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Dr. Ankita Sarmah
Dr. Ankita Sarmah Assistant Professor
PhD (NIT Sikkim)

Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
About

Dr. Sarmah is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati (IIIT Guwahati) since November 2023. Prior to this, she was an Assistant Professor at National Institute of Technology (NIT) Goa. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the National Institute of Technology Sikkim, and M.A. in Agri-Business Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics in Pune. With multiple international and national journal publications, conference proceedings and book chapters, her area of research interest includes entrepreneurship, industrial economics, energy economics, and agricultural economics. She is also in the editorial board and reviewers of journals like Journal of Social and Economic Development; book proceedings like ICAEF book proceeding 2024 published by Springer and the like. She also acts as a reviewer to several funded projects of organizations like Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) Bangalore; Handique Girls’ College Guwahati; BITS Pilani and so on.

She is a Lifetime member of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES).

Research Interests

Entrepreneurship, Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Industrial Economics, Small-scale Industries and Agricultural Economics.

Research Project

1. ICSSR Collaborative Empirical Research Project on Solar Energy & Sustainability (2024-25) titled "PM-KUSUM Scheme in The North-East India: Opportunities, Challenges and the Path Forward for Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Sikkim". In collaboration with Dr. Arjab Roy & Dr. Kukil Khanikar from IIIT Guwahati and Dr. Bhaskar Chettri & Dr. Yograj Sharma from The ICFAI University Sikkim, as the Co-PDs.

Status: On-going

Google Scholar Link

https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=R1rpTTAAAAAJ&hl=en

PhD Supervision

1. Ms. Jyotismita Saikia

2. Ms. Himashri Barman 

Course Instructor

For B. Tech:

1. Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice (HS308)

2. Fundamentals of Stock Market (HS408)

For Ph.D.:

1. Research Methodology (HS701)

2. Issues in Economics (HS703)

3. Applied Econometrics (HS702)

Inviting Talks

Invited as a resource person to deliver a talk on "Skill, Entrepreneurship, Start -up and Innovation in Physical Sciences (SESIPS)" at Tezpur Central University, on November 2023, organised by the Department of Physics in association with TEC & IPR Cell Tezpur Central University.

Invited as a resource person to deliver a talk in the online workshop on “From Theory to Practice: Teaching Case studies for Quality Education (SDG 4)”, organized by Faculty of Management and Commerce, School of Business and Commerce, Department of Business Administration, Manipal University Jaipur on 7th August 2024.

Invited as a resource person to deliver an online talk on "The Business Start-up Process" organised by AZON-AI a start-up of the European Union (EU) funded Project SymAware, in August 2024.

Publication