Ratanlal Mahanta has several years of experience in the modeling and simulation of quantitative trading. He works as a senior quantitative analyst at GPSK Investment Group, Kolkata. Ratanlal holds a master's degree of science in computational finance, and his research areas include quant trading, optimal Execution, Machine Learning and high-frequency trading.
He has also reviewed Mastering R for Quantitative Finance, Mastering Scientific Computing with R, Machine Learning with R Cookbook, and Mastering Python for Data Science and Building a Recommendation System with R all by Packt Publishing.
Saibal Dutta has been working as analytical consultant in SAS Research and Development. He is also pursuing PhD in data mining and machine learning from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He holds Master of Technology in electronics and communication from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela. He has worked at TATA communications, Pune and HCL Technologies Limited, Noida, as a consultant. In his 7 years of consulting experience, he has been associated with global players such as IKEA (in Sweden), Pearson (in the U.S.), and so on. His passion for entrepreneurship has led him to start his own start-up in the field of data analytics, which is in the bootstrapping stage. His areas of expertise include data mining, machine learning, image processing, and business consultation.
I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Sujoy Bhattacharya, all my colleagues specially, Ashwin Deokar, Lokesh Nagar, Savita Angadi, Swarup De and my family and friends specially, Madhuparna Bit for their encouragement, support, and inspiration.