Bio: Majeed Simaan is a tenure-track assistant professor of Finance and Financial Engineering at the School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT). He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 2018. His research interests revolve around Risk Management, focusing on Asset allocation and Pricing. His research has been published in different outlets such as Management Science, the European Journal of Operational Research, and Quantitative Finance. Additionally, his research has been featured on news outlets such as Bloomberg and funded by the NSF via CRAFT. 

Before joining SIT, he worked as a part-time data scientist for Financial Network Analytics (FNA) during the summer of 2018. Additionally, Majeed pursued graduate training in Mathematical Finance at the London School of Economics (LSE) for one year before joining RPI for his Ph.D. studies. While in London, he worked as a part-time Quantitative Analyst for Pantheon Ventures. A proponent of open-source software, he actively promotes the use of R for statistical computing and reproducible research in both academic and applied settings. Growing up in Galilee, Majeed holds both a BA and MA in Statistics from the University of Haifa with a specialization in actuarial science. In Aug 2023, he became a certified FRM via GARP.