About the Faculty
Vivek Krishnamoorthy is the Head of Research and Placements at QuantInsti, where he has spent over eight years. His career covers nearly two decades across finance, technology, and education. He started out in a technology role at Infosys before moving into corporate and institutional banking with ICICI Bank in Singapore and India. He later taught as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management in Pune and was a research scholar at McMaster University in Canada.
Vivek holds an MBA from Nanyang Technological University and a B.E. in Electronics and Telecom from Mumbai University (VESIT). He has co-authored Python Basics and A rough-and-ready guide to Algorithmic Trading. Outside work, he reads across Indic philosophy and history, and is a student of Sanskrit.
EPAT Teaching
Vivek teaches Python for data analysis and guides participants through building and testing trading strategies. His sessions cover time series modeling of asset returns and volatility forecasting with ARIMA and GARCH; hands-on usage of NumPy, pandas, and matplotlib. He also examines how AI and LLMs are changing the way trading research gets done, and where they fit in a practitioner's workflow.
Webinars Conducted
Algorithmic Trading Workshop 2023
2023
ChatGPT for Quants
2023
Big Data And The Future Of Retail Investing [WEBINAR]
2022
Before you get into quant and algorithmic trading... [Panel Discussion]
2021
[WEBINAR] Get Started With Algorithmic Trading: From Python Installation to Backtesting Your First Strategy
2021
What impacts a Quant Strategy? [PANEL DISCUSSION]
2020
Algorithmic Trading - Why make the move? By Vivek Krishnamoorthy and Ashutosh Dave
2019



