Organising Committee

Katia Babbar is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Oxford Mathematical Institute and founder of AI Wealth Technologies. After a BSc in Mathematics from UCL and PhD in Stochastic Analysis applied to Finance from Imperial College, Katia worked at UBS as a Quantitative Analyst in FX in 2001, then at Citi as a Senior Quant on complex exotics trading books, before joining Lloyds as Head of FX Quantitative Research, leading a team of quantitative traders and data scientists.

Alvaro Cartea is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford. Álvaro is a member of the Mathematical and Computational Finance Group. Before coming to Oxford Álvaro was a Reader in Mathematical Finance at University College London, Associate Professor of Finance at Universidad Carlos III, Madrid-Spain and Lecturer in the School of Economics, Mathematics and Statistics at Birkbeck-University of London. He was previously JP Morgan Lecturer in Financial Mathematics, Exeter College, University of Oxford. Álvaro obtained his Doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2003.

Rama Cont is Professor of Mathematical Finance at the University of Oxford and head of the Oxford Mathematical & Computational Finance group. His research focuses on stochastic processes, mathematical modelling in finance, systemic risk modeling and foundations and applications of data science. Prof. Cont was awarded the Louis Bachelier Prize by the French Academy of Sciences in 2010 and the Royal Society Award for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research in 2017 for his research on systemic risk modelling. He was elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2017 for his 'contributions to stochastic analysis and mathematical modelling in finance'.