Chattopadhyay, Amit

Assistant Professor in Statistics/Business Analytics in School of Business

amit.chattopadhyay@ncirl.ie

About

INNOVATOR | LEADER | CHANGEMAKER IN INTERDISCIPLINARY BUSINESS ANALYTICS & DATA SCIENCE

With a PhD in theoretical physics, I am a highly experienced scientist working at the interface of applied mathematics, theoretical physics and data science, bespoke expertise repurposed into Business Analytics & Sustainability. I have over 25 years of cutting-edge research and scientific leadership in the UK, Germany, Italy, Ireland & India through successful PhD supervision (7), project leadership (20+), teaching leadership (SFHEA mentorship), outreach leadership (IMA & Nuffield-NHS), renowned for pioneering mathematics and AI-driven real-life centric interdisciplinary modelling across healthcare analytics, supply chains, low-carbon sustainability, econometrics, and nanoengineering. As the first non-European Marie Curie physicist, I have set global benchmarks in research excellence with over 80 peer-reviewed high impact publications like Nature, PloS, APS, over £10 million competitive grants, and building high-performing, multidisciplinary teams that redefine innovation in Healthcare Analytics, Engineering Sciences and Sustainability.

 

Research Remits

My predominantly cross-disciplinary research domain is structured under three topical remits.

1. Healthcare Analytics

  • Epidemiology - Infection Kinetics
  • Bioinformatics – Proteomic/Genomic Sequencing
  • Healthy Ageing - Cardiovascular health & Cancer
  • Cognitive Frailty - Dementia

2. Engineering & Soft Matter Modelling

  • Nanoengineering– Nanocomposites & Liquid Crystals
  • Renewable energy – Li/Na-ion long-life batteries

3. Data-Driven Economics and Social Science

  • Econometrics – Inequality Modelling
  • Supply chain modelling – Electronic waste & Low-Carbon

 

PhD and Postdoctoral Opportunities

Projects are available in all areas mentioned above. Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

Bridging Academia & Industry

From healthcare analytics (cardiovascular/cancer/immunology/glaucoma/infection epidemiology) to econometrics (inequality/supply chains/decarbonisation) and social sciences (behavioural/voting/taxing), including advanced engineering (soft matter/nanomaterials/liquid crystal), I have substantial experience of working at the crossroads of disciplines, leading multidisciplinary teams spanning academia (mathematics, physics, computer science, epidemiologists) to industry (supply chain, e-waste, p-waste and sustainability).

 

Topical Skills

Data Analysis | Stochastic Modelling | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | Interdisciplinary Research | Bioinformatics

 

Employment History

  • Assistant Professor in Statistics & Business Analytics, National College of Ireland Dublin, Ireland, 20/01/2025-present.
  • Associate Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Data Science, Aston University, UK, 08/2017-31/12/2024.
  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics, Aston University, UK, 08/2015-08/2017.
  • Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics, Aston University, UK, 02/2010-07/2015.
  • Associate Professor in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Delhi, India, 11/2007-01/2010.
  • Senior Research Associate/ Tenure-Track, Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh, UK, 07/2007-06/2011 (joined Delhi in Nov ‘07).
  • (First non-European in Physics) Marie Curie Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Padua, Italy, 01/2006-06/2007.
  • Senior Research Associate, Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, UK, 07/2004-12/2005.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Hahn-Meitner Institute, Max Planck Group, Berlin, Germany, 09/2003-06/2004.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex System, Dresden, Germany, 06/2001-08/2003.

 

Teaching Experiences & Leadership

  • 10-credit UG modules - Vector Algebra, Geometry, History of Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Portfolio Analysis, Numerical Methods.
  • 15-credit UG modules – Vector Algebra & Geometry, Financial Mathematics & Portfolio Theory, Mathematical Methods
  • 20-credit PG modules (NCI Dublin) – Financial & Quantitative Modelling, Research Methods, Business Intelligence

Programme Development

  • MSc by Research in the Mathematics of Complex Systems – Founding Programme Director
  • Mathematical Biology - University of Warwick
  • C/C++ Programming - University of Delhi

Online Textbook Development

  • 3 three electronic textbooks (free for student) in Vector Algebra & Geometry, Financial Mathematics and Portfolio Analysis, Mathematical Methods

 

Publications (82 in total)

Healthcare Analytics

1. Chattopadhyay, Amit K., Unkundiye, Aimee Pascaline N. and Pearce, Gillian (2025) 'Hybrid Machine Learning and Mathematical Modeling for Tumor Dynamics Prediction: Comparing SPIONs against mNP-FDG'. Annals of Biostatistics & Biometric Applications, 6 (3). ISSN 2641-6336

2. Chattopadhyay, Subhagata and Chattopadhyay, Amit K. (2025) 'Identifying Heart Attack Risk in Vulnerable Population: A Machine Learning Approach'. Information, 16 (4). ISSN 2078-2489

3. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Pascaline A., Pearce, G. (2025): Modeling the best cancer therapeutics – The Artificial Intelligence Pathway. Springer as a book-chapter.

