Pedram Jahangiry
Professional Practice Associate Professor
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPedram Jahangiry is a Financial Economist and Professional Practice Associate Professor at Utah State University who blends a decade of academic and industry experience to apply machine learning and deep forecasting to financial time-series. He holds a PhD in Economics and has transitioned from roles at BlackRock and entrepreneurial trading leadership to shaping curriculum and mentoring real-world analytics projects. Pedram teaches ML and deep learning, shares practical insights on his YouTube channel, and champions democratizing quantitative finance education. His research and applied work bridge econometrics, ML, and DL to produce robust forecasting and hedging solutions informed by both theory and production practice. Notably, he has a track record of building trading teams and implementing hedging strategies for commercial banks, bringing practitioner credibility to his academic work. Based in Salt Lake City, he combines rigorous empirical asset-pricing background with hands-on model deployment experience to drive technology-forward finance.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General at Sharif University of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Economics at Arizona State UniversityMaster's degree, Economics, Master's degree, Economics at Simon Fraser University
Persian, English, French
Github Skills (17)
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supervised-learning10
economics9
python9
machine-learning9
econometrics7
data-science3
trading3
algorithmic-trading2
scikit-learn2
newsletter1
matplotlib1
science1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PJalgotrader/ML-USU-Fall21
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:65 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
PJalgotrader/Deep_Learning-USU
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:52 commits, 172 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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