Academic Staff
MSc in Financial Mathematics and Computation is staffed and run mainly by:
Dr Stephen Garrett
- Teaching: Actuarial Mathematics
- Research Interests: fluid mechanics, boundary-layer transition on rotating bodies, actuarial mathematics, and mortality models within the pension industry
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Prof Alexander Gorban
- Teaching: Data Mining and Neural Networks
- Research Interests: Dynamics of systems of physical, chemical and biological kinetics, Bioinformatics, Human adaptation to hard living conditions, Architecture of neuro-computers, and training algorithms for neural networks
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Dr Ray Kawai
Director of MSc in Financial Mathematics and Computation
- Teaching: Financial Mathematics II
- Research Interests: Monte Carlo variance reduction, approximations of stochastic differential equations including exact and approximative simulation of infinitely divisible processes, Lévy processes, Malliavin calculus, statistical inference for stochastic processes, and mathematical finance
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Prof Sergei Levendorskii
- Teaching: Advanced Methods in Derivative Pricing
- Research Interests: pricing of financial options of various kind mainly barrier options and American options on stocks, indices and exchange rates, real options, interest rate derivatives, estimation of time-irreversible processes
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Prof Jeremy Levesley
Head of Department
- Research Interests: approximation in Euclidean space and on spheres using radial basis functions and generalisations of these procedures to locally compact manifolds, solving partial differential equations using RBFs
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Dr Andrey Mudrov
- Teaching: Financial Risk
- Research Interests: mathematical physics, quantum groups, deformation quantization, representation theory
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Dr Michael Phillips
- Teaching: Generalized Linear Models
- Research Interests: the application of stochastic processes, statistical methods in the fields of reliability engineering and medicine
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Prof Michael Tretyakov
- Teaching: Financial Mathematics I
- Research Interests: numerical integration of stochastic differential equations, probabilistic approach to numerical solution of nonlinear partial differential equations, stochastic dynamics, financial mathematics
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