AVISHEK BHANDARI

Dr. Avishek Bhandari operates from the Economics Research Station at IIT Bhubaneswar, where he studies how economies interconnect and evolve. His journey began at the University of Hyderabad, while exploring interdependence, contagion and long-memory in global markets through wavelet analysis—basically mapping the Force that binds market networks together.

Before joining the IIT Bhubaneswar in late 2022, he spent time at IMT Hyderabad's research facility and completed specialized training at Oxford's macroeconomic summer academy. Think of it as Jedi training, but for understanding why markets do what they do when nobody expects them to.

His research universe navigates how shocks propagate through interconnected macroeconomic and financial systems like ripples in the space-time continuum. Current missions include mapping network architectures of digital and traditional assets, tracking network-dependent market efficiency, understanding how economic contagion spreads faster than the Kessel Run, and how information flows through economic systems—because even the Death Star needed good communication protocols. In the end, every economic system is just a vast network—and understanding its topology is the key to predicting when the next disturbance in the Force will strike.

ALTERNATE DIMENSION

Beyond the equations and econometric models lies another universe—one of six strings, tube amps, and the eternal quest for tone. Enter the parallel dimension where he channels legends through Les Pauls and Stratocasters.