Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant
The Talking Tuesdays Podcast is all about quantitative topics but mainly focused around quantitative finance, data science, machine learning, career development, and technical topics. Join me for some insight from a risk management professional on how the industry works and how to break in!
Episodes
135 episodes
Banking's Hype History and Balancing Reality
A long form discussion on the history of programming for quants at the banks from SAS to Python and the rise of machine learning. While the hype of machine learning changed some of the banking modeling practices the industry kept their head str...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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40:01
Control Systems and Electrical Engineering to AI in Finance
Didier Lopes studied control systems and electrical engineering in Europe before moving to the United States to build OpenBB, a next-generation financial research workspace.Frustrated by how fragmented data, analysis, and decision-makin...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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55:46
Systematic Fixed Income with Jeffrey Rosenberg
Jeffrey Rosenberg, CFA, Managing Director is a senior portfolio manager within BlackRock Systematic. He leads active and factor investments for mutual funds, institutional portfolios and ETFs within BlackRock’s Systematic Fixed Income (“SFI”) p...
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54:53
Poet to Wall Street Engineer - Michael Jordan Pilgreen
Michael Jordan Pilgreen was a poetry and art major but as covid hit and the commercial art industry changed he looked for a new path. He considered financial planning but ended up learning finance and technology to become an engineer on Wall St...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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1:04:59
What is Quantum Research?
Interested in what quantum computing is? Ramis Movassagh explains the basics of quantum, some applications to finance, why it is a hard problem to solve, and ways to learn more about it.Ramis is an applied mathematician and a theoretica...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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59:05
Sabr Research with Cheikh Fall
Diving into pure math, quantitative finance, and solving business problems with AI and LLMs. Cheikh Fall is a co-founder of Sabr Research and an MIT grad who is looking to solve many business problems with the advancements in AI. We discuss pot...
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Season 8
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Episode 12
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49:58
AI in Hedge Funds and Asset Management - Michael Watson
I had a blast taking to Michael Watson who is the founder and CEO of Hedgineer. "AI is the future. But not everyone is prepared for it. To effectively integrate AI into a company, it needs an organized, thorough, and secure invento...
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Season 8
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Episode 11
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1:07:02
Physicist to Quant and AI - Igor Halperin
Learn about financial AI expert, Igor Halperin's journey from the Soviet Union to physics and finally quantitative finance in the US. A great discussion on why many physists choose to go into quantitative finance, the positive and negative impa...
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Season 8
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Episode 10
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1:02:51
Alpha Engineer - Jeff Ryan
Jeff Ryan is an alpha engineer with an unconventional background. He is also the co-founder of QUANTkiosk and loves solving problems. Some great discussion on programming languages, structuring data, the quant community, and why R programming i...
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Season 8
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Episode 9
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1:22:01
The Current State of AI in Finance and Business
AI has many use cases and is a very broad area. AI has been used in finance since the rise of computers and the internet through automated systems. From trading to originating loans, AI is not new to finance. As LLMs have become the main focus ...
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Season 8
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Episode 8
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24:22
NanoConda Founder - Roman Bansal
Roman Bansal is the founder of NanoConda. We discuss growing up in Russia, the joy of reading books, and how NanoConda can help you set up software, API, hardware, and colocation for HFT (high frequency trading) for smaller firms. We also discu...
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Season 8
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Episode 7
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51:19
Quant Insider - Tribhuvan
Tribhuvan Bisen is a co-founder of Quant Insider. We learn about his journey from his education to working at Deutsche and then starting Quant Insider. We also discuss the quant job and education market in India and what it takes to be a quant....
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Season 8
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Episode 6
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44:18
OVVO Labs and Fred Viole
Fred Viole is the founder of OVVO Labs and has been putting together a complete statistical framework using partial moments and nonlinear and nonparametric statistics (NNS). He also has an R package which is free called, NNS. The application of...
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Season 8
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Episode 5
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1:06:32
Project Phoenix
Project Phoenix is me re-organizing my life. I got an offer to be a CRO and instead of taking it, I quit my job, sold my honeybees, and decided to run a half marathon. I started my own business called, "Fancy Quant LLC" where I will consult in ...
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Season 8
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Episode 4
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18:22
Mathematician and Quant - Raphael Douady
Raphael Douady is a French mathematician who works in both academia as well as quantitative finance. His specialization is in chaos theory and financial mathematics. In this interview he shares how he got into mathematics and why he left for qu...
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Season 8
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Episode 3
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1:11:10
Data Bento and Market Data
I sit down with Data Bento's CEO, Christina Qi to discuss how she started Data Bento and why their product of providing data is the best. It turns out there are a lot of features that firms want such as how data is structured, cleaned, and tran...
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Season 8
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Episode 2
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48:36
Quant Community - Season 8 Intro
Welcome to Season 8 of Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant! This season I will bring in more guest speakers from the quantitative finance community to talk about data, business, math, stats, and their journey's through life.
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Season 8
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Episode 1
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3:35
Building a Better Quant Community
This is the presentation I gave at the Quaint Quant Conference 2025. The goal of the conference is to bring together more people to share ideas and collaborate. I touch on some of the main groups of people in the quantitative finance community ...
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1:14:29
Immigration and H1B - Quant View
As there has been some discussion around H1Bs and immigration, and a subscriber asked me to talk about it, here is my perspective.A few high points:- Immigration is a key part of America.- Great people should be allowed to immig...
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21:06
A Wall Street Chat with Patrick Zoro
I brought Patrick Zoro from Lehigh University on the channel to discuss jobs, hiring, program rankings, networking, and just to catch up with him on a personal note.Some interesting takeaways include how programs gather and report gradu...
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1:20:37
Director of Admissions and Recruiting at CMU MSCF - Emily Wertz
There is a lot of confusion on how admissions is done at quant finance masters programs in the US. Every program will do it differently however today I got the opportunity to learn about the admissions process from one of the top programs (Carn...
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1:00:43
Wall Street Scholars with David Shimko
An interview with valuations expert, David Shimko to discuss what he has been up to. He's teaching a quantitative focused financial valuations core course at NYU Tandon and he has been working on a new company called, Wall Street Scholars. Wall...
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1:07:06
Agus Sudjianto on Machine Learning, AI, and Validation
I had another great conversation with Agus Sudjianto around machine learning models, LLMs, risk management, model validation, and building culture. Agus recently retired from Wells Fargo and is now enjoying a variety of side projects including ...
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1:09:14
Zach Creighton Quant Recruiter and Founder of Hemans
Zach Creighton is a quantitative finance recruiter and founder of Hemans. Hemans is a premier staffing and search agency with specialization in the Financial Services Corporate Governance sector. Zach talks about his journey into the career of ...
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