Dr. Kirti Arekar is currently working with National Institute of Securities Markets as a Professor. She has been in teaching, research, training and consulting in Data and Statistical Analysis since 2000. Dr. Kirti worked with K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management, Welingkar Institute of Management (WeSchool) and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Mumbai. She has been visiting faculty with SP Jain Global Institute of Management, Singapore and Manipal University, Dubai. She has conducted several training programs for corporates like BSE, NSE, BCCI, INS HAMLA, Lumiere, Mahindra & Mahindra and L&T etc. based on Decision Making, Statistics and Data Analysis etc.  by using several Software’s i.e. SPSS, EXCEL, EXCEL Solver, MegaStat, Minitab, SAS, R, Python, SAS and QM3+ etc. She has 275 Research publications in International and National Journals. She has presented several Research Papers in many Universities like Harvard University, Manchester, University of Emirates, University of Wellington and Hull University etc.

She has done PhD. in Statistics in 2002 and Integrated Program in Business Analytics from IIM Indore. She has received an award for Best Research paper at Inter 3RD International conference on global independence and decision science, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, 2008; Best paper awarded by Global Economy and Finance Journal, Canada, 2013 & University of Boston, USA in 2012. Under her guidance two students was awarded Ph.D. degree.

Dr Kirti Arekar has been featured as the ‘Notable Women Personalities of India 2024’ on www.businesstalkz.com.

She was awarded as the Best Teacher Award for Excellence in Research & Teaching from Higher Education Forum in 2013; has been also awarded Fellowship from World Business Institute, Melbourne, Australia in 2013 and Best Researcher Award in Higher Education from K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai and Best Faculty Award in Teaching in Excellence from Bombay Management Association, BMA in 2019.

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Dr. Dhiraj Jain is a Ph. D in Management and a Fellow of the Insurance Institute of India. He has a corporate experience of 10 years and an academic experience spanning nearly two decades. His areas of interest include Quantitative Techniques, Business Statistics, Investment & Portfolio Management, Mutual Funds & Financial Derivatives. He has been a Corporate trainer for Equity markets and Mutual Funds for various Financial Institutions, Mutual Funds and Broking Houses and others. He has taken various sessions on Statistics, Research Methodology, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management and Financial Derivatives for management professionals at Wipro, Infosys, Tata Motors, Citius Tech and the like. He is an avid researcher and has a number of research papers, case studies and publications to his credit. His book Marketing Techniques for Financial Inclusion and Development is also indexed in the Scopus database. He has presented papers in various National and International conferences and had also received the best paper award in many of them. He has been a Ph. D guide for the past 8 years. 5 students have completed their Ph. D under his guidance.

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Suneel Sarswat is an adjunct faculty member at NISM. He specializes in advanced programming, data analytics, machine learning, deep learning, fraud detection, and computational finance.

With over 8 years of full-time teaching experience and additional roles as a visiting faculty member, Suneel has conducted numerous workshops for working professionals in computational finance and machine learning. He has trained officers from RBI, SEBI, exchanges, banks, and other financial institutions. Previously, he worked as a research analyst at Bank of America for over two years and served as a consultant for Decimal Point Analytics for more than 3 years.

His work has been presented at international conferences in theoretical computer science. Currently, his research focuses on applications of formal methods in regulations. In addition to academic research, he has contributed to various regulatory research projects involving fraud detection, machine learning, and data analysis.

• PhD in Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai Thesis: ‘A formal approach to exchange design and regulation’

• Postgraduate degree in Computer Science, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai

• Master’s degree in Applied Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai

Dr. Kapil Shrimal is Associate Professor at National Institute of Securities Markets; he is having more than 13 years of experience of academics and 1-year experience of corporate. He has started his career with ICICI Prudential LIC and worked with Institutes like Prestige Institute of Management and Research, Indore, Symbiosis University of Applied Science Indore, Marwadi University Rajkot, etc. His last assignment was with PIMR, Indore.

His main area of teaching and research is Financial Planning, Portfolio Management, Derivatives, Financial Modelling, Financial Management, etc. He has conducted many Investment Awareness Program (IAP’s) on behalf of SEBI, NSE and ICAI India.

Dr. Shrimal has received Best Faculty award by Dainik Bhaskar in the year 2012. He has also received Best PhD Thesis award by Jaipuria Institute on Management Indore in the year 2018. He has presented and published research papers in International and National reputes and published one book. Some of his research papers got Best Research Paper awards in International Conferences.

He is into the editorial board and reviewer member of International Journal of Accounting and Financial Management Research. He is also associated with various Universities as a member of Board of Studies, Academic Council and PhD examiner.

Dr. Shrimal has done his PhD in Management (Finance) form Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. He has also cleared UGC-NET and RPSC-SET in Management in the year 2012. Has done his MBA (Finance) and BBA from Devi Ahiliya University, Indore He has cleared many NISM certificates, NCFM modules and other certificate courses.

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Dr. Inamdar is a faculty member at NISM. Prior to NISM, he worked for Indian Institute of Capital Markets, Institute of Cost Accountants of India chapter’s and IIT-Bombay CSE.

He has 11 years of experience in teaching & research and two years of corporate experience.

Dr. Inamdar has several publications in indexed journals and has won two best research paper awards in international conferences. He has conducted a various programs for international delegates as well as training programs for SEBI, RBI, IRS, IES officers and market intermediaries.

At NISM, Dr. Inamdar teaches ESG finance, quantitative methods and data analyses, derivatives options trading strategies (through algo trading simulator) and technical analysis. He is a member of the organising committee of NISM conferences. He has completed M.com, MBA (Finance), CWA (Final), and PhD in the field of ESG finance from Mumbai University

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