Shashi is a portfolio manager
for global equities at a quant hedge fund based in New
York. He advises Swapnil on research.
Earlier, Shashi worked with D E
Shaw and Company in New York as Vice President of
quantitative strategies. He has deep expertise in
predictive forecasts, transaction cost modelling and
risk management.
He has a PhD from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (2008) and a BTech in Electrical
Engineering from IIT Bombay (2002)
Dr. Akshay Kashyap
Advisor
Akshay is a portfolio manager
for global equities at a quant hedge fund based in New
York. He advises Swapnil on research.
He has deep knowledge of
quantitative trading strategies and has created
institutional scale quantitative businesses, and teams
to run them, in multiple asset classes.
He has a PhD from University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2007) and a BTech in
Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay (2001)
Dr. Srikanth Jagabathula
Advisor
Srikanth is Associate Professor
of Information, Operations & Management Sciences at
Stern School of Business in New York.
His current research interests
broadly lie at the intersection of operations, machine
learning, and marketing and focuses on developing
data-driven modeling and learning techniques with the
goal of improving the accuracy of operational
decision-making.
He has a PhD from Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (2011) and a BTech in Electrical
Engineering from IIT Bombay (2006)
