WGF Board Member Nitesh Kumar Joins CFMAR Advisory Board

WHEELS is glad to share that our Board Member, Nitesh Kumar, joined the Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research (CFMAR) at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB).

The goal of the CFMAR at UCSB is to encourage interdisciplinary research and to provide national and international leadership in quantitative finance from different perspectives. The Center brings together faculty, students, and visitors affiliated with the departments of Statistics and Applied Probability, Economics (Econometrics and Finance), Mathematics (Applied Mathematics), Computer Science and others on the UCSB campus and facilitates interdepartmental cooperation in mathematical modeling, statistical and actuarial data analysis and efficient computational methods specific to financial and actuarial data with powerful tools from Data Science.

The Advisory Board is an integral part of the Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research and the core conduit between our research and practice.  The mission of the CFMAR Advisory Board is to:

♦ Guide and advise the co-Directors regarding the overall strategic vision of the Center’s activities and research

♦ Help w/fundraising for the Center (our funding comes both from individual donors and from corporate sponsors/affiliates)

♦ Facilitate career advancement of our PhD graduates, postdoctoral fellows and FMS undergraduates (including through recruitment, guidance on career preparation, summer internships, etc.);

♦ Personally engage with the Center, e.g., by attending CFMAR events (both in-person or remotely), providing feedback on CFMAR research outputs, etc.

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