Revant Nayar

Revant Nayar is currently Principal and CTO at FMI Tech, among the first quantum-inspired quantitative hedge funds operating in the Indian and US equity markets, and Research Affiliate at Stony Brook University. He started his career as a theoretical physics researcher at IAS and Princeton University with a specialty in quantum field theory and string theory, where he started FMI Tech as a think-tank applying cutting edge innovations in quantum and classical physics to data science and quantitative finance. In 2020, he briefly served as Research Fellow at NYU Tandon, researching novel approaches to options pricing using Lie and tropical algebras in collaboration with Peter Carr.

In 2021, he became among the first fund managers applying quantum alternatives to AI to asset management starting with the Indian market and recently expanding to the US market, generating Sharpes in excess of 3 in mid-frequency strategies trading liquid securities. He has over the years been featured as speaker and panellist at the leading finance and AI conferences including Bloomberg, Strata, Global AI Conference, YPO, NYU, QuantMinds and EMEX. He also runs among the largest econophysics research collaborations in the world (FTERC), bringing students, researchers and professors from top universities around the world to generate research at the intersection of physics, mathematics and quantitative finance. Today he is widely regarded as a trailblazer in quantum and econophysics-inspired approaches to asset and risk management and among the promising emerging quant fund managers.