He has published in international journals and made numerous presentations at international conferences. He is also a recipient of the Junior Research Fellowship (NET) from the University Grants Commission which he received soon after his master’s in physics from the University of Delhi.
He has a bachelor’s in physics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
Dr. Ranjan has about 15 years of experience in the financial industry in the U.S on the Wall Street and three years in the area of Decision Sciences in the U.S.
Dr. Ranjan has held senior-level academic positions. Dr. Ranjan was the Dean (Academics) at UPES, Dehradun, and the Associate Pro Vice Chancellor at Alliance University where, in a short span of time he made significant contributions such as launching a robust PhD Program, revamping the research policy and adding research infrastructure. Earlier he was Professor and Area Chair (Finance) at the IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University. He was the Dean (Academics) at the IFIM Business School, Bangalore for two years before which he was a faculty at the O. P. Jindal Global University, Sonipat where, as the founding Program Director, he designed from scratch the five-year Integrated BBA-MBA Program, launched it and managed all operational aspects for three years while the Program evolved and matured.
Dr. Ranjan has taught courses such as Stochastic Calculus, Fixed Income Securities, Derivatives, Statistics, Econometrics, and Computational Finance.
Dr. Ranjan is very well known and sought after for his expertise in his niche area of Mathematical Finance. Some of his recent engagements with the Corporate are the following:
In May 2021 he was invited to work on credit risk models for the World Bank. As a senior consultant, he led a team of quants for model validation of credit-risk models developed by the World Bank.
He has been a Senior Strategic Advisor to Rising Ahead where he helped on a number of business initiatives of the company.
He was invited by CRISIL in early 2018 for a three-month consultancy. During this period, he helped the team of quants at CRISIL while providing them valuable guidance and leadership in quantitative research.
