Cornell-Citi Financial Data Science Webinar with Alok Dutt (Citigroup)

Description

Welcome back to all as we kick off the fall semester with the first of our Cornell-Citi webinar series! Alok Dutt of Citigroup is a returning guest speaker whose presentation will be on "The Top Challenges for a Financial Data Scientist (and How to Overcome Them)." This virtual event will be held live via Zoom on Tuesday, Oct. 5th, from 5pm to 6pm EDT. The webinar is free and open to all guests. Registration is required (registration link). You will receive the webinar link and dial-in info upon registration (the confirmation email will come from no-reply@zoom.us). Abstract: The confluence of data availability, business needs, technological advances and education have created great opportunities for data science and data scientists in the financial industry. However, after plunging into a project, a data scientist often encounters several real-world obstacles that they may not be prepared for. Fortunately, most of the issues fall under a small number of categories and can be handled with some prior knowledge and information. We will describe some of the major challenges to achieving successful results, and some techniques and principles to accelerate the practical learning curve to become an effective data scientist. Speaker Bio: Alok Dutt is Head of Analytics in the Markets Quantitative Analysis division at Citigroup. He is responsible for a variety of advanced projects in automation, trading algorithms, data science and data engineering across multiple business lines and asset classes. In his role at Citi, he applies data and quantitative techniques to automate business processes including research, modeling, trading, simulation and visualization. Alok has extensive experience in several broad areas of quantitative finance, including exotics modeling, algorithmic trading and market making. Before Citi, he developed the trading models and algorithms for a new automated options market making group at Morgan Stanley that was the subject of a HBS case study on disruptive innovation in a large organization. Prior to that, Alok was an exotics modeler and trader and established the first multi-asset hybrid trading desk at Bank of America. Alok has a PhD in Computer Science from Yale University and a BA in Mathematics from Cambridge University.