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Keshav Kant Prasad

Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, School of Business, Kochi

Qualification: Ph.D. in Finance
P_keshavkant@asb.kochi.amrita.edu
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Bio

Keshav Kant Prasad is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Amrita School of Business, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, and both a Master’s and Bachelor’s degree in Economics from North Bengal University. He has also qualified the UGC-NET JRF and West Bengal SET in Economics.At Amrita School of Business, he teaches courses in Finance and Economics. His research interests span financial economics, econometrics, investment analysis, Behavioural and computational finance. His work focuses on applying quantitative and optimization-based approaches to address contemporary challenges in financial markets, and economic policy.

Publications

Journal Article

Year : 2023

A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Optimal Asset Allocation of Defined Contribution Pension Funds: Evidence From India’s National Pension System

Cite this Research Publication : Keshav Kant Prasad, Amlan Ghosh, A Genetic Algorithm Approach to Optimal Asset Allocation of Defined Contribution Pension Funds: Evidence From India’s National Pension System, Compensation & Benefits Review, SAGE Publications, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1177/08863687231195498

Publisher : SAGE Publications

FDP / Workshops
  1. Participated in workshop on “Indexing & Referencing of Journals in Research (WIRJR 2021)” held on 07th March 2021, organized by the operational research society of India, Durgapur
  2. Participated in Virtual publishing workshop- 5th August 2021 organized by Wiley
  3. Participated in Webinar on The Art and Science of Research-4th August 2021 organized by IIT Delhi
  4. Participated in International workshop on data science (Datum 2021) held on 18-20 September 2021 by DA-IICT Gandhinagar
  5. Participated in a National webinar on Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Models and Applications held on 26 September 2021 By ORSI Durgapur chapter.
  6. Participated in FDP on “Multivariate Data Analysis for Social Science Research Using SPSS and AMOS”heldfrom 3-8th October 2021 by Calcutta BusinessSchool.
  7. Participated in a workshop on “Quantitative Data Analysis(QDA) using EVIEWS” held 2-4 December 2021 by Numerical Analytics Instrument Pvt Ltd.
  8. Participated in FDP “ATAL 2021” held on 6-10 December 2021 by the Management department of North Bengal university
  9. Participated in Workshop on Economics and Management Research held on 27th– 28th May2022by Dept of ManagementStudies, NIT Durgapur.
  10. Participated in ‘Workshop on Quantitative Techniques in Research, held on 29th June to 3rd July, 2022 by Dept of ManagementStudies, NIT Durgapur.
  11. Participated in National Webinar on ‘solving real-life problems with non-linear optimization models’ held on April 24,2022 by ORSI Durgapur Chapter.
  12. Participated in one day national webinar on ‘Stochastic Optimization & Machine Learning’ held on 16th July 2022 by ORSI Durgapur Chapter
  13. Participated in Basics of bibliometrics Workshop held on 19-21st October 2022 by Clarivate
  14. Participated in one day FDP on Genetic algorithm held on 24th march 2023 by IMIBhubaneswar

Participated in workshop “Data Science using Advanced Computational Technique” held in July 2023 by Amity university.

Awards

UGC, NET, JRF

Conferences
  1. Presented a Research paper titled “An Investigation of Life-Cycle Strategy Through Subscribers’ Perception: A Study in Context of National Pension System in India” at the DOMSIIT Roorkee held on 20-22 November 2022.
  2. Presented a Research paper titled ‘Genetic Algorithm Approach to Multi-objective Optimization of Pension Fund under India’s Atal Pension Yojana’ at OLAB 2022 organized by Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, held on 15 December 2022.
  3. Presented a research paper titled “Does Pension under India’s EPFO Actually Reflect its Labour Welfare? at the 63rd Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics held 20 1-3 March 2023 at Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh.
  4. Presented a research paper titled “An Evaluation of Life Cycle Fund as the Default Option and Optimizing Retirement Outcomes in India’s National Pension System” at the International Conference on Recent Advances in Operations Research & Business Analytics, organized by BIMS, Kolkata, India, held on July 25–26, 2024.
  5. Presented a research paper titled “Strategic asset allocation for Defined Benefit Pension Funds: A case study of EPFO using Genetic Algorithm ” at the Management Doctoral Research Colloquium (MDRC), organized by Department of Management Studies, National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India, held on December 21–22, 2024.
  6. Presented a research paper titled “A Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithms (NSGA II) Approach to Optimizing Portfolio Performance in Defined Benefit Pension Funds: A Case Study of India’s EPFO” at International research conference in Pension organized by IIM Ahmedabad and PFRDA at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, held on 3-4th April 2025
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