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Prem Prakash
Professor of Business Administration
Office: 208 Mervis Hall
Phone: 412-648-1671
E-mail: ppr@katz.pitt.edu
Degrees
PhD, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Courses Recently Taught
BACC 2401 Accounting: Financial Reporting & Control
Area
Accounting
Profile
Prem Prakash teaches primarily in the accounting area and researches in mathematics, mathematical economics, and accounting. His research interests include information for management planning, decision-making, and control; quantitative and behavioral analysis of preferences, utility, and choice; and behavior of decision-makers as generators, issuers, or recipients of (accounting) information.
Prakash is a member of the Society of Sigma Xi and of the American Accounting Association, where he has served on several committees. He received his PhD at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, preceded by graduate work in operations research at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. His initial education was acquired in India, terminating with a graduate degree in mechanical and electrical engineering with a certification from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London.
Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, Prakash was a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. His extensive experience includes service as assistant works manager and production engineer at Kharagpur Workshops (Kharagpur, India) supervising 3,000 people, assistant director at Research, Designs, and Standards Organizations of Indian State Railways, and most notably, four years service in the Indian diplomatic corps to the United States as a technical adviser.
Research Interest Areas
Financial and Managerial Accounting; Theory of Capital Markets; Utility Theory; Experimental Economics; Abstract Games, Economies, and Social Systems
Recent Publications
"Alien Attractors and Memory Annihilation of Structured Sets in Hopfield Networks," with Satish Kumar and Sanjay Saini, IEEE Transactions: Neural Networks, Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 13505–13508, 1996.
Working Papers
"Sure Heuristic Solution of the Hamiltonian Decision Problem," 2001.
"Coordinate Transformation for Solving Indeterminate Statistical Systems," 2001.
"Test of Significance and The Law of Evidence E = mc2, Where E = Strength of Evidence, c = Strength of Conviction, and m = Bayesian Mass," 2001.
