Sahand Haji Ali Ahmad

Quantitative finance professional and startup founder. PhD in Electrical Engineering-Systems (Stochastic Control, Computational Finance, Game Theory) from the University of Michigan. Career in front-office quantitative roles across investment banks: Morgan Stanley (credit desk quant), Barclays Investment Bank (FX algorithmic market-making quant trader), Goldman Sachs (systematic asset management strat), BNP Paribas (eFX quant trader) and Deutsche Bank (model development quant). Co-founder and CEO of Causal Experts (Sydney).

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The candidate holds/held front-office quantitative roles at institutions that are genuine quantitative-finance employers: Morgan Stanley (Credit Desk Quantitative Analyst, 2010-2012), Barclays Investment Bank (FX Algo Trading Quantitative Trader, 2013), Goldman Sachs (Systematic Asset Management Strat, 2014-2015), BNP Paribas (eFx Quant Trader, 2017-2018) and Deutsche Bank (Model Development Quant, 2022-2025). Each employer is a large investment bank with a material quant/FX/credit/systems trading business, so the 'operates in quantitative finance' classification is supported. However, the employment evidence is index-only: every role comes from a single LinkedIn profile index record and has not been corroborated by an independent primary source (no bank, regulatory, or press filing confirms the individual's employment). Identity is supported by name match plus a PhD/education and IMO record, but because the roles rest on an index/aggregator rather than primary-source confirmation, the employment itself is retained as UNRESOLVED pending primary-source corroboration.2026
• Co-founder and CEO of Causal Experts (Sydney) since 2023; described role is setting firm direction and presenting results. Causal Experts is a causal-AI / causal-inference consultancy, not a trading or asset-management firm.2023
• Model Development Quant at Deutsche Bank, 2022-2025: front-office model development.2022
• eFx Quant Trader at BNP Paribas, 2017-2018 (Singapore): electronic FX quant trading.2017
• Systematic Asset Management Strat at Goldman Sachs, 2014-2015 (New York): systematic-investing quant strategy role.2014
• FX Algo Trading Quantitative Trader at Barclays Investment Bank, 2013 (London): FX algorithmic market-making quant (FX spot microstructure, B2C/B2B market making, pricing/hedging/execution/internalization).2013
• Front-office quantitative finance roles at investment banks across four financial centres: New York 2010-2012 (Morgan Stanley), London 2013 (Barclays), New York 2014-2015 (Goldman Sachs), Singapore 2017-2018 (BNP Paribas), Frankfurt 2022-2025 (Deutsche Bank).2010
• Credit Desk Quantitative Analyst at Morgan Stanley, 2010-2012: credit desk strategist pricing relationship loan/loan/CDS facilities from the CDS-derived credit curve, model calibration.2010
• Won a gold medal for Iran at IMO 1998 (ranked 7th overall with 37/42 points), on a team that took four golds (Omid Amini 42, Kasra Alishahi 36, Alireza Keshavarzhaddad 34); same team as Omid Amini, later a mathematician.Jul 1998
• PhD in Electrical Engineering-Systems (Stochastic Control, Computational Finance, Game Theory), University of Michigan, 2007-2010. LinkedIn also lists University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Sharif University of Technology and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management as education affiliations.2010
• Academic footprint: 7 papers and 473 indexed citations on Rankless; publication topics (spectrum sharing, Markovian bandits) date from 2009-2011, the PhD era, predating the finance career.2026
• Identity: caller-lead handle slug 'taiga-163349154'; LinkedIn profile name 'Sahand Haji Ali Ahmad, PhD', based in Sydney, with 13,551 connections and 13,231 followers.2026