Meera Simon C

Professor Meera is a final year PhD scholar from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode in Quantitative Techniques and Operations Management. Her Research is in the field of Quantitative Techniques applied to healthcare services focusing on pricing of healthcare services. She holds a masters in statistics covering a broad area of mathematical statistics including reliability analysis. She is a member of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Operations Research Society, Institute for Operations Research and Management (INFORMS), and Indian Institute for Probability and Statistics (IIPS).

She has presented papers in several national and international conferences including conferences by Society of Operations Management (SOM) held at IIM Shillong, Operations Research Society of India (ORSI) conference held at IIT Bombay and European Conference of Operations Research organised by Operations Research Society in Leeds, England. Her paper was also selected for INFORMS Annual Meeting held at Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Healthcare Analytics, Package Pricing, Game theory, Applied Statistics (Time Series models, Econometric Models, etc)

Prof. Meera’s exposure from being a Statistician to the IIM system of case-based and interactive learning made her realise that active learning happens through a mix of both lecture-based method (for deeper concepts) and scenario-based / case-based learning for application-oriented learning. She tries to bring in aspects of both traditional chalk and board method, scenario-based learning and peer-learning to her students.

Prof. Meera handles Business Mathematics, Research Methodology and Report Writing and Quantitative Techniques for Managers.

• University Rank holder in Statistics at Undergraduate level
• Winner for the academic excellence at collegiate level for undergraduate studies
• Selected for Internship at the Data Processing Division of National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) under the
• Ministry of Statistics and Programmed Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India, in May 2018
• Won prize in National level essay competition conducted by Ministry of Statistics and Programmed
• Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India, in June 2018
• Won prize in National level essay competition conducted by Ministry of Statistics and Programmed
• Implementation (MoSPI), Government of India, in June 2019

Her research interest includes areas of applied statistics including copula models, survival analysis, multivariate analysis, time series analysis and other management domains requiring data analytics. Prof. Meera’s thesis work is on Healthcare Operations investigating the role of measurement and use of copula models for developing models for pricing. It addresses aspects of endogeneity which is frequently seen in the conventional pricing models and has implications on marketing and strategic levels of healthcare operations.

meera.simon@ddn.upes.ac.in