4. Ghosh, S., Banerjee, M. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2024): Effect of Vaccine Dose Intervals: Considering Immunity Levels, Vaccine Efficacy, and Strain Variants for Disease Control Strategy. PloS One 19(9), e0310152

5. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Pascaline A., Pearce, G. and Russell, S. (2024): Predicting the Progression of Cancerous Tumors in Mice: A Machine and Deep Learning Intuition. Accepted in the Annals of Biostatistics and Biometric Applications

6. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Aifantis, E. C. (2024): Applications of Regime-Switching in the Nonlinear Double-Diffusion (D – D) Model. J. Applied Physics 135, 024701

7. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Konstantinidis, A., Parisis, K. and Aifantis, E. C. (2023): Transport in a stochastic double diffusivity model. Meccanica 58, 1539

8. Chattopadhyay, S., Phuong Do, Nhat., Flower, D. R. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2023): Extracting Prime Protein Targets as Possible Drug Candidates: Machine Learning Evaluation. Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 61, 3035

9. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Kundu, B. and Nath, S. K. (2022): Transmissibility in Interactive Nanocomposite Diffusion: The Nonlinear Double-Diffusion Model. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Vol 03 (https://doi.org/10.3389/fams.20)

10. Mustapha, M. T., Flower, D. R., and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2022): Virtual Screening of Kinase Based Drugs: Statistical Learning Towards Drug Repurposing. Journal of Nanotechnology in Diagnosis & Treatment 8, 23-34

11. Phuong Do, Nhat., Flower, D. R., Chattopadhyay, S. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2022): Towards effective consensus scoring in structure-based virtual screening. Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences; doi: 10.1007/s12539-022-00546-8

12. Chattopadhyay, S. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2021): VIRDOCD: A VIRtual DOCtor to predict dengue fatality. Expert Systems. 2021; e12796; https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12796.

13. Chattopadhyay, S., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Aifantis, E. C. (2021): Predicting case fatality of dengue epidemic: Statistical machine learning towards a virtual doctor. Journal of Nanotechnology in Diagnosis and Treatment: http://savvysciencepublisher.com/downloads/jndtv7a2/; ISSN number 2311-8792.

14. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Choudhury, D., Ghosh, G., Kundu, B. and Nath, S. K. (2021): Infection kinetics of COVID-19 and containment strategy. Nature Scientific Reports 11, 11606 (2021)

15. He Xi, Matam, B., Bellary, S. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2020): CHD risk minimisation through lifestyle control: Machine Learning Gateway. Nature Scientific Reports 10, 4090

16. Laurie, J., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Flower, D. R. (2017): Protein Lipograms. Journal of Theoretical Biology 430, 109-116

17. Grela, E., Stich, M. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2017): Epidemiological impact of waning immunization on a vaccinated population. European Physical Journal B 91, 267 (2018)

18. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Aifantis, E. C. (2017): The double diffusivity model under stochastic forcing. Physical Review E 95, 052134

19. Stich, M. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2016): Noise-induced standing waves in oscillatory systems with time-delayed feedback; Physical Review E 93, 052221

20. Chattopadhyay, A. K., and Diar, N. and Flower, D. R. (2015): A statistical physics perspective on alignment-independent protein sequence comparison. Bioinformatics Journal 31(15), 2469; doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv167

21. Bush, D. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2015): Temporal dynamics in an immunological synapse: Role of thermal fluctuations in signaling. Physical Review E 92, 012706

22. Panigrahi, A., Chattopadhyay, A. K., Paul, G. and Panigrahi, S. (2015): HIV, candiovascular diseases, and chronic arsenic exposure co-exist in a positive synergy. Bengal Heart Journal 9-19.

23. Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2011): Role of fluctuations in membrane models: thermal versus nonthermal; Physical Review E 84, 023201

24. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Hilfinger, A. and Juelicher, F. (2009): Nonlinear dynamic of cilia and flagella; Physical Review E 79, 051918 (2009)

25. Bush, D. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2014): Contact time periods in immunological synapse; Physical Review E 90, 042706

26. Panja, N. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2014): New oil modified acrylic polymer for pH sensitive drug release: Experimental results and statistical analysis; Journal of Advances in Natural Sciences 3(1)

27. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Bandyopadhyay, S. (2013): Seasonal variations of EPG levels in gastro-intestinal parasitic infection in a southeast Asian controlled locale: A statistical analysis, SpringerPlus 2(1), 205 (2013)

28. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Marenduzzo, D. (2007): Dynamics of anchored polymers under an oscillating force; Physical Review Letters 98, 088101

29. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Burroughs, N. J. (2007): Close contact fluctuations: the seeding of signalling domains in immunological synapse; Europhysics Letters 77, 48003

30. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Ray, N. and Acton, S. A. (2005): Universality in the merging dynamics of parametric active contours: a study in MRI-based lung segmentation; New Journal of Physics 7, 148

31. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Sil, S. (2003): Dynamics of pulsed flow in an elastic tube; International Journal of Modern Physics B 17 (26), 4619-4629

Materials & Engineering Sciences

32. Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2024): Noisy Accretion Flows; Springer, Accepted.

