Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant

Dimitri Bianco

The Talking Tuesdays Podcast is all about quantitative topics but mainly focused around quantitative finance, data science, machine learning, career development, and technical topics. Join me for some insight from a risk management professional on how the industry works and how to break in!

  1. AUG 26

    NanoConda Founder - Roman Bansal

    Send us a text Roman Bansal is the founder of NanoConda. We discuss growing up in Russia, the joy of reading books, and how NanoConda can help you set up software, API, hardware, and colocation for HFT (high frequency trading) for smaller firms. We also discuss why Dallas, Texas is growing in the quant space as many firms are locating here. NanoConda https://nanoconda.com/ Roman Bansal https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanbansal/ OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.com Support the show

    51 min

  2. AUG 19

    Quant Insider - Tribhuvan

    Send us a text Tribhuvan Bisen is a co-founder of Quant Insider. We learn about his journey from his education to working at Deutsche and then starting Quant Insider. We also discuss the quant job and education market in India and what it takes to be a quant. Quant Insider: https://quantinsider.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/quant-insider/ Tribhuvan Bisen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tribhuvan-bisen/ OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.com Support the show

    44 min

  3. AUG 5

    OVVO Labs and Fred Viole

    Send us a text Fred Viole is the founder of OVVO Labs and has been putting together a complete statistical framework using partial moments and nonlinear and nonparametric statistics (NNS). He also has an R package which is free called, NNS. The application of NNS to finance is proprietary and what OVVO Labs uses to sell macroeconomic forecasts, a utility based portfolio optimization tool, and an option pricing tool. From the horse race tracks to trading and to the chase of an entrepreneurial journey, Fred Viole is changing Wall Street and the finance world as we know it.  OVVO Labs https://www.ovvolabs.com/ Presentation, "Partial Moments in Quantitative Finance" https://www.ovvolabs.com/media/ R NNS Package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/NNS/index.html Video version: https://youtu.be/DYDTD3_76VA OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.com Support the show

    1h 7m

  4. JUL 29

    Project Phoenix

    Send us a text Project Phoenix is me re-organizing my life. I got an offer to be a CRO and instead of taking it, I quit my job, sold my honeybees, and decided to run a half marathon. I started my own business called, "Fancy Quant LLC" where I will consult in quant research, risk management, career development, and academic program consulting and advisory services. For opportunities contact me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitri-bianco/ OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.com Support the show

    18 min

  5. JUL 22

    Mathematician and Quant - Raphael Douady

    Send us a text Raphael Douady is a French mathematician who works in both academia as well as quantitative finance. His specialization is in chaos theory and financial mathematics. In this interview he shares how he got into mathematics and why he left for quantitative finance. We also briefly discuss AI in the finance space as he has a paid seminar on July 31st called, "Opportunities and Challenges in Leveraging AI for Financial Markets." The conversation is a fun discussion of the challenges of working in the finance world from a math and quant perspective. Opportunities and Challenges in Leveraging AI for Financial Markets: https://wallstreetscholars.com/seminar/b2310304-b22a-4622-8a47-1698b136b00f?rc=fq Raphael Douady: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphael-douady/ Polymodels  Textbook: https://amzn.to/3IVuEJV OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.com Support the show

    1h 11m

  6. JUL 15

    Data Bento and Market Data

    Send us a text I sit down with Data Bento's CEO, Christina Qi to discuss how she started Data Bento and why their product of providing data is the best. It turns out there are a lot of features that firms want such as how data is structured, cleaned, and transferred which make a big difference especially in the finance and investing space. Learn more in this episode about Data Bento's focus on driving innovation instead of producing a low quality knock-off product. OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.com Support the show

    49 min

  7. JUL 8

    Quant Community - Season 8 Intro

    Send us a text Welcome to Season 8 of Talking Tuesdays with Fancy Quant! This season I will bring in more guest speakers from the quantitative finance community to talk about data, business, math, stats, and their journey's through life. OVVO Labs is a proud sponsor of Talking Tuesday with Fancy Quant!www.OVVOLabs.com Support the show

    4 min

  8. MAY 18

    Building a Better Quant Community

    Send us a text This is the presentation I gave at the Quaint Quant Conference 2025. The goal of the conference is to bring together more people to share ideas and collaborate. I touch on some of the main groups of people in the quantitative finance community and what each group can do to build a better community. The four groups are outsiders, academics, students, and practitioners. Website: https://www.FancyQuantNation.com Discord: https://discord.gg/8822pYKNrn Support the show

    1h 14m
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