Ranjan Pal, PhD (in Computer Science), is a Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management who is a cybersecurity expert and broadly conducts and leads a team on cyber risk and resilience management research through the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) consortium. He uses the interplay of computer science, decision science, economics, and applied mathematics to solve research problems. Ranjan is also currently an invited member of the systems cyber resilience working group (WG) at the World Economic Forum contributing his expert insights on solving the most important societal challenges on cyber resilience—some insights reaching the White House.
Among other things, Ranjan pioneered the field of mathematical models adjudicating the market sustainability of cyber-insurance solutions. He has acted as strategic cyber risk management advisor to corporations and has been an invited expert on government research review panels in science and technology. Ranjan has published/contributed to nearly 100 research articles in academic, policy, and thought leadership in business outlets that include journal and conference proceedings, World Economic Forum reports, Forbes, The Financial Times, The Economic Times, The Financial Express, Re-InAsia, and The Times of India.
Ranjan has been an invited speaker in nearly 50 venues around the globe, and has held visiting scholar and faculty positions at leading business and technology institutes of the world. These include the University of Michigan, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, Indian School of Business, King's College London, Tsinghua University, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and the All India Institute of Medical Science. Ranjan is an associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems and serves on the Technical Program Committees of the Winter Simulation Conference and the ACM SIGSIM PADS Conference.
In his spare time, Ranjan is a scholar and life-long research student of Vedic astrology (Jyotish) through his family tradition. He is the author of the Amazon bestseller Navamsa: A Practical Treatise in Prediction, and the author of Does Rahu Give Spiritual Ethos: An Argumentative Analysis in Jyotish. Ranjan is formally and personally trained by the brilliant and renowned Richa Shukla, equivalent of the Jyotish Alankar and Jyotish Acharya degrees for professional Vedic astrology. Richa is a disciple of the world-renowned astrology legend Shri K. N. Rao. Ranjan also studies Vedanta philosophy.
