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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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