Dr Ankush Agarwal
- Senior Lecturer (Economics)
telephone:
01413306317
email:
Ankush.Agarwal@glasgow.ac.uk
Biography
Ankush is educated at IIT Bombay (BTech, MTech) and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (PhD). Before joining the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School, Ankush worked at the commodities trading desk of Bank of America (2006-09) and as a post-doctoral researcher (2014-17) in Financial Modelling group at Centre of Applied Mathematics, École Polytechnique.
Research interests
Ankush is a member of the School's Finance research cluster.
Areas of expertise:
- Mathematical finance and operations research
- Machine learning in finance
- Monte Carlo and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods
- Financial economics and risk management
Grants
- Principal’s Early Career Mobility Scheme Fund (£2300)
- Fully funded researcher, CEMRACS 2017, CIRM, Marseille (EUR 2500)
- Travel grant, 2015 Workshop on systemic risk and financial networks, IPAM, UCLA ($750)
- Travel grant, 2013 RTG Summer School in Financial Mathematics, Princeton University ($1200)
Supervision
Ankush is interested in supervising projects examining:
- Topics in financial economics especially related to management of pension schemes, design of incentive mechanisms, mean field games in energy markets.
- Classical problems of mathematical finance such as derivatives pricing & hedging, financial risk estimation and stress-testing of financial networks.
Current doctoral supervision
- Wang, Buchun
A mix asset pricing model of stocks based on LSTM - Zhang, Shuya
Different machine learning model for predicting option price
Teaching
- Derivatives pricing
- Mathematical finance
- Computational finance
Additional information
- Post-doctoral fellowship by Risk Foundation (2014-17)
- Tata Consultancy Services research scholarship (2012-14)
- National Talent Search Scholarship awarded by Govt of India (2001-06)