Vardan Verdiyan

Vardan Verdiyan, Ph.D., is an experienced quantitative analyst currently employed at Fidelity Investments since March 2017. Prior to this role, Vardan Verdiyan completed a quantitative research internship at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co. LLC, where a project focused on value trading strategies in varying macroeconomic conditions was undertaken, alongside algorithm improvements in Matlab. Earlier experience includes a summer associate position at Standard & Poor's, where Vardan Verdiyan worked on enhancing models for sovereign country correlations and developed rating evolution models using C++ and Matlab. Vardan Verdiyan earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematical Finance from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Jacobs University Bremen.