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Sanjiv Das is the William and Janice Terry Professor of Finance at
Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. He previously held
faculty appointments as Associate Professor at Harvard Business School
and UC Berkeley. He holds post-graduate degrees in Finance (M.Phil and
Ph.D. from New York University), Computer Science (M.S. from UC
Berkeley), an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad,
B.Com in Accounting and Economics (University of Bombay, Sydenham
College), and is also a qualified Cost and Works Accountant. He is a
senior editor of The Journal of Investment Management, co-editor of
The Journal of Derivatives and The Journal of Financial Services
Research, and Associate Editor of other academic journals. Prior to
being an academic, he worked in the derivatives business in the
Asia-Pacific region as a Vice-President at Citibank. His current
research interests include: the modeling of default risk, machine
learning, social networks, derivatives pricing models, portfolio
theory, and venture capital. He has published over ninety articles in
academic journals, and has won numerous awards for research and
teaching. His recent book "Derivatives: Principles and Practice" was
published in May 2010. He currently also serves as a Senior Fellow at
the FDIC Center for Financial Research.
<p> <B>Sanjiv Das: A Short Academic Life History</B> <p>
After loafing and working in many parts of Asia, but never really
growing up, Sanjiv moved to New York to change the world, hopefully
through research. He graduated in 1994 with a Ph.D. from NYU, and
since then spent five years in Boston, and now lives in San Jose,
California. Sanjiv loves animals, places in the world where the
mountains meet the sea, riding sport motorbikes, reading, gadgets,
science fiction movies, and writing cool software code. When there is
time available from the excitement of daily life, Sanjiv writes
academic papers, which helps him relax. Always the contrarian, Sanjiv
thinks that New York City is the most calming place in the world,
after California of course.
<p>
Sanjiv is now a Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University. He came
to SCU from Harvard Business School and spent a year at UC Berkeley. In
his past life in the unreal world, Sanjiv worked at Citibank, N.A. in
the Asia-Pacific region. He takes great pleasure in merging his many
previous lives into his current existence, which is incredibly confused
and diverse.
<p>
Sanjiv's research style is instilled with a distinct "New York state of
mind" - it is chaotic, diverse, with minimal method to the madness. He
has published articles on derivatives, term-structure models, mutual
funds, the internet, portfolio choice, banking models, credit risk, and
has unpublished articles in many other areas. Some years ago, he took
time off to get another degree in computer science at Berkeley,
confirming that an unchecked hobby can quickly become an obsession.
There he learnt about the fascinating field of Randomized Algorithms,
skills he now applies earnestly to his editorial work, and other
pursuits, many of which stem from being in the epicenter of Silicon
Valley.
<p>
Coastal living did a lot to mold Sanjiv, who needs to live near the
ocean. The many walks in Greenwich village convinced him that there is
no such thing as a representative investor, yet added many unique
features to his personal utility function. He learnt that it is
important to open the academic door to the ivory tower and let the world
in. Academia is a real challenge, given that he has to reconcile many
more opinions than ideas. He has been known to have turned down many
offers from Mad magazine to publish his academic work. As he often
explains, you never really finish your education - "you can check out
any time you like, but you can never leave." Which is why he is doomed
to a lifetime in Hotel California. And he believes that, if this is as
bad as it gets, life is really pretty good.