Good day, Firdous Ahmad Hurrah. I'm Arjun. I've had a look through your background and your professional record. I'm interested in hearing more about your work and how you see yourself fitting in here with our faculty. Ready to start?

Sir, I'm ready to start. Good evening. My name is Doctor Firdo Samadhura. I have recently completed my pH D in international taxation especially in double taxation avoidance treaties and FDI and trade. I have a teaching experience of more than two years in reputed college and higher education in institutes. Besides teaching experience I have also qualified UGC NET exam four times and I have also.

Junior Research fellowship under Maulana Azad National Fellowship Besides these things I have also published more than 5 research papers in an UGC care and reputed peer reviewed journals.

Thank you, Dr. Samadhura, for sharing your professional journey. Quite an impressive background. Let's move forward.

Professor, let's begin by verifying your expertise in financial analytics. Can you explain how you would use regression analysis to predict revenue growth for a company, and what key factors you would consider for detection and mitigation of multicollinearity issues?

So we can use the regression analysis to predict the future revenue progress of any company or any business using the basic regression analysis. And for that purpose we need to we need to have the data data of dependent variable that will be there that will be the revenue of the company and independent variables which will which will. Independent variables that will be the factor. That will influence their influence the revenue progress of a company and we will regress those factors to know the outcomes on there to know the impact of various factors on their income growth of a company and.

What was the another question?

Yes, yes, yes, sure, Sir.

The second part of the question was about identifying and addressing multicollinearity issues. Could you elaborate on how you would detect multicollinearity in

If we if we use country size as an independent variable for their purpose, we can use different variables like we can use the GDP of a country and if there is multicollinearity between 1 variable and the GDP, we can use different different proxy different proxy for that purpose we can use GDP per capita or or other variables to overcome the issue of multicollinearity.

Yeah, multicollinearity means a vendor independent variables have correlation between themselves. That is a serious issue in in regression analysis because the coefficient are not reliable and valid. That means the regression results cannot be reliable. So to address the issue of multicollinearity, we can we can use the proxy variables proxies for independent variables like for example, if we.

Thank you, Professor. That provides clarity on your approach to regression analysis and handling multicollinearity. Let us move on to another skill domain. How would you structure the teaching of a laboratory course in financial analytics to ensure students can balance theory with hands-on practical experience?

Can you repeat the question, Sir?

Certainly, Professor. How would you design and structure a laboratory course in financial analytics to effectively balance theoretical concepts with practical hands-on applications?

Yes.

Sure. First of all, I need to prepare the lecture for that. For that purpose, I can use that I can use, I can take the help of the various various technologies like the AI, like the other study materials and design my lecture in a proper way in advance so as to make the students clear about what is going to be taught in that lecture and using the visual.

Aids, uh, various graphical techniques, visual visual graphical techniques and and, uh, clarity of.

The short questions to make the student engage engage you engage in in the teaching learning methodology and I can also, and I can also make their concepts more clear to the students and some as we know, some students in the classroom are average student, some perform better and we can handle.

Objective clarity of teaching. And also all and also I can use.

Those weak students by providing more guidance and receiving the feedback, constant feedback from those weak student so that the lectures can be so that the teaching can be improved upon those students as well.

Thank you, Professor. Your attention to tailoring the teaching experience to different student levels and using visual aids, as well as soliciting feedback, is noted. For the next skill area, can you explain how you would evaluate students' practical application of core financial concepts through an exam setting? Would you prioritize theoretical understanding or problem-solving skills, and why?

I can use both theoretical concepts and problem solving circulars because it is it is the basic of any problem is a strong foundation of theory, so.

A good teacher is bound to know from the student is the conceptual clarity, their theoretical clarity, and how those theories are put in an in the practical situation.

So that they can solve the real world examples.

I can use the I can put if I were to make a question paper or students to evaluate their progress. I can put both the theoretical questions and also the numerical and practical questions as well so as to make so as to judge that so as to judge the student clarity of theoretical concepts and their practical and.

