (SSRN).