The Quant / Financial Engineering Podcast
Episodes
Blockchain Talk with Rehoboth Research
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
https://www.linkedin.com/company/rehoboth-research/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/besa-masaiti/
The Crypto Landscape
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Crypto Landscape by Patrick J Zoro
GMT20260303-180455_Recording
10 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
GMT20260303-180455_Recording by Patrick J Zoro
Portfolio Talks with Alexis Investment Partners
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Portfolio Talks with Alexis Investment Partners by Patrick J Zoro
Gamma Capture Intraday Volatility
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Louis Pellathy is a commodity broker with a background in mathematics and data analytics. He has developed trading and price curve models for several ...
CRYPTOSAZZ
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Crypto SAZZ is an independent publication launched in April 2025 by Gurraj Sangha https://www.cryptosazz.com/about/
International Student Networking for Quant Jobs in the U.S
05 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this insightful episode, I sit down with Edson Bope, a master’s student from Zimbabwe studying Financial Engineering in Pennsylvania, who shares ...
Orchid (The A.I. Asset Management Firm)
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Zuber Seth and I discussed his firm (Orchid) out of his London office. The discussion starts with Zuber's background, his foray into the hedge fund wo...
Stock Market Turmoil Analysis
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the market is heading down, we bring in Aidan Oster who is top ranked amongst 500+ entrants in the 2025 United States Investing Championship to giv...
The Trump Tariffs (part 2)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Salas comes back to the podcast to provide an update on the "Trump" Tariffs. Salas is the author of peer reviewed research on Tariffs. Th...
The Impending Tariffs on China-Mexico-Canada
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Discussion with Professor Salas on the impending "Trump" Tariffs. Salas is the author of peer reviewed research on Tariffs. The discussion starts wi...
Accounting and AI
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with the CEO of Safebooks AI about accounting and AI. https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/ https://www.linkedin.co...
Corporate Material Event Sequences with LLMs
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor zoro’s guests discussed the project they have been working on since 2024: Corporate Material Event Sequences with LLMs3 and associated sen...
What about DeepSeek R1 ?
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
3 Lehigh MFEs shared their experience and views on LLMs and Deepseek with Professor Zoro who manages Lehigh MFE program: https://business.lehigh.edu/a...
Bayesian Neural Networks
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Edris Loftpouri MFE /24 discusses his interest on the implementation of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) for macroeconomic forecasting. He also touches...
Gamma Capture
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The podcast welcomes Rob Navin, Founder of Real Time Risk Systems to discuss his new method of estimated a realized volatility based on P&L from a con...
The Vix of August
15 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Garrettt DeSimone about Options. Various aspects of the Option environment are discussed including OptionMetrics, The Vix o...
The Inverted Yield Curve that was
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Joseph Furlong about the inverted Yield Curve and its implications. They get to talk about the $35 trillion national debt,...
Alpha Mining
05 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro discusses Alpha Mining with Bogdan Ivaniuk, Co-Founder & CEO at AlphaCube. Bogdan is also a Quantitative Researcher and Algorithmic Tr...
“The 2-Hour Job Search“ Interview
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/ in a vivid discussion with book author Steve Dalton https://www.linkedin.com/in/daltonste...
Quant Finance and Physics
25 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Samuel Black about the interesting relationship between Quant Finance and the world of Physics. Samuel Black is a Master i...
"The January Effect" and Stock Prices
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Brett Friedman about one of the most popular Wall Street auguries the so-called “January Barometer,” or the belief that...
What about the Master in Financial Engineering?
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Quant Youtuber Mehul Mehta about the Master in Financial Engineering. Various aspects of the program are discussed includi...
What about the VIX?
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Brett Friedman about the VIXX and how it has behaved recently. Various aspects of VIX are explored including how it is cal...
Crypto: The Latest Frontier in Research
27 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Omid Malekan about Crypto and the need for more peer reviewed academic research. Various aspects of this topic are explore...
Stock Options Perspective with Garrett DeSimone, PhD
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Garrettt DeSimone about Options. Various aspects of the Option environment are discussed including OptionMetrics, Out of t...
Multi-Factor Investing Model with Asim Turk
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Asim Turk, MFE about the Multi-Factor Investing Model Asim has been working on. In additional to Multi Factor, various asp...
CHATGPT: Wiki Page with Allan Frank and Kirin Zhang
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kirin Zhang about Kirin's new Wiki Page: what it is? how is it used? what will be its impact? and its relat...
ChatGPT: Plugins with Allan Frank
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kushal Gowda about Plugins: what it is? how is it used? what will be its impact? and its relationship with ...
ChatGPT: Prompt Engineering with Allan Frank and Kushal Gowda
20 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kushal Gowda about Prompt Engineering: what it is? how is it use? what will be its impact? and its relation...
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the Polycrisis with Frank VanGansbeke
19 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks with Frank Van Gansbeke about the SVB collapse and the Polycrisis. The discussion brings forth several topics such as Too much mon...
Multi Factor Investing with Rodrigo Petricioli, MFE
10 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Rodrigo Petricioli, MFE (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-petricioli) about Multi Factor Investing, Modeling. They discu...
Pairs Trading with Charles Dotson, MFE
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Charles Dotson MFE '22 , Director of Research at Quantify Chaos about his project on pairs trading. They get to discuss so...
Data Analytics vs Fintech with Troy Aider, PhD
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Patrick Zoro speaks with Professor Troy Adair about the differences between Data Analytics and Fintech. Professor Zoro is a director for ...
