Sassan Alizadeh, PhD
Adjucnt Professor of Finance

Financial Econometrics, Volatility Estimation, Systematic Trading, Fix Income

Dr. Sassan Alizadeh has over 15 years experience in systematic and quantitative trading. He began his career as the first Manager of Research at Quantitative Financial Strategies under the supervision of Dr. Sanford Grossman. Later he was a proprietary trader at Bear Stearns where he traded several different systematic and quantitative
strategies including the Global Macro Model and an Options Trading Model based on the term structure of volatility. He later joined Parametric Capital Management as head of Futures Trading where he implemented and traded a currency and commodity global
macro model. Dr. Alizadeh is a Portfolio Manager at Highbridge Capital Management and President of Highview Global Capital Management, LLC. Dr. Alizadeh has a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Tufts University, a M.B.A. from The Wharton School and a Ph.D. in Economics from The University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Alizadeh has performed academic research in various areas of finance and was awarderd first prize at the Wharton School's Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research for outstanding working paper in investment research for 2001.