I am a former physicist who continues to apply scientific and systematic methods across business disciplines including quantitative finance, investment management and financial technology. In quant finance, I have worked across all asset classes, from equity and fixed income to credit, ...more

I am a former physicist who continues to apply scientific and systematic methods across business disciplines including quantitative finance, investment management and financial technology. In quant finance, I have worked across all asset classes, from equity and fixed income to credit, volatility and commodities portfolio and risk management. In investment management, my focus has been on forecasting risk conditions and co-movements between markets and creating robust systematic investment strategies that navigate risk ebbs and flows. In fintech space, I focused on bringing the same systematic rigor to mass market wealth management industry. WealthTech, a startup I cofounded and led, pioneered the algorithmic approach to financial planning, envisioning the transformation of the advisory industry in the same manner as algorithmic trading has transformed the investment process. I am actively involved in public research in quantitative finance, both publishing and presenting my own research and editing books and peer reviewed publications. I am the founding Editor-in-Chief (now emeritus) of the Journal of Investment Strategies, and the founder and co-coordinator of http://arxiv.org/archive/q-fin, a global electronic research repository of quantitative finance articles. Before coming to Wall Street 25 years ago, I was a physicist working on quantum gravity and theory of early universe. Together with my PhD advisor Andrei Linde, one of the creators of modern cosmology, we have developed the theory of stationary inflationary universe, which continues to have important influence on modern fundamental theories, and whose very large scale structure naturally leads to emergence of the multiverse, and (possibly) even its locally testable predictions. In the non-profit world, I focus on education. I am a co-founder of the Ayb Educational Foundation, a leading force for the modernization of school system in Armenia. Specialties: Portfolio Manager, Quantitative Investment Strategist, Quantitative Credit Strategist, Derivatives Strategist, Systematic Wealth Management, Systematic Financial Planningless