Mellon College of Science Professor of Mathematical Finance and Director of Center for Computational Finance, Professor Kramkov earned his Ph.D. from the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow in 1991. His current research is mainly focused on topics in mathematical finance such as equilibrium, dynamic game theory, option pricing theory, and optimal investment. In 1996 he received a prize of the Second European Congress of Mathematics in Budapest for his research on statistics and mathematical finance. From 1997 to 2000 Dr. Kramkov worked for Tokyo-Mitsubishi International in London, where he was the Acting Head of Research and Product Development. His main responsibility was the evaluation of complex derivative contracts. He has an affiliation with the University of Oxford, where he is a member of Man-Oxford Institute for Quantitative Finance.