Numerical ability of the student to on on understanding those theoretical concepts.

And practical and and.

Understood, Professor. Your balanced approach to combining theoretical and practical assessments to evaluate clarity and application is clear. Next, how would you approach mentoring graduate students in their research projects to ensure they align with broader academic goals while fostering individual innovation?

Yes, for making a good research project for especially for the undergraduate students, I can guide them First of all, selecting a research topic and selecting a research topic and going through and making them understand to go through the literature review, detailed literature review is important to know about the background of the topic and. To get how to get the data about that.

Any particular project, any particular topic, how to get the data and what I can teach them their research methodology portion to make so that they can understand what what is the research methodology, how to use them for a particular topic. And as we said already, there are multiple issues how to solve them, how to take care of them, like the problem of multicollinearity, heterocyst, autocorrelation.

And our panel unit route we can address, we can explain the various issues of research methodology and how to solve those. And how to solve those problems as well, how to remove those problems as well. And also we I can give them the hands-on practice on various softwares like Stata, PLSM or or SPSS to analyze that, to analyze their data and interpret the results.

And I can also guide the student to serve for the student project on the basis of writing. On the basis of writing, how to write a good research project from starting from the introduction and ending from the references.

Thank you, Professor. Your detailed approach, from guiding topic selection to addressing methodological challenges and encouraging hands-on software training, demonstrates a strong mentorship ethic. Switching focus now to another skill set, how would you ensure that your teaching style remains clear and well-structured, particularly when communicating complex financial concepts to students with varying levels of understanding?

Yes, as I already told, told you that in a classroom there are different types of student. Some student is get the concepts very quickly, some are poor and some are average students. And a good teacher is and a good teacher is that who knows the problems of every student and make every student and make every student student understand the concept in a better end.

First of all, I can use the real world examples and I can use their case discussions. I can use their I can use. I can also put put a shot answer type of questions to various students. So that so add to make the classroom more engaging and more it more make it more interesting. I can also give the real world examples and for example, I can I can use.

Use the visual aids. As I said already, I can use the graphical methods of teaching. I can use the numerical methods of teaching. I can use. I can take the help of the. I must say I can take the help of the technology, like teaching on a smart gold giving, giving real-world examples and. And and especially concentrating on the poor and weak student to make it.

And teach them in a very simple way so that they may also understand the common concepts in a well in a well manner.

Thank you, Professor. Your emphasis on adapting to diverse learning abilities, incorporating real-world examples, and leveraging technology reflects a student-centered approach to teaching. Let us now examine your research expertise. Could you provide an example or explain your approach to conducting research that has been published in a reputable journal? For instance, how do you identify research gaps and design a study to address them effectively?

First of all I will connect to the.

I will collect the literature about a particular topic.

On which I am interested to do research. I will select a topic 1st and then I will do a research about the literature part. And I will I will I will identify the research gaps differently. For example, there can be methodological research gap, there can be, there can be. Sample period research gap there can be for example, some research are.

Have been done in advanced countries, but their research has not been yet done in in developing or less developed countries. So we can identify different research gaps based on their based on the time period of this different studies and for example, some.

In, for example, in during the literature review, I have identified that most of the research has been conducted and developed countries, so there is a lack of.

Any good research in to be conducted in a developed country like India and another research gap can be like there is a methodological advancement in their in their in their in that particular area. I can use the recent recent new methodologies are there.

Understood, Professor. Your methodical identification of gaps—whether geographical, methodological, or temporal—demonstrates a structured approach to contributing impactful research. Next, could you elaborate on your experience in industry projects or consultancy, particularly highlighting how you have applied academic expertise to solve practical problems in financial management or analytics?

Sorry I don't have that experience. I have not worked on any project, industrial project yet.

Understood, Professor. Thank you for your honesty. Let's move to the final area of verification. Would you describe your academic background, specifically focusing on your PhD specialization and how its focus aligns with the requirements of this role as a Finance Professor?

