Ritabrata Bhattacharyya

Bio

Ritabrata (Rito) has wide ranging experiences as a professional quantitative trader, investment strategist and technologist. Rito earned a Master’s degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India. In addition to his experience as a digital transformation consultant for Fortune 500 companies and an instructor and student mentor at WorldQuant University, he led research and strategy development at multiple global hedge funds. He is a long-standing member of Mensa and holds multiple software patents and journal publications in diverse fields – from computational biology to customer experience management and finance.

Education

• MSc, Engineering and Computational Biology – Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay, India – 2004

Research

• "Glucose metabolism at high density growth of E.coli B and E.coli K: Efficient glucose utilization in E.coli B as determined by microarrays and northern blot analyses," Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sept. 5, 2005
• "Flexible Accrual Transaction Processing Framework," U.S. Patent 11463899, issued Aug. 10, 2006
• "Management of Package Offerings by Loyalty Programs and Automation of Accrual Recalculation," U.S. Patent 11463879, issued Aug. 10, 2006
• "Partner Account Debit Process," U.S. Patent 11463887, issued Aug 10, 2006

Employment

• WorldQuant University – Instructor – 2015 to present
• TrueRisk Labs – Co-Founder & Chief Quant – Phoenix, Arizona, USA – 2015-2023
• TrueRisk Capital – Co-CIO & Chief Quant – Los Angeles, California, USA – 2021-2023
• Crimson Black Capital – Head Of Research – London, United Kingdom – 2019-2021
• Vector Capital Group AG – Chief Technology Officer – London, United Kingdom – 2019-2021
• Blowfish Technologies – Co-Founder and CTO – Vancouver, Canada – 2018-2019
• Altera Partners Limited – Head of Quantitative Option Strategies – Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square, London, United Kingdom – 2016-2024
• Convergence Investment Management, LLC – Lead, Algorithmic Trading Strategies – San Francisco, California, USA – 2015-2017
• Tata Consultancy Services – Lead, Customer Experience Management, Center of Excellence & Solutions – Kolkata, India – 2009-2013
• Oracle Corp – Project Lead – San Francisco Bay Area – 2004-2009

WQU Courses

• Portfolio Management
• Risk Management
• Capstone (leading instructor)

Fun Fact

Ritabrata loves dogs.

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