Samrat Halder
BSc, MSc (IIT Kharagpur)
Research Analyst and Software Engineer
Samrat joined OptiRisk Systems in January 2018 as a research analyst and software engineer; he is a member of the Research and Model Development team, supporting Indian as well as global clients of the company. Prior to joining OptiRisk he worked as a quant analyst with Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd, one of the leading financial firms based in Mumbai. Samrat has worked on various projects ranging from sentiment analysis, topic modelling, option pricing, cloud computing (AWS) and statistical analysis. Samrat obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degree (Integrated M.Sc.) in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. He is pursuing professional qualifications in finance and has cleared FRM Level 1 (GARP) and CFA Level 1 (CFA Institute). He is proficient in programming languages such as Python, R and Matlab; he is also fluent in English, Bengali (native language) and Hindi.