KEYNOTE SPEAKER/ TRADER/ QUANT/ LECTURER/ AUTHOR/ FOUNDER ... Mr. Sharma’s 28y of market experience spans running prop desks at Deutsche Bank (Saba/ ICT) + RBC (GAT entity) + hedge funds (QuantZ) & mutual funds (MLIM). His funds have won many awards over the years including those from ...more

KEYNOTE SPEAKER/ TRADER/ QUANT/ LECTURER/ AUTHOR/ FOUNDER ... Mr. Sharma’s 28y of market experience spans running prop desks at Deutsche Bank (Saba/ ICT) + RBC (GAT entity) + hedge funds (QuantZ) & mutual funds (MLIM). His funds have won many awards over the years including those from Morningstar, Lipper, WSJ, Battle of the Quants & BattleFin. He was a co-founder of Quant Strategies at MLIM (now BlackRock) where his investment role spanned a dozen of the earliest Quantamental factor funds (~$30 Billion under MLIM President & CIO). He was also a Manager of the Risk Analytics and Research Group at EY and co-architect of Raven TM (1st derivatives model validation engine). Amongst the first to receive a degree in QF/ FE from the pioneering & Top ranked MSCF program at Carnegie Mellon, he also has an MS in Applied Math from CMU where he was in the Logic/ AI PhD program. Other education includes Oxford (Phil + Math), Vassar, Princeton (ORFE courses) & Wharton. He was the recipient of many academic scholarships financing the entirety of his education including that at the best boarding school in Canada (Pearson UWC). He co-authored a model for pricing cross-currency puttable Bermudan swaptions & created the AIRAP risk-adjusted measure amongst other publications which have appeared in the Journal of Investment Management, Risk, Wiley, HedgeQuest, World Scientific, Elsevier etc. He is a frequent speaker at quant conferences & has guest lectured &/ or taught capstone courses at Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, UCLA, UCSD etc. Media coverage includes CNBC, Bloomberg TV, WSJ, FT, Hedge Fund Alert, Institutional Investor/ AR mag, HFM Week etc. Founder of - NYC's quant society. QuantZ's QMIT affiliate is a signal provider which leverages AI/ML towards turnkey HF alphas & Enhanced Smart Betas: https://www.quantzqmit.com/medialess