Professor Zoro speaks with Brett Friedman about the VIXX and how it has behaved recently. Various aspects of VIX are explored including how it is calculated, its relevancy and its behavior. Brett Friedman has managed risk for over 30 years and has broad experience working with financial institutions in risk management and operations. He has built and managed three risk management organizations from scratch, two trading startups, and has transacted on numerous exchanges and OTC markets, He brings a vast amount of first-hand risk management, operations, and valuation experience. Mr. Friedman was formerly the Chief Risk Officer of Ospraie Management, an $8 billion natural resource-based hedge fund and private equity group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Friedman served as a Partner at Risk Capital Management, Chief Risk Officer for three energy trading firms, worked for 10 years as an energy futures and options trader, and traded foreign exchange futures and options for the Union Bank of Switzerland. He started his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. Mr. Friedman is a monthly contributor to OptionMetrics, the premier provider of historical options and implied volatility data. Patrick Zoro https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/ Lehigh Master in Financial Engineeringhttps://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering

Professor Zoro speaks with Omid Malekan about Crypto and the need for more peer reviewed academic research. Various aspects of this topic are explored including the need for a "Crypto PE" for example. Omid is a an Adjunct Professor @ Columbia Business School, explainer in chief at https://www.linkedin.com/company/conversanceinc/ and a book author https://www.omidmalekan.com Patrick Zoro https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/ Lehigh Master in Financial Engineeringhttps://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering

Garrett DeSimone, Head of Quant Research at OptionMetrics, discusses various aspects of the Option environment including OptionMetrics, out of the money put, fat tails, long-dated options, and perspectives on the market. The discussion also touches on tail risk hedging, analytical tools for options-based research, and the use of Python and C++ in their work.

Professor Zoro speaks with Asim Turk, MFE about the Multi-Factor Investing Model Asim has been working on. In additional to Multi Factor, various aspects of the project are being addressed such as Pandas - data manipulation for stocks and factor returns Scikit-learn - multiple linear regression for stock returns and factor returns Pulp - linear programming Library for Optimization Tableu - visualization of the result Asim Turk is a Master in Financial Engineering https://www.linkedin.com/in/asim-turk-b3975517a/ Patrick Zoro https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a/ Lehigh Master in Financial Engineeringhttps://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering

Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kirin Zhang about Kirin's new Wiki Page: what it is? how is it used? what will be its impact? and its relationship with ChatGpt. https://bronze-shield-a82.notion.site/f01f5cf581284adbb0c8fcc1844f810b?v=f8e31c76015b4637a95afc1d4e54871c https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a Allan Frank brings over 45 years of technology and business leadership. His background includes CTO for Capgemini, CTO for the City of Philadelphia, Chief Digital Officer & Co-founder of The Hackett Group. He currently sponsors these ChatGpt talks via his "sand box" initiative. https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanfrank Kirin Zhang is a Master in Financial Engineering https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirin-zhang/

Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kushal Gowda about Plugins: what it is? how is it used? what will be its impact? and its relationship with ChatGpt. https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a Allan Frank brings over 45 years of technology and business leadership. His background includes CTO for Capgemini, CTO for the City of Philadelphia, Chief Digital Officer & Co-founder of The Hackett Group. He currently sponsors these ChatGpt talks via his "sand box" initiative. https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanfrank Sam Manderbraout is a Master in Financial Engineering https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuelmandelbraut/ Kirin Zhang is a Master in Financial Engineering https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirin-zhang/

Professor Zoro speaks with Allan Frank and Kushal Gowda about Prompt Engineering: what it is? how is it use? what will be its impact? and its relationship with ChatGpt. https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a Allan Frank brings over 45 years of technology and business leadership. His background includes CTO for Capgemini, CTO for the City of Philadelphia, Chief Digital Officer & Co-founder of The Hackett Group. He currently sponsors these ChatGpt talks via his "sand box" initiative. https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanfrank Kushal Gowd is a Quantitative Researcher, MFE Grad student at Lehigh University and CFA level 3 candidate. He completed EPAT from Quant insti and is Passionate in financial market , AI and coding https://www.linkedin.com/in/kushalgowdagv

Patrick Zoro speaks with Frank Van Gansbeke about the SVB collapse and the Polycrisis. The discussion brings forth several topics such as Too much money in the system, too much leverage, drive to de-regulate, excess liquidity, the impact of the lack of competition, remnants of the 2008 crisis. Frank is executive scholar in Residence at Middlebury (Collegehttps://www.middlebury.edu/college/people/frank-van-gansbeke), Patrick Zoro is Assistant Teaching Professor at Lehigh University (https://business.lehigh.edu/directory/patrick-j-zoro), he is also the director of the Master in Financial Engineering program (https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering)

Professor Zoro speaks with Rodrigo Petricioli, MFE (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigo-petricioli) about Multi Factor Investing, Modeling. They discuss how such a model can be valuable when risk goes up (especially during a recession). Rodrigo also explains the strategy and coding used in this project. Professor Zoro manages Lehigh MFE program https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering

Professor Zoro speaks with Charles Dotson MFE '22 , Director of Research at Quantify Chaos about his project on pairs trading. They get to discuss some aspects of this project that is gaining traction with prop desks. They also talk about the different ways for students to get quant jobs (Charles' innovative concept of "who you know", "what you know" and "What can you do" is explored). https://business.lehigh.edu/academics/graduate/masters-programs/ms-financial-engineering https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-dotson-6a21b1165 https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-z-08bb5b5a