I have an as far as my PhD is concerned, my area of specialization is my area of broad area of specialization is accounting and finance. And particularly my and in particular my research area is concerning about the international taxation, international trade and foreign direct investment. As we know that international trade, foreign direct investment and international taxation.

They are all the core concepts of finance. So I have I have also published more than 5-6 research papers almost I have published that are that are that are based on their that are about foreign direct investment, international trade and especially the double taxation treaties as these. 3 concepts are the core concepts of any international finance.

Our domestic finance I I believe that I can contribute significantly in the teaching and research orientation in the field of finance.

Thank you, Professor. Your PhD specialization and research outputs in international taxation, trade, and foreign direct investment align well with key areas of finance, demonstrating both depth and relevance to this role. With this, we have completed the verification of all skills.

Professor, let's begin with your experiences as an educator. Can you describe the teaching approach you most prefer for engaging students in a foundational finance course?

Sorry to interrupt.

There was a technical issue.

Of course, Professor. Please go ahead.

What was your question? Can you repeat that?

Certainly, Professor. Could you describe the teaching approach you most prefer for engaging students in a foundational finance course?

Yes, uh, first of all, I should, I should make the concepts clearer, clearer to the students theoretical concepts or practical concepts. I should focus on the theory 1st. And after that I should give the students the real world example. We should engage in the case discussions and small group discussions among the student so that the students will be curious about learning new.

Things about a particular topic that is going to be that is doing going to be the topic of class in at any point of time. And also we can we should provide that we should, we should provide the students that technological aids, as I said, the visual aids, visual aids like using the using the different like SQL teaching the student is the SQL how to manage the data or other things that Roka that requires sophisticated technologies so we can leverage the we can leverage. The technology.

To make students more clear about the concepts to to make them clear about their means, how complex topics and how different complex topics can be easily made understood to the student using their technology.

And visual aids, and as I said, we can use the case discussions and group discussions and and theoretical concepts. And that is that's all about, that's all the strategies I will use in teaching, teaching students effectively in a classroom.

That's a thoughtful approach, Professor, emphasizing the blend of theory, real-world applications, and leveraging technology. Thank you for sharing that.

Professor Hurrah, I understand you've published six research papers in peer-reviewed and UGC CARE-listed journals and contributed a book chapter to "Emerging Trends in Commerce and Management." Let's discuss how your research informs your teaching approach. Could you describe one of your published papers and explain how the findings or methodologies in that work translate to effective classroom instruction?

There was a technical issue during what you are saying I did not hear. Can you repeat that question again?

Yes.

Please elaborate on one of your published papers and how its findings or methodologies enhance your ability to teach finance effectively in a classroom setting.

I have published 6 research papers. For example in one of the paper I have their topic was that how double taxation treaties impact FDI inflow into India.

So the for the sake of this paper, I have first as a normal routine of research, I have identified research gaps based on that based on the literature and addressed those research gaps using the strong methodology like I have used the poison pseudo maximum likelihood approach. In my research methodology to analyze the impact of double taxation treaties on FDI inflow.

And the research concluded that double taxation treaty have a positive and statistically significant impact on the FDI inflow of India. That means that India should negotiate double taxation treaties with other countries as well so that to get more FDI inflow into India. As we know FDI inflow is an important for the foreign economic growth because it it makes the country.

Into India.

More economically it makes the country to uplift their understand of living of people and getting their products at cheaper prices and also generating employment to getting and getting getting the new technology from the other other parts of the countries in the country and overall it increased the growth and development of a country especially.

It it makes the country to grow.

India.

Making as we know the FDI that's foreign direct investment and double taxation treaties are the basic concept, score concept and the fundamental concepts of finance. I can I can help the student to give and make them understand how FDI helps in how FDI helps us to grow as to grow as a country, to grow as a businessman and.

And I can.

