Majeed Simaan
Assistant Professor Of Finance at Stevens Institute of Technology
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolMajeed Simaan is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Finance and Financial Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology with eight years of academic and applied experience in quantitative finance. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and researches risk management, asset allocation and pricing under uncertainty using tools from statistical learning, financial networks, and textual analysis. Equally comfortable in theory and practice, he has presented internationally and published in outlets such as European Journal of Operational Research and Quantitative Finance, and briefly contributed as a data scientist to a supervisory-technology startup mapping systemic financial networks. An R enthusiast and experienced instructor, he runs R workshops and integrates reproducible analytics into both research and teaching. His background in actuarial statistics and hands-on work with network-based stress testing gives him a distinctive angle on systemic risk and practical portfolio construction.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Finance, Finance at Tel Aviv UniversityMaster's degree, Statistics (Hons) major in Actuarial Science, Master's degree, Statistics (Hons) major in Actuarial Science at University of HaifaResearch in Risk and Stochastics, Research in Risk and Stochastics at London School of EconomicsDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Finance, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Finance at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
French, Hebrew, English, Arabic
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Github Skills (20)
quantitative8
data-import8
climate-science8
finance8
r8
sec8
financial-data7
algorithmic-trading7
r-programming6
optimization6
regression6
statsmodels6
time-series6
python6
economics6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
simaan84/quantmod
Aug 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
simaan84/IBKR_Tips
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:28 commits, 27 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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