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1 September 2015 AKASH BANDYOPADHYAY Stern School of Business New York University Department of Finance 44 West 4 th Street, KMC New York, NY (212) (office) (212) (fax) abandyop@stern.nyu.edu stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/akash-bandyopadhyay ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2015 now Stern School of Business, New York University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Senior Lecturer of Finance Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Finance (full time) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance. INDUSTRIAL EMPLOYMENTS Société Générale Group (SG Cowen Securities Corporation), New York, Quantitative Analyst, Market Risk Management. Merrill Lynch, New York, Quantitative Analyst, Global Equity Linked Products and Asset Management. Deutsche Bank, New York, Quantitative Analyst (summer intern), Equity Derivatives Risk Management. Banc of America Securities, New York, Quantitative Analyst (summer intern), Quantitative Equity Derivatives. EDUCATION Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, January Dissertation: Improvement of Stress-Energy Tensor Using Space-Time Symmetries. M.S., Theoretical Physics, University of Notre Dame, June M.Sc., Physics, first class, University of Calcutta, India, 1992.

2 Akash Bandyopadhyay, page 2 B.Sc., Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics (honors), first class honours with first division, Presidency College of University of Calcutta, India, TEACHING Stern School of Business, New York University, 2015 present Debt Instruments and Markets (MBA, FINC-GB.3333). Futures and Options (Undergraduate, FINC-UB.0043). Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Investments (MBA, FINC ). average student evaluation score (instructor rating): 9.4/10 2-times winner of Faculty Impact Award : spring 2010 and fall Sample Student Evaluation Scores: Fall 2013 Instructor Overall: 9.1/10 Class Overall: 9.3/10 Learning: 9.5/10 Winter 2013 Instructor Overall: 9.4/10 Class Overall: 9.0/10 Learning: 9.2/10 Winter 2012 Instructor Overall: 9.7/10 Class Overall: 9.4/10 Learning: 9.6/10 Fall 2011 Instructor Overall: 9.4/10 Class Overall: 9.3/10 Learning: 9.2/10 Empirical Methods in Finance (MBA, FINC 970-0). average evaluation score (instructor rating): 9.2/10 3-times winner of Faculty Impact Award : spring 2012, spring 2013, and spring Sample Student Evaluation Scores: Spring 2014 Instructor Overall: 9.8/10 Class Overall: 10/10 Learning: 10/10 Spring 2013 Instructor Overall: 8.5/10 Class Overall: 8.2/10 Learning: 8.7/10 Spring 2012 Instructor Overall: 8.9/10 Class Overall: 8.0/10 Learning: 8.3/10 Spring 2011 Instructor Overall: 9.6/10 Class Overall: 9.1/10 Learning: 9.6/10 Empirical Asset Pricing (Ph.D., topics course). average student evaluation score: 9+/10 Quantitative Investments (Undergraduate Independent Study, Economics Majors at Northwestern). Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Investments (MBA). average student evaluation score: 4+/5 Financial Instruments (MBA). average student evaluation score: 4+/5 Fixed Income Asset Pricing (MBA/Ph.D.). average student evaluation score: 4+/5 College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Options and Futures Markets (Undergraduate/M.S.). average student evaluation score: 4.6/5

3 Akash Bandyopadhyay, page 3 Financial Engineering II (M.S./MBA/Ph.D.). average student evaluation score: 4.8/5 Financial Risk Management (Undergraduate Independent Study). TEACHING AWARDS Faculty Impact Award for excellence in teaching, Student Association Kellogg School of Management, 5 Times: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, Award for excellence in teaching Investments, from MBA students of Investments course, Kellogg School of Management, Dean s Letter for distinguished performance in MBA teaching, Kellogg School of Management, 5 Times: Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall Nominated for school-wide L. G. Lavengood Outstanding Professor of the Year, voted by the graduating class of Kellogg School of Management, 2 Times: 2010, Cited as the most enthusiastic finance professor by MBA and Ph.D. students of Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Dean s Letter for excellence in Undergraduate teaching, from University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, College of Business, List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent based on Undergraduate/M.S. student evaluations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Business, multiple times: FINANCE ARTICLES Stress Test, Regression Analysis, and Convergence of Convertible Bond Valuation Models, Derivatives Analytics Research Report, Merrill Lynch, April VaR from Stress Test Projection Reports, Risk Management Report, Deutsche Bank, August Feynman Path Integrals for Derivative Pricing, Quantitative Equity Derivatives Research Report, Banc of America Securities, August How to Derive Black-Scholes Equation Correctly? (with Peter Carr), Quantitative Equity Derivatives Research Report, Banc of America Securities, July OTHER PAPERS Construction of Improved Stress-Energy Tensor in d 2, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, May 1999, 38, Unified Equation of Motion of a Test Charge in Electromagnetic and Gravitational Fields, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, September 1993, 32,

4 Akash Bandyopadhyay, page 4 A Monte Carlo study of Smectic-Nematic-Isotropic Phase Transitions, (with B. Nandi, T. R. Bose, J. Saha, and M. Saha), Physics Letters A, January 1992, 161, On Newton s Classical Laws and Schrödinger s Quantum Equation, Physics Teacher (Indian Physical Society), January/February 1989, 31, 1-2. BOOK (WORKING PROJECT) Investments: A Course of Lectures, in preparation (proposal accepted by World Scientific). GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Research Fellowship (2 times): 1998, University of Notre Dame Research Fellowship: National Merit Scholarship, Government of India: 1987, SERVICE Service to Degree Programs Advised students for career prospects in Quantitative Asset Management, Derivatives Sales/Trading, Hedge Funds: Kellogg School, Chicago Booth, University of Illinois Reviewer of the academic standard of MBA Investments courses at peer universities for Kellogg School s global student exchange program Supervisor of an advanced independent study course on Quantitative Investments for selective Undergraduate students majoring in Economics at Northwestern University. 3 students Assisted Finance Ph.D. admission committee in recruitment. Kellogg School, Supervisor of a research initiative by the MBA students of Chicago Booth: (one student s article Puzzles in Finance was published in Chicago Business, May 17, 2007). Supervised Undergraduate research projects in Finance (James Scholar): University of Illinois, Master s Thesis Supervision Anton Hong (subsequent position: Quantitative Analyst, Derivatives Sales/Trading, JP Morgan London). Thesis: Option Pricing with Finite Difference Methods and Monte Carlo Simulations, M.S., Referee / Reviewer

5 Akash Bandyopadhyay, page 5 Journal of Financial Economics, Economics Bulletin ( Palgrave- Macmillan, Addison-Wesley/Pearson, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.