To me, how to make the double taxation treaties with other countries and leverage the various benefits of double taxation treaties to get more investment and trade opportunities with other countries.

To.

Thank you, Professor Hurrah, for sharing those insights about your research. To delve a bit deeper, how do you incorporate advanced research methodologies, such as the Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood approach you mentioned, into teaching foundational finance concepts to students who might not yet have a robust analytical background? How do you ensure the content remains accessible while still enriching their learning?

Yes, it can be used to. It can be used very well in especially in the research project of undergraduate and graduate level, graduate level students and post graduation level students when they are formulating research projects. I can I can teach them how to collect the data on the FTI. I can guide them how to collect the data on trade and investment. I can guide them how to filter.

Data, How to How to make the panel data? How to organize the panel data? How to select a particular variable? How to do the multicollinearity test? How to do the other diagnostic tests? And if there are 0 trade values which are common in the trade data and FDI values which are common 0 trade and FDA0 values in trade and FDI and and if there is also the problem of heterocysticity, we can easily.

Suggest the students to use the poison pseudo maximum likelihood estimation approach as it addresses those issues in a very effective manner and making that research more robust and Rob, Rob, making the results of their research more robust and reliable.

Understood, Professor. It's clear that your research experience not only enhances your subject knowledge but also equips you to guide students effectively through empirical methods and practical data analysis. How would you further adapt your teaching approach for students who may not necessarily pursue research but need to understand these concepts for practical finance applications in their careers?

Our scheduled time for the interview is now up. Before we conclude, do you have any questions related to the role or the company?

Thank you, Sir. I don't have any question.

Professor, could you outline your 3-year research roadmap, detailing how it integrates with high-impact outcomes, institutional needs, and external funding opportunities?

Can you repeat the question, Sir?

Professor, could you outline your 3-year research roadmap, focusing on how it aligns with high-impact outcomes, the institution's requirements, and opportunities for external funding?

As I have already formulated.

Research Papers.

4/2 I have.

I have already compiled it for five research papers and in the coming years, three to four years, I will be publishing more research papers focusing on and focusing on international trade, FDI, double taxation treaties and bilateral investment treaties also also, and my research will. In coming two to three years, I will publish more on a reputed journalism if possible working.

Thank

On their various projects, also their projects of various institutions. On which we can get the funding is from various like CSIR projects or other UGC related projects from which we can get the funders to do do research on a particular topic and use my use my core concepts of research to handle the problems of research and contribute to their development of a research.

Environment in the inner studio, especially in the vit in Astute.

Understood, Professor. Your focus on publishing research in reputed journals and exploring areas like international trade, FDI, and double taxation treaties is noteworthy, especially when aiming for institutional collaboration and funding through bodies like CSIR or UGC. How do you intend to mentor junior students within this research environment to ensure a consistent pipeline of high-quality publications and foster sustainable academic output?

I can guide the students about their various journals that are relevant to a particular topic. For example, if, uh, for example, the topics related to the international trade, FDI and double taxation treaties, I can guide them on how to select research, uh, how to select a particular journal, how to publish, how to, how to formulate the paper, how to write the paper in a standard manner so that it gets easily published and.

It gets easily accepted and published in a reputed journalism. I can guide them on on using the good methodology, sophisticated and new methodological approaches and and making and and making them understand how to take the novel topics which can be easily published published by a reputed journals.

It is commendable, Professor, that you focus on guiding students in choosing journals, utilizing sophisticated methodologies, and identifying novel research topics to enhance their academic contributions. In your roadmap, have you planned strategies to leverage international collaborations, either through co-authorship or joint projects, to enhance your citation metrics and global research visibility?

Authors and co-authors to contribute to their research environment of velour and astute of technology.

Your intent to collaborate on funded projects with novel topics and international co-authorship demonstrates a proactive approach. Building such partnerships can significantly enhance institutional research visibility and impact. Thank you, Professor. That concludes this section.

Time is up! Ending the interview now.