About the Author

Rama Cont, Paris, France, is Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, New York, and Senior Research Scientist, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, France. Rama is also a faculty member of Columbia Center for Applied Probability; Partner in Finance Concepts, and a senior academic fellow at the Europlace Institute. Educated in France, Rama has a Diplome de l'Ecole Polytechnique in Engineering, 1994, a DEA Physique Théorique from Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1995, and a Doctorat from Université de Paris XI, Orsay, 1998. In 2005 Rama studied for a Habilitation a diriger des recherches en Mathematiques Appliquees at the Universite de Paris VI. Rama has written a number of research papers on Quantitative Finance and co-authored Financial Modelling with Jump Processes (CRC Press, 2003).