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Amit Kumar Jha — Quantitative finance, open-source pricing and risk engineering

Amit Kumar Jha

Quantitative Analyst @ UBS · Open-source derivatives & risk modelling · Founder, Desk2Quant

I build, test and explain numerical models for derivatives pricing, stochastic simulation, interest rates and counterparty risk — primarily in Python, C++ and R.

LinkedIn · Desk2Quant · stochPathSim · Documentation · Email


Verified upstream contributions

17 merged code contributions to established quantitative-finance libraries, plus 2 accepted listings in the curated awesome-quant collection.

Project Merged PRs Representative engineering work
QuantLib · C++ 7 Multiple-reset swap schedule and helper pillar · Callable-bond effective duration/convexity · Overnight-future holiday accrual
FinancePy · Python 10 Hagan–West monotone-convex interpolation · Normal-vol SABR smile calibration · Scrambled Sobol QMC for Asian options
awesome-quant · curated resources 2 stochPathSim accepted · CustomDerivative accepted

See all upstream pull requests · Open QuantLib contributions · Open FinancePy contributions

Counts checked 19 October 2026; linked GitHub searches provide the current status.


Flagship open-source projects

1. stochPathSim — stochastic simulation through model validation

CI PyPI License Stars

A Python package covering stochastic processes, Monte Carlo derivatives pricing, exposure/CVA, risk-factor backtesting and interactive Plotly model-validation reports.

  • Models: Heston, rough Bergomi, SABR, Merton/Kou jumps, CIR, Hull–White and G2++ (among others).
  • Risk: EE, PFE, effective EPE, CVA, VaR/ES, PIT and coverage/independence tests.
  • Validation: reproducible examples, convergence and discretisation studies, and comparisons to analytical formulas and QuantLib.
pip install stochPathSim

Source · Documentation · Examples · Tests

stochPathSim model-validation report

2. CustomDerivative — derivative pricing in R

CRAN Stars

A published CRAN package for Black–Scholes–Merton pricing, custom terminal payoffs, Monte Carlo with variance reduction, Asian/barrier examples and finite-difference Greeks.

install.packages("CustomDerivative")

Source & examples · CRAN release

3. Quantitative Derivative Models — reproducible educational notebooks

Stars

A collection of pricing and risk notebooks: finite-difference methods, binomial/trinomial trees, stochastic-process examples and credit models. Educational examples, not a calibrated production pricing engine.

A reproducible teaching lab illustrating pathwise exposure, simplified CVA/DVA/funding adjustments, collateral/MPOR, a small Deep-BSDE experiment and static option-surface checks. Not independently validated or suitable for trading or regulatory use. Methods and limitations.


Professional and research background

  • UBS: quantitative risk work spanning counterparty exposures, model risk, and risk-factor backtesting.
  • Previously, Reserve Bank of India: market-microstructure research.
  • Desk2Quant: I develop quant-finance learning resources, interactive labs and mentoring experiences. Explore the platform.
  • Education: M.Sc., IIT Jodhpur; B.Sc. (Hons.) Physics, Jamia Millia Islamia.

Research and preprints: Stochastic thermodynamics of price impact · Sinusoidal Hull–White model · Digitization and Indian bank assets

Methods: Monte Carlo · stochastic calculus · numerical PDEs · interest-rate models · XVA/CCR · model validation · backtesting

Tools: Python · C++ · R · NumPy/SciPy · PyTorch · QuantLib · Plotly · GitHub Actions · LaTeX

Also building: Desk2Quant (quant education platform) and CraftCode CLI (developer tooling).


Collaboration

I welcome narrowly scoped issues and pull requests on reproducible pricing models, test coverage, documentation and model-validation examples. For a proposed numerical change, please include model assumptions, a minimal reproducer, and an independent reference or regression test.

GitHub discussions and projects · LinkedIn · Email

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  1. QuantitativeDerivativeModels QuantitativeDerivativeModels Public

    Educational derivative pricing and risk models in Python: finite differences, binomial/trinomial trees, credit models and stochastic processes.

    Jupyter Notebook 48 5

  2. StochasticModelsAssetPricing StochasticModelsAssetPricing Public

    Monte Carlo simulation of the Heston stochastic volatility and Merton jump-diffusion models in Python.

    Python 19 3

  3. MonteCarlo-MeanReversionTrading MonteCarlo-MeanReversionTrading Public

    Monte Carlo pairs trading under a Lévy-driven mean-reverting (Ornstein-Uhlenbeck) spread, with a backtest.

    Python 18 3

  4. Python-For-Quants Python-For-Quants Public

    A practical introduction to Python for quantitative analysts, with code examples from basics to numerical finance.

    Python 19 2

  5. InterestRateModelsCpp InterestRateModelsCpp Public

    Short-rate interest rate models in C++: Vasicek, CIR, Hull-White, Ho-Lee and more, with simulation code.

    C++ 23 5

  6. FXQuantPricing-Cpp FXQuantPricing-Cpp Public

    FX derivative pricing in C++: Black-Scholes/Garman-Kohlhagen, finite-difference PDE and Monte Carlo methods.

    C++ 8 2