Stanford Ph. D.
Private tutor in San Francisco, CA
Education
PhD in Statistics - Stanford University graduate level degree in Finance - Stanford Business School | dissertation on applications of stochastic processes in financial engineering |14+ years in the industry: machine learning, derivative pricing, portfolio optimization | 13+ years of tutoring and coaching students of all levels | 500+ projects done in all main statistical packages: R / RStudio, Stata, SPSS (including AMOS), SAS, Matlab, JMP, Minitab, EViews
Experience
I tutor in the fields of applied statistics, theoretical statistics, probability, stochastic processes, econometrics, biostatistics, actuarial science, optimization and finance. I hold a PhD in Statistics and a graduate degree in Finance from Stanford University. During my five years at Stanford I taught more than ten statistics & probability courses. After graduation, for more than a decade, I have been working in the financial industry focusing on projects pertaining to data mining, time series analysis, computational statistics, financial engineering and systematic trading. Equally importantly, I have tutored students and business professionals in all areas of statistics and quantitative finance for the last eleven years. I have consulted researchers in medical, social and economic sciences regarding statistical aspects of their research for thirteen years. I help with homeworks, tests, systems development, presentations, dissertations and data analysis in any of the major statistical packages: R, Matlab, SAS, Stata, SPSS, EViews, JMP, Minitab, as well statistics & optimization libraries of Excel. As my experience shows, I work with all types of clients, from undergraduate students to full professors in other fields. Typically, I tutor via video-conferencing and screen sharing in Skype (hourly rate; 2 hours minimum per session) or submit the complete analysis via e-mail (fixed fee). The hourly rate starts at $60 per hour and increases with the level of material... Selected areas of expertise: regression, hypotheses testing, ANOVA, GLM, robust statistics, principal components, Monte Carlo simulation, Bayesian statistics, missing data imputation, machine learning, reliability theory, cluster analysis, longitudinal data, advanced probability theory, stochastic calculus, Markov processes, semi-martingales, random fields, statistical genetics, survival analysis, market risk, pricing of financial derivatives, MBA finance, statistical strategies, financial economics, linear programming, convex and stochastic optimization, numerical methods, signal processing, statistics in sociology, psychology and political science. - DL: statistics, biostatistics, econometrics and finance tutor in the San Francisco Bay Area – the whole spectrum of services.
Availability
Weekdays at any time, Weekends at any time
Can Meet
Up to 1 hour away for no additional charge
Hobbies
My interests span tennis, volleyball, gym, folk and rock music, shows, road trips, writing, sniping, and so on.
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