The Geometry of Time with Aria Kartar Kaur Sangha, CFA
01 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Patrick Zoro speaks with Gurraj Singh Sangha, CFA Chief Quantitative Investment Officer about the concept of time within the alternative inv...
Swing Trading
21 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro Director of the master's in financial engineering program at Lehigh University has a quant discussion with Rekhit Pachanekar on Swing Tra...
QUANT MOVES
10 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Quant Youtuber and Dimitri Bianco, FRM about job prospects for Quants. The changing landscape is discussed, and advice pro...
Reinforcement Learning and Interpretability
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro welcomes to his podcasts Hariom Tatsat author of the book "Machine Learning and Data Science Blueprints for Finance: From Building Tradin...
Commonality in Liquidity
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr Neal Snow on his recently published co-authored work on an examination on search-based peer (SBP) groups proposed by Lee, ...
COP26, Climate change and the oversight of carbon footprint in multi-factor modeling
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks to a former Wall Street colleague, Frank Van Gansbeke https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-van-gansbeke-48199918/ Frank has been act...
Algorithmic Sports Trading
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro welcomes three Master in Financial Engineering graduates from Lehigh University to talk about their forward looking project on Sports Ana...
Covered Rate Parity and Crypto
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro discusses the application of the Covered Rate Parity principle to the Cryptocurrency market via a novel research idea from Matthew Marine...
NLP & Quantamental Investing
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro bring together two data scientist to discuss Natural Language Processing (NLP), Alternative Data and how it is used in Asset Management...
Forensic Cryptocurrency Trading Analysis
08 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lehigh Master in Financial Engineering graduates, Benjamin Durkee and Matsela Matsela discuss their research results on the analysis of Forensic Acco...
Impromptu Blockchain Discussion between Nick Gans and MFE Students
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro and his capstone MFE class speaks with Nick Gans, Director of Research and Development at Inca Digital, https://inca.digital/ an ope...
Machine Learning and Data Science in Finance
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro welcomes a machine learning expert and explore the finance applications. Hariom Tatsat currently works as a Vice President in the Quantit...
GameStop, Robin Hood and Citadel
06 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro discusses with his Capstone Financial Engineering students Jack Dean (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-dean-445336150/) and Ramos Wu (h...
The Future of Quant Education
11 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro discusses what is next for quant degrees with Dimitri Bianco, FRM and quant youtuber with more than 1,000,000 views (https://www.youtube....
Algo Trading
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Ishan Shah about Algorithm Trading basics. Ishan Shah is a Quant Researcher at Quantra by QuantInsti. He also worked with...
2nd Quant / Financial Engineering Conference
17 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the second quant / Financial Engineering Conference from Lehigh University with the latest topics on the world of Quantitative Finance
Data Forensics in the Age of Blockchain
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro speaks with Nick Gans, Director of Research and Development at Inca Digital, https://inca.digital/ an open data aggregation and intelli...
Covid19 + Recession Impact on Master in Financial Engineering Programs
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dimitri Bianco FRM comes back to the podcast to discuss his on the impact of Covid 19 on MFE programs
Quantum Computing
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr. Tamas Terlaky and Dr. Luis Zuluaga about Quantum Computing. Amplitude, Scaling, Quantum Supremacy, Cubits are discussed....
Business Schools Need to Integrate Data Science
19 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Zoro makes a long distance call to India and speaks with Vishal Bagla about his LinkedIn article https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vishal-bag...
How to choose a Quant / Financial Engineering Master Program?
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Patrick Zoro speaks with Quant Dimitri Bianco, FRM (YouTuber with 8,000 subscribers, 596,000 views over past 4 years) https://www.youtube.co...
Is Excel Dying?
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro seats down again with Dr. Troy Adair as a follow-up to their previous podcast to discuss the potential demise of Excel and the impact on ...
Blockchain and the End of the Dollar Dominance
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr. Hank Korth about Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, Libra, Databases, Brenton Woods, Congress, China and the future ...
Parallelism and Data Insurgency
27 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro seats down with Dr. Troy Adair to discuss Parallelism, Moore's law, the potential demise of Excel, R, Python, Artificial Intelligence, t...
What is Machine Learning?
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro from the Master of Financial Engineering Program at Lehigh University speak with Dr. Rebecca Wang from the College of Business about Mach...
Crypto Currencies, Blockchain: LIBRA
20 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr. Hank Korth about Libra and how it may impact the financial system. This is a primer on Libra with open ended view of its ...
Predictive Algorithms
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks with Gabriel Guellen, a graduate student enrolled in the Master of Financial Engineering Program at Lehigh University in Bethlehem...
Economics: Higher Education linked to lower minimum wage in the US
14 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks with Dr. Christos Pargianas about his recently published research article: "Education and the minimum wage in the US." The arti...
Central Bank actions could impact market negatively
02 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro is speaking with Pawel Mosakowski about the impact that Fed policies on market performance and why we may be heading toward uncharted ris...
2008 Sub-Prime Crisis and Securitization
17 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro is speaking with Pierre Lepinoy from Nice (France) about the 2008 Sub prime crisis from the perspective of a banker involved in securitiz...
Introduction to Credit Insurance
16 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks with Stephen Kay a Managing Director at Marsh USA about his days at McGill University in Canada and move to New York. The topic o...
Working on a Capital Markets Trading Floor
04 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick Zoro speaks with Robert Shrekgast former Credit Structurer and Marketer who is in the launching phase of an emerging market fund. Robert revi...
Portfolio Management and Banking
02 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Marcia Banks Deputy Director of the International Association of Portfolio Managers based in New York talks with Patrick Zoro about the role of Portfo...