Department of Management Studies · Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

RiskLab IISc

Quantitative methods for finance, risk, and real-world decision-making
About the group

We develop computational and mathematical methods at the intersection of quantitative finance, machine learning, and risk management. Our work spans Monte Carlo methods for derivatives pricing and hedging, counterparty credit risk and XVA, portfolio optimisation in high-dimensional settings, and point-process models of high-frequency order flow. A growing thread applies these tools to social-good problems in low- and middle-income countries. The group organises the annual RTQF symposium (Recent Trends in Quantitative Finance) at IISc, bringing together academics and practitioners at the frontier of quantitative methods.

Faculty
Shashi Jain
Associate Professor · Department of Management Studies · IISc Bangalore
Postdoctoral researchers
Devang Sinha
Postdoctoral Researcher
Quantitative finance & risk
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Saurabh Bansal
Postdoctoral Researcher
Numerical PDE methods for option pricing; neural network solvers
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Imran Ansari
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Research associate
Aryan Hingwe
Research Associate
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PhD students — current & alumni
Md Shadab Khilji
Current PhD student
Current
Kumbhani Smit Bhimjibhai
Current PhD student
Current
Purba Banerjee
Option pricing, hedging & risk optimisation
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Current
Sumanjay Dutta
Mitigating low-sample issues in portfolio analysis: shrinkage and Gaussian graphical models
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Current
Aditya Nittur Anantha
Order-flow modelling for liquidity and quoting in event time
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Head of Quantitative Finance · Algoquant, Bangalore
2025
Vikranth Lokeshwar Dhandapani
Neural networks for pricing, static hedging and counterparty credit risk
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Quantitative Researcher · Morgan Stanley, London
2024
Sobin Joseph
A neural network approach to modelling Hawkes processes for financial applications
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Quant Researcher · HSBC
2024
Abhishek Das
Modelling social and economic impacts of zero-carbon transition of the Indian electricity system
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— [update current position]
2025
Arjun V Singar
Personality, learning styles and innovative pedagogy in engineering & management education
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India & Philippines Head of Model Validation · Wells Fargo
Tanuj Negi
Transformative learning and profession change: a quantitative and explanatory framework
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Postdoctoral alumni
Prerna Pandey
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Research — click a theme to filter
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Published2025
Joseph, Sobin · Jain, Shashi
International Journal of Computer Mathematics · Taylor & Francis
Published2025
Nittur Anantha, Aditya · Jain, Shashi
Computational Economics · Springer
Preprint2025
Nittur Anantha, Aditya · Jain, Shashi · Goyal, Shivam · Misra, Dhruv
arXiv:2507.05749
Preprint2025
Nittur Anantha, Aditya · Jain, Shashi · Maiti, Prithwish
arXiv:2507.22712
Preprint2025
Banerjee, Purba · Iyer, Srikanth · Jain, Shashi
arXiv:2511.00781
Published2026
Mapping the potential and limitations of using generative AI technologies to address socio-economic challenges in LMICs
Adams, Rachel et al. (incl. Jain, Shashi)
Nature Computational Science · Nature Publishing Group
Published2025
Making of SAATHI — Collaborative Design Thinking (Part 1); Refinement, Guardrails, Prompts & Rules (Part 2); Lessons from the Field (Part 3)
Jain, Shashi · Urs, Uma
Gates Open Research · F1000 · vol 9 (28–30)
Published2024
Hoencamp, Jori · Jain, Shashi · Kandhai, Drona
Quantitative Finance · vol 24(3–4) pp 409–432
Published2024
Dutta, Sumanjay · Jain, Shashi
Finance Research Letters · vol 64 · 105426
Published2024
Joseph, Sobin · Jain, Shashi
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics · vol 447 · 115889
Preprint2024
Joseph, Sobin · Jain, Shashi
arXiv:2402.04740
Published2024
Banerjee, Purba · Murthy, Vasudeva · Jain, Shashi
Computational Economics · vol 63(1) pp 245–270
Published2023
Hoencamp, Jori · Jain, Shashi · Kandhai, Drona
Risks · vol 11(10) · 168 · MDPI
Preprint2023
Banerjee, Purba · Iyer, Srikanth · Jain, Shashi
arXiv:2310.01104
Preprint2023
Dhandapani, Vikranth Lokeshwar · Jain, Shashi
arXiv:2302.00728
Published2022
Lokeshwar, Vikranth · Bharadwaj, Vikram · Jain, Shashi
Applied Mathematics and Computation · vol 417 · 126775
Published2022
Joseph, Sobin · Kashyap, Lekhapriya D · Jain, Shashi
Journal of Computational Science · 101754 · Elsevier
Published2019
Jain, Shashi · Leitao, Álvaro · Oosterlee, Cornelis W
Journal of Computational Science · vol 33 pp 95–112 · Elsevier
Preprint2019
Lokeshwar, Vikranth · Bharadwaj, Vikram · Jain, Shashi
arXiv:1911.11362 (published as AMC 2022)
Published2016
Feng, Qian · Jain, Shashi · Karlsson, Patrik · Kandhai, Drona · Oosterlee, Cornelis W
Journal of Computational Finance · vol 20(1) pp 139–172
Published2016
Karlsson, Patrik · Jain, Shashi · Oosterlee, Cornelis W
Applied Mathematical Finance · vol 23(3) pp 175–196
Published2016
Fast and accurate exercise policies for Bermudan swaptions in the LIBOR market model
Karlsson, Patrik · Jain, Shashi · Oosterlee, Cornelis W
International Journal of Financial Engineering · vol 3(1) · 1650005
Preprint2016
KVA, mind your P's and Q's!
Jain, Shashi · Karlsson, Patrik · Kandhai, Drona
SSRN working paper
Published2015
Jain, Shashi · Oosterlee, Cornelis W
Applied Mathematics and Computation · vol 269 pp 412–431 · Elsevier
Published2012
Jain, Shashi · Oosterlee, Cornelis W
International Journal of Computer Mathematics · vol 89(9) pp 1186–1211
Published2013–14
Nuclear real options trilogy: construction strategies & lifetime uncertainties · valuing modular plants · decision-support for reactor portfolio planning
Jain, Shashi · Roelofs, Ferry · Oosterlee, Cornelis W
Nuclear Engineering and Design (2013) · Energy Economics vol 36 (2013) · Energy Economics vol 44 (2014)
Collaboration & contact
We welcome enquiries from industry practitioners seeking research partnerships and from prospective PhD students and postdoctoral researchers. Our work connects to derivatives desks, risk management, high-frequency trading, portfolio analytics, and applied AI. If your problem has a quantitative angle, we are interested to hear from you.

Write to shashijain@iisc.ac.in  ·  Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.