33. Vasylchenkova, A., Prilepsky, J. E., Shepelsky D. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2019): Direct nonlinear Fourier transform algorithms for the computation of solitonic spectra in focusing nonlinear Schroedinger equation; Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 68, 347.

34. Chattopadhyay, A. K., He, X., Tsambali, A. -A, Konstantinidis, A. A. and Aifantis, E. C. (2018): On Stochastic Resonance in a model of double diffusion. Materials Science and Technology 34(13), 1606

35. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Mukherjee, P. K. (2018). Novel universality classes in ferroelectric liquid crystals. Journal of Molecular Liquids 249, 397-403.

36. Mukherjee, P. K., Sarkar, P. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2018). Role of external and internal perturbations on ferromagnetic phase transition in manganites: Existence of tricritical points. Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 30(29), 295101

37. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Mukherjee, P. K. (2017). Effect of magnetic nanoparticles on the nematic-mectic-A phase transition. Journal of Molecular Liquids 242, 612-617

38. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Aifantis, E. C. (2016): Stochastically forced dislocation density distribution in plastic deformation. Physical Review E 94, 022139

39. Davies, M. and Chattopadhyay, A.K. (2016): Stokes waves revisited: Exact solutions in the asymptotic limit. European Physical Journal Plus 131, 1-5.; IF – 3.4; Q1

40. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Nasiev, D., Sugavanam, S., Tarasov, N. and Churkin D. V. (2016): Laminar-Turbulent transition in Raman Fiber lasers: A first passage statistic-based analysis. Nature Scientific Reports 6, 28492.

41. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Mukherjee, P. K. (2015). Dynamics of cholesteric liquid crystals in the presence of random magnetic fields. Europhysics Letters 112, 60002

42. Nath, S. K. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2014): Cross-correlation-aided transport in stochastically driven accretion flows; Physical Review E 90, 063014

43. Alamino, R.C., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Saad, D. (2013): Interacting nonequilibrium systems with two temperatures; Physical Review E 87, 052123

44. Mukhopadhyay, B. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2013): Stochastically driven instability in rotating shear flows; Journal of Physics A 46, 035501

45. Nath, S. K., Mukhopadhyay, B. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2013): Magnetohydrodynamic stability of stochastically driven accretion flows; Physical Review E 88, 013010 (2013)

46. Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2009): Memory effects in a non-equilibrium growth model; Physical Review E 80, 011144

47. Chaudhary, G. K., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Ramakumar, R. (2011): Bose-Einstein condensate in a quartic potential: Static and dynamic properties. International Journal of Modern Physics (B) 29, 3927

48. Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2006): N-dimensional electron in an anharmonic potential: the large-N limit; Physics Letters A 357, 108-111

49. Chakrabarti, B. K., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Dutta, A. (2004): Dynamics of linear polymers in random media; Physica A 333, 34-40

50. Alava, M. J. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2004): Fluctuations and correlations in sandpiles and interfaces with boundary pinning; Physical Review E 69, 016104-1 to 016104-5

51. Alava, M. J. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2002): Balancing dissipation and drive: Symmetry violations at interfaces and sandpiles, American Physical Society Meeting Abstracts

52. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Klemm, R. A. and Sa, D. (2002): Pair breaking and Bound States in Disordered superconductors; Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (Letter) 14, L577-L58

53. Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2007): Anisotropic model of kinetic roughening: The strong-coupling regime; Physical Review E (rapid) 76, 050103

54. Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2002): Thermal re-emission model; Physical Review B (rapid) 65, 041405-1(R) to 041405-4(R)

55. Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2002): The role of pinning and instability in a class of non-equilibrium growth models; European Physical Journal B 29, 567

56. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Bhattacharjee, J. K. (2001): Wall bounded turbulent shear flow: Analytic result for a universal amplitude; Physical Review E 63, 016306-1 to 016306-7

57. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Basu, A. and Bhattacharjee, J. K. (2000): Coupled nonequilibrium growth equations: self-consistent mode coupling using vertex renormalization; Physical Review E 61, 2086-2088

58. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Bhattacharjee, J. K. (2000): Mode coupling for a class of growth models; in 'Structure and dynamics of materials in the mesoscopic domain', Ed. M. Lal, RAM, BDK, V.M. Naik, Imperial College Press, The Royal Society, pg. 65-71.

59. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Mahapatra, G. S. and Chaudhury, P. (2000): Lyoluminescence: A theoretical approach; Physical Review B 2, 906-909

60. Chattopadhyay, A. K. (1999): Non-local Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with spatially correlated noise; Physical Review E 60, 293-296

61. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Bhattacharjee, J. K. (1998): Self-consistent mode coupling and the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation with spatially correlated noise; Europhysics Letters 42(2), 119-123

62. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Bhattacharyya, S., Das, K. S. and Datta, S. and Bhattacharjee, J. K. (1998): Time series data analysis of a musical piece; J. Acoustical Society of India, Vol. XXVI, Nos. 3, 4, 334-338

Data-Driven Economics and Social Sciences

63. Abdul, A., Chattopadhyay, Amit K. and Jain, S. (2025) 'The impact of foreign players in the English premier league: a mathematical analysis'. OPSEARCH. ISSN 0975-0320

64. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Debnath, B. and Krishna Kumar T. Cleaner Production in Multivariate Supply Chain Networks: Sustainable Business Future Through a “Roll of Dice. ISBN: 978-3-031-66006-1, 532017_1_En; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66007-8

65. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Debnath, B. and Krishna Kumar, T. (2024): Optimization of a Dynamic Supply Chain Network: Kinetic Modeling of E-Waste Plant. Sustainability - https://doi.org/10.3390/su16156491

66. Petridis, K., Dey, P. K., Chattopadhyay, A. K., Boufounou, P., Toudas, K. and Malesios, C. (2023): A Stochastically Optimized Two-Echelon Supply Chain Model: An Entropy Approach for Operational Risk Assessment model. Entropy 25(9)

67. Bandyopadhyay, S., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Oak, M. (2022): A Model of Conflict and Leadership: Is there a Hawkish Drift in Politics? PlOS One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261646

68. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Debnath, B., El-Hassani, R., Ghosh, S. K. and Baidya, R. (2022): Optimization of a Time Varying Supply Chain Network for Sustainable Production. Physica A 607, 128085

69. Bertotti, M. L., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Modanese, G. (2021): Stochastic models with multiplicative noise for economic inequality and mobility. International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation; doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijnsns-2017-0228

70. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Rice, I. and Krishna Kumar, T. (2020): A Social Engineering Model for Poverty Alleviation. Nature Communications 11, 6345

71. Krishna Kumar, T., Chattopadhyay, A. K., Mallick, S. K. (2019): The first inclusive index on poverty (Sitaram index) in the tradition of Engel. Invited CESS conference paper (published).

72. Bertotti, M. L., Modanese, G. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2018): Uncertainty dynamics in a model of economic inequality. Inernational J. Design & Nature and Ecodynamics 13(1), 16-22

73. Bertotti, M. L., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Modanese, G. (2018): Statistics of Correlations and Fluctuations in a Stochastic Model of Wealth Exchange. Entropy 20, 166 (2018).

74. Bertotti, M., Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Modanese, G. (2018): Economic inequality and mobility for stochastic models with multiplicative noise. International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation - https://ideas.repec.org/p/arx/papers/1702.08391.html

75. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Krishna Kumar, T. and Mallick, S. K. (2017): Poverty-index with time varying consumption and income distributions. Physical Review E 95, 032109

76. Bertotti, M. L., Modanese, G. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2017): Stochastic effects in a discretized kinetic model of economic exchange, Physica A 471, 0-8

77. Bertotti, M. L., Modanese, G. and Chattopadhyay, A. K. (2017): Correlation between Gini index and mobility in stochastic kinetic models of economic exchange. Results in Physics 7, 2081-2084

78. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Dey, P. K. and Ghosh, S. K. (2016): Dynamics of spatial heterogeneity in a landfill with interacting phase densities - a stochastic analysis. Applied Mathematical Modelling 14, 54

79. Chattopadhyay, A. K., Ackland G. J. and Mallick, S. K. (2010): Income and poverty in a developing economy, Europhysics Letters 91, 58003 (2010)

80. Chattopadhyay, A. K. and Mallick, S. K. (2007): Income distribution dependence of poverty measure: A theoretical analysis, Physica A, 377, 241-252

Books

81. Heat and Thermodynamics by Dittman, R. H., Zemansky, M. W. and Chattopadhyay A. K. by Tata McGraw-Hill (2011); ISBN: 978-0070700352 super– 3 editions in 9 years.

82. 3000 Solved Problems in Physics by Halpern, A. Edited by Chattopadhyay, A. K. Published by McGraw-Hill (2010).

 

Room number: MB 2.15

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