Kosrow Dehnad

Dr. Dehnad is Chief Data Scientist at Aims Consulting and a member of DnnAlpha.ai long-short equity fund. Previously he was Assistant General Manger and head of Analytic and Quantitative Trading and CoHead of Hedge Fund Investing at Samba Financial Group where he initiated use of Big Data and Data Mining to develop trading strategies. Before joining Samba, he was a Managing Director in the Structured Credit Products at CITIGROUP in charge of Exotic Credit Trading. Previously, he was head of Fixed Income Derivatives Structuring and New Products there.

He received his BSc. in Mathematics with first class honors from University of Manchester in England and his PhD. in Mathematics from University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his second Doctorate from Stanford University, he joined AT&T Bell Labs where he published the book “Quality Control and Taguchi Method.” And His latest book on Block chain Investors’ Manual was published in 2020.

He started his career on Wall Street at the program trading firm of D.E. Shaw. Later he joined the Derivatives Marketing and Trading of Chase Manhattan Bank.

Dr. Dehnad has been on both the sell side and buy side of the financial markets. He has structured, traded, and risk managed, FX, Fixed Income, Equities, Credit, Commodities and Alternative Investments.

Dr. Dehnad current interests are Cryptocurrencies, applications of Blockchain technology to new areas such as Real Estate, Machine Learning in Financial Risk Management and Value Investing.

Forkast, an online publication dedicated to Cryptocurrencies and Emerging Technologies in the summer of 2021 published three OpEd coauthored by Dr. Dehnad about the potential applications of Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